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David Seubert

@babaluma

Santa Barbara based audio archivist.

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My life is out of control. I have 31 pounds of Rancho Gordo beans in my cupboard.

27.12.2025 19:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

VIA Rail makes Amtrak seem like the TGV.

22.07.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gerald Seligman (@geraldseligman.photo) and I are were interviewed by Oisin Lunny for the β€œAudio Talks” podcast from HarmanΒ (the audio electronics company), available wherever you get your podcasts. The topic is "The Fragile Future of Audio Archives."

audiotalks.podigee.io/86-the-fragi...

09.05.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Santa Barbara liberals be like β€œI’m solving the world’s problems with my Little Free Library.”

20.03.2025 05:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says Labels push to spike cost of Internet Archive fight over old 78s.

I ended up as the headline. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

08.03.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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While sorting a collection today I came across this β€œwhile you were out” memo. Probably from the mid 1990s related to the release of Toy Story. That might explain the 415 area code.

06.03.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Timeless - Single by The Weeknd & Playboi Carti on Apple Music Album Β· 2024 Β· 1 Song

Hip-hop+Dolby Atmos=❀️

music.apple.com/us/album/tim...

15.02.2025 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kinora

31.01.2025 04:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cocktail at Patent Pending in the Radio Wave Building NYC.

29.01.2025 05:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In William S. Burroughs’s orgone box.

29.01.2025 05:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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In NYC for the week for work.

28.01.2025 12:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œLA is dryer than Kanye’s eyes at a screening of β€˜Schindler’s List’”

24.01.2025 04:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

YouTube is funny. If I listen to jazz, the algorithm always segues to Chet Baker. ALWAYS.

19.01.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We rewatched the Lord of the Rings trilogy which has became a Christmas tradition. I watched the originals in the theater at successive Christmases with my siblings, the DVDs at another Christmas around 2010, the BluRays during Covid, and now the 4K.

28.12.2024 07:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My former boss died of Covid on Christmas Day. Of 2024.

27.12.2024 14:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tamales are one food that isn’t better the next day. They need to be fresh out of the steamer

27.12.2024 14:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yesterday’s dinner confirmed our long held opinion that Chinese food in Santa Barbara is terrible.

26.12.2024 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jira suggests I delete Oxford commas.

20.12.2024 01:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just cancelled my @latimes.com subscription.

29.11.2024 05:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I posted this a year ago and it’s even more true today.

18.11.2024 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UCSB in a nutshell with Comet.

01.10.2023 16:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My project the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) is on bsky now: @discography.bsky.social

12.11.2024 05:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stephen Colbert has terrible writers.

31.10.2024 04:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RFK Jr. has literal worms for brains.

23.08.2024 20:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nicole Shanahan makes RFK, Jr. look sane and rational.

21.08.2024 23:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cirque du so-boring

11.08.2024 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m through with composting. Complete waste of my time.

05.08.2024 01:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just got an email from a recruiter suggesting I might be a good fit for a job at my current workplace. πŸ™„

30.07.2024 15:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The MAGA gymnast from Stanford is really annoying.

30.07.2024 05:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Comment heard leaving β€œAppropriate” tonight: β€œI thought the kid coming down the stairs in the Klan hood was a little much.” Ya think?

04.04.2024 03:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0