aw. back when we could still be saved.
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Crazy. Today at work I accidentally pressed the intercom button on my phone and approximately 600 people unexpectedly heard a really loud "BOOP" with no message or followup whatsoever, all at the same time, and it made me think of this.
10/10 I love this shit
It's sad that something like it can never happen again because of how everything is streamed/torrented now.
One could argue that the lack of a shared, verifiable experience like radio or live TV has contributed to the breakdown of social cohesion. Everyone can see what they want, whenever they want, instead of seeing what everyone else sees.
I'm not saying your wrong, or really trying to make an argument, but the book "bowling alone" came out in 2000 and it was describing the fall into social isolation and alienation before social media or the balkanization of news and entertainment. To go further back Marx was talking about the alienation of labor as far back as 1844. Like capitalism is killing us, the increased view/reach of technology is just making it obvious.
This is ancillary but perhaps contributing to it due to a lack of shared context. (For example, if someone asks me about a funny commercial I won't have seen it and can't relate.)
I'm thinking more like the zeitgeist has fractured.
I love how Brian Brushwood described it. It was either an inside job from someone at the station, or a very impressive feat of radio hacking, and they had to plan out the costume and the corrugated sheet on a pivot behind him to simulate the "CG" backgrounds, "But it's as if zero thought went into what he was actually going to say." He hums the Clutch Cargo theme tune, makes fun of Max Headroom as spokesman of New Coke by holding up a Pepsi can, and throws a little bit of shade at WGN and Chuck Swirsky.
The halcyon days of the 1980's when a broadcast intrusion like this was basically a harmless juvenile prank.
Look at how phone phreaking was treated in the 70s, or codes for getting long distance on BBS. The modern justice system would have wanted to make someone like Joybubbles an example.
My buddy Julian was linked up with our city's biggest phreakers. Dude disappeared and word is he did 10 years. This was in the 80's
iirc terrorism charges were levied against an activist that threw glitter at police during a demo for climate activists some years ago
That title makes less sense than the event itself, which is famously weird. I can't imagine anything other than that being on purpose.
Would having his bare ass spanked have made it easier to find him?
They could do an ass line up to actually identify him if they has a suspect.
That’s how the the dj for kneecap got unmasked, not the spanking but his bare ass
Human ass cheek resonance is unique, like fingerprints. There was no database at the time though.
There's one now?? 😳
Why don't you send me a recording and I'll let you know
Ok, but this better be for Science!
Please report to your local precinct for spanking fingerprint video session.
Don't worry, the video is stored in amazon using military grade aes 256 encryption. The encryption key is located in the same s3 bucket.
I wonder why they still haven't come forward, given that there would be no legal consequences for doing so in 2025.
My guess is that they died before the statute of limitations expired. This happened in the 80’s, and there’s plenty of time between then and now for something to have happened to them.
Maybe. But if I had to guess, it's also not really easy to prove, if you didn't also record some evidence back then.
"It was Bob and me" isn't really a good story, if you can't really show for it. Also, remembering the details on how it was done will also be spotty at best
I'd heard a story years ago that it was an autistic brother of a hacker/phreak in the local Chicago scene actually in the footage; with the hack being carried out by said brother. Another station had their broadcast interrupted that same night, though only audio came through.
That would go a long way towards explaining why they've kept the secret. Involving your bro would be a bad look, or maybe it was a telecom engineer and they're worried about their pension, or they died. Such a cool moment in time that can't really happen again and only a handful of people can possibly know the truth.
That would probably ruin the novelty of their onlyfans monetization strategy
What a headline!
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