every day a new horror

so ron used his voters’ money to sponsor visas for a bunch of undocumented migrants? based.

2024 Democrats: “vote for us, we’re *slightly* less shitty!”

If you want your record pressed with care, intention, and minimal environmental impact, i’m not sure there’s a better place than Audiodrome

An Entirely Solar-Powered Vinyl Factory Opens in Florida blbrd.cm/ePCLNVQ

Opening on Earth Day, Dave Newell and Betsy Bemis’s green record press, Audiodrome, is the music industry’s latest step toward being more eco-friendly. f-st.co/ru6EnBM

fun fact: CDs have a much wider dynamic range than vinyl. much of that difference is on the low end.

the “depth” he’s complaining about is related to mastering, not format. and 99% of new vinyl is pressed from digital masters.

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This is a friendly reminder that if you can get a library card. You can borrow all kinds of media for free. Physically at a library or digitally using library system apps like Libby or Hoopla.

Video games, comic books, movies, TV shows audiobooks, magazines. You name it.

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/tKXS0wG

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me to my mother when she sees a guy in leather with a manicure and threaded eyebrows at the bodega:

I know it seems obvious, but in today's day I really think everything has to be clearly spelled out, and for some reason it is not mentioned in this article—but Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi are the Blackest states in the U.S.

in a convo w/ Pusha T i referenced how ross was a fabulist telling stories cuz he was actually a C.O….and he was very quick to stop me and say he did not agree

worth noting being a C.O. and a drug dealer is not mutually exclusive. or even rare!

The document problem is the opposite of what it used to be. There's so much recorded that it gets treated as ephemeral, and will be locked away on corporate platforms that now own memory.

Key distinction number two: journalism vs. the media (vs. the press)

I think of the media as the attention business, an industry whose product is audiences.

Journalism is a social practice, the purpose of which is to keep publics informed and hold power to account.

However— 7/

just saw “cap” and “simp” described as “gen z slang terms” and got sad all over again about how the internet is eroding our cultural memory