Humans are now redundant.

Great piece. Will Hermes’s “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” is a history of NYC popular music that includes the salsa movement, left out of other accounts because Spanish.

Cf the end of John Sayles’s novel Los Gusanos . . .

“Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized.” Could take out the word “often”.

2026 02 25 18:46, W. 4th platform. Holy shit, this guy. Greg Banks. He’s from the Garden District in New Orleans, because of course he is. He was okay with me posting. /1

Cuban Americans are speaking for ourselves. Marco Rubio, Maria Elvira Salazar, and Carlos Giménez do not speak for us, and we refuse to let them push our families into a deeper crisis in our name. Join us in calling for engagement, not escalation: cubanamericansforcuba.org/letter

Statement by the Cuban Foreign Ministry: "Authorities have confirmed that the intercepted speedboat, registered in the State of Florida under number FL7726SH, was carrying 10 armed individuals who, according to preliminary statements by those detained . . ./1 cubaminrex.cu/en/armed-att...

2026 02 25 18:46, W. 4th platform. Holy shit, this guy. Greg Banks. He’s from the Garden District in New Orleans, because of course he is. He was okay with me posting. /1

Calling @wayneandwax.bsky.social

Gift link. This is litigation in 2026 over the nationalizations of 1960. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Not hard to guess how this will turn out.

Cuban music writer Rosa Marquetti on the late Willie Colón. revistaelestornudo.com/willie-colon...

Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/w...

A Mexican army op that resulted in the death of a major narcocriminal in Jalisco has shaken the wasps’ nest and now there are “disturbances” in multiple states on Mexico’s Pacific side. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026...

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by #2: Lydia Cabrera Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Roger Crowley Gabriel García Márquez David Ritz

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Fernand Braudel Fernando Ortiz Robert Farris Thompson Greg Grandin Laurent Dubois

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El emblemático músico murió este sábado debido a complicaciones de salud.

As if I were Beyoncé, I am suddenly releasing new music at midnight tonight. I've just spent two weeks in a cottage in the hills of Honolulu playing Satie on my electric cello. The birds have accompanied me. I've made a video, & the 4 track EP will be out worldwide tonight. SATIE ET LES OISEAUX

A ship believed to be carrying Russian fuels is on its way to Cuba, putting US President Donald Trump’s sanctions to the test amid the island’s deepening energy crisis

Going back to JFK, with Obama and Carter as key exceptions, Dem strategy on Cuba has too often been to outflank Repubs on the right. Biden campaigned on rolling back Trump sanctions, then didn't and even introduced a harsh new measure aimed at visa availability for 3d-country visitors to Cuba.

Finally recognizing that this is a blockade of Cuba, bringing