[Kzyxtalk] Rue nigh.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Rue nigh.

The recording of last night's (2020-11-06) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0409

Furthermore, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh 
batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
worthwhile educational items I set aside for you while gathering the 
show together. Such as:

Careening around L.A. like an afreet frantically searching for his 
master's lost magical object. (via NagOnTheLake)
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-taste-of-los-angeles.html

Journalism. "News reporting is a young man's job, for the reporter must 
have stamina and endurance to withstand the strain of long and strenuous 
hours of work. He must have the courage and perseverance to /get the 
story/ in spite of obstacles." And, "If you don’t like to write, you 
won't be happy in journalism." It's good that they tell you all that 
right up front. You don't want to find it out later, when you’re poised 
to /blow the lid off this lousy town/ and it's just too much trouble, 
your muscles are string beans and noodles and you can barely lift your 
arms to place your indolent fingers over the write-o-matic keyboard and 
push down a few times. Underdogs and ordinary Joes and Josephines are 
counting on you. Crooked City Hall mob bosses are getting away with 
arson and murder, and pawn shop horse-track blacklight massage 
fortune-teller jukebox drug den slime is boiling up out of the sewers 
like a Boy Scout Jamboree science hall vinegar and baking soda volcano, 
oh, just shove over, I'll do it.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2011/11/journalism.html

The common threat.
http://wondermark.com/c1520/

And an artificial intelligence analyzes paintings, describes them and 
comments elliptically on them. Example: "A large sculpture hangs on the 
ground with a spray painted on walls or imagine there is a pile of metal 
sculpture with several birds on it. I once observed two birds having sex 
on top of a roof covered in tile." The machine gets all that from seeing 
an amorphous blue, brown and pink smudge. It's goofy and impressive and, 
just like that, there go another few thousand jobs to automation. Next, 
wine and food columns, financial advice, landscaping, property 
management. Then cable tech support. Then Skynet.
https://noviceartblogger.tumblr.com/

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org,
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com