Kuba =)KMar 17
Neil Brown
An appropriate T-shirt for today.
Mar 17 at 7:35amWeb
Show threadChaddicusMar 17
@neil where can I get one I absolutely need it
Show threaddavdMar 17
@wombatpandaa @neil That would be my question as well 🤩
Show threadRevK Mar 17

@wombatpandaa @neil you steal the design from Neil :-)

And make sure to use the rip off (“stolen”) version of the font like they did on the original campaign….

Show threadChaddicusMar 17
@revk @neil how meta of you
Show threadDreyMar 17
@wombatpandaa @revk @neil 👍
Show threadChao-c'Mar 17
@wombatpandaa @revk @neil thinking is a theft...
Show threadDreyMar 17
@revk @wombatpandaa @neil 👍
Show threadsamMar 17
@[email protected] https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/you-would-not/
You would not tee

It’s about ChatGPT and whatnot innit. (Degraded text reading "You wouldn't steal the sum total of human knowledge and experience to use in your propri...

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Show threadAlex HyettMar 17
@neil love it!
Show threadTomMar 17
@neil I love this!! Where did you find it?
Show threadNömenlōonyMar 17
@neil oooh I love that t-shirt.
Show threadAlexis BushnellMar 17
@neil where can I get one???
Show threadsamMar 17
@[email protected] https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/you-would-not/
You would not tee

It’s about ChatGPT and whatnot innit. (Degraded text reading "You wouldn't steal the sum total of human knowledge and experience to use in your propri...

Webbed Briefs
Show threadAlexis BushnellMar 17
@sam oh amazing, thanks
Show threadPatrick PrémartinMar 17
@neil 😍
Show threadjonathankoren™Mar 17
@neil “steal”
Show threadJeff AtwoodMar 17
@neil tl;dr needs LLM summary
Show threadChris 🦑Mar 17
@neil want
Show threadJohn KMar 17
@neil
tl;dr
Show threadToni AittoniemiMar 17
@neil Got the same one! 👊
Show threadDreyMar 17
@neil - HOw true.
Show threadkNeo gHauMar 17
@neil I predict this will be as successful as the original anti-piracy campaign it's based from
Show threadJackMexMar 17

@neil

They have been doing it with money for centuries.

Show threadRobin BartonMar 17
@neil Oh yes they would
Show threadMrinappropriateMar 17
@Robo105 @neil Oh yes, they already did.
Show threadDaniel AJ SokolovMar 17
@neil Where can I buy these?
Show threadGinevraCatMar 17
@neil Fucking Genuis!!!
Show threadRRBMar 17
@neil Looking forward to Muskrat and Sam Altman wearing the T-shirt.
Show threadjoanyMar 17
@neil love it
Show threadTMMar 17
@neil Proprietary and child-killing...
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Mar 17

by the way, it is my obligation as a GenXer and old school internaut to declare a hearty FUCK METALLICA and leave it for the chitlins to figure out why

@neil

Show threadNicovel0 🍉Mar 17
@blogdiva @neil it’s mad how many of our childhood references have turn out to be wronguns
Show threadDaNannerMar 17
@Nicovel0 @blogdiva @neil *googles why do we hate Metallica*
Show threadNicovel0 🍉Mar 17
@DaNanner @blogdiva @neil oh if you want a proper WTF Google Bernard Cantat, former frontman of Noir Desir, a French rock band of the same period. Reader discretion is advised.
Show threadFlipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈Mar 17
@DaNanner @Nicovel0 @blogdiva @neil I'm also GenX so can remember when a Google search actually returned results to a query.
Show threadDaNannerMar 17
@flipper @Nicovel0 @blogdiva @neil I remember ask jeeves, altavista, and being annoyed AF when google became a verb instead of a noun
Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Mar 17

@DaNanner @flipper @Nicovel0 @blogdiva @neil And Veronica and Archie...

And before I found those, I had a notebook I'd copy BITNET addresses into for the good ListServs...

Show threadbituur esztreymMar 17
@DaNanner @flipper @Nicovel0 @blogdiva @neil
and the Copernic meta-engine..
Show threadGabriel NMar 17

@flipper @DaNanner @Nicovel0 @blogdiva @neil it was very good until 2-3 years ago. Shame on them.

#enshittification

Show threadmuddleMar 18

@DaNanner @Nicovel0 @blogdiva @neil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYv_dbLKMmc

although in their defence...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJcnrcnQjNY

Weird Al Yankovic - Enter Napster (Metallica Parody)

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Show threadMekkiMar 17
@blogdiva @neil #KidsTheseDays think Napster was some sort of rest tracking app.
Show threadInterestingMooMar 17
@mekki @blogdiva @neil I still have 90% of my Napster files. Including Metallica, shitty quality, but that's not the point. From my cold dead hands 🤣
Show threadNazaniMar 17
@970uts1d3 @mekki @blogdiva @neil Years ago I bought a yardsale PC full of tracks from Kazaa. Burned much of it to CDs, lots of Middle Eastern stuff.
Show threadEmma needs ☕️ and paying workMar 17
@blogdiva @neil 🤘 
Show threadAuntie CatoMar 17
@blogdiva @neil is this the napster thing?
Show threadbituur esztreymMar 17
@blogdiva @neil
could leave them plenty other stuff to figure out why, e.g. "the problem with music", negativland etc etc..
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Mar 18

extra points for mentioning Negativland:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111384253555822785

@bituur_esztreym @neil

Show threadDonald HobernMar 18

@blogdiva @bituur_esztreym @neil

Ha! I can't hear the number 11 spoken out loud (or pretty much any reference to time zones) without immediately thinking "El-EV-en ... El-EV-en".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDmWYVdN8ug

Negativland - "Time Zones"

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Show threadDonald HobernMar 18

@blogdiva @bituur_esztreym @neil

Commenting very belatedly on the 2023 thread @blogdiva referenced, in addition to Negativland and Art of Noise, I love how Disco Inferno (the band) used sampling to build really pretty music.

And #YokoOno - yay!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZunWddLGBo

Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs - The Atheist's Burden

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Show threadbituur esztreym6d ago
@blogdiva thks, i&i very humbled! @neil
Show threadThe 54 Studio 🪩🕺🏻💊👃🍬Mar 18
@blogdiva @neil MONEY GOOD! NAPSTER BAD!
Show threadmuddle6d ago

@blogdiva @neil

Hey, if you like (or even despise) Metallica, you might also like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyyb_CYWtCc

(they're Spanish buskers that were big in Ireland quite a few years back.)

(sure, hate Metallica, but there's some incidental downstream culture that's quite good all the same...)

🖖

Rodrigo y Gabriela - One

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Show threadwompMar 18
@neil it's deeply, terribly ironic if you think too hard about it 😞
Show threadDonovan Young6d ago
@neil don't copy that sloppy.