Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warni
Andy Baio, owner of Waxy.org and subject of Wikipedia article, has written a somewhat long & in-depth eulogy of Ello...
I personally like it. There are some details that I personally would have added to it (such as the whole Galaxim & Bibles thing, the Cult of Monoboob, the writing communities, Currentivism the-almost-but-is-an-art-movement, and various other Ello deep-lores), but not right now though... Maybe in a few more days, if I get around to it...
Thanks Andy, and hello fellow Ello-Tumbleweeds this text might pique your interests... ââđ
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Hey guys, remember the ancient Mesopotamian low-quality copper bamboozler Ea-Nasir? Guess what: he seems to be "back"...
...To be fair though: This particular embezzlement crime actually happened in 2021: [mining.com] Not this year (2024).
(Using a news-link from mining dot com, because the original Bloomberg dot com article is behind a pay-wall.)
Still hillarious though, in my opinion. And the Ea Nasir joke continues to be evergreen. At least among Tumblr deep-lore enthusiasts and fans of ancient world/mediterranean/levant history.
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Some more choice memes I've collected recently, related to Ea Nasir:
A reply, over from Bluesky:
Ea-nÄᚣir jokes are like high-quality copper ingots.
Not everybody gets them.
Not mine; this next one neither:
Obligatory "Palpatine is back" remix:
The Simpsons predicted this, of course:
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Caught by the captains of the East India Company:
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Randal Munroe/XKCD Comics remembers Ea-Nasir, of course...
The Tumblr merch shop [shop.tumblr.com] has been under maintenance and reconstruction for several months now, but the (current? former?) head of Tumblr merch still has his Tumblr blog up and has a nice quick-briefing of the Ea-Nasir meme on Tumblr....
In 1953, explorer Sir Leonard Woolley discovered and acquired the tablet from what is believed to be the ruins of Ea-Nasir's home while on an expedition to the city of Ur. Several other similar tablets complaining about poor copper quality were also recovered, suggesting Ea-Nasir frequently sent his customers poor-quality goods. The tablet is currently held at the British Museum.
Paul McCartney has revealed in an interview with the BBC broadcast Tuesday that a "final Beatles record" has been made with the help of artificial intelligence. McCartney did not name the song that has been recorded but according to the BBC it is likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called "Now And Then". The recording will be released sometime later this year.
https://u.afp.com/iDAV
Concerning, sure. I could fathom the potential disapproval. But if the estates of all four Beatles members approve, what are the fandom and the music-consuming public going to do about it?Â
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Updates:
My further personal opinions: Yeah like what are Beatles fans going to tell The Beatles? Are fans going to tell The Beatles that they have no right to âmess aroundâ with their songs?Â
Like how Star Wars fans had told George Lucas he had âno rightâ to make the 1997-2005 prequels? Or tell Disney they have âno rightâ to cast a Black woman as Ariel in the Little Mermaid live-action remake?
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Another analysis which I tend to agree with, from Mic The Snare on Twitter:
I got a wee lil jumpscare at first, but I think Paulâs quoteâs been mischaracterized by these headlines.
Johnâs vocal already exists! Theyâre not generating Johnâs voice via AI! They wanna clean it up with the same tools they used during the Get Back doc! I think thatâs okay!
And from Paul on the BBCÂ Channel 4 interview:
...And we were able to use that kind of thing when Peter Jackson did the film Get Back, where it was us making the Let It Be album. He was able to extricate Johnâs voice from a rumpy little bit of cassette that had Johnâs voice and a piano. He could separate them with AI, and he could tell the machine, âThatâs a voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar.â And he did that, so it has great uses.
So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had, that we worked on. We were able to take Johnâs voice and get it pure, through this AI, so then we could mix the record as you normally do.
