#dead media

[spaceintruderdetector]

‘’Once perfected, communication technologies rarely die out entirely; rather, they shrink to fit particular niches in the global info-structure. Crystal radios have been proposed as a means of conveying optimal seed-planting times to isolated agrarian tribes. The mimeograph, one of many recent dinosaurs of the urban office-place, still shines with undiminished samisdat potential in the century's backwaters, the Late Victorian answer to desktop publishing. Banks in uncounted Third World villages still crank the day's totals on black Burroughs adding machines, spooling out yards of faint indigo figures on long, oddly festive curls of paper, while the Soviet Union, not yet sold on throw away new-tech fun, has become the last reliable source of vacuum tubes. The eight-track tape format survives in the truckstops of the Deep South, as a medium for country music and spoken-word pornography. The Street finds its own uses for things—uses the manufacturers never imagined. The micro-tape recorder, originally intended for on-the- jump executive dictation, becomes the revolutionary medium of magnetisdat, allowing the covert spread of banned political speeches in Poland and China. The beeper and the cellular phone become eco¬ nomic tools in an increasingly competitive market in illicit drugs. Other technological artifacts unexpectedly become means of communication . , . The aerosol can gives birth to the urban graffitti-matrix. Soviet rockers press homemade flexidisks out of used chest x-rays . . . William Gibson 1990

#dead media #cyberpunk

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#8 tracks #thrift #music #dead media

[zzkt]

#tape #cassette #elcaset #dead media #formats #geneology

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

#flaco #tw animal death #tw animal sickness #better dead than fed is a horrific mindset #zoo animal welfare #screenshot feat the WCS's inability to remember to remove their editorial template from highly sensitive press releases round 2 #colored text #people who loved the ideal of him more than the reality of him #congrats #you killed this owl #I'm still so mad that people who wanted him to stay loose got all sorts of media attention for the elegies they wrote when he died

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[kraeftwerker]

idk what it is about cassettes but I can just listen to the same one on repeat. When I'm listening to stuff on Spotify I *have* to mix it up. But there's just something about physically turning the cassette over and starting the next side that is so satisfying - even more satisfying than vinyl, and that is really satisfying.

#cassette culture #cassette player #vinyl #vinyl records #analog music lover #analog music #dead media

[aangarchy]

Ok now we're just taking the piss right? Right?

Once again this sort of thinking is removing a fundamental character arc that makes this story what it is. A big part of Aang's journey, especially in season 1, but tbh it does return in later seasons too, is accepting that he is the Avatar, and that he's the only one who can end this war. During the whole first season he is in complete denial about who he is and what he's supposed to do, which is why in most of this season there's no sense of urgency, and then once Aang gets faced with a very real, very close deadline he panics. This makes it even more brutal when in season 3, after accepting this responsibility, he gets faced with the reality of failure. He runs away again, this time not because he doesn't want responsibility, but because he knows how heavy his responsibility is and he doesn't want to burden anyone else with it. Removing the first aspect, aka running away and denying responsibility, it in turn also removes the heavy emotion from his later arc.

It keeps surprising me that people who claim to be such fans of the original seem to completely miss the point of most of this story? Like how could you look at Sokka learning about women's rights, Aang learning to accept responsibility, and Katara's motherly warmth which happened because how young she was when she had to step into a motherly role, and think "well we should remove that." You're taking out all of character development and going purely off of plot (which isn't gonna be nearly as good without the character development!)

Atla is probably one of the most analyzed and picked apart story, has one of the most long running loyal fanbases, people are STILL making thinkpieces about this show, and you manage to still misunderstand so much???

#i'm telling you media literacy is DEAD #like this fanbase's analysis comes close to that of the lord of the rings fandom #and yet you seem to have completely ignored it #wild #atla #atla netflix #netflix atla #netflix #atla live action #avatar the last airbender #avatar

[miscpav]

Laserdisc 'Dead Side' from Technidisc

This is the beginning of an unused side of a laserdisc manufactured by Technidisc.  The more familiar "dead sides" are the ones with the upside-down turtle on Pioneer discs, but other manufacturers used different messages.

This is just 15 seconds, but the entire side runs 25 minutes (in CAV with analog sound only), with the message cutting to black at 24 minutes.  Technidisc was regarded as the absolute worst laserdisc manufacturer and often called names like Technideath or Technicrap; many of their discs have an unacceptable amount of video noise.  This particular one is remarkably good, especially considering the standards for the dead sides were never as high as the sides with actual material on them.  Technidisc made audio CDs too which experts say were just as bad but most CD players had good enough error correction so the average person wouldn't notice.  The company went out of business around 1996 (the oldest laserdisc I've seen from them is dated 1983), and nobody was sad about it.  One thing I liked about their discs though was that they often had the exact date they were mastered stamped on them.

#youtube #eyeh8cbs #dead side #dead media #obsolete media #video #error #notice #laserdisc #videodisc

[halogalopaghost]

TIL that you can assign an AO3 next of kin to control your account in case of your death???

#ao3 #this is actually really neat #I had a will at one point that included passwords and usernames specifically for my sister so she could manage certain social media #including my fanfic accounts #if anything happened to me #I need to update it it's been like...idk a decade #who makes a will when they're sixteen you might ask #ppl who want to be dead I will answer very seriously while shaking my bottle of SSRI like a baby rattle

[capuletnotes]

“how can a horror movie be comforting” sigh……. u wouldn’t get it

#if I have to explain it to u then you just don’t get it #saw #saw 2004 #insidious #reanimator #evil dead #it #crimson peak #horror #horror movies #horror media

[spaceintruderdetector]

No, VHS is NOT the new vinyl.

"You jam the tape in the machine, you hear all that mechanical clicking, you watch these dated previews, you see the fuzzy FBI warning, the picture keeps glitching out. I really dig all that." oh boy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/vhs-tapes-are-back-vogue-everything-old-new-again-n1151611

#vhs #dead media

[biglisbonnews]

A café that delivers your food through pneumatic tubes I'm as fascinated by pneumatic tube delivery systems as the next dead medianaut, but I'm not sure I understand delivering some food on a café menu through a tube while the rest of the menu gets served the old fashion way. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/02/22/a-cafe-that-delivers-your-food-through-pneumatic-tubes.html

#Post #Video #cafes #dead media #pneumatics #Tom Scott #undead media #Gareth Branwyn #Boing Boing

[zzkt]

National TR-809EU vintage portable television

#National TR-809EU #portable TV #dead media #floppy disk #retro

[lieu-rey]

uhm uh. rdr jovier.

#rdr2 #rdr #javier escuella #john marston #jovier #red dead redemption 2 #when you have to kill your lover to save your wife and child. #and you cant look at his face bc you cant face what you had to do. #red dead redemption #red dead #can A/I_art die already i dont like how glaze makes my art look like jpeg images lmao #um anyway. jovier still on the brain. i promise i draw other rdr stuff besides them JFKEJNFN #i still have a bunch of stuff to post stay tuned<3 #oh fuck i forgot the tws #tw blood #tw death #nobody: #my brain cell immediately attaching to the only mexican character in a piece of media: #my art

[l0ve-sicc]

#these all affected me psychologically #I LOVE QUEER MEDIA!!! #nimona #the owl house #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #steven universe #the hollow #dead end paranormal park #adventure time #gravity falls

[thesadbabesclub]

New sticker packs

#thesadbabesclub #stickers #dead media #vhs #cassetes #vinyl #record