My only regret is I wished I signed this tape. It's a 1 of 1. I left it on a table at BTC Nashville.
It's 40minutes of the word "trump" spoken by a synth with the hypnotoad sound from Futurama.
But I sincerely hope it sparks joy to whomever picked it up.
https://i.nostr.build/PJbezVKAb46kuwXY.jpg
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Contributors list is pretty epic y'all. Major props to them:
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I'm turing off for a while. Enjoy!
Get out today and vote for something meaningful, like a bitpunk fm tape!
There are 2 postcard experiments going on.
1. To get the next issue
https://zine.bitpunk.fm/how-to-get-a-bitpunk-fm-tape/
2. To get a LNbeats mixtape
https://zine.bitpunk.fm/lnbeats-mixtape-mailbox/
International postcards welcome. Both are experiments so please be patient.
Unlike whomever you vote for, I will thank you (if you provide a name, other wise thank you anon).
The easiest way is to just use a VM. I think it's still possible to then dump the usb traffic going in out of the VM, but I don't recall how.
The hardware devices that can do this are expensive. For example this is for a usb 2.0 setup
https://greatscottgadgets.com/cynthion/
Punk rock #poetry. Spreading the word one bulletin board at a time.
I would ❤️ to walk past this again and see someone else's poem.
https://i.nostr.build/sYmdrA4i7Ga8yvq6.jpg
If you just want to digitize there are cheap ali express walkmans for 10 euro or so that even have a built in usb. Although I have not tried this feature. It plays ok.
I've seen some belt kits on ebay and the like. Good luck with it, I'd be curious to hear how it goes.
From what I've seen as long as the belts haven't melted, it could be OK. Otherwise you gotta get in there and clean a bunch of nasty goo.
If you just want to digitize there are cheap ali express walkmans for 10 euro or so that even have a built in usb. Although I have not tried this feature. It plays ok.
I think these Podcasters like the ads tbh, or at least the fiat that goes with them. What's sad to me is the people like Odell who keep listening to these people and keep feeding the same beast he is complaining about.
Maybe when he switches he will write in lowercase.
I do like the smell of the house with goulash. I might have used too much beef tallow though, idk, it was the first time trying it to fry and brown the beef and onions.
At least, I can smell it 😀
I usually try to reformat the poems here on nostr as to not make you click over to substack. But in this case, there is accompanying music, pictures, and references that are important for context. (It's a nice one with a mic drop opening line 🥰).
An Iraqi Immigrant Wedding.
#poetry
https://open.substack.com/pub/bitpunkfm/p/an-iraqi-immigrant-wedding
Yeah looks fine though. Kapton tape works well.
Hot air and flux are my goto like you discovered. I will only use a soldering iron when I really have to get something small and targeted off, like one capacitor or so.
Well best of luck! I was thinking for the holiday issue of somehow including a small soldering kit actually. Like a fm radio kit.
Maybe I'll look into that more.
Lol bitpunk.am if only it was a TLD 🤣
Yeah the issue is finding a kit that's like $1. But I think I found one on ali express I just need to test it first.
I think it would be fun! The kits I ordered (not yet received) are a FM transmitter with no crystal. So its kinda mind blown how it works with a single transistor.
It both demystifies and adds more layers to radio I think.
But mainly the fun. On the tape, I would walk through the soldering steps so it would be a solder-a-long.
I think the kits cost me sub $2 :). There's no IC on this transmitter even!
The most complex component is a NPN transistor :)
You'll like it. I can't wait until they come in.
I have lots of nice memories from Prague and I feel like I hardly explored it.
You will love the record store Maximum Undetground in the old town.
Tell Max the crazy American cassette guy says hi 😀
Thank you for your service. A poem by me.
#poetry
https://music.bitpunk.fm/media/spectral-hiding/10-thank-you-for-your-service.mp3
Instinctively you reply,
"thank you for your service,"
in a sweet, appreciative voice.
Starting to blink my mind screams.
I feel shame.
One step at a time —
I am disgusting.
People love me —
I risked my life for nothing.
I am healing —
I was everything I hate,
It's OK to feel sad,
I got through this day —
a weapon of the state.
That is not me — anymore.
Inhaling calmly the blink ends.
Awkwardly—
absurdly—
I say, "thank you."
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Other poetry I've performed is on my DeMu album https://lnbeats.com/album/ef5db97e-a5f3-5375-96a5-ea4749b3e8c3
Yeah I felt it. I've flipped through photo books before. I got this because I just thought what you were doing was cool.
But turned out I was really struck. The green hoodie one really grabbed me.
Printing the dollars.
A Robert Bly remix poem.
--
Let's count the dollars once again.
If only we could print the dollars faster,
Economic growth,
We could make all the lands green like Nebraska cornfields!
If only we could print the dollars faster,
Maybe we could get
Two more nations to fall within the year!
If only we could print the dollars faster,
We could have
Democracy sculpted, a statue, forever.
--
Heavily remixed from Robert Bly’s Counting Small-Boned Bodies.
#poetry
I'm working on the technical article for the upcoming issue. The issue has a 1960s, groovy theme. So, I'm doing an article on radio.
Radio is one of those things that can get very technical and complex. But I'm hoping to explain it in a very approachable, intuitive way.
I see for example a lot of the interest in meshtastic and reticulum, which is great! But I feel the struggle sometimes to resonate with the core ideas. For example, why does this antenna work here and not there. Why can I hear you now but not later etc...
So hopefully what I'm preparing can help with some of that. And as always, a fun interactive exercise.
Oh yeah, that would work too! So in lieu of a postcard I will accept a recording of your address on a cassette. Just please spell things phonetically and clearly if you do 😀
Voting. An antiwar poem by me.
#poetry
Concealing my bruised eye,
painting my cut lips,
wrapping my mother's shawl
on my marked neck,
packing an extra pad —
preparing to vote for my lover tonight.
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I wish to see a taxpayer name on every bomb and tank, so the world would know — directly whom to thank. #poetryVoting. An antiwar poem by me. #poetry Concealing my bruised eye, painting my cut lips, wrapping my mother's shawl on my marked neck, packing an extra pad — preparing to vote for my lover tonight.