GIMME SHELTER Rolling Stones Cover by Pretty Enemy

The audio quality on this is truly terrible. Just abysmal.

But…voice? Yeah, that’s great. But that guitar playing, holy fuck. She’s the only guitar player I’ve ever seen play this piece and get that Keith Richards raw raucous dirty sound. And look how she bends those notes. This the only performance of that piece that matches Richards.

Too bad about that turd-level audio.

Flock Safety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police Departments, and Public Across the Country.

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism.

Uncleftish beholding.

The Slow Death of the Global Commons. Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come. Again, you’re all gonna miss Pax Americana when it’s gone (even if we in part kill it ourselves).

Europe Is Back in 1952.

How Americaโ€™s newspapers lost their voice.

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed.

Photos: 50 Years Since Viking 1 Landed on Mars.

The minimum wage is now the lowest itโ€™s been in 70 yearsโ€”making the federal wage floor โ€˜officially a poverty wage,โ€™ report finds.

Student loan defaults hit record $233 billion with 1 in 5 borrowers over 9 months behind.

US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace.

Host With the Most

The amount of self-hosted software we have in our network now is getting a bit ridiculous. Fittingly, we have a self-hosted dashboard just to track all we are running. I might need to get another self-hosted dashboard to track all the dashboards we have.

Our infrastructure is now getting more complex in some ways than that of some large (much less medium) businesses.

Church Ladies

Another thing that’s odd about the “debate” about if women athletes should have bodies in public is that from the 1980s up until about 2008 or so all athletes (men included) used to wear much more revealing outfits to compete. I’m old enough to remember when women tennis pros wore normal underwear while playing and no one cared. Now they often have shorts that are longer than their tennis skirts1. I mean, I don’t really care. Wear whatever you like — my point is that norms changed a whole lot as the New Morality and New Prudishness kicked in. Denying that is something only clown-ass morons do.

And now that athletes are already wearing more prude-friendly clothing, there is a demand that yet more must be concealed.

Crazy town.

  1. Which to me looks a bit funny and ridiculous.