Resting On Razorblades (And Partial Information)

'It’s not that bad': Pete Davidson gives reluctant praise for SF 

   

 Inside the Upper West Side cult that told members to sleep with anyone who asked

"You see that! That's a dude that's been to heaven, bitch. And you want to test God? You fucking come get it, Shitstack! Been to heaven... leave me alone!"

Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure’

Camel urine as a treatment for cancer patients? 

   

 How Well People ‘Think’ They Slept Might Matter More Than How They Actually Slept

The Planet's Blistering Hernias On Vital Organs Needed For It's Production Of Shit

 

 Stephen Colbert Reminds Jimmy Fallon He Was the First Late Night Host to Use The Roots

No, I Don't Want to Go for a Walk With You

Central Park 5 prosecutor Linda Fairstein WILL be allowed to sue Netflix over When They See Us

The rise of pseudoscience and the dangers of supporting it

The View gets into heated debate about existence of ALIENS

Michigan woman pulled from outhouse toilet after climbing in for Apple watch

While Comedian and potential cult leader Amy Sedaris assures us she is completely fine

Conservatives Are Blaming Coons (Cluelessly Ignoring Yurp's NewAge Cultism)

2021: "How Wokeness Captured Big Business" - a misleading review of a misleading book, illustrated with this misleading photo of Apple's Tim Cook

   

 2001: "New Age 'Asiatic' thought ... is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism." - now illustrated by me, with a video of Steve Jobs' and Apple's real contribution to business and culture, which (based on their financial spreadsheets) conservatives have applauded from Day One.

2000: My song "Babylon.com" is released by Amoeba Records and Bomb Hip-Hop, which my black ass wrote as a warning to you bastards ("They're blowing the smoke of the new economy up your ass.") before these eternal racists decided to blame me for the results of NewAge - which we see in the life of Steve Jobs - where IS he, BTW?

 

You're On Your Own, Kid

Articles on "How to Chart a Path out of QAnon and Other Cult-like Communities" are pretty easy for me to find. I don't need them - since I've never joined a cult or cult-like community - so, they're also pretty useless. But, I can find all you need.

Articles I need are NOT so easy to find. Articles on how the enlightened (who are more-than-aware of cults) endure a society that's creating cultists - that's cranking out "QAnon and Other Cult-like Communities" in the first place - all while suffering the sexual abuse, and other ethical wreckage, that goes with living in a society, totally-hooked, on cultism. Articles on how to cope with the phenomena of society-wide gaslighting - hearing constant denials, that so many "cult-like communities" have formed, when you're aware cults and cultists are going about their dirty work - do those all-important articles exist? If so, where can I find them, to learn how to go on? Survivalist sites?

Articles, addressing THOSE Steve Jobs-worshipping elephants, sitting in the middle of the modern world's computerized room - as far as I know - can't be found, ANYWHERE. Not even in science; certainly not in the English-speaking part of the west - not anywhere, I know of, on the internet. And I'm desperate. I just haven't seen them in life. And MY life is someplace, I thought, such things as cults never stood a chance.

It's just MY mothafuckin' bad, I guess, that I didn't check with them, first.

 

Waiting For The NewAge Version (Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Assassination)

As the "Fake News" battle rages on, there's more goodness coming from the front:

Apple just permanently banned Infowars from the App Store

Mark my words: Next, conservatives start pointing out that GOOP is in the exact same business, and then we'll start to see some action. TMR's countdown is ON!

Whites Commit So Many Tragic Crimes Against Blacks There's Absolutely No Way To Write Laws For Them All

A very descriptive portrait of a post

Do any of TMR's regular readers remember the post "White Racism And White Ignorance (Go Hand-In-Hand)"?

Portrait of a regular reader

It was about how the Grammy Awards' favoring of Macklemore and Lorde, while obviously rescinding it's top honors from black artists, affected a friend's job with a NewAge employer? 

“The NewAger still didn't 'believe' it - and, of course, in The Age of the Internet, she wouldn't check the facts to see if she was wrong - so, from here on out, she's arguing purely from ignorance, insisting Lorde had been unfairly persecuted by blacks because Lorde's white. The conversation starts getting louder - and uglier.”

This could be a donkey.

Oh man, the number of white denials TMR has received that this type of colorblind racist stuff is happening (and that such pettiness, on the part of whites, is negatively affecting black's financial and professional working lives) has been amazing.

This was probably an innocent man.

But in a white supremacist culture, as TMR always says - if you wait long enough - the truth will make itself known.

Steve Jobs said "Real Artists Steal."

From a black guy, working for a white female, at Apple - not Google: 

  “She had made several insensitive comments about minorities that was not related to work but nonetheless hurtful. I’ve heard her referencing Justin Timberlake having more talent than other R&B artists and it pissed her off that black artists say he stole their style and that he’s so popular because he’s white doing black music,…”

Regularly defending himself from accusations of stealing.

You know where this is going or - after TMR's other post - you should:

  “Black employees don’t reach management in this market.”

The "market" is a racist environment

To imagine that angry or resentful whites, in a white supremacist culture, won't find ways to be racist - outside the limits of the law - is to be, either, so naive you can't be trusted or so cynical you're dangerous.

Whites can care about racism - or not - depending on their own sense of comfort with the crime.

TMR has been telling you (and Ta-Nehisi Coates has also made clear) we blacks are sitting ducks in this, a corrupt and corrosive culture, and have always been so.

"I see there's some gaps in your employment history,…"

Whites, denying - still - how it's all working, change nothing,…

 

It's Hard To Spot The Bad Guys (When They're All Bad)

Leadership? What does it mean? It's hard to say nowadays - it's obviously got something to do with education, and nothing to do with ethics, or the imperative of alleviating black poverty - especially considering the examples so many are associated with:

   "In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple’s Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other’s employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators. On February 27, 2005, Bill Campbell, a member of Apple’s board of directors and senior advisor to Google, emailed Jobs to confirm that Eric Schmidt “got directly involved and firmly stopped all efforts to recruit anyone from Apple.”

Later that year, Schmidt instructed his Sr VP for Business Operation Shona Brown to keep the pact a secret and only share information “verbally, since I don’t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?” These secret conversations and agreements between some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley were first exposed in a Department of Justice antitrust investigation launched by the Obama Administration in 2010,...”

That's California, where I was told (after I'd lived there for 23 years) everything was - as they say - "hunky-dory". But how about Texas? That great example California's always being compared to by conservatives? They've got a bunch of morons, too, capable of investing in pyramid schemes, initiated by a Christian scam artist who claimed to have found Noah's Ark:

  "I wouldn't want these guys running the state. It looks like they found Noah's Ark and it sunk."

The whole country is sinking - under the weight of privileged fools,…

 

It's Like Spinning Until You're Dizzy And Falling Down

So, naturally, I re-hurt myself yesterday, landing me back on the bed, trying to find a way not to rub my right elbow down to the bone. Can this get anymore fun? 

Yes! It! Can! 

I'll spare you, except to say iMovie - part of the iLife suite of programs that come with the Mac? Shittiest product from Apple I've ever encountered. How bad is it? You have to quit the program to save your work. And, since it's an unreliable and shaky contraption, that demands you save a LOT. 

I'm not ungrateful, but work's reduced to the time-consuming pace of stop-motion photography, where even small movements can take forever to accomplish. Or, as in the case above, I ended up abandoning my whole idea (after getting so dumbfounded with the previous project I was forced to stop) then - finally getting DIY creative - I switched gears and lowered my goal to "Fuck It" level.

Just Get 'Er Done! 

With the way things are going, I'm patting myself for even that much,...

An Update On The Issues (That Should Be Over By Now)

I've been trying to get out of bed lately, only to discover how easily I can hurt myself again (It's a lot like going online in that way,...). The inflammation is gone, but the bulging discs are still getting pinched, depending on how I move. I'm teaching myself to coordinate around them, within reason, but I still can't work, though my boss has assured me he's willing to wait and see if I improve. If so, because I've been such a good employee and knows what he expects, he'll make me a supervisor. 

But right now, I can't even sit for any extended period of time, so whatever.

And I now have NO money. Not a little money - NO money. I know some of you can't imagine or relate, so let me explain: 

NO change in my pockets, NO money in the bank. Stretching my meals into two, and drinking only water. There is an up-side, though:

When this is over - by NewAge standards - I'll look "healthy" and "sexy" like women today expect.

And finally, I've got my third video for you done. This one has multiple photos, and scrolling lyrics and shit, but the software that I used to make it - which came with this still-new computer - is already outdated. Somehow, because of how I got the computer, Apple says it'll take them up to two days to straighten everything out and send me an upgrade. Two days in the age of technology? Bullshit:

I think it's all because I'm black (Kidding,...)