It’s amazing to me how we’re watching the tech world fall apart at the feet of monetization, enshitifiction, AI, and whatever other Bullshit trend they’re chasing this week. This is basically all exactly the consequences that the Free Software folks have been warning about and talking about for decades!

Hi All! It’s been a while since I had the chance to sit down and write a blog post. I’ve been incredibly busy. That’s a weird thing to hear after one of my recent posts (well, if you can call October of 2023 recent) talks about how I’ll be blogging a lot more consistently, since I don’t have a dayjob. Since then, a lot has happened! This blog post is a breif status update and rundown of my last six months or so. I’ll follow it up with some more detailed looks at some of the things that have happened in that time, each in their own post, and then probably wrap things up with a forward looking post about the future. Should be fun!

Hi All! As I mentioned in my last post, we’ve had a couple of surprise expenses pop up in the first half of this year. The most prominent is that the remodel that turned our cafe in to a bookstore and cafe ended up over time and over budget by a fairly substantial amount, but that was just the start of what looks to be a string of bad luck. This post details some of those things, and lists some of the ways you can help us get through it.

I wrote a few weeks ago about our efforts to digitize, score, and restore the 1918 science fiction cliffhanger serial The Master Mystery. That work continues, and as it does, we’ve found a few other, related items. Namely the novelization and a great audiobook of that novelization from Project Gutenburg and LibriVox.

To celebrate public domain day, here’s a new album from Analog Revolution featuring new recordings of public domain music by the incomparable Doctor Deathray and public domain recordings by their original artists of some of the essential sides of the early 1920s.