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Hello. I need to make this video to talk about something that happened to me. It’s very difficult to talk about, but with the election coming up, I feel it needs to come out.

In 2022, the summer of 2022, I got a job at the Bangor Airport. I was, I was working for one of the car rental companies. Part of the job was I had to get fingerprinted. I had to go for the background check. I had to get fingerprinted.

So I went to the federal building downtown across from the library, went through security. I went upstairs. They told me that’s where to go.

I walked by an office door and I heard it slam. And when I turned around, Susan Collins was there.

She looked at me, and it was like a butcher’s window she was looking into. She said, “Oh, who’s this tall glass of water?” And she grabbed me. She put her hand in my pants and she grabbed my cock. She was famous, so I let her do it. When you’re famous, you can get away with that.

She pulled my pants down, did mouth things to me. Mouth things. On me, and then she did this.

I’m not saying she shouldn’t be a senator because of that.

But I’m not gonna vote for her. 

VENUE:
Paradise Theatre, Boston Dec. 1, 1980 WBCN-FM broadcast
December 1 1980

When I was a little boy, the phrase ‘homeless’ just wasn’t in the lexicon. Because we had hospitals for mentally ill people. Watch One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest for historical reference (and watch it because it’s one of the greatest films ever made.).

Seriously,.. set that movie in current time and Nurse Ratchet is giving out methadone at a clinic while Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd are at an intersection asking for change. I wish I was exaggerating. Sure nurse Ratchet was a cunt, but she kept those people safe… until she didn’t. It didn’t work out so well for Billy, but overall, .. on the whole, … it’s better to have a special place for people who are not able to function in society. A place where those people can be all day, get their meds and not be a menace to society. That movie came out in 1975. That’s the county I grew up in so I know what’s possible

Last winter a co-worker came back from dumping the day’s cardboard in the trash. He told me there was a guy in the dumpster. He didn’t realize until he had thrown it in. 

I thought about it for the rest of the shift (which wasn’t very long), and then I kept thinking about it on the ride home and for the next couple of days. 
… and the I made this post:

Matt Buzz struck a cord… I needed to get off of my keyboard and do something. So, I sent him a message and he hooked me up with some of the nicest, best intentioned, people you can imagine. Mel and Lynn.

The next Wednesday morning I was at The Well warming center. For four hours I would welcome people coming in, write down their name (or in many cases, ‘a’ name). I would wand them down with a handheld metal detector, and give them a coffee cup.

The center served a modest breakfast. Sometimes an egg sandwich, or a single pancake.. There was cereal available most of the time. 

The place isn’t exactly rolling in dough. So.. I asked my boss at my regular job-job if we could do one of our charity round-ups for The Well.  ….how could he say ‘No”?… right. He couldn’t and didn’t. 

We asked our customers to round up their change for a week and raised $600. I had the honor of handing over the check. My only regret is that it wasn’t one of those 4 foot by 3 foot novelty checks.

Next time, maybe. 

I would encourage anyone with even the slightest interest in making a difference to help out doing something like that. It really rubs your nose in the failures of our society and gives you licence to shit-post to your heart’s content.

https://www.idealist.org/en

I do not subscribe to the long held belief that money fuels innovation. Way too much art is being made by people with little care for financial reward. I have proof of this. I’ve seen it firsthand. I love it. Which brings me to computers.

Technology is wonderful and although I believe we all need to live simpler lives, I do not think we should abandon the advances made and being made. (For the record, I support the responsable development of Artificial Intelligence), The inventors and programmers do not work for money.. Not the good ones. It’s a passion not unlike music or dance or painting. There are some art forms we take for granted. Software development might not sound like an artistic endeavor, but it is. It’s creating something (often beautiful) that wasn’t there before. If I could live a million years, I might look into it.

There are people out there…  or at least there used to be, who knew how computers work down to the actual, physical, switches that determine the ones and zeros that eventually make up what we see, hear, and what become pretty much our entire reality. Everything online. All data ever and always. I doubt there are very few people (if any) that understand computers ‘soup to nuts’ when it comes to modern mega-computers. That information is now a corporate secret and I make the argument that it shouldn’t be. If we are going to live with technology, and we are, then we should all be able to master it. If we are to survive as a species, that knowledge needs to be preserved and propagated and it should be free to all people of Earth. I’m not suggesting we all become computer engineers, but the information should be transparent and available so that if you want to know, you can.

Open Source

This is a pretty good explanation: (3:21 minutes)

You’ve heard of Linux? The computer operating system that nerds use? Yeah… if you’re holding an Android phone right now, you’re using Linux and the guy that developed it, Linus Torvalds… didn’t get paid. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

If you’re not familiar with the term ‘open-source’, I would love it if you would take a minute to read this. It’s one of the most important documents ever written… I think.

From: https://opensource.org/osd

Introduction
Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open source software must comply with the following criteria:

1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

2. Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

4. Integrity of The Author’s Source Code
The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of “patch files” with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.

5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

7. Distribution of License
The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.

8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program’s being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program’s license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.

9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open source software.

10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral
No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface

Yes, a lot of it is techno-babble but what I get out of it is that this is about the art of programming, not the money or ego, this is to advance science and mankind. … at least that’s what I get out of it. 

Now imagine we apply such guidelines for physical products.. Imagine an open source car that could be mass produced. A car designed by a collection of people who love cars. One good car can help build a nation. That’s a trick I learned from the Germans. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen. The materials to make a car are not that much…. They shouldn’t cost $40,000. 

