@jmfc

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Software engineer interested in web, movies, and video games.
A restored church from the 1840s we spent a couple nights in outside of Waterford Ireland last week. #ireland
I made a meme

A retrospective on Tom Waits driven by the re-mastering and re-issue of 3 of his classic albums. Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years from the 1980-1988 period when he got married and shifted into a higher gear. #music #TomWaits

The article also has plenty of gems in the comments too.

I know him more from film collaborations with Jim Jarmusch which dated from around the same time. But will be interested to listen to those albums again.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/20/tom-waits-frank-trilogy-reissues-swordfishtrombones-rain-dogs-franks-wild-years

‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy

Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra

The Guardian

Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.

Elon Musk owns Twitter.

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

RT @rbreich
According to multiple reports, a Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump.

This moment should serve as a powerful reminder that no one is above the law.

Not even a former president.

RT @JosephGeev
A wise person once said "The stock market is just a chart of rich people's feelings."

How about we start measuring success by the quality of life of our citizens, for a change. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1628093891600650241

Robert Reich on Twitter

“Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed?”

Twitter

One universal experience that I love about software is the excitement while debugging when you see the terminal show a _NEW_ error!

As opposed to the same one you have been seeing for the last 20-30 minutes, this new error holds promise!

#software #code #debugging #thelittlethings

DeSatan needs to fuck right off.
In a world where there are far too many Donalds, be a Jimmy.