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donlever wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 10:12 pm https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTO61MbC ... VneWxhdg==

Love that - never seen it before!

Cornuck wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:33 am

donlever wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 10:12 pm https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTO61MbC ... VneWxhdg==

Love that - never seen it before!

Neither have I, how cool was that…

Bob Weir must be grateful now.

no longer under the dome

Dilbert never was funny...

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 10:00 am Dilbert never was funny...

Disagree.

Dilbert was sometime hilarious (often very darkly, admittedly) and frequently very clever.

I think Adams' particular version of going crazy was just a software glitch that sometimes creeps into people as they age, and the process of fully rebooting a human is complicated, and can't be done in a free society without the glitched human's consent. I see it as tragic more than anything.

When I was young and working in an IT/Web cubicle farm, most of us geeks found Dilbert to be very relatable and it hit the mark more often than not. Funny? Not particularly, but absurdly real and a mirror to our professional life.

Later on, learning about the person and his politics... not a fan.

Carl Yagro wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:25 pm Later on, learning about the person and his politics... not a fan.

You think he was like that the whole time, but just kept it under wraps?

To me, it seemed a lot more like he rather suddenly went catastrophically off the rails, around about 2015. I note that he had a couple of neurological conditions, so while I said "software glitch" above, I think it's also possible that some hardware components failed.

But if you know differently, I'd like to hear about it.

Office Space and, later, Silicon Valley were spot on.

We focused on the product at the time, not the creator of the product.

I don't know anything more that hasn't already been reported and is on the Interwebs in perpetuity for all to see. But it seems very unlikely that a fully developed adult suddenly found and expressed those kind of beliefs only after his cartooning career ended?

Anyway, I enjoyed his work back in the day.

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 7:03 pm Office Space and, later, Silicon Valley were spot on.

Loved Office Space.

Carl Yagro wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 7:06 pm But it seems very unlikely that a fully developed adult suddenly found and expressed those kind of beliefs only after his cartooning career ended?

It was the expression of those beliefs that ended his career, cartooning and otherwise. He became radioactive, and rightly so.

It could have been there all along. But the way we learned about it played like a sane, if quirky, guy just suddenly lost it.

Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 7:32 pm It could have been there all along. But the way we learned about it played like a sane, if quirky, guy just suddenly lost it.

Yeah, I guess I'm saying that it was there all along. I can't speculate why those views were suddenly expressed, but after it came to light, he just seem to keep doubling down on them.

It is what it is.

Sly Dunbar...73.

Drummer.

Jamaican.

.....his list of co-collaborators is pretty skookum....

Michael Parenti, political scientist, academic historian and author.... 92.

donlever wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:41 pm Sly Dunbar...73.

Drummer.

Jamaican.

.....his list of co-collaborators is pretty skookum....

Damn!

I was working as a night porter at a hotel on weekends to make a few extra bucks when I was at the university.
Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare stayed there one time and I was awestruck. They were the drum and bass section of every other reggae album of the 1980’s.

I went to see them at the club where they performed and then there was another shock. Up on stage with them was a black guy on keyboards who played at a piano bar I used to frequent. I talked to him next time I saw him, and apparently they knew eachother from back in Jamaica, so they asked him to get up on stage and jam with them. Small world.