AS IF #KDRAMA NUTS HAVE SPARE TIME ON THEIR HANDS

Website with a selection of 100 actors and 100 actresses in Korea. You click on one of the b&w portraits and that takes you to a page about the actor you picked. Scroll down and you get a bio, more pix from the photo shoot, a filmography & a video which features a mini "best of" of clip.

I was amazed at how many of these folks I knew. Then I remembered all the others who aren't shown here. 😲

https://theactorispresent.kr/male-actors-by-alphabetical-order/

https://theactorispresent.kr/female-actors-by-alphabetical-order/

Do you remember when audio cassettes were seen as tools for piracy? When the industry used to drill in our brains the idea that if we were recording stuff from the radio to a cassette we were killing music as an art?

Guess what? Musicians actually loved the idea, they even released cassettes with a blank B side so you could record anything you liked on it.

And millions of kids who recorded their favourite songs or radio shows in the 1980s and early 1990s didn't kill the music.

On the contrary, the music industry itself ended up killing the music, by forcing artists to "play it safe" and repeat the same formulas again and again, so the cigar smoking capitalists wouldn't take too many risks on their investment into the new boyband.

"Don't do that, or you'll kill X" most likely won't kill X as a form of art, nor the artists. It'll just hurt those who have no interest in X as a form of art, who make profit out of somebody else's talent, and who want to have nobody pushing them to take new risk to modernize the industry.

For us, music is a form of art and communication. For them, it's just another mean of making money.

Piracy was, is and will always be a civic right.

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/home-taping-is-killing-music-when-the-music-industry-waged-war-on-the-cassette-tape.html

Stop worshipping billionaires.

Elon Musk threw away tens of billions of dollars to buy Twitter, and has spent the last year running it into the ground.

When billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech.

It’s a win for oligarchy.

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS