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Hard Truths and Shogun: Two new reviews at LB Hard Truths by Mike Leigh was a challenging watch, you know, by design 🙄 Shogun (2024) was an unchallenging watch also by design 🤷‍♂️ We also watched Drive Away Dolls by Ethan Cohen (is he the tall one?) and couldn’t muster a review. Keeping score : 0 for 3

Everyone is OK: The car… not so much. What we did learn is that our neighbors are the best people. Maybe ever. (more on them later)

I mean… siempre bien: Taking a break to pose at the Ritmo con Señas retreat in Pan de Azúcar, February 2025. I am filled with love for each of these beautiful and talented people.

Shallow Seek: This is what happens when you ask Deep Seek about Chinese dissidents. “Let’s talk about something else.” For the gingoistically challenged: this is NOT the price of open source. In fact: limiting speech (no matter how gosh darn polite) and lack of transparency is the exact opposite of every ethical …

Why I Don't Trust or Like BlueSky: Regarding Trust BlueSky is a for-profit enterprise. While its charter includes a commitment to balancing public good with profit, that’s not the same as a true public-interest project like Linux, Mozilla, or Mastodon. At some point, it will need a monetization model—ads, selling user data, …

Support: [LANG=EN]This is a ladder supporting Tato supporting Ani by touting the fact that my local bookstore happens to have Ani’s book of poetry on the table because they want to support local artists.[/LANG][LANG=ES]Esta es una escalera apoyando a Tato que apoya a Ani al promocionar el hecho de que mi …

Ebert on Lynch: “…compulsively watchable while refusing to yield to interpretation.”

Why I Deleted My Instagram (Meta) Account: Elle Feingold (website) is my favorite living guitarist. I’ve taken lessons with her and intensely studied her playing. She has a Patreon page, a YouTube channel, and other social sites, but her most active (and rewarding) interactions and posts are on Instagram (@ella_rae_feingold). Ella is …

Why I Deleted My Spotify Account: In the beginning record companies took advantage of older artists’ contracts that did not mention streaming or subscriptions by becoming stakeholders in Spotify. This way, they could collect 100% of the streaming revenue and take a chunk of the subscription. Now that artists have finally started …

Why I Deleted All My Streaming Accounts: Over 20 years ago, I signed up for Netflix’s DVD mail service ($19.95/month) and was pretty thrilled with it. A few years later, their streaming service launched—no ads, no screen limits, no restrictions—and I jumped on board. At $5.99 per month, my annual cost was just $71.88—not free, but too …

Anticipation...: This is me and Pablo a few months ago on stage for Nuestra Jam in Buenos Aires. I’m very excited to see him, Nati and many others at the Ritmo con Señas retiro in a few days.

Return to Zero: Today I resume blogging after a 15-year hiatus. I’ve chosen micro.blog as my primary platform, crossposting content to Mastodon and BlueSky. The latter I especially don’t trust. Micro.blog offers an incredibly minimalist interface, denying me to access a range of features that I’ve assumed, such as …

Looking back, moving on: