one of the first records to be recorded and released digitally was ABBA's The Visitors in 1981/82. i had it down as 1975 for some reason. might be some other release i'm thinking about. it can be streamed on YouTube here:

current era = 1978 and later narrower sense = 1993 broader sense = 1968 broader sense still = 1927

the "current era" started around 1978 or so, as i subjectively judge it.

the Yugoslavian War happened in 50/60 FPS, on live TV. not in historical black and white film reels from 1942, so as far as i'm concerned, it happened "today".

when the Yugoslavian War broke out in the 90s, Europe was shocked that such brutality wasn't considered a chapter of history rather than something that could happen "today". now we have the same kind of carnage going on in Ukraine. i think maybe people are a bit less surprised this time over...

while i have some respect for Zelenskyy because he appears to be sticking around to lead his country instead of accepting offers to flee it, i do think he did accidentally get caught up in it a bit. if that war hadn't happened, there's a chance he'd be a very forgettable head of state that didn't do much to solve Ukraine's problems. so he got a bit lucky there. historical accident put him in that role. when i see the media glorify him, i remind myself of that. and for all i know, maybe the guy is profiteering off the war in some way. we don't know for sure that he isn't. i don't assume him to be a saint, but i suppose he does serve as a unifying figure.

in all fairness, there are SOME parallels between the invasion of Ukraine and the invasion of Iraq by the Americans. very few countries supported the Americans in that. the difference is that hardly anyone liked Saddam very much. Ukraine? all right, typical East Bloc corruption kind of thing, but not as brutal as Saddam. so while not officially endorsed, there was at least a *bit* of a justification there. not that it went so well. America created ISIS through that war.

Putin tries to make it out as if Europe's been trampling on Russia all along, but why would be make much of our energy supply reliant on Russian gas if we distrusted Russia and didn't want to trade peacefully with them? while Russia has always been a bit of a challenge, i can't say the public mood in Europe in 1989 was one of "let's trample on Russia" - more like "maybe this is a new start?" Putin had other ideas though. before Putin began his business in Ukraine, NATO had turned into more of an alliance for military operations in other parts of the world than something that was specifically targeted at Russia. ironically, because he didn't buy that, he made it true again.

there are certain benefits to developing and maintaining websites via a shell

my Nostr clients aren't too good at notifying me about zaps but they're coming in. this is a few days worth of them at most.

on a scale of 1 to 5, how useful is my Nostr web app https://nadar.tigerville.no i'm hoping it helps for something.

i had a profound lack of social intelligence in school. i took everything literally and couldn't read the room. the hardware for that stuff wasn't activated at the time. it came much later. i can read people now in a way that i had no chance in hell of doing when i was 10 or 15.

i was that kid in class who would hold up the teacher with questions about what they were teaching and the other kids hated me for it because they weren't there to have questions answered. they just wanted class to be over as soon as possible.

i'd probably fuck up in a lot of the same ways as Elon Musk has been fucking up at Twitter tbqhwy because i say a lot of not very smart things while i think out loud 😆

when i post about this or that project i'm tempted to do, i'm very much counting the likes/shares i get on that, because if nobody else cares, i can't manage to care myself. not unless it's a rage project, that is, where i'm doing it because i've had it with this problem that no one's solving.

this is the bit where nostr-tools crashes because if it receives an event from an unknown subscription ID, it then tries to access the subId key on that object and since it doesn't exist, there's an exception.