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"If you don't have R&D in the U.S., you will not have semiconductor leadership in the U.S." -Pat GelsingerHe's right,...

"If you don't have R&D in the U.S., you will not have semiconductor leadership in the U.S." -Pat Gelsinger

He's right, but it's ironic coming from a guy who has led Intel into the dirt, and is just as guilty of anti-R&D funding behaviors like wasting budgets on endless stock buybacks and supporting Trump, who has helped burn the academic talent pool now and into the future, that could help fuel said R&D.

Sound idea, coming from a stupid person. Something something about broken clocks...

#QoTD: “Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” - Faulkner

#QoTD: “Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” - Faulkner

Art: Disquiet 55 (Olissipo)I had started working on something that was getting progressively more gobshite, and it was frustrating, because...

Art: Disquiet 55 (Olissipo)

I had started working on something that was getting progressively more gobshite, and it was frustrating, because so many times before, sessions like that often take a hard turn into something that actually works. I had given up, as it wasn't. Until it sort of was, the next day. I took one layer out of that work that was mostly various inks (and IIRC some water soluble colored pencil) on rag-grade paper, and started running some ideas…

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/art-disquiet-55-olissipo/

I can't say I was a big fan of The Damned, but certainly understood their position in the punk rock firmament; that said,...

I can't say I was a big fan of The Damned, but certainly understood their position in the punk rock firmament; that said, "Don't You Wish That We Were Dead" is one hell of a documentary that gets into just how interconnected they are to so much that followed (including their connections to The Pretenders, Culture Club, and so much more)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVI8SOt3OvI

The Trump Administration Is a NatSec Nightmare, by their own AdmissionSo, I've just read a piece by Jeffrey Goldberg (Editor of The...

The Trump Administration Is a NatSec Nightmare, by their own Admission

So, I've just read a piece by Jeffrey Goldberg (Editor of The Atlantic and by historical standards, a Neo-con Republican of Reagan era bona fides) called The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans, and when I started reading I thought it would end in a Project Veritas grade bit of disinfo op clownery. But after a full read, it appears to be real.

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/the-trump-administration-is-a-natsec-nightmare-by-their-own-admission/

#QoTD "I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is...

#QoTD "I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true." —Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm always up for broadcasting all reasons, great and small, of why #Disney is a trash-ass operation; un this case, the (mis)treatment...

I'm always up for broadcasting all reasons, great and small, of why #Disney is a trash-ass operation; un this case, the (mis)treatment of one of its artists, Don Rosa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDge_uZHTQ

Art:  gone by sin too slowlyThis was one of those things that was developing from a set of recent experiments with variations of my...

Art:  gone by sin too slowly

This was one of those things that was developing from a set of recent experiments with variations of my process of painting on various media, then scanning them in and torqueing them into something clearly borne of, yet entirely divorced from said sources. In this case I found a few new tricks in some old software toys for generating geometric forms, which then get pushed and pulled into the mix; often folded over each other in…

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/art-gone-by-sin-too-slowly/

"Blustein argues that the #dollar’s status is impregnable “barring catastrophic #policy missteps by the U.S. government.” And as...

"Blustein argues that the #dollar’s status is impregnable “barring catastrophic #policy missteps by the U.S. government.” And as he acknowledges in the book’s introduction, the responsibility to manage the dollar wisely, “may not count for much in the mind of Donald #Trump.” One could argue that the next few years will be a tough test of the dollar’s resilience as a reserve currency."

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/your-late-winter-economic-statecraft

Nathan Oliveira At the TritonA big personal influence on me is Nathan Oliveira; somewhere in my late teens I grew interested in Portuguese...

Nathan Oliveira At the Triton

A big personal influence on me is Nathan Oliveira; somewhere in my late teens I grew interested in Portuguese artists, but mostly found authors (e.g. Fernando Pessoa and Eça de Queiroz) and musicians (Radio Macau, Carlos Paredes) but outside of Paula Rego, there just wasn't a lot I could find about visual artists in the pre-internet libraries in my neighborhood.

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/nathan-oliveira-at-the-triton/

Sounds That have Been made, EP 139: #Kelela "Furry Sings The Blues" "Covers of Joni Mitchell usually leave me pretty damn...

Sounds That have Been made, EP 139: #Kelela "Furry Sings The Blues"

"Covers of Joni Mitchell usually leave me pretty damn cold, but Kelela does a cover of “Furry Sings the Blues” that’s just pure magic"

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-139-kelela-furry-sings-the-blues/ #JoniMitchell, #Kelela, #Music

Pharaoh Sanders (w/ Ravi Coltrane and Cindy Blackman) live in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTFlXZOIFgg

Pharaoh Sanders (w/ Ravi Coltrane and Cindy Blackman) live in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTFlXZOIFgg

New #art "disquiet 54 (horizonte quebrado)" started very analog, mostly with watercolors and gouaches, and then took a hard right...

New #art "disquiet 54 (horizonte quebrado)" started very analog, mostly with watercolors and gouaches, and then took a hard right turn after scanning the bits in and pixel bending. Now we're here. #abstractart #abstractpainting #artshare

The #DeadKennedys set the standard for todays political messaging. Pass it on...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHLPnGuVSQ

The #DeadKennedys set the standard for todays political messaging. Pass it on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHLPnGuVSQ

#QoTD "Yesterdays weirdness is tomorrows reason why." -Hunter S Thompson

#QoTD "Yesterdays weirdness is tomorrows reason why." -Hunter S Thompson

#BillBruford has exited retirement from music (which he entered into in 2009) and is back, but playing straightahead #jazz in a UK trio,...

#BillBruford has exited retirement from music (which he entered into in 2009) and is back, but playing straightahead #jazz in a UK trio, with no high ambitions for arenas. The Pete Roth Trio (led by his former drum tech in Earthworks) do an admirable job with a #WayneShorter tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopGQnINKcI

For the music nerds of a low-frequency interest, PDBass does a breakdown of the players and bass samples used on one of the greatest albums...

For the music nerds of a low-frequency interest, PDBass does a breakdown of the players and bass samples used on one of the greatest albums (let alone the greatest hip hop album) of all time, #The Low End Theory" by A Tribe Called Quest; it's a fairly badass breakdown of each track.

https://youtu.be/1oQiPK1Nd3I?si=KzwCmXXAgRIKHPEf

In a turn suspected by nearly no one, EA actually did something good, and open-sourced a bunch of old classic games....

In a turn suspected by nearly no one, EA actually did something good, and open-sourced a bunch of old classic games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogamedev/comments/1iznobk/ea_just_open_sourced_command_conquer_red_alert/

Andrew Dice Clay as Special Guest of Marcus King, Chris Dave, Mononeon, Isaiah Sharkey 01/19/25. It's weirdly compelling to hear him...

Andrew Dice Clay as Special Guest of Marcus King, Chris Dave, Mononeon, Isaiah Sharkey 01/19/25. It's weirdly compelling to hear him genuinely riff on topics, sing a little (in a honky tonk barfly kind of way) and have unaffected fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fdz5w8DCY

#QoTD: "We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've...

#QoTD: "We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years."
- George Carlin -