ICYMI: Three Mile Island is re-opening to power Microsoft’s forays into AI. It had closed in 2019 and was in the process of being cleaned up, which would’ve taken until at least 2078. And no, this is not a joke, even though it sounds like it🙃 cnn.com/2024/09/20/ene…

Writing on Raving crew last night: Dr. Nick Bazzano, Dove Bardin, Emily Witt, Julie Wernersbach and Zoë Beery. Great show. Good house.

RIP Fredric Jameson

Third World Gay Revolution manifesto, Chicago 1970: yes to revolutionary socialism, no to TERFs before TERFs were a thing

my fave memory of Fred Jameson was seeing him use a computer. he was pushing the mouse around with two hands. like a ouija board. RIP to the king

Perhaps the best tribute would be for all of us to imagine the end of capitalism.

Party for the party nytimes.com/2024/09/22/wor…

And another new mix! This one was from the Earthdance event this weekend: mixcloud.com/jordana/earthd…

Have to admit that Jameson was someone I have long read in order to think *against.* And there is considerable sadness in his departure, as it seems also to signal, allegorically, the passing of an era. publicseminar.org/2014/10/the-em…

RIP Benny Golson, one of the last living great saxophonists/composers of the bebop/hard-bop era. Here he is with Freddie Hubbard in 1989 performing his tune “Stablemates”, one of the most common “let’s do a hard one” standards in jam sessions across the world.

"History is what hurts." The contemporary is what you can't even feel.