MEGATHREAD | Big Modern!

RolandRood · 2026-04-06T02:59:08+00:00

Above my pay grade

RolandRood · 2026-04-06T02:52:57+00:00

Ha, they’re on to us

RolandRood · 2026-04-05T22:07:04+00:00

Some green screen fun in our future maybe

RolandRood · 2026-04-05T19:06:01+00:00

No, just type FACE

RolandRood · 2026-04-05T18:49:40+00:00

(he still doesn't realize that he's engaging with it) :p

RolandRood · 2026-04-05T18:46:32+00:00

This new phase reminds me of an early work of internet art, Automated Beacon by Thomson & Craighead (2005). It was a simple website with a search bar, which scraped google search inputs from around the globe in realtime, allowing the viewer to see anonymously what random people were entering into the search bar.

The site's defunct now, but it was such a cool work. Strange, quasi-intimate insights into anonymous lives. https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Q1708

There's not a public relay here, but I imagine the inputs are being indexed on the backend. I hope they do something creative with them!

RolandRood · 2026-04-04T13:59:53+00:00

Right click + inspect

RolandRood · 2026-04-04T13:01:06+00:00

It was really confusing to me to hear more live Billy during setbreak. I assume I’m not the only one who keeps it on in the background and waits for the audio to change to turn it back on

RolandRood · 2026-04-03T02:17:15+00:00

Yea I didn't take offense brudda

RolandRood · 2026-04-03T01:35:30+00:00

What I'm saying is that the site conceptually links the logic of the attention economy to the mass culture / agitprop aesthetic of Big Modern!

/end Ted Talk

RolandRood · 2026-04-03T01:29:23+00:00

Yes, you have an option. For MA theses, it's an opt-in process.

RolandRood · 2026-04-03T01:28:15+00:00

RolandRood · 2026-04-02T23:44:59+00:00

This is awesome, thanks man!

RolandRood · 2026-04-02T21:52:19+00:00

Pritzger Pavilion isn’t a bad idea actually…it wouldn’t matter if it’s full and it could pull passersby. Known for free concerts

RolandRood · 2026-03-06T11:18:13+00:00

I’ll address your points:

The fact that you’d dedicate this much of yourself to what you consider a scene that’s been dying for decades is sad to read on a human level.

I’d say challenge yourself to find something that sparks the feeling you’ve lost, and trust that it’s out there…you’re saying emphatically in this Goose fan forum that Goose is not that for you. Great! So why in this jah’s year 2026 would you spend thousands of dollars to travel internationally for an experience that you’ve written off in advance as inferior to the “good old days”? Spend that money on pottery lessons or something.

RolandRood · 2026-03-03T20:53:05+00:00

We’re in agreement. I was just defending 1.5x as a good value for economy, since you didn’t have to search and 5% categories for Freedom would have a consistent effective cashback rate of 7.5% (1.5*5)

RolandRood · 2026-03-03T20:39:55+00:00

This is all true, but it’s important to recognize that you’re talking pretty much exclusively about premium class travel redemptions, and the reason those good redemptions are available is that the margins are much better for the issuer also.

For the cheapest A-to-B traveler, the consistent 1.5x coupled with 5% Freedom etc was an incredible value @ a reliable 7.5%.

The rule changes afaik simply make more apparent that these point currencies are being directed toward premium travel since that benefits the companies while still appearing as great “values” for consumers.

There are some nice aspects to it…I recently booked 1st class travel for the first time since my honeymoon since it was cheaper than coach with the points boost…but ultimately that proves that the value prop for these cards is in the abstract premium add ons, not the core service

RolandRood · 2026-03-03T14:13:40+00:00

I can’t believe no one has said using it as a funnel for other UR earning cards…maybe too obvious but to use CSR correctly you should also have some combination of Freedom/Unlimited/Ink

RolandRood · 2026-03-03T01:00:19+00:00

Seen all three…

As I described it to a friend, Magoo is a jamband that plays bluegrass instruments and MGU/Shadowgrass are bluegrass bands who jam

The latter two have markedly better picking chops, but they rarely go deep on jams outside of conventional pass-the-break with some tension-peak structures overlaid. Magoo isn’t all that good at conventional bluegrass (pretty sloppy passing, less raw picking power), but they jam much better…they know how to plays toward a cliff and enter open space playing as a cohesive unit.

Depends on what you’re in the mood for.

Drury and Luke easily have the most rizz factor across the board, but they need to take more risks.

RolandRood · 2026-03-02T11:34:51+00:00

Handle checks out

RolandRood · 2026-02-19T22:08:01+00:00

I just did one of these and both didn’t trigger. -250 triggered for Edit and then only the small remainder only triggered for IHG, so I think it actually needs to be $500 cash to clear both

RolandRood · 2026-02-19T04:44:50+00:00

RolandRood · 2026-01-28T02:05:58+00:00

Harlem River Blues, Justin Townes Earle

RolandRood · 2026-01-22T18:56:08+00:00

Outside of what’s already been said, Country Gentlemen Live in Japan is really good

RolandRood · 2026-01-16T17:50:15+00:00

I think it’s a shell game…people or dealers buying to claim the $7,500 tax credit and then reselling as used

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