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<p>Silicon Valley native, tech, artist, wonk, raconteur. I&#39;ll veer from topic to topic, and change stylistically on a whim. Curious about stuff and things.</p><p>UCD alum (PoliSci/IR &amp; Tech Policy). Strong interests in the arts, actual political science, cliodynamics, systems theory, and seeking a bit of adventure at even the smallest scale.</p><p>I own more albums than you have had changes of underpants since birth.</p><p>josepharruda.com</p><p>For art commissions and/or licensing, joseph.arruda@gmail.com</p>

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    &quot;the politicians...are now DJs&quot; a 1983 lyric that feels more accurate now. Re-Flex released &quot;The Politics of Dancing&quot; to chart success, then largely disappeared a few years later. Their sound was very of the time, but the song is still catchy as hell. #80s #newwave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLzDFbGdL5M

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    @garrett@mastodon.xyz it&#39;s incredibly accurate. The fact that some of the biggest players continue to do things like fork off their own versions of projects is a testament to how good some Foss software is, and how stupid they are in terms of investment in things they don&#39;t directly control.

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    #sketchbook March 2026. Pencil and gouache on Bristol. #art

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    #sketchbook March 2026. Cretacolor graphite pencil on a Holbein pad. #art

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    #sketchbook March 2026. &amp;quot;In repose&amp;quot;

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    #sketchbook March 2026 &amp;quot;noni&amp;quot; in pencil, gouache/pro-white on bristol. #art

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    Everything about the below lede...is a word aneurism. Translated dictionarily, an unscrupulous turd absconded with a fashion forward follicle collection.

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    Pete #Hegseth is another criminally stupid #natsec problem (from Signal-gate on down) whose IQ is measured in ABV.

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    I saw the #Cloudflare EmDash release, and it looks cool, but it&amp;#39;s not a #Wordpress killer... Without a compelling case for migrating (I get the premise of plugin sandboxing is cool, but the fine print is that EmDash depends on Dynamic Workers to run secure sandboxed plugins, which are currently only available on paid accounts), going to a clone of WP on what seems to be just a way to try to drive paid CF accounts won&amp;#39;t sweep a majority of WP sites any time soon.

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    For the #Prince obsessive, a 90 minute reel of the raw footage recorded for the music video of one of his greatest songs, &amp;quot;Mountains&amp;quot;, from the mid-80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqmbnIt7yew

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    Covers I never knew existed, K.D. Lang doing #KingCrimson&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Matte Kudasai&amp;quot; which is probably one of the very few tunes in their massive catalog that could remotely be retrofit into Lang&amp;#39;s style, but damn, it&amp;#39;s just a beautiful take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLqwmOgG5c8

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    Tis the season...

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    #StanleyClarke (Return to Forever) and #StewartCopeland (The Police) are such an utterly strange rhythm section, but damn do they rework tunes into fun places, in this case Stanley&amp;#39;s jazz fusion classic &amp;quot;School Days&amp;quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQdxhtTovJg

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    #sketchbook April 2026. A #drawing of #jazz trumpeter #ErikTruffaz done in parallel pen. #art

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    Steve Lukather (Toto, Michael Jackson), Michael Landau (Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis), Tim Lefebvre (Bowie, Knower), Jeff Babko (Jimmy Kimmel, Frank Ocean) Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting)...just jamming on a session of random tunes under the name &amp;quot;Boone&amp;#39;s Farm&amp;quot; for fun in a small club. It&amp;#39;s rough around the edges (I don&amp;#39;t think this is a soundboard rec) but there are some fun bits in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsTd4wGnKw4

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    &amp;quot;CEO said a thing!&amp;quot; #journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.&amp;quot; This contributes significantly to the unhealthy hype cycle we&amp;#39;re vertigo-ing in. https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

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    The idea of Robert Glasper, Meshell Ndegeocello, Chris &amp;quot;Daddy&amp;quot; Dave and Pino Palladino just jamming around an 80s Ready For The World slow-jam, kind of works for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM6fDUUgjwI