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Further: some imho relevant historical articles & links:
âNow and Thenâ (1979 unfinished "demoâ song by John Lennon) - Wikipedia
âFree As a Birdâ (1995 Beatles song) - Originally written in 1977 by by Lennon but uncompleted - Wikipedia
âNow and Thenâ (May 2023 A.I. fan edit) - Song uploaded to YouTube. Made by YouTube user âJohn Winston Lennonâ on May 2nd, 2023. Created by editing & repurposing from âofficiallyâ unreleased âbootlegâ material from the 1995 version that McCartney, Harrison and Star were attempting to record, for their âBeatles: Anthology 1âł album, released in 1995.
If you've been watching YouTube since the early 2010's you might remember the PBS Idea Channel show on YouTube, started & hosted by Mike Rugnetta and ended in 2017. If you haven't heard of Idea Channel then I highly recommend visiting their YouTube channel (yes all videos are still up and you can catch up with over 100 videos spanning five years of work).
Anyways Mike Rugnetta has continued working as a freelance audio & digital media producer all this time, and recently he started a podcast with friends which they titled, "Never Post". I've listened to the first few episodes (30 to 90 minutes long) and I find them to be great. Check them out if you want:
A Podcast About and For the Internet
âŚand yes you can subscribe to them from Spotify if you really, really have to. But there are other ways to better & more directly support them if you want. (Such as becoming a direct subscribing member at neverpo.st.)
You may have heard that Ello has died. Or that it has effectively gone into this weird zombie state, where the website is technically still live but also all its features are essentially dead. Or dead-ish.
Anyways some of us straggler hangers-on Ello users started this Tumblr group, in an attempt to maybe preserve and/or recapture what little magic Ello still had for us.
We called the group, "Ello on Tumblr". Or Elloon for short.
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The US Senate UAP/UFO hearings featuring 'whistleblower' David Gursh-whatsisname this morning kinda made me wanna paint my own original digital drawing, commenting how the hearings themselves hurt my brain cells.
âŚBut unfortunately I have shirts to design for friends (read: more important things to do) so I'm settling for some quick n' dirty meme image macros.
To quote one of the replies under one of the article shares on Twitter/Threads/Mastodon:
I'm surprised the Flat-Earth Hearing didn't immediately follow this one.
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I mean like, if you've got new concrete evidence and some actually valid new avenues of investigation then sure, present them and please make your case.
But if you're just going to rehash decades old theories and claim 2nd-hand witness from unwilling sources then the burden of proof is on you. (And the burden of proof, as far as I'm concerned in this particular moment in time, has not been satisfied.)
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An explainer roundup-article I personally trust from The Guardian:
David Grusch, a whistleblower former intelligence official, is among the witnesses slated to appear at hearing
Grusch has not seen the alien craft himself, but said in an interview with the Debrief that his claims are based on âextensive interviews with high-level intelligence officialsâ.
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Instead of "chaos grifters" I had thought of instead labeling that second one "cryptofascists". But I didn't go that route because I'm thinking the crypto/blockchain/NFT/generative art crowd would take away the wrong message, and it would lead to unnecessary & distracting debate.
When I say "cryptofascists" I'm thinking of all the cryptically dogpiling culture-war grifters like Milos Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, whomever Q really was, all the trolls at 4chan/b/ and 4chan/pol, and all those who spout cryptic messages for the purpose of gaslighting society into believing that everything is meaningless and there is no truth. Cryptofascism is a societally toxic international ideology and I firmly stand against it.
Cryptofascism includes those who peddle flat-earth, climate change denial, anti-vaxx, protocols of the elders of zion and all such similar brain-melting conspiracy theories for the purposes of sowing chaos or just for t3h lulz.
Many of them, if not all of them, driven by personal vendetta for a world that they feel have "wronged" them or "cheated" them.
Their fuel is attention & "engagement", many of them grifting from supplement-pill hustles and oils and such to swindle billions of dollars from the depressed and lonely. I curse every keyboard & screen these cryptofasicsts touch.
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Sorry for that firebrand just now I got myself a bit too worked up thinking about all this. đđđ
Update, about 2, 3 hours later:Â Apparently this time (once again) it was only a temporary outage again. But the way the Talenthouse situation is still going, as has been the case, weâll never qute know...
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Screenshot taken on my phone just a few moments ago (7th June 2023, around 07:19pm local Jakarta time).
