Forecast for the day: urgent cyberchores with a good chance of music.
I am counting the days left to "enjoy" the Internet. I recommend that youall do that too. The more of us walk out, refuse to use "cloud storage" devices, and let the Internet crash or be regulated so that it continues to serve rather than harming us, the better the chance of actually keeping it running this winter. We need to start saving and printing what we want to keep, exchanging real-world mailing addresses with our e-friends around the world, discarding (by returning to the store or manufacturer!) any electronics we have that don't have physical data storage. Microsoft needs to know that there's not going to be any need for any "data centers" and, further, that it is not God. Bezos, Zuckerberg, whoever else--all the "tech giants" need to know that they are still in trade and WE ARE THEIR CUSTOMERS. THEY DO WHAT WE SAY IF THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR JOBS.
For sure there will be no Microsoft allowed in this house after October--unless Microsoft loses their boyboss and pulls a 180. Probably there will be no Internet. Which means my whole neighborhood goes back into reality, where most of us have spent most of the last twenty years anyway. If these corporations want people to trust even our published writing and music to the Internet, they need to get back to the idea of doing the Internet our way.
No "cloud." All computers must have physical storage. All computers must have a way to connect not only to 3.5" floppy disk drives but to 5.25" floppy disk drives. All new computers must be sold with printers. The actual cost of printing a page, two-sided, black and white, small print, must not exceed a penny a page.
No "updates." Amazon and Google and Microsoft might be allowed to pay us for permission to "update" our software while our computers are not in use, or they might learn to "update" their software in a way that does not affect ours. I prefer the latter.
No planned obsolescence. One computer per person per lifetime. No using up all the precious metal in the world, no turning China into a toxic waste dump. Your computer, the one you bought in 1983 if you were a real early adopter, needs to be repairable and usable through at least 2083.
Meanwhile...I may stop posting to this blog in October, or go back to posting only occasionally. Meanwhile, preparing to walk out is unavoidably going to occupy higher priority than building up this web site. There will be posts but, realistically, there probably won't be three posts a day with regular features until, unless, the Internet stabilizes..
Music
Robert Gromotka.
Per the poem linked below...400-year-old harp music by John Dowland.
Mid Mod Music.
Robin Schutz.
Ravi Shankar.
Midnight till Morning.
Camel.
Alex Warren.
Funky Destination.
Reba McEntire.
Magic Castles.
Mae Estes.
Traffic.
Radiohead.
The Who.
Dolly Parton.
Neil Young.
Richard Marx.
Aukai.
Rod Stewart.
Tom Petty.
Tyler Hubbard.
Moby Grape.
Corey Kent.
Mama Cass Elliot.
Logan Ryan Band.
Dumas Walker.
Obituary
Dolly Parton, age 80. Never even thought about retiring. For all the surface silliness of her act, she was a Real Hillbilly, and a Real Southern Lady.
Poetry
Well, Free Verse...call it a mission statement for this web site's music logs. The sound track of my online days is what e-friends send to me--a mad mix, the madder the merrier.
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