Interesting reads
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By the way, the blurb on the back of the book, Keef sez, “Believe it or not I haven’t forgotten any of it.”
Excellent book too, well written, funny. Hard to believe the gratitude he extends toward people like Sonny Bono and Bobby Goldsboro for helping their careers during their first U.S. tour, Goldsboro even showing Keef some guitar tricks, which doubly surprised me.
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@salacious-crumb said in Interesting reads:
@crucial said in Interesting reads:
@salacious-crumb I think Uncle Keith's chemically damaged memory may be confusing Dunedin with Invercargill.
He says they were playing with Roy Orbision. What are the chances The Big O and the Stones played Invercargill? Probably about as good as playing Bluff. Frankly, I was surprised they even played Dunedin to tell you the truth, sure surprised me.
It's an old story and the origin of the 'arsehole of the world' comment.
The Stones were on tour with Orbison and in Invers they didn't get a great reception as the support act. Most Southland hicks were at the Civic to see Orbison.
Mayor Tim even declared that Keef got it wrong in his book and that Invers is indeed the arsehole of the world.BTW, they played in Invers on a Tuesday night and Dunedin the following day so the whole wet Sunday thing wasn't recalled correctly either.
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@salacious-crumb said in Interesting reads:
By the way, the blurb on the back of the book, Keef sez, “Believe it or not I haven’t forgotten any of it.”
Excellent book too, well written, funny. Hard to believe the gratitude he extends toward people like Sonny Bono and Bobby Goldsboro for helping their careers during their first U.S. tour, Goldsboro even showing Keef some guitar tricks, which doubly surprised me.
Have you watched the doco on Netflix? Some good stuff in there about his influences.
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@crucial said in Interesting reads:
It's an old story and the origin of the 'arsehole of the world' comment.
The Stones were on tour with Orbison and in Invers they didn't get a great reception as the support act. Most Southland hicks were at the Civic to see Orbison.
Mayor Tim even declared that Keef got it wrong in his book and that Invers is indeed the arsehole of the world.Hilarious. I guess Orbison really did drag his arse everywhere. This book must be several years old now, I paid no attention to it when it was published. Found it by accident, picked it up, about halfway through...
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How Subaru got a foothold in America , Malcolm Bricklin the first importer has his name attached to most of the worst cars ever made, early Subaru’s, Yugos, his shitty sports car etcetc
How Subaru Became the Unofficial Car of Vermont
... and New Hampshire, and Maine, and Massachusetts, and Washington, and Oregon.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Not sure if you caught this,
Yeah I've seen a few bits and pieces on him. To me he was a bit too much of a 'wank' bass player as opposed to someone absolutely awesome at keeping the low end with groove, soul, funk, rhythm etc.
Definitely a really tragic end to an amazing talent.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Not sure if you caught this,
He has a new record out from the tour where I was lucky to meet him. Came early to a club to grab a good table (there was no reserve seating), got in early enough to see him do a soundcheck. Right after he made a beeline to my table to show me and a friend photographs of his very young son. He had no pretensions about him, was a very tall guy, long hair, wore his headband, made eye-contact and began talking like he knew us. (Maybe he thought he did?) Miss him, happy to have the records. Have since learned he had an affair with Joni Mitchell when he was in her band. I might have asked him about it, if I’d known...
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Good (kinda scary) read.
Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you | Dylan Curran
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look
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@salacious-crumb said in Interesting reads:
Good (kinda scary) read.
Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you | Dylan Curran
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look
Read the fine print. Silicon Valley is your new bestest friend. They’re only here to help.
Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data
A data analysis conducted by an outside research firm, and independently verified by BuzzFeed News, shows that a popular gay dating app is sharing sensitive information about its users’ HIV status with two other companies.
Grindr Is Sharing The HIV Status Of Its Users With Other Companies
A data analysis conducted by an outside research firm, and independently verified by BuzzFeed News, shows that a popular gay dating app is sharing its users’ HIV status with two other companies. <i>(Update: Late on Monday Grindr said it would stop sharing this information.)</i>
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@salacious-crumb That is appalling.
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A bit scary.
Meet Palantir (yes, from the Lord of the Rings).
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/
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It went undetected for months.
Change-of-address scam moved UPS corporate headquarters to tiny Rogers Park apartment, feds say
Change-of-address scam moved UPS corporate headquarters to tiny Rogers Park apartment, feds say
The timeworn apartment building in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood hardly looks like the corporate headquarters of one of the world’s largest shipping companies. But for a few recent…
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@tim said in Interesting reads:
This serves well as a companion piece to Angela Nagle's Kill All Normies.
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I’ve long suspected there was flim-flammery going on. I’d read the useless reviews and often conclude they were completely pointless, and wonder why reviewers even made the effort. Now I have a better idea.
Inside The Ecosystem That Fuels Amazon’s Fake Review Problem
A vast web of Amazon review fraud lives online, and it's designed to evade the company’s efforts to thwart it.
————————————————————————————————————————————————One morning in late January, Jake picked up the box on his desk, tore through the packing tape, unearthed the iPhone case inside, snapped a picture, and uploaded it to an Amazon review he’d been writing. The review included a sentence about the case’s sleek design and cool, clear volume buttons. He finished off the blurb with a glowing title (“The perfect case!!”) and rated the product a perfect five stars. Click. Submitted.
Jake never tried the case. He doesn’t even have an iPhone.
Jake then copied the link to his review and pasted it into an invite-only Slack channel for paid Amazon reviewers. A day later, he received a notification from PayPal, alerting him to a new credit in his account: a $10 refund for the phone case he’ll never use, along with $3 for his trouble — potentially more, if he can resell the iPhone case.
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Inside The Ecosystem That Fuels Amazon’s Fake Review Problem
A vast web of Amazon review fraud lives online, and it's designed to evade the company’s efforts to thwart it.
Who Killed Jaco Pastorius?
