evaristo42
@evaristo42.bsky.social
Researches music, tries to write about it but fails. If you have a cat and are not sharing photos of it you are wasting bandwidth. Avid Doctor Who enthusiast. Also, strongly antifascist.
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In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 AM
In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
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Few individuals have had such a colossal & deleterious impact on the cultural psyche as the recently-departed Erich von Däniken. While he was not alone in fusing aliens into our conception of the distant human past, he was perhaps the most successful & the most harmful in doing so.
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Few individuals have had such a colossal & deleterious impact on the cultural psyche as the recently-departed Erich von Däniken. While he was not alone in fusing aliens into our conception of the distant human past, he was perhaps the most successful & the most harmful in doing so.
I do not know a single thing about soccer, but I assume that the existence of a team named Real Madrid implies the existence of one named simply Madrid, with the same relation the Real Ghostbusters had to the Ghostbusters. So, a talking gorilla in the team, flying car, etc.
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I do not know a single thing about soccer, but I assume that the existence of a team named Real Madrid implies the existence of one named simply Madrid, with the same relation the Real Ghostbusters had to the Ghostbusters. So, a talking gorilla in the team, flying car, etc.
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In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
I hate it when elected officials don't follow up on their promises.
![U.S. President Barack Obama revealed possible plans to privately perform "Gangnam Style" for his spouse Michelle Obama.[141][142][143][144]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreidlp4mocjlbf7ge5ularqm7qtj7hy6fubhadk3t7wpw3omvwawmj4@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I hate it when elected officials don't follow up on their promises.
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📢 The Internet Archive is hiring musicians to play at our virtual staff meetings. Share your music, get paid, and support our mission!
🎼 Interested? Use our online form ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...
#lukatsiklaurimusic
🎼 Interested? Use our online form ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...
#lukatsiklaurimusic
August 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📢 The Internet Archive is hiring musicians to play at our virtual staff meetings. Share your music, get paid, and support our mission!
🎼 Interested? Use our online form ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...
#lukatsiklaurimusic
🎼 Interested? Use our online form ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...
#lukatsiklaurimusic
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I agree that when we lose a language we lose an entire world-view...
...but it's kind of neat that there's a language whose only surviving texts are snake spells.
...but it's kind of neat that there's a language whose only surviving texts are snake spells.
August 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I agree that when we lose a language we lose an entire world-view...
...but it's kind of neat that there's a language whose only surviving texts are snake spells.
...but it's kind of neat that there's a language whose only surviving texts are snake spells.
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In case you missed it last night, I dug into Will Smith's "fake AI crowd" video. Nearly everyone got this wrong, and the evidence was easy to find… if you're sick enough to watch everything Will Smith posted on social media in the last four months.
You may have seen this story blowing up about Will Smith using AI to generate fake audiences to promote his latest tour, but the truth is more complicated. The audiences are real, but the footage was manipulated: first by Will Smith's team and then, without permission, by YouTube itself.
Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines - Waxy.org
Will Smith is being accused of generating fake fans with AI, but it's complicated: the crowds are real, but the videos were manipulated by Smith's team and YouTube itself.
waxy.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In case you missed it last night, I dug into Will Smith's "fake AI crowd" video. Nearly everyone got this wrong, and the evidence was easy to find… if you're sick enough to watch everything Will Smith posted on social media in the last four months.
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The Directors Label by PALM was a short lived DVD collection of the very best film/music directors and curated their best most well known works alongside lesser seen curios. Inspiring and very much recommended.
The internet Archive has the seven volumes here for free:
archive.org/details/@dir...
The internet Archive has the seven volumes here for free:
archive.org/details/@dir...
August 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Directors Label by PALM was a short lived DVD collection of the very best film/music directors and curated their best most well known works alongside lesser seen curios. Inspiring and very much recommended.
The internet Archive has the seven volumes here for free:
archive.org/details/@dir...
The internet Archive has the seven volumes here for free:
archive.org/details/@dir...
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Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
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One more reason to use actual humans to do your transcription...
July 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One more reason to use actual humans to do your transcription...
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Near all our world leaders and media are guilty of "hamaslighting"
July 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Near all our world leaders and media are guilty of "hamaslighting"
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“So it was like, okay, how can we figure out a way to capitalize on these user habits while also making the major labels happy? Which is not the same thing as figuring out [how to] use technology to make it easier for people to support artists,… the people whose work they are listening to.”
Music Is Too Important To Be Left To The Marketplace
A Conversation with Liz Pelly
dadadrummer.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“So it was like, okay, how can we figure out a way to capitalize on these user habits while also making the major labels happy? Which is not the same thing as figuring out [how to] use technology to make it easier for people to support artists,… the people whose work they are listening to.”
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It seems there’s now a small industry dedicated to fixing ChatGPT disasters www.bbc.com/news/article...
'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.
www.bbc.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It seems there’s now a small industry dedicated to fixing ChatGPT disasters www.bbc.com/news/article...
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King: c'mon SOMEONE must have a positive vision of the future
George Romero: i believe that socialism offers just that
Romero: you see, soon heavy industry will make it possible for the proletariat to get-
King: does anyone ELSE have a positive vision of the future?
King: anyone?
George Romero: i believe that socialism offers just that
Romero: you see, soon heavy industry will make it possible for the proletariat to get-
King: does anyone ELSE have a positive vision of the future?
King: anyone?
July 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
King: c'mon SOMEONE must have a positive vision of the future
George Romero: i believe that socialism offers just that
Romero: you see, soon heavy industry will make it possible for the proletariat to get-
King: does anyone ELSE have a positive vision of the future?
King: anyone?
George Romero: i believe that socialism offers just that
Romero: you see, soon heavy industry will make it possible for the proletariat to get-
King: does anyone ELSE have a positive vision of the future?
King: anyone?
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I am reminded of a poem I return to periodically for its final two stanzas www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58530/...
June 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I am reminded of a poem I return to periodically for its final two stanzas www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58530/...
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Rush job on a busy morning, but here’s a protestors’ rights flyer with tearaway cards to post around the neighborhood ahead of Saturday (print double-sided, flip on short edge): gem7.neocities.org/pubs/protest...
June 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Rush job on a busy morning, but here’s a protestors’ rights flyer with tearaway cards to post around the neighborhood ahead of Saturday (print double-sided, flip on short edge): gem7.neocities.org/pubs/protest...
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"Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot"
Y'know what, Bruce Wayne, fuck you; I bet you believe in phrenology too
Y'know what, Bruce Wayne, fuck you; I bet you believe in phrenology too
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot"
Y'know what, Bruce Wayne, fuck you; I bet you believe in phrenology too
Y'know what, Bruce Wayne, fuck you; I bet you believe in phrenology too
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Here's a fun trick to play: surprise other campers by emerging from your sleeping bag with a beautiful pair of wings and fluttering away.
May 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Here's a fun trick to play: surprise other campers by emerging from your sleeping bag with a beautiful pair of wings and fluttering away.
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Terence Trent D'Arby's OTHER album, Trumpton in Welsh, The Chippendales on Celebrity Squares and terrifying ITV children's programme Orbit...
timworthington.org/2019/01/12/l...
timworthington.org/2019/01/12/l...
Looks Unfamiliar: Justin Lewis – It Sounds Like Regional Sweep
Looks Unfamiliar with Justin Lewis talking to Tim Worthington about Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Terence Trent D’Arby, In One Ear, Tommy by The London Symphony Orchestra, Orbit with Alan Taylor,…
timworthington.org
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Terence Trent D'Arby's OTHER album, Trumpton in Welsh, The Chippendales on Celebrity Squares and terrifying ITV children's programme Orbit...
timworthington.org/2019/01/12/l...
timworthington.org/2019/01/12/l...
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May the fourth, a good day for many of us to remember that if you’re going to throw your weird genocidal boss down a lift shaft anyway it’s always better to just get on with it and not spend 20+ years committing atrocities on their behalf first
May 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
May the fourth, a good day for many of us to remember that if you’re going to throw your weird genocidal boss down a lift shaft anyway it’s always better to just get on with it and not spend 20+ years committing atrocities on their behalf first
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Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵
May 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵
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If you read one thing this week about the state of US politics, let it be this.
"After Mahmoud Khalil was abducted, I locked myself inside my home for a month." Why @elgendy95.bsky.social, a former political prisoner in Egypt, decided he had no choice but to flee Donald Trump's America.
Why I Had to Flee the United States
I was a political prisoner in Egypt. I didn’t want to become one again in America.
www.thenation.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If you read one thing this week about the state of US politics, let it be this.