Steven Berson

@sberson.at.app.wafrn.net

119 Followers 145 Following

audio mastering engineer at Total Sonic Media https://totalsonic.net GenXer grey goateed geezer. [...] View full profile at https://app.wafrn.net/blog/sberson

photo of a Poco X3 NFC smartphone sitting on a desk, running Ubuntu Touch, with a wallpaper picture of a woolly mammoth and the favorite apps bar on the left, with orange and white Ubuntu icon on bottom left.
Screenshot of an article from kotaku.com with a photo of Arnold Schwartzenegger from the movie "The Terminator" and the headline: "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours"
photo of printed yellowed paper stating: "Head Quarters District of Texas Galveston Texas June 19th, 1865. General Orders No. 3.The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, “all slaves are free”. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere. By order of Major General Granger. F.W. Emery, Major A.A. Genl."
photo of Otari MX5050-B2 1/4" 2-track analog tape deck in motion of recording, at Total Sonic Media's mastering studio, with in the background: the mastering console containing a number of analog hardware eq's, one of the B&W Nautilus 802 speakers, Ardour 9 on a large screen wall mounted display, and an orange & brown painting of a semi-abstract guitar putting out sound waves.
Photo of The Expanse DVD boxset containing all 6 seasons, sitting on Total Sonic Media's mastering console
Photo of a Herman Miller Aeron chair with broken seat webbing, in front of a mastering studio console
a photograph of Czech author Milan Kundera, a middle aged man with gray hair, dark eyebrows and piercing eyes, facing the camera, with hands clasped in front of his mouth - with a quote from him: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
Photo of 100 Grand chocolate candy bar
Screen shot of Baker Hughes oil drilling rig count for USA, showing loss of 2 from prior week, and 42 less compared to same time last year.
photo of Harold Larue and Steven Berson inside the Saxon Pub, Austin Texas, for SXSW 2026
Photo of a saiga antelope's head in profile.
Screen shot of a post seen on Reddit stating: "One of the many fucked up things about America is the public's complete lack of understanding of the time scale for policy impacts. Most people seem to believe environmental, geopolitical, economic... impacts occur in real time. Because of this, if you know you're going to be in office 4 years, you can implement all the destructive policies you want it'll be the next guy that takes the fall. Or even the next guy after that or after that... Many of the problems we face today have been decades in the making. This administration is doing a fine job at accelerating the destruction though so I imagine we won't have to wait as long for the consequences."
Photo of a caucasian man in 20's, sweaty in a white tank top t-shirt, with longish mop top mullet fish black hair, and scruffy 3 day facial hair, playing an Alembic bass
Photo of Total Sonic Media's mastering studio, showing B&W Nautilus 802 floor standing speakers, a desk full of analog hardware equalizers and compressors, the Antelope Amari interface, a painting by Maurice Berson of an abstracted orange guitar emitting sound waves, and a large wall mounted screen showing Ardour 9 recording a stereo track into a mastering session.
Screenshot of TrackerControl app running on an Android phone, showing blocked fingerprinting and other tracking requests being made by the Peacock app
screen shot from an Android phone of an article from "The Register" with headline stating "Sudo maintainer, handling utility for over 30 years, looking for support"
USA Presidential electoral map from 2016, showing population densities, and lots of empty places.
photo of a desktop computer with lid open, showing ssd, 2 sata hard drives, bequiett cpu cooler, bequiett dark power psu
black & white photo of Catherine O'Hara when she was in her late 20's
photo of a street in Havana, Cuba, showing some "classic" cars from the 1950's still maintained and running
Screen capture of headlines in article from the BBC, showing a black&white photo of Fela Anikulapo Kuti smiling and the words: "Music legend Fela Kuti becomes first African to get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award"
Screen shot from an Android phone showing the PipePipe app (ad free YouTube frontend)
Photograph of Sly Dunbar playing drums
photo of two protestors standing in front of a brick building, holding signs, the first saying "stop deportations now", the second saying "no human being is illegal"
Photo of a half inch of snow on the ground in a suburban cul de sac in central Texas, with a kid in a purplish-brownish jacket and an olive hoody facing away from camera, with a large heart with the word "love" inscribed into the snow in front of them
photo of a movie theater hallway, with a "Labyrinth 40T" lighted sign above a cinema entrance
photograph of 3 first edition "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" hardcover books from the 1980's - "Dungeon Masters Guide", "Players Handbook", "Monster Manual"
Photograph of Nicolas Maduro in handcuffs wearing a light blue hoodie, surrounded by US law enforcement agents, being led on a tarmac of a NYC airport at night.
Photo from in front of the White House fence in Washington DC, USA, of a protester holding up a Venezuelan flag, while another holds a banner saying "money for people's needs, NOT the War Machine"
Photograph of a group of 50 or so "Colectivos" in a street in Venezuela - armed masked men, some on motorcycles, some walking.
Flyer for False Face Society playing at Baltimore music venue 8x10, June 28, 1990
A close up of the face of a golden brown spider, showing 2 large eyes on top, 4 smaller eyes in a row below, and large hairy mandibles
Meme showing Mark Zuckerberg looking like a stiff lizard person, in a blue suit, white collared shirt and cyan tie, while testifying in front of US Congress circa 2018. Text states: "Q. who are Facebook's competitors? A. The entire rest of the internet."
Photo of a reindeer made of logs
Screen shot of an error report in the Wafrn Android app, showing not able to import a csv of a follow list exported from Mastodon