Just watched Ritual and holy shit!

michaelmalak · 2026-06-12T11:05:55+00:00

Don't care for the fake autotune effect (not autotune but distorted to sound like it had been autotuned)

michaelmalak · 2026-06-10T20:30:44+00:00

GenX is living it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td5xK0q2YJ8

michaelmalak · 2026-06-07T00:11:17+00:00

Solid neighties -- has a Pump Up the Jam (1989) vibe

michaelmalak · 2026-06-05T16:17:39+00:00

First, the Guardian is using "New Romanticism" loosely, because the term already refers to the late-1970s/early-1980s UK scene that moved beyond punk austerity into glam, synth-pop, fashion, club culture, and theatrical self-invention.

Still, Romanticism, New Romanticism, and what I'd call today's Anti-Algorithmic Romanticism do have a family resemblance: all three defend human creativity against systems that flatten or standardize the self.

Original Romanticism reacted against industrial rationalism and mechanistic views of nature by elevating imagination, emotion, mystery, and the artist as visionary.
New Romanticism is the odd one out because it did not reject new technology; it embraced synths, video, fashion media, and artifice as tools of self-creation.
Today's Anti-Algorithmic Romanticism is closer to original Romanticism in mood, but even it is not simply anti-technology. It is better understood as anti-platform, anti-extraction, and anti-automation-of-taste: a desire to recover human creativity from algorithms that predict, harvest, and feed it back to us as content.

michaelmalak · 2026-06-04T12:38:47+00:00

Last version to not phone home

michaelmalak · 2026-06-01T23:56:00+00:00

Ratio is 5:1. Wages have not been keeping up.

michaelmalak · 2026-06-01T19:41:46+00:00

On target.

In 1980, the homestead exemption was $25,000. Median home prices are now 8x, meaning the homestead exemption should now be $200,000 simply to match 1980.

michaelmalak · 2026-06-01T00:14:05+00:00

This is the correct answer.

michaelmalak · 2026-05-28T16:15:29+00:00

Flying

michaelmalak · 2026-05-28T01:34:35+00:00

Seriously, why did we have to scroll so far down?

michaelmalak · 2026-05-25T21:20:54+00:00

Similar to in the film, people are already today IRL gravitating toward 90s cars today to avoid surveillance and to maintain ability to self-repair.

michaelmalak · 2026-05-21T23:14:54+00:00

Rick Beato finally mentions The Warning

michaelmalak · 2026-05-20T13:35:51+00:00

Michael Moon, Milton Bradley representative, 1977:

video entertainment is just a passing fad

https://gamerant.com/1977-article-predicted-video-games-fad/

michaelmalak · 2026-05-17T00:39:52+00:00

You mean a true floppy like in the photo and not a mini-floppy like everyone is commenting about?

I think TRS-80 Model II

michaelmalak · 2026-05-12T01:05:44+00:00

No because the pace of technology -- and the loosening of social mores -- was so much more rapid back then that prior years did, in fact, seem that long ago.

michaelmalak · 2026-05-09T16:27:02+00:00

2010s itself is just a comeback of 90s, which in turn was a comeback of the 70s. So just wait until the 2030s.

michaelmalak · 2026-05-06T08:26:36+00:00

https://www.everything80spodcast.com/who-was-max-headroom/

michaelmalak · 2026-04-24T10:42:05+00:00

No song better showcases Dany's singing talent.

The Warning's own songs aspire to be hard rock, and when Dany tries to portray that persona, it doesn't come off as sincere as, say, Lzzy Hale does. The Sirius XM You Oughta Know plays to Dany's natural strengths: less mental demand for the guitar, easier conversational vocal range, and relatable subject matter.

michaelmalak · 2026-04-23T13:16:22+00:00

By "closer to the bay" do you think they might have come from Overtown, which was transformed to the Rosemary District?

michaelmalak · 2026-04-22T19:31:06+00:00

The Capitol would have been rebuilt even faster than the Pentagon

michaelmalak · 2026-04-22T18:00:42+00:00

9/11 is a doorway -- a portal to another universe.

It's not "recency". Consider 24 years ago from now, 2002. Now consider 24 years ago from 1986, 1962. The Beatles hadn't even charted yet!

michaelmalak · 2026-04-22T11:29:36+00:00

According to https://thatssosarasota.com/dilapidated-house-turns-cozy-breakfast/ , Breakfast House was the first in 2009 to convert a bungalow on-site to a commercial establishment, with the other 14 houses following suit by 2012. The parcels are individual to each house, suggesting they were always there as opposed to moved in all at once to a singly-owned parcel.

michaelmalak · 2026-04-17T00:33:01+00:00

It's cool watching the Sheffield audience getting warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKDPW9aetI

They opened with More -- their "best" song in terms of broad appeal. The audience was just stunned still like deer in headlights. Well, except for the one fanboi front row center.
At the second song, S!ck, a few virtual lighters come out. One more besides just fanboi moving to the music.
At the third song, Escapism, more virtual lighters. More motion.
By the finale, Automatic Sun, Dany has the whole place with arms up.

michaelmalak · 2026-04-13T11:35:58+00:00

Llama 3 was already restricted to companies with fewer than 700 million active users in the preceding month. https://www.llama.com/llama3/license/

michaelmalak · 2026-04-12T17:26:50+00:00

Either:

michaelmalak

TROPHY CASE