14 years ago today I officially launched hate5six.com from the spare bedroom at my parents' house in New Jersey (area code 856), in between interviewing for jobs in a subfield of artificial intelligence. Today I'm standing next to the industrial grade 224TB server (1/) I built that redundantly stores the over 5,500 full sets I've filmed/produced since. It would take you around 2,200 hours or 92 days straight to watch all of it. I could stop filming today and I still have enough sets edited and scheduled to be released every day thru March 2023

Me filming that emo fest in Vegas. Band #55 is on stage about to kill their 7 minute set and I'm waiting for the crowd of grown adults to scream your lipstick his collar don't bother angel I know exactly what goes on Granted I'm about to hit 36 and I film ninjas wailing on each other all day so

Now up on the hate5six YouTube channel: ZETA from November 22, 2021 in Asbury Park, NJ: Sometimes you fuck up when working w/a band you love and then it's on you to do better. The first time I saw Venezuela's ZETA was in 2018 when I hit up a Birds In Row/Portrayal of Guilt show in Philly and was unexpectedly blown away by this opening band I had never heard of.

Vimeo notified me and said I'm in the top 1% of their high bandwidth consuming users. They're forcing me to upgrade my account from a $900/year Premium plan to a $3000/year Custom Plan. I have one week to comply or they will nuke my account lmfao

Dying platform continues to die Reasons I still use Vimeo:

- Redundancy in case YouTube goes down
- Better playback for some
- Better privacy control
- The entire hate5six backend was built around Vimeo's API back in 2008. Decoupling it means rewriting a few thousand lines of code. A project for another day.

Re: Mumia Abu-Jamal "This is a life and death situation and we need to mobilize immediately. Congestive heart failure. Unrelenting skin eruptions are causing damaged, ruptured, leathery, dry, exposed wounds. Not one spot on his body is free of dry cracked and bloody open wounds." "No longer in an outside hospital, Mumia is back in the prison infirmary in excruciating discomfort and pain.
The message from his personal physician, Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, could not be clearer, “Freedom is the only treatment.”

A year later. Delbert is dead and @DA_LarryKrasner is frothing at the mouth hoping he'll be the "progressive DA" who kills Mumia Abu-Jamal by way of medical neglect. I remember talking to Delbert and Eddie that day and their focus was on what they could do to bring Mumia home. They were eager to hand out fliers in the street, anything. To not fight @DA_LarryKrasner and @GovernorTomWolf would be a betrayal of Delbert's unbreakable spirit.

They're trying to do Ant Smith like they did Mumia Abu-Jamal, which is target and imprison a young and outspoken Black activist who has been a community leader and organizer against police brutality and state violence. I don't know Ant as well as others, but I had (1/) the privilege of hearing him speak and learning from his example all throughout this summer's uprisings. I'll fight for his release because I know he would (DOES) do the same for anyone in the struggle. (2/)

35 years ago today in 1985 the City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb from a helicopter and destroyed 60+ homes, murdering 11 adults and children. The MOVE bombing is a highly touchy subject in Philly but every time I post about either of the MOVE standoffs at least one person (1/) tells me they learned something new. If you want to understand the militarization of US police forces, and the degree to which the state can get away with mass murder, learn about MOVE. It's deeper than race alone.

Watch Jared Osder's "Let the Fire Burn".

Three decades of the weapon of sound above ground.

When rage against the machine arrived on the scene, right-wing groups like PMRC feared what their music would do to young kids. Imagine taking a 10 year old in 1996 and locking him in a windowless room with nothing but hundreds of live RATM VHS recordings. What came out of that room 10-20 years later was me. I am one of those kids. And I am better for it.