Andrew (R.S Admin) @ajroach42@retro.social

Welcome to all the new followers.

You have homework!

Tell me about yourself, your hopes, your goals, what brings you here, what you want from the future, what you love, what brings you to life.

In the meantime, you can find some of my answers: https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/

and https://ajroach42.com/new-ellijay-tv/

and https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/qNwrBWfGxgYi6rhMZYXNE6

#introductions

My blog has moved!

You can find me at http://ajroach42.com

The Raindaince Foundation had an early (incomplete) form of copyleft, which they referred to as simply "do copy" and which was represented by this symbol: ⊗

These things come in cycles.

From Radical Software Vol 1 Issue 1 "Our species will survive neither by totally rejecting nor unconditionally embracing technology—but by humanizing it: by allowing people access to the informational tools they need to shape and reassert control over their lives"

Remember the scene in the x-files where mulder holds a really crudely drawn illustration of a lady bigfoot?

Is that the silliest moment on the show? (or is it the brady bunch?)

what would the modern computer look like if it had not been designed by the military?

https://lemire.me/blog/2012/03/22/do-we-need-copyright/

Do we need copyright? No! Five arguments against.

I mean, I guess I have a good excuse to go to NAB next year.

I don't even know how to hunt down the proper rightsholder for licensing.

For music this is easy, but for video, it's going to be hard.

I wonder how much it would cost to license Space 1999 for streaming and VOD on #NewEllijayTelevision

McCarthyism did big, long lasting harm to the world.

HEY! If you're in the north GA area, Doctor Deathray and her Implements of Destruction are playing a free show at Ellijay Coffeehouse on Saturday June 10th (that's in two days) at 6pm (that's in 7.75 hours).

If you're not in the north GA area, I'm going to attempt to live stream the whole thing from a couple of 70s video cameras, because I love the way they look.

We'll also be using some newer cameras, probably.

Seems like everyone is in a bad mood today, which I think means I must be in a bad mood today?

Anyway, these are the things I think about basically all the time, they are at the heart of what I'm doing, but it's important for me to make explicit these implicit foundational ideas.