The tweet wants to be read as a triumph, but it's a eulogy. It describes the final colonization of the last thing capitalism hadn't fully captured, the involuntary self, the part of you that gets formed against your will by encountering art that wasn't made for you.

What the fuck

last week, you were told that you should support a regime change war in Iran in part to support women's rights this week, one of Israel's "preventative" air strikes in Iran hit a girls' elementary school killing 40 little girls and counting

basically the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born, but as long as there aren't any monsters everything should be fine

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law. This is welcome news for musicians!

Every time you swipe to a new 30-second video, your brain releases a small pulse of dopamine in anticipation of what might come next. This is what neuroscientists call a variable ratio reinforcement schedule, the same mechanism that makes slot machines the most addictive form of

"I've never found anybody who wasn't happy that I was taking a lot of time to make them sound as good as possible. Again, if you approach that from a humanist level, all the other things fall into place." - Bob Power in Tape Op

BREAKING: HB 1471 passed in the Florida House. The bill lets state officials label organizations and individuals as “domestic terrorists” through a dangerous “guilt by designation” process that could be weaponized against critics of the government.

🚨ALERT: ICE HAS DISAPPEARED NASHVILLE NOTICIAS REPORTER ESTEFANY RODRÍGUEZ "We don't know where she is," her husband Alejandro told me, though the ICE detainee locator had put her in Alabama. Now it shows zero results for her. Last he heard from his wife was 10am Wednesday

There are millions or even billions of people in this world who fundamentally do not understand that children everywhere are the same. This precious child, the tens of thousands dead in Gaza—people don’t connect them to the idea of their own child being violently killed.

Staff at the nation’s largest ICE detention site have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

More of a poster’s dilemma I feel.

Sure but let's not pretend that a culture dominated by gigantic mega corps who siphon off all profit and leave artists chasing SEO and algorithms for the chance to get a fraction of a penny a stream is somehow less capitalistic or artificial.

Last year, Live Nation donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund.

I can't wait for 'modern music creation/consumption matrix discourse' to get back to the original century-old question at the heart of it all: Was the Development of Recorded Music a Mistake?

Can we please return to building and using public libraries?

I think that’s been the great problem with social media all along, really. Including for me, obviously. It’s the thing artists before us grappled with, and which made them strong where we’re weak (or made them alcoholic): the capacity to engage with loneliness over distraction.

Cannot stress enough how important good management is. There are so many great artists led so astray by people who they should never have trusted… You really are only as good as the company you keep. (Jak if you see this don’t let it get to yr head.)