laze.net - Occasional Weeknote #2

Hey, weeknote #2 is here.

60 episodes of radio shows featuring early Detroit house (late 80s)
Aesop Rock, everyone’s favorite rapper with a complex vocabulary, has a new album out and it is dope, as you might expect.
Toolmen - “Intelligence has never been an objective quality that can be ascertained the way we measure the (actually increasing) carbon in the atmosphere. It is a political device that preserves power and care for those deemed worthy of it, and which simultaneously withdraws such care from everyone else.”
Exploring the Web in 1995 - The third in a great series on the early web.
Tiled Image Backgrounds and Why Blogging Rocks - A nice little throwback here as the Pika blogging platform adds support for tiled backgrounds. I went nuts with those things back in the day.
Just a QR Code - What it says. None of the nonsense.

Life Notes

I posted a pair of really interesting (to me) budget proposals that I scanned from the radio station at SUNY Oswego. The first is from 1991 right before they got their new FM license and became WNYO. The second is from just after they went on air as WNYO and needed money for the 92-93 school year.
I digitized a very culturally important tape… Chick-Fil-A x Focus on the Family, circa the 1990s.
I wrote my third post in a seven-day period! This time I wrote about Tiny Archives, a new personal project I’m working on inspired by things that Alex has written on their blog recently.
Pee-Wee As Himself on HBO Max is a really great, in-depth look at Paul Reubens and that fantastic character he embodied.
I finished reading Brian Merchant‘s Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. It’s a fascinating history of the Luddite movement and how it ties into many workers rights movements from the early 19th century to the current moment. Recommended.
For the first time in years I registered a domain on a whim. Something may launch at that domain as early as next week.
A kitten now lives in our house.