…a boy can hope!
Scandals, scandals, & more scandals. It’s impossible to keep up & that’s by design. It’s known as “flooding the zone.” Interesting that the Jensen Huang/Nvdia story broke just in time to distract the media from focusing on the fact that Trump elevated Pee Wee German (with apologies to our German friends, this nickname of course refers to the Third Reich & its enablers) to perhaps the 2nd most powerful position in Washington: White Housee Chief of Staff. Stephen “Pee Wee” Miller is a horrible cruel racist, a terrible person responsible for racist ICE who wants a permanent servant class to serve him as if the Bill of Rights & The Constitution did not exist.
Speaking of scandals, which of you has been clamoring for a USB-C Walkman headset? ADMIT IT!!
ROKU (streaming video company) has been undergoing enshittificaion for some time now, forcing unnecessary changes to the Home Screen, taking away popular apps (ie their Photo Streams feature which allows allowed one to stream photos of their choosing as a screensaver, to replaced by something into which they can insert ads), & now I know why: ROKU was purchased by FOX. I hope that by the time my ROKU devices start to fail AppleTV is a good enough option at a more reasonable price point than now. I will not be buying from ROKU again. To me the ROKU platform was far & away the best option for streaming video. Intuitive, add-free interface, cute logo, everything just worked…now the developer of Aquatic Life, one its very popular screensavers (& a personal favorite of mine) has pulled the license due to the Fox purchase. FOXKU is likley fine with this, & will simply replace it with something crappy but similar through which they can shove yet more advertising down our eyeholes. I salute the developer, Jim Sachs, who stands to lose a ton of money for his principled stand. His selfless act is what will likely alert many users to the beast behind the enshittification & have them looking for the exit. It did for me!
Today’s award-winning live-hosted 480 Minutes show will feature a mess of new 🎶 by The Cat’s Miaow (Melbourne, Australia, @TheCatsMiaowBand), Ceylon Sailor (Brooklyn, NY, @Ceylon.Sailor), Clinic (Liverpool, England, @ClinicVoot), The Early Years, London, England, @TheEarlyYears), Fontaines D.C., (Dublin, Ireland, @FontainesBand), GRUB (Freemantle, Australia, @grub.666), PISS (Vancouver, BC, @piss_TheBand), Raised on Candy (Montclair, NJ, @RaisedOnCandy), & Twisted Teens (New Orleans, LA, @TwistedTeensNewOrleans).
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480 Minutes / Episode 993
