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Metropolis

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    Was reminded of Metropolis by the night starship stacking photos, 1 of the things 1930's futurist art got right.  Managed to skim through the gootube downloadable copy.  What young lion found unwatchable went down in 1 hour at 2x-4x.  Silent movies have an unexpected benefit of being watchable at high speed & paused on the subtitles. Young lion watched a low quality VHS tape at 1x, couldn't understand any of the themes or decipher the hazy images.  Only remembered the guy turning the clock & hours of static scenes.  The restored version was much clearer, about as engaging as any classic from the 80's, a complete reversal from the VHS copy.     There were a few visuals predicting the metallic towers & spotlights of the modern era.   Even the crosses in the catacombs had to reach for the stars.    Clock guy, as remembered.  Imagine a world where a manual laborer was required to do the job of ev...
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General Magic

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 Pondered how a lot of retail investors on the sidelines since 2008, on the cusp of 1M, jumped in the stonk market during the dip in 2020, at the same time, then instantly crossed 1M.  Then based on stonk market returns, they all hit 2M 6 years later & now are getting the hell out at the same time.   Investment behavior is like a row of metronomes that all synchronize over time.  Large events of selling & buying eventually tend to line up.       Military defeat was not on the lion kingdom's bingo card.  Defending a shipping channel was pretty important for bond prices.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Magic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34dAyDUglrI  From the department of stuff you didn't know.   No open source/stack overflow/claude. Just bookshelves.   No sampled audio or captured video. Just text ...
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Mac 68k emulation

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    Got the very last one at .63 per ounce. Now .88 per ounce. Allah 4ever.        Funny how the blue ones  contain  the  knowledge based  stuff which became automated since 2023 while the red ones  contain  the manual labor which is in demand.  Where have you gone, dot com boom?  Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Restoring ancient audio software    Again set to the task of reconstituting the lion kingdom's mac 68k environment of 30 years ago.    When this journey began, the only emulator was super expensive ARDI.  After years of unsucessful basilisk installations, new to the chat was Mini vmac.  https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/    The problem seems to be the large number of bits they require assembling from scratch & the strict enforcement o...
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