CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Is there a word like "steampunk" or "retro" that glorifies/romanticizes electromechanical tech, from before everything went full electronic?

@ShadSterling @WiteWulf @brucelawson Here's the actual indictment, which describes his dealings with co-conspirators to pull off the scheme: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1366241/dl

It also makes it clear that the fraud is essentially violating the streaming services' terms of service where he agreed (by accepting the terms of service) not to artificially boost streams of the music he uploaded. Whether the work is copyrighted, or copyrightable, doesn't seem to be a factor in the case.

@ShadSterling @WiteWulf @brucelawson

I can imagine a scenario — in today's bizarro tech bro world where workers aren't "employees", drivers for hire aren't "taxis", and purchasing doesn't mean "owning" — where the terms of service of a Spotify type service treats their relationship with the content uploader as something other than "licensing" for tech bro technicality reasons.

Otherwise yeah, you can't license a work without holding its copyright, and this slop definitely wasn't copyrightable.

@DarioZanette @TechConnectify hah, I'd love to see him take apart a 14- speed internal shifter hub!

@VANTABlack2000 @TechConnectify enging in a dishwa— what? oh now I have to watch it!

@kevinbowrin um, what's this? #CanadaPost #CanPoli

Someone posted in the work chat that a colleague threw out her neck and will be taking the day off.

I replied, "Oh dear! I recycled mine once and it was really painful!"

:relevant_emoji: #pun

@angela_underscore I think after 900 locations you can no longer be considered an independent store.

You're Canadian. Do you buy berries...

@cwebber I hear you. The little insert on the lemon juice bottle got stuck in the lid tonight, so I poured like half a cup of lemon juice on my dinner.