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Jordan Jensen’s 2025 Netflix comedy special Take Me With You. Probably the best set I’ve seen in a while. [NSFW]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, director of ‘Persepolis’, “who died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marjane-satrapi-dead-persepolis-director-56-1236613671/

Cumbias Chichadélicas 2

Cumbias Chichadelicas: Peruvian Psychedelic Chicha, ‘cause Chicha + ‘cause I’m studying the Inca in class.

^ Cool Canon J20x Super box lens on that Sony. And yes, I've previously had sex with women.

Finished Suddenly Amish last week... which lead to the reverse, a Breaking Amish marathon this weekend. And I assume Return to Amish is next. It being modern America, Jeremiah Raber, of the latter two shows, now has an album out. He may be King of the Resentful Adopted Into the Amish Bro Country singers.

The last 45 minutes of the 48 hour memorial is playing.

Thanks, yeah it’s a strong app and I use occasionally. This is where we get to the apples to apples question. [Switching to Adobe-speak] Affinity, is a great Photoshop replacement, not so much Lightroom. Trick is Capture One covered what I needed for both. The Photoshop-Lightroom division has always felt abnormal from a photography perspective (though PS is obviously used by non-photographers too). PhotoLab is close as tries a similar approach, but because its focus is camera and lens corrections, it won’t even import (or fall back to OS processing) any non-supported combos. You’re dead in the water with many cameras, including several I use. Anyway, first world problems, but all ears for suggestions and thanks for this one.

Looks like Capture One will be sold again. https://petapixel.com/2026/05/28/capture-ones-private-equity-owner-is-trying-to-sell-it-report/ I really don’t want to go back to an Adobe subscription, Exposure (aka Alien Skin) hasn’t been updated in a few years, PhotoLab doesn’t seem to have any interest in demosaicing old or unusual sensors, and my experiences with Luminar and ON1 have not been positive. Maybe time to give Darktable a try, unless others have a different recommendation?

The 48 hour WKCR Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast today and tomorrow. http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u

The Plot to Eliminate Gaza https://web.archive.org/web/20260529135655/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-board-of-peaces-plot-to-eliminate-gaza.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-board-of-peaces-plot-to-eliminate-gaza.html "The Board’s charter does not mention the word Gaza once. The stated mission comes with a much broader ambition: to promote stability, restore governance, and secure peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict — anywhere. Gaza seems to be merely the Board’s first deployment. Under its own logic, the three active military fronts currently disrupting the Middle East — Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran — are theaters of war that should be resolved by the Board, if only they were not being waged by two Board members, the U.S. and Israel."

Another (more from Todd Hata).

The postman always rings twice. Live album arrived.

For those interested, WKCR is running a 48 hour Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast Friday and Saturday. http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u