links, etc Steve Albini Was Proof You Can Change - The Atlantic When you realize that the dumbest person in the argument is on your side, that means you’re on the wrong side" the complementary guardian article yeah, he was always that caustic producer guy, but he was brilliant and he clearly matured and openly atoned for his offenses. it’s sobering to realize as an X-er just how many of my favorite albums he produced....
links, etc Heat Death of the Internet - takahē if this wasn’t so spot on, it would be even more hilarious. #enshittification
links, etc The Radiant Future! (Of 1995) - Charlie’s Diary this is probably the best thing that i’ve read all week. granted, the week is young. NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager perhaps i should should be a little more grateful when i get a decent collection of logs and show tech to dig into an issue.
links, etc 50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 - IEEE Spectrum there’s something about the engineering of these massive hunks of metal with their smoothed dishes talking to something millions of miles away that’s pretty mind blowing. fold into the mix here that these were engineered and built 50 years ago…