So Awkward It's Funny

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

Transcript: "Pasta!"

Time shifting

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The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it's just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to "decode" back into 0's and 1's, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you'd installed it from a disk.

Another question that's impossible to answer is why do people [discourage someone else from writing]? It's hard to answer because it's all different reasons.

Sometimes it's about power and control. Stop doing what you're doing and do what I want you to do. Stop writing what you're writing and write what I want you to write. Or else.

There are a lot of reasons for this and sometimes even if you know the person very well, you can't tell what their reason is. But sometimes there's only one thing you can do about it. Don't stop.

in combination with a recent-ish thing she said on bluesky:

FATHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN (STRANGERS UNDER THE SAME ROOF).

Thought you might like to see this. This sheet of paper from the Evil Supply Company days has been an important part of the kitchen in every apartment I've ever rented, always taped up in my tea cabinet. Now that I'm getting ready to move again, I thought it needed a little extra protection.

Ha!! This is amazing! That is EARLY Evil Supply Co work!

I am so happy to have been a part of your home for so long.

If you have money, invest it in. If you don’t, make stuff with cheap or free bits. It’s fine.

Any gate put up in front of you by someone else is bullshit.

“Oh you have a day job…. Oh this is just a hobby… oh you haven’t done, yet… oh you don’t know about / how to do / the history of…”

Take a bat shaped bazooka and blow up the fucking gate and the person trying to shut you down.

Art is hard. It’s an internal process. External pressures that do not assist propulsion must be destroyed.

Your audience is always at least 1 — you — so make things that you enjoy. You are the megaphone.

If no one else likes it, but you do, keep going.

If it makes no money and you need it to make money to keep going, reduce scope and scale until it’s affordable without income. It’s fine.

If you don’t have time, same advice. Reduce scope until you can do what you can do and keep going. It’s fine.

If you have to pause to handle life, reduce scope until you can keep going and/or pause until you can resume, then once you can resume, keep going.

There is no such thing as wasted time.

“Wasted time” is an invention of capitalism to distance the experience of being alive from the purpose — which you, as a person, an individual — must continually develop.

Gatekeeping exists as a function of inflating egos. Ego exists as a way to provide satisfaction without having actually produced something.

My art career has held the spectrum of “I Have Money” down to “I’ll pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger today, friend.”

Keep going.

Any scale. Any and all sizes.