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Linda Yaccarino was set up to fail (www.theverge.com)

The buzz out of the Code Conference this week is, naturally, all about the disastrous performance of X / Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, who closed out the two-day affair in spectacular fashion. Vox’s Peter Kafka, who has been going to the conference since it started in 2008, called it “the weirdest session I’ve ever seen.”...

a_seattle_ian ,

She’s even sighted in the wikipedia article “In 2023, Linda Yaccarino was appointed as the CEO of Twitter while the company was facing an uncertain future and a number of challenges, including outages, user discontent and advertiser skepticism. The company lost more than half of its value since its acquisition by Elon Musk six months prior.”

a_seattle_ian ,

Wasn’t sure I’d listen to this whole thing but half way threw it starts to really get weird. Damn, kind of feel bad for her…it most be hell working for Elon.

a_seattle_ian , (edited )

What about Mono? Looks like most of the people working on .NET are working out of Redmond at Microsoft.

a_seattle_ian ,

I have a friend with cancer that just lost his insurance since he’s not old enough for Medicare and makes too much money from his retirement benefits (it’s barely enough to pays his mortgage and eat here in Seattle). He’s going try to wait 6 months until he can get Medicare but I don’t think he will make it and he’s only worried about losing his house. I think it will cost around 60K to get back on his meds and keep going to his weekly medical appointment (probably way more) for the next 6 months. He was so sick before he started going to the doctor and seemed to be responding really well to treatment. Was going to try do a Gofundme.com me page for him. It’s so derepressing. damn just thought about if he’s going to even afford his pain meds…I think he has that covered but yeah it really sucks. Medicare will even take your home if you spend past a certain life time maximum while your dying. Most people don’t really know just how bad it is until you have to deal with it and it’s purposely super confusing and the the Insurance company’s make insane amounts of money and so they spend a lot of money to keep it this way. Personally, I’m looking at trying to move to an other country that has even a basic medical system that is affordable just so I’m not so discouraged from even going to the doctor because it’s so expense even with insurance.

a_seattle_ian , (edited )

It would probably be cheaper for me to drive up to White Rock or Abbotsford BC then go see a doctor in Seattle even with my insurance. But when you get sick it’s kind of hard to shop around.

a_seattle_ian , (edited )

I’m interested in finding ways to use it but when if I’m writing code I really like the spectrum of different answers on stack overflow with comment’s on WHY they did it that way. Might use it for boring emails though.

a_seattle_ian ,

re-builder in Emacs works really good for this because I’ll usually have the text in a buffer already that I want to match or replace or adjust or select - I’m constantly using it.

a_seattle_ian OP ,

Classic tail of an great artist who got fucked by the music industry…

a_seattle_ian OP ,

Based on my memory, like a lot of musicians in the “good old days”, the record label cut him out of everything and actively hid royalties from him. The documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” goes into more details. As i recall they find the producer but can’t find the money. Great Doc check it out. Also found this " One of the dramatic highlights of the film is when the interviewer confronts Clarence Avant, the label’s owner. “What happened to all of the royalties?” the interviewer asks. Avant becomes visibly agitated and is unable to offer a satisfactory answer to the question. "

a_seattle_ian OP , (edited )

BUT, the “record deals” often were so bad that they didn’t have to hide anything they just structured them in a way that wasn’t very advantageous to the artist and Pay to Play and access to distribution channels meant you you didn’t have a lot of other options. Some tried to work around the system but you probably have never heard of them. A good example that comes to mind is Greg Sage of the Wipers. Youth Of America - The Wipers (1981)

a_seattle_ian OP ,

Interestingly an other band that went to insane length to get around the US music system was a band that found an audience in Germany. :-) Dead Moon LIVE at Stuttgart (‎Germany) 23 08 1990

a_seattle_ian OP ,

I think that also happened…and maybe the royalties issue wasn’t as black and white as I thought.

What Likely Happened to the Royalties for “Sugar Man”?

It’s a tuff biz. I don’t think you were wrong, luck has a lot to do with it and the bootlegging certainly helped.

a_seattle_ian OP ,

Rodriguez what an awesome human being…just watched this interview with him.

“And what about all the those years of back breaking labor, was that hard on you? … well physically it was hard but there is no shame in hard work…There is no shame in being poor. Poor doesn’t mean dirty. Poor doesn’t mean stupid and poor doesn’t mean, mean”

Rodriguez: The 2012 60 Minutes Interview

a_seattle_ian OP ,

Cold Fact - Full Album

Elephant 6 Crew React to Hearing Neutral Milk Hotel's 'Aeroplane' for First Time in Doc Clip (www.rollingstone.com)

The long-in-the-works The Elephant 6 Recording Co. documentary hits theaters on August 25, telling the story behind the psychedelic collective that featured renowned bands like Apples in Stereo, Of Montreal, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, and Neutral Milk Hotel.

a_seattle_ian , (edited )

Saw a version of NMH at the Moore theater in Seattle… I think several people from Elf Power were helping out. Such a classic album!!! Never thought I’d get a chance to see them.

Hopefully music is still happening like this somewhere in American

a_seattle_ian ,

It was good…might have been 2012 or 2015…Jeff had a lot of musicians helping him out on stage to reproduce the sound. Got the feeling he really wanted to give the fans a good show. I think i remember the guy from elf power getting out the saw even… Just read on his wiki that “Slate described Mangum as the “Salinger of Indie Rock.”” So kind of cool that he gets out there and does it at all, I was grateful.

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