9/ The music store owner I got my piano from said movers often must dump pianos people just want to get rid of. Many end in landfills. Some belong there, but some just need expert TLC, like the upright I tried.
7/ So I looked in Facebook Marketplace and here were a bunch more candidates. My wife told me to spend a little money. I learned that for under $2000 you can get a beautiful baby grand without significant issues.
5/ The new baby grands were already out of state, both of them. But I could contact the mover and have it brought back! The mover wrote, sure we’ll bring it back. Just remit $210 up front. I had stumbled onto a Craigslist scam (of course).
3/ So I texted and wrote to a number of sellers of free pianos, just to check them out. (Both my boys are learning on our electric piano.) One was a free nice upright piano that looked like one I learned on as a kid.
1/ I bought a baby grand piano over the weekend for $650. This is kind of an interesting story. First, here’s the piano. Was played on daily in a music school for 7 years. Tuned yearly, looks good and sounds well. Built around 1980.
New poll. Especially for “people of the book” (the Bible).
Question: Does it impress you that you are commanded to love all people? Click to vote >
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On Twitter, I’m down 5.3K followers from a high of 39.3K. That’s 13.5%. Twitter is also much less interesting now. I don’t post as much, and I’m increasingly committed to StartThis.org, my microblog that just happens to push to Twitter.
Have you joined the more than 6,000 co-signers of the Declaration of Digital Independence? Please do, in two places:
Legal attacks on Big Tech: antitrust (collusion), Section 230-based, and shareholder suits for breach of fiduciary duty.
This here could be the best fiddling by anyone, anywhere, anytime. I mean, top that:
There is no conflict between self-sovereign identity and privacy. Public data is public; it’s supposed to be traced back to an individual, in public social media. So the individual should retain ownership over that identity and data.
Answer this for me. What would the news media in general be talking a lot more about, if they *actually* had your best interests at heart? A few of my answers (on StartThis.org) below.
Have you learned how to use a password manager yet? Do you want to? Poll =>
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Have you heard of the 50 Cent Army? Take the poll, here ==>
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You don’t say, Internet Archive?
Source tweet: twitter.com/internetarc…
Remember when it was a minor scandal that George Stephanopoulos went from the Clinton White House straight to ABC News? Many people thought that was inappropriate. I thought so. Imagine being so concerned about even the appearance of bias.
Rand Paul makes an utter fool of George Stephanopoulos, who had the temerity to ask a U.S. Republican Senator essentially to call himself a liar—thrown back into little George’s face.
OPEN THREAD AND AMA, held on my microblog. NOT on Twitter! Please click through to contribute to my microblog if you want a response!
Fantastic article (book chapter) bringing together multiple issues: political, social, media, and technological:
We need a 100% common data formatting standard for social media. It should be in the form of RSS; it is possible to extend #RSS. Already done? Does anyone know of an RSS extension that makes RSS suitable for use to express social media data?
The Senate portion of an impeachment trial has the purpose of removing the president from office. Since President Trump is no longer in office, he can’t be removed.
The Senate is free to pass a resolution condemning the previous president.
If you’ve had trouble accessing my microblog in the last 24 hours (getting a 302 error) it’s because I’m struggling with SSL/cert/htaccess issues. It *is* up and running:
startthis.orgStartThis
(the s in https is important)
The Decentralizers Forum is going well. I need help from a #WordPress guru to help remove the headers from the forum and fix issues associated with putting it on decentralizers.org.
Join us here: larrysanger.org/community
Welcome!
There isn’t nearly enough panic around here. I want to see some panic now! Don’t you know this is a crisis?
Bloomberg says climate change has the potential to kill everybody. Establishment Republicans—what are you gonna do? Read:
Bloomberg: ‘Climate change has the potential to kill everybody,’ worse than pandemic ‘long-term’ | Just The News t.co/adVzDESJQg
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 22, 2021
Nothing screams “the Swamp” more than two extra Dem senators from the new state of D.C., which isn’t even a whole city.
Chuck Schumer intones that, soon, the Senate will have a trial in which they will decide whether Pres. Trump “incited the erection…against the United States.”
What a farce.
WATCH: Chuck Schumer accuses Donald Trump of inciting an "erection" pic.twitter.com/IQqKmAYG8e
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 22, 2021
startthis.org now has a working certificate, so can be accessed via http
Twitter funding a decentralized protocol for social media—it’s asking the proverbial fox to guard the henhouse. Next he’ll fund a free speech nonprofit, I guess.
I’ll pass.
Twitter is now blocking some Antifa accounts. Does this signal a new ideological fairness in Twitter censorship? No: Antifa recently attacked Democratic Party offices.
Trust in the news media has hit all-time lows, according to an Edelman poll reported by the Daily Caller [link]. More people distrust the media (46%) than ever before. Republicans of course trust it much less Democrats.