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Really well written analysis by Ben Thompson1, totally disagree with the conclusion

Talent, meanwhile, has to realize that they and the studios are not divided by this new paradigm, but jointly threatened: the Internet is bad news for content producers with outsized costs, and long-term sustainability will be that much harder to achieve if the focus is on increasing them.

What @dianeduane and @neilhimself have taught me is that the demands of the folk on strike are minuscule. The big content producers have been rapacious.Talent should not have to bear these burdens, because they haven’t shared in the benefits all these decades past.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111017297361874874

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IBM Cloud to ‘uplift’ prices by up to 29 percent!

ok i didn’t care a whit about what IBM did. I just wanted an excuse to link to Adnan Sami’s peppy 90s hit

https://youtu.be/IU2ttJ73h2Y

#mjbBabbles #mjbMusic #LiftKarade #AdnanSami

grudgingly also includes a link to the news: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/ibm_cloud_price_uplift/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111017185034773874

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#LaalKaptaan (2019) is a visually stunning feast!

Lovely performances.

only wish the story was a bit more epic to match the running time.
(or it’d have be edited tighter to make it match the gritty, mystery, revenge story it is - not my preference though. i love a long, long spectacle)

https://youtu.be/dcj82CR82ng

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016975124778062

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Watching @drchuck’s #CC4E while I am down and out.
If I haven’t said it here before, Dr. Chuck is one of the best teachers there is.

And his courses are all free.

https://www.cc4e.com/

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016671496086548

#cc4e, #mjbBabbles

I use #Emacs. I write code using #Python
I write in #English
I am #Heterosexual and #Married to a wonderful woman

It’s just because I stumbled into these and I was ok with them.
Later in life when I learnt how to reflect and think critically, I evaluated most of my big life choices and stayed with most of them, because they made me happy

And I am and do all these things, not because these are inherently good or better. it’s just what i like and what i choose to do / be

Folks choosing / being ok with / stumbling into the alternatives are choosing what makes them happy. They aren’t wrong. They aren’t bad.
Just different.

We could all do with a little kindness (and a little bit of self reflection)

and if we can’t do that, at least learn to mind our own business and not to poke our noses into stuff that does not concern us

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016400333567109

#emacs, #python, #english, #heterosexual, #married, #mjbBabbles

hmm, now that i think of it, i should have told them about fiery farts

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016348671996304

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sufficiently horrified **and** amused the young pixies my mom teaches, by telling them that they could think of their noses as volcanoes and nose goo as lava.

there, now they will never be confused with volcano / lava again.

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016346786572119

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hmmm, putting crazy thoughts out in the world just like the young ones do.

this could by my version of a mid life crisis

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111016320531836959

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Moo Acopalipse by Like Mucus finally here!
aah no, we’re not at that time of the year yet

But it’s still a cause for celebration today!

Mike Lucas’ (@mwl) #ApocalypseMoi is finally in my greedy #AntiLibrary