Well, listening to the new Polyphia album that got 10/10 in Guitarist magazine ...
Sounds like every other one but they have some people singing over the jazz fusion cliche mixed time signatures dum da dum screamy guitar with minor key tapping.
Interesting but not going to listen over and over again.
Stevie Vai makes some interesting noises though.
@francis Gotta rename them to the anti-labour party.
Oh FUCK raspberry pi.
They apparently hired a cop who used their tech to build surveillance platforms, and they're doing everything from just being dismissive toward to outright blocking everyone who's calling them on it.
Fully ruined their credibility, their public relations profile, several Christmas presents, and their own wallet, all in one fell swoop. Great. Just fucking stellar
If you actually managed to source a raspberry pi this giftmas season, I highly recommend you cancelling that order, and letting them know exactly fucking why.
Maybe something like "In light of Raspberry Pi's recent entanglement with deeply unethical surveillance practices and their dismissive behaviour toward their rightly concerned customer base, I need you to immediately cancel this order, and issue me a refund."
Here's a list of raspberry pi alternatives, as of this year:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-raspberry-pi-alternative/
Well, if you're interested in such things, I wrote up a case study on the Raspberry Pi thing that happened yesterday/today
https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/
★ Phat Bollard - Lovin' Your Neighbour - 2Seas Session #6 https://youtu.be/mtfFfdtzDa
Having helped screw over key workers while he and his money-hoarding wife exploited the non-dom con, Rishi Sunak is now listening to extremist hard-right scumbags who want to ban strikes.
There's a word for civilians who can't strike...
SLAVES!
https://willblack-53220.medium.com/an-argument-for-slavery-in-the-21st-century-f3c4472d0141
From birdsite
RT @barneyfarmer
The Special Relationship between lap and lapdog. https://twitter.com/10downingstreet/status/1600393327723089920
RT @TheGreenParty@twitter.com
💰 Despite huge numbers of burst pipes and sewage dumped in rivers, Thames Water have reported profits of nearly £500m.
🚰 We'll say it again. Public services should be run for public good, not private profit.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheGreenParty/status/1600122637337985024
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.