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Published: March 25, 2025 13:03
That “to break even” stat means that the amount of pushed AI across all platforms will be utterly suffocating in about three years
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Published: March 25, 2025 12:19
today on Bartók's birthday I have already dialed up a couple of Hungarian mixcloud playlists with Bartók stuff and right now in the space before driving my son to school I am jamming "Concerto for Orchestra" (Reiner & CSO). You too can live this triumphant…
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Published: March 25, 2025 02:08
I want to advise yall to follow this bot with the qualification that it will sometimes make you want to cry.
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Published: March 25, 2025 01:58
oh, wow -- what a thing to publish, what a great thing to do.
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Published: March 24, 2025 23:31
indeed, as Sec. Hegseth says, "nobody was texting war plans." they were sending them via Signal. texting is different. God you guys honestly
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Published: March 24, 2025 23:17
why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? just like me, they long to be fed & praised
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Published: March 24, 2025 23:11
I would like to make more jokes but instead I'm here to tell you that because health reporting in the US is not what it might be, you gotta hear from the singer from the Mountain Goats that measles (and whooping cough) are surging not just here but abroad.…
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Published: March 24, 2025 21:04
old phone who was this
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Published: March 24, 2025 21:03
it's funnier if hegseth did it so I stand by my joke but I'm reskeeting this correction for the people.
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Published: March 24, 2025 20:50
wait so the guy who's widely known to have a giant booze problem accidentally added the journalist to the eyes-only security chat he was conducting over a non-approved platform? wow, who could have imagined it
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Published: March 24, 2025 15:37
to these I'd add the Takácz and Tokyo Quartets
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Published: March 24, 2025 13:57
if the makers of White Lotus don't follow up with as many colors as they can milk the franchise for they are losers. Yellow Lotus. Red Lotus. Co-brand with colors that have patents. Cadbury Purple Lotus. Home Depot Orange Lotus
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Published: March 24, 2025 13:53
yes - one of the great things about Bartók is that he's a guy who was very interested in folk music who isn't also deeply suspect, one of the worst things about fascists is their coopting and bad-faith rendering of folk tradition & ethos
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Published: March 24, 2025 13:49
seriously consider this testimony. is it just perspective-widening music. when you return to it your mind goes "oh wow I remember how this expanded our horizon"
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Published: March 24, 2025 13:44
ah yes, the "traditionalists," who somehow find all sorts of precedent they really can't abide. a paradox*!
*not a paradox they don't give a shit about precedent
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Published: March 24, 2025 13:40
pwnt
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Published: March 24, 2025 13:39
tomorrow is Béla Bartók's birthday fyi. set aside some time to listen to his string quartets, to really listen. very very worth your time, you will remember the day you put aside your other work to listen to the Bartok quartets.
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Published: March 24, 2025 13:16
The parallel that strikes me though is between gonzo right-wing grifters & 1980s evangelicals. Same exact playbook. Pick a target, adopt a superficially academic framework to make claims no self respecting academic would ever make, reach-around boost each…
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Published: March 24, 2025 12:18
people fronting like they wouldn’t body three of these without a second thought during hour 7 of their Super Smash Bros marathon smh
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Published: March 23, 2025 13:08
Trying to give concessions to people who were lying about you, who knew they were lying but sought to manipulate a response from you, is loser behavior. Tell them firmly not to wear that off the rack shit to court and you’ll see them there
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Published: March 23, 2025 13:04
fuck outta here with yr revanchist garbage. just bounce
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Published: March 23, 2025 13:00
given its applicability to the present moment I feel like the word revanchist is severely overdue for a comeback. normalize calling your enemy a revanchist piece of shit
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Published: March 23, 2025 10:19
the greatest thing
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Published: March 23, 2025 01:51
I had to discipline myself out of the habit of saying "why am I even alive?" every a chunk of carrot jumped mid-dice from the cutting board to the floor
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Published: March 22, 2025 23:31
this is the thing - artists are gonna get hit up to play benefits for the Democratic party in two years and super hard in four years. well: did you support completely inhuman treatment of people on the grounds that they were "gang members," accused of no…
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Published: March 22, 2025 20:48
the organ is not going anywhere -- I think it's the largest musical instrument in the world? -- but Macy's is closing so its destiny isn't known. organs are truly wondrous instruments, a human creation that speaks well of its maker: increasingly rare!
