I’m convinced the primary motivation for the widespread AI push is for bosses to suppress wages and eliminate jobs. 💽

While in Penn State a few weekends ago, I got to have shoofly pie. You know what? Pretty damn good. 🥧

Spotlight (pun unfortunately intended) on an everyday industrial curve; who hasn’t benefited from the humble street lamp? 📸

I bought electronic music pioneer Susan Ciani’s 1982 album Seven Waves. Truly staggering atmospheric work. 🎵

Night trees are interesting trees 📸

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I’ve listened to a lot of Jello Biafra & The Melvin’s side project collaboration Never Breathe What You Can’t See from 2006. It’s the angry, well wrought crush punk we need now. 🎵

Finished reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 📚

Fun read, but funny to think that back in 2011 a near future techno dystopian novel didn’t guess that the technology itself might suck shit.

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I bought Fear - The Ultimate Anthology, by Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin. Cool re-recorded versions of a bunch of classic horror movies either Claudio or the original Goblin scored, and mostly Argento joints. Cool stuff! 🍿🎵

jwz quotes a research paper on superfund CEOs. CEOs born on future superfund sites are less risk tolerant and more likely to lead firms to bad results.

Our results suggest firms may systematically mistake luck for skill in promotion decisions

This practice is so rampant, it feels like it’s hardly worth mentioning. I’m glad they’re doing the science on it.

As a community member, I unabashedly love bald jokes. 🧅

MYTH: Baldness is caused by too much testosterone. FACT: Baldness is caused by too little hair.

One of the local Salon’s sandwich board game is on point. 💅

I finally got my watch band replaced. A cat chewed it up while I was asleep more than a year ago, and it’s been slowly falling apart until it broke all of a sudden. ⌚️

I heard about Scratch Acid by way of The Cobain 50 on KEXP, and then David Yow’s next band, The Jesus Lizard. It’s a basic starting point, but I really like Liar. Get some transcendent gutter noise. 🎵

I’m late to the party, but got turned on to Oneida, specifically Each One Teach One, again from The Best Show. Also learned that my roommate took drum lessons from Kid Millions, so when it rains it pours. 🎵

I feel like every web browser is “good enough”. There’s nothing I’m excited to use, and I keep switching defaults after one annoys me enough. 💽

I really like Neil Francis’s new album Return to Zero. I’m not playing it as much as I had his first, but it’s still early days. 🎵

To the applause of sixteen people that already own the album, the 2021 Deluxe edition of Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy is available on archive.org. 🎵

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

A heard about Palestinian hip-hop group DAM maybe last year, I think on NPR of all places. I really like BEN HAANA WA MAANA, and I finally picked up the album a few weeks ago. Politically outspoken, although I had to look up lyric translations. Really tasty beats. 🎵

I picked up Viva Ngozi, by Ngozi Family, on a recommendation from The Best Show last month. Really cool ’70s Zambian garage rock. 🎵

My roommate turned me on to Mdou Moctar, and I picked up Funeral for Justice a bit ago. I haven’t listened to it as much as I thought I would, but it’s still really good. Hard Nigerian blues rock with great players? What’s not to like. 🎵

An older man told me I had a “magnificent beard” in line at the pharmacy yesterday. He told me he used to have “things like that” when he was younger, but couldn’t grow it anymore. I thanked him, and told him his stylish, close-cropped beard looked great. He told me to enjoy my beard while I can, because age comes for all of us. I guess I’ll…braid it?

God help me, I added my Threads account to my social list. Don’t go there, though.