Whole-known-network
<p>What I'm listening to today: "16521235326544312165352", 121534312</p><p>Hello, is this thing on? Dialtone for a disconnected universe. Howls and hums, breath on the microphone, heartbeat signal for a deep space probe, elevator music ambient for the descent into a black hole. A thought that flees from you just as it's starting to make sense.</p><p>Video accompaniment is the kind of greebly feedback art I love and YouTube compression hates.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=695uky0yYLU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=695uky0yYLU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ryanrobinson.ca/@Ryan" class="u-url mention">@<span>Ryan</span></a></span> My main objection to paywalls isn’t the expense itself, it’s that the people who choose to create the paywalls, particularly at publications that think of themselves as checks and balances against abuses of power, are saying they think people without the means to pay don’t deserve to be informed. Democracy dies if you don’t give us money. All the news that’s fit to hide from the poor.</p>
<p>I just want to go back to celebrating the wonderful Enron.com. My favorite scam in the history of scams. Even in parody, it’s my favorite.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bladerunner.social/@stevelord" class="u-url mention">@<span>stevelord</span></a></span> I mean I’ve only been here for 5 years but sure. Please tell me about the vibe.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whereami" class="u-url mention">@<span>whereami</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ryanrobinson.ca/@Ryan" class="u-url mention">@<span>Ryan</span></a></span> it sort of depends! I have lots of friends who make their livings largely or entirely because the publications they work for (or in some cases, own), operate on a paywall. I understand paywall frustration. I too get annoyed, and I’m a person who pays thousands of dollars a year for various news sources. But there is always a cost and increasingly, that cost is a paywall. </p><p>Regardless, the proper response is either to Google a different link or politely ask for a PDF.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@natpbs" class="u-url mention">@<span>natpbs</span></a></span> yeah i tried that and it didn't work</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@ronaldtootall" class="u-url mention">@<span>ronaldtootall</span></a></span> if someone was legitimately unable to read the news any other way and asked nicely, I’d be happy to offer a PDF (tho then another group would yell at me for “piracy”). It’s as you said, the “yell first” attitude.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@gunchleoc" class="u-url mention">@<span>gunchleoc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dmv.community/@jemal" class="u-url mention">@<span>jemal</span></a></span> I’m fine with people blocking for whatever reason they choose (I don’t tend to block, but I’m a broken person) — but I am annoyed when a stranger tries to shame or mansplain to me without any positive discourse other than “paywalls are evil” — as if everything doesn’t have a cost. But even then, if the story was unreadable elsewhere, I’d be happy to offer a PDF if someone requested. But this was someone who just wanted to throw a fit.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> i had a guy demanding my other socials and contact info, just because i replied to some of his posts and he "did not recognize me"</p><p>Nice try creep</p>