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Published: March 22, 2025 16:32
made a little note about the book I'm reading over at my "I almost never update this" books blog, it's here & you can subscribe to it in confidence that you'll probably get, like, three updates in cluster every nine months or so addenda.ghost.io…
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Published: March 22, 2025 16:00
yeah -- this is one of those radicalizing facts you learn along the way. it's not that the U.S. sometimes goes back on its word; it's that the U.S. has no word at all. it has broken literally every treaty it ever made with Native Americans. trust a snitch…
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Published: March 22, 2025 15:08
the right by Lyle at 6:30 would send most people to the canvas, and most of those people would be counted out when their knees wobbled as they tried to get up. Foreman was really something. we won't see one like him again.
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Published: March 22, 2025 14:51
hello I'm getting science corrections™. I wish to amend this post to "I hate these people a great deal." thank you
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Published: March 22, 2025 14:49
if even one or two of the countries we peddle murder machines to follows suit you're gonna hear the unmistakable sound of inconceivable amounts of money going through a shredder
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Published: March 22, 2025 14:47
subscribing to @matoswk.bsky.social's newsletter is one of the best decisions you can make for your musical life https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelangelo/p/bc116-five-mixes-february-2025…
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Published: March 22, 2025 12:36
a fun thread partly about mapmaking, a subject in my mind since reading the amazing “strange and perfect account from the permafrost”; also, “like most ghosts, it has a message for us” has me really thinking
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Published: March 22, 2025 01:56
yall know me I love everybody but I hate these people with the intensity of ten thousand atoms all splitting all at once
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Published: March 21, 2025 20:15
this is that repost of bottom-barrel sociopathy I was talking about. "why are people cheering for murder, don't they believe in letting the system work?" they are cheering because the secretary of commerce is on TV saying "if you complain about not getting…
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Published: March 21, 2025 20:08
it's Friday, they would mobilize before five if they were about their business
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Published: March 21, 2025 19:34
I don't feel like most of the people who follow me really NEED to hear the depths of sociopathy on display here, but at the same time, yeah you do. "You're a fraud if you complain that you didn't get what you were owed" is mask-off shit for these guys who…
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Published: March 21, 2025 15:38
technically it's the thuggish, ruggish bone unless thuggish modifies ruggish. a bright career copyediting reissues is just around the corner for me
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Published: March 21, 2025 12:27
in maybe 2019 and maybe earlier in I think Sweden Matt and me were soundchecking and we ran a song I was working on in my notebook, but I left the notebook on a plane so the rest of the song is lost & I don't like to have to try to reconstruct but anywhere…
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Published: March 20, 2025 21:06
an already monstrous policy made worse by total incompetence. what happened in Congress today? Well, they convened at noon, said a prayer, approved the journal of the last day's proceedings, said the Pledge of Allegiance, read two messages from the clerk…
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Published: March 20, 2025 16:32
yo this is very exploitable by politicians. "maybe I'm out on a limb here -- but you know what birds do when they're out on a limb? they SING" [fundraiser, interminable emails you can't unsusbscribe from, "still singing" t-shirts, etc
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Published: March 20, 2025 12:23
is everybody ready? very dumb times coming and we're only on the first lap
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Published: March 19, 2025 21:32
Democrats do not understand that if somebody in the house of reps decided he wanted to go out like a hero and cracked some brass knuckles into a Quisling face or two, their party's approval rating would soar, and stay up
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Published: March 19, 2025 21:22
13 seed Grand Canyon goin all the way. I feel it. Grand Canyon vs. McNeese in the final for all the marbles. Get my bookie on line one I'm gonna retire on this
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Published: March 19, 2025 20:41
It’s a police arm of a fascist government. This is what is is & all it is, but for 9 years people have been tut-tutting about actually calling water wet. You don’t “beat fascists at the ballot box.” You beat them with tire irons.
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Published: March 19, 2025 19:32
is visual asmr a thing because I
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Published: March 19, 2025 18:53
Living for this
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Published: March 19, 2025 15:39
cool, now declassify the Malcolm X files you punk coward bitches
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Published: March 19, 2025 14:03
Possum by day!!
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Published: March 18, 2025 18:21
This seems important — any AI generated content is therefore copyright free, right?
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Published: March 18, 2025 18:15
he’ll have a job with the admin shortly and be preemptively pardoned
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Published: March 18, 2025 16:51
Every day
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Published: March 18, 2025 10:19
a weird thing about having followed baseball is you can still see the players in your mind and recall their unique physical characteristics but after ‘01-ish it’s mainly “oh yeah that guy was ripped. and that guy too, ripped. this guy? I remember him.…
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Published: March 18, 2025 09:39
never start with any franchise before the tenth installment. the first nine are for the rubes