This album is pretty fun while it is playing, but I am fairly sure that I will completely forget it roughly five minutes after I finish listening to it.
Some good riffs, though. It’s channeling some strong Death Angel vibes, and the vocals remind me a bit of Venom.
I feel like one of the big flaws in this whole cassette comeback thing is that sooner or later (probably sooner), the supply of new old-stock blank tapes is going to dry up and only a few weirdo companies are still producing new ones. Already, the price of Type-II high-bias tapes like TDK SA90s or Maxell XLII 90s is routinely up around $15 per tape on eBay and Amazon.
We must stop relying on scientific infrastructure provided by one nation or organization. Any single point of failure makes science fragile. Instead, we need multiple organizations across as many countries as possible, collectively providing access to overlapping data and services, so that the loss of any one or several of these doesn’t stop us from doing science.
đź”— More than 75 Lee Enterprises newspapers affected by cyberattack - U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Dozens of newspapers owned by Iowa-based news media company Lee Enterprises were affected by a cyberattack starting on Feb. 3, 2025, disrupting the publication of print and e-editions.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch — one of Lee Enterprises’ more than 400 daily, weekly and specialty newspapers across 24 states — reported that the media conglomerate had experienced a “cybersecurity event.” The company alerted its newspapers that it had been working with third-party specialists to investigate the disruption and restore the systems
đź”— You Don’t Have to Monetize The Things You Love:
The push for endless growth and scalability comes from multiple places. There’s the capitalist imperative: anything worth doing should generate profit. There’s the social media amplification effect: if something isn’t documented and shared, did it really happen? Finally, there’s the efficiency trap: why do something for ten people when you could do it for ten thousand?
These forces combine to create a kind of growth obligation — a sense that remaining small or finite is somehow a moral failure. It’s a bullshit mindset that misses the whole nature of human experience and satisfaction.