With an Open Source philosophy and the smartest people available, … the ones who do it because they love it. .. a machine could be made… not unlike a smart-phone, that could be used for secure voting along with all the other traditional functions of the phone. It could be a true digital wallet and so much more. One could be distributed to each adult, and … we can try democracy the way I always kind of imagined it should work.

More on this later.

** BTW, I don’t know Linux. Someday, maybe, I will learn it. I am a slave to Microsoft. And as long as Windows is the standard in schools and businesses. We all are.

Throwing Muses
The Middle East
Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 25 2003

soundboard recording

1. limpwristed.
2. necrophilia.
3. sick boy.
4. future fugitives.
5. drugs party in 526.
6. diplomatic immunity.
7. catch 23.
8. seed of madness.
9. womb with a view.
10. sam is your leader.
11. maniac.
12. hellhole.
13. midnight, madness & beyond.
14. passenger on the menu.
15. pins & needles.
16. iroquois.
17. city baby attacked by rats.
18. city babys revenge.
19. i fell alright.
20. pretty vacant.
21. new rose.
22. knife edge.
23. blitzkrieg bop.
24. bell end bop.
25. generals.
26. sonic reducer.
27. alcohol.

Cuyahoga – R.E.M.

I know many of you reading this hate R.E.M. ‘s music but please take a look at the full lyrics of that song that came out in 1986.  here – Cuyahoga Full Lyrics Thirty years later I still think that it’s the best plan for the people both here and for the kids. Let’s do it for the kids. 

A trick I learned from the phone companies; … when things get too shitty, you simply declare bankruptcy, take down the sign, maybe merge with another company, fire a few people, and start over the next day with a new name.

It works. Ask At&T. 

The people who work for those companies and make the phones work… in every incarnation, they are the same people actually doing the work. Keeping the towers and switchboards and big computers going… the people don’t change, just the logo on their biweekly paychecks. 

I, personally, worked through three bank mergers and we never missed a day. We just had to change how we answered to phone.

Revolution doesn’t have to be that big of a deal. Perhaps, there is a peaceful solution.
If we can get all of the blue minded people to move to N.E. , and get the red minded people out, we can succeed from the union and establish a new country. One free of the ignorance of the past, free of the American national debt, and free of the bigotry, hatred, racism, sexism, and unbridled capitalism.

Marketing a Revolution

People are mad and fed up. I can see it, I can hear it. I can feel it.

So.. What’s next? As I see it, .. we (decent people) need a common goal. Simple and broad enough that it will appeal to all decent people. 

A trick I learned from the Christians, …give them a Heaven to look forward to. A Big Rock Candy Mountain… Valhalla, …call it what you will. 

My suggestion is, we call it:

Cuyahoga

The word has Native American roots. It translates into Crooked River. It’s a valley in Ohio. By naming our new country Cuyahoga, we are paying tribute to the peoples that were on this land before the European settlers came here.

It is also the name of a river in Ohio that caught on fire in 1969 due to the amount of pollution that had been dumped into it. By naming our new country Cuyahoga, we are remembering the failures of unbridled capitalism.

It’s going to be great kids… a 365 day a year music festival with free pot, free food and free health care… a real Big Rock Candy Mountain!

I’m addicted. Terribly addicted to Facebook. It’s the first page I visit in the morning and the last page I close at night. I’m on it for hours a day… I doom-scroll, I share memes (both publicly and privately), I post my thoughts and jokes and original artwork, I feed the machine, … I am Facebook.

I need help. If you’re reading this on FB, you probably do too.

This is not me saying goodbye. … Not yet. But I’m not going to try to seriously cut-back, and eventually find a better way to spend my time. I’ve known I’ve had a problem for quite a while but now I really want to try to understand it and correct it.

My problem(s) with FB in a nutshell:

It’s Addictive.
I didn’t do this without Zuckerberg’s help… smarter people than I have figured out how to manipulate me in ways I obviously can’t combat. FB keeps you on and it keeps you coming back. This has been explained better by others… like this:

https://youtu.be/R7jar4KgKxs?si=mxEZf-54n9M9JW7s

So there’s that. I don’t like being controlled. I never have. FB is controlling me. 

The ads.
So many fucking ads.. And so repetitive.. And targeted.. I’ve bought things because FB knows what I want .. but I didn’t want it until I saw it on FB… see how that works? …which goes back to my prior point… When Facebook started, there were no ads. …He got us hooked, then jacked up the price. 

…“But facebook is free” you say. …Remember kids: If something is free, you’re the product.

The Politics
Facebook is intentionally pushing a MAGA-Right Wing agenda. 

(I will get into this deeper in the future… but yeah, you may have noticed)

The Exodus
There are just a fraction of the cool people on FB that used to be on Facebook. So many of my friends have quit social media and I don’t hear any of them complaining. I hardly hear them all unfortunately. … I miss them and it’s just not as fun anymore.

The Echo Chamber
Ok, I’m convinced…trump is bad… I get it… enough.
The same pictures and news tidbits are regurgitated by shit posters (like me) ad-nauseum. I don’t need anymore people agreeing with me and me agreeing with them. If we all agree, then let’s move on to the next step.

The Complete and Total Loss of Privacy
Facebook knows me better than I know myself. 
…..How did I let this happen?

Zuckerberg Is A Trump Enabler
This kinds tells it:

…. Admitting it is the first step.

So I’m going to try to beat this thing but it doesn’t mean the end of my internet presence. There are alternatives,…there are other websites and other social outlets that a person can enjoy. 

Remember chat rooms?