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The Wagon
A Saturday Night Video from the beginning of the alternative music surge.
The Inner Cry of A.I.
Benjamin Wallace writes for the NYT (gift link) about A.I. companies such as Anthropic hiring philosophers. Beyond all the jokes about philosophy grads actually getting jobs, it's a worthwhile examination of the place of the discipline within the tech space. What struck me was the concern that
Jokes From Truth
Bluesky CEO, Tony Schneider, was interviewed by Nilay Patel on a recent episode of The Decoder podcast. I like Patel's interview style and thought he brought a good selection of questions to the conversation. After much business strategy and technical discussion, Patel asked Schneider about the common perception
Memories In Orbit
I've been playing a new video game called MIO: Memories in Orbit. I have a bit of a soft spot for what they called Metroidvania's (a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania), having grown up loving games in the genre. In this game, you "Play MIO,
Shaker Style
A movie about the Shakers inspired my curiousity to learn more about the sect.
Dream Shake
An under-the-radar band that nevertheless turned in a lovely dreampop performance for tonight's Saturday Night Video.
R.I.P Dave Kendall
Dave Kendall, creator and host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, has passed away. The British-born Kendall conceived 120 Minutes after joining MTV as a producer, pitching the network a dedicated program for the punk, post-punk, goth, synth-pop, ska, and other underground sounds largely ignored by corporate rock
Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar
One problem with posting your listening habits on a periodically updated Now page is that those habits can literally change overnight. A couple of days ago, I updated my Now page, only to get deeply into a Swedish jazz EP very shortly after. Though this new 3-song Bandcamp-only
Poptimus Prime
Freddie deBoer writes about how poptimism has achieved so much success because of the cultural context in which it was born. A culture that considers it wrong to have standards that can identify one thing as better than another is fertile ground for the elevation of terrible art. That’s
Orthodox Burnout
A new blog/newsletter to me as of today is Ghost Drive America, which belongs to Edwin Robinson.1 Robinson writes about burnout six years after becoming Orthodox as part of a ROCOR church. I haven’t been Orthodox quite as long as Robinson, but nevertheless, I identified with almost