David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

Unforgettable Poly 🖤

Photo by Falcon Stuart

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene #xrayspex #history #punkrockhistory

Daily Inspiration: "Avoid the delusion of exceptionalism!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

An ex-Google engineer by the name of Praveen Seshadri caught a lot of attention yesterday for his post a few days ago, "The maze is in the mouse," featuring the sub-heading, "What ails Google? And how it can turn things around" More on the reasoning in his post in a moment, but it did feature this bit of commentary which immediately caught my attention:

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The way I see it, Google has four core cultural problems. They are all the natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called “Ads” that has kept growing relentlessly every year, hiding all other sins.

(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, (4) mismanagement.

Unfortunately, this is not my first experience watching the gradual decay of a dominant empire.

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The phrase 'delusions of exceptionalism' captures so much of what I've been trying to say here for a time that I knew I had to find a way to use it. The result was the creation of today's image for today's quote.

Delusions of exceptionalism.

Dangerous - and destructive!

Read the full post:

https://jimcarroll.com/2023/02/daily-inspiration-avoid-the-delusion-of-exceptionalism/

Steak Dinners, Sales Reps and Risky Procedures: Inside the Big Business of Clogged Arteries
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Text messages, a whistleblower lawsuit and an internal investigation reveal the lengths to which Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, allegedly “groomed” doctors to overuse its vascular products in patients at a veterans’ hospital.

#Health #HealthCare #Surgery #MedicalDevices #Medtronic #Whistleblower #Doctors #Veterans

https://www.propublica.org/article/medtronic-medical-device-kickbacks-lawsuit-kansas?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

33 years ago
Stay Sick! is the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Cramps released on February, 1990. It was the last made in studio with founding drummer Nick Knox.

#punk #punks #punkrock #thecramps #history #punkrockhistory

@historyofpunkrock I could not quit listening to this album. My favorite Cramps album. It’s been at least 20 years since I’ve played it. Tonight I think I’ll saddle up a buzz buzz.

One of the worst jobs in the world must be being a lawyer for Donald Trump, as the latest news makes clear. No less than three of them have appeared before Jack Smith’s grand jury lately, and now Smith intends to prove at least one was part of the crime. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/maga-make-attorneys-get-attorneys?sd=pf

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-covid-now-looks-like-a-neurological-disease-helping-doctors-to-focus-treatments/

A hefty dose of misinformation from Scientific American.

It would be fitting to charge him with wire fraud. Grifting is his thing and has been his whole life. Here, the amounts are in the hundreds of millions.

“Another key benefit of wire fraud is its simplicity. The charge boils down to proof that the defendants hatched a scheme to rip somebody off and one of them sent an email. Lying and stealing are criminal law 101.”

https://www.sidebarsblog.com/p/the-sleeper-charge-related-to-january

@Victoriak
🎶 It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabokov 🎶

—The Police

Maybe Kubrick just wanted to adapt one the greatest novels of the 20th century to boost his young career.

Still, I think the film could be better.

Everyone in the world: Maybe we can harness the power of A.I. for better interpretative analysis of XRays for the detection and management of cancer and another life-threatening disease.

Meta/Facebook: Oh, cool, we can make better Instagram filters!

One of the earliest films I remember that Raquel Welch was in was 100 RIFLES. The film, like all of the films in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and before, was hideously misogynistic. Here was one of the posters featuring Welch and Jim Brown. #RIPRaquelWelch #film #RaquelWelch #cinemastodon #movies

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your President differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It's not what Tom Friedman writes about, I'm sorry. You're going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people, Americans and Europeans, come back and go, "Ohhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.

- Henry Rollins

#quotes

Cook County, Minnesota has issued a travel advisory for all gravel roads in the county. The snow cover combined with the rain has made many treacherous.

There are so few Minnesotans using the Minnesota hashtag and fewer that live in Cook County that I'm not sure it's worth posting this, but I'll do it anyway in case there's a chance.

#Minnesota

Did you catch the ads for Jesus during the Super Bowl? It’s bizarre that anyone would spend $20 million to promote and rebrand Jesus this way, but what lies beneath the sleek marketing is something very disturbing. I explain in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/jesus-at-the-super-bowl?sd=pf

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A recent ProPublica investigation focused on Chris McNaughton, the #PennState student who had to sue his #insurance provider #UnitedHealthcare to get his #UlcerativeColitis treatment covered.

Now hear Chris’ story in his own words, and recordings of UHC execs discussing their decision to deny coverage.

After his diagnosis, Chris unsuccessfully tried a wide variety of treatments until his specialist at the Mayo Clinic landed upon a high-dose combination of drugs that finally worked:

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

This is one of the best readings of the Tower of Babel story.

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

There's going to be a 3rd edition of my book! I'm heading into @iconbooks to sign 100 limited, numbered copies in green ink! They're sold exclusively @biggreenbooks
Here's the link: https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copies/signed-and-numbered-the-year-i-stopped-to-notice-by-miranda-keeling/prod_1142.html
'Buy an extra copy for someone you love.' Or at least that's what
@neilhimself says...