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Yesterday I heard someone say: "I was out of airspeed, I was out of altitude, and I was out of ideas."

I thought it was great, and couldn't find it on Google. So I asked ChatGPT. It fabricated a false answer. #chatgptfails

JFC I am tired of being told I can read the entire article with a free account. Is there a search engine that just doesn't show links to these late capitalist masterpieces?

Noticed that System of a Down has 18 million monthly listeners on Spotify, which seems pretty good for a band that made a total of 5 records with the latest released 18 years ago. That made me think back to how I originally aspired to work in the music business, but found then (1998)--and still now--the whole model pretty mysterious.

Is it, though?

How I loathe opening M$ Teams. Then spend the majority of my day typing into it. 😭

In TX in the summer, the water from the cold tap is lukewarm.

I had Cap'n Crunch for breakfast. Consequences be damned.

This one crossed my desk this morning and I liked it:

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."

-- John Holt

The bands I covered for my covers record: Boards of Canada, Tori Amos, Sarah Jaffe, Peter Gabriel, Cutting Crew, Son Lux, Salim Nourallah, The Flaming Lips, Travis, John Denver. I still don't know how proud I am of the record, but I'm pretty sure I'm an s tier mix tape maker.

danielmiller.bandcamp.com/album/form

#FF #follow #followfriday @MiseryTrickery@mstdn.party this level of wit deserves a grant of some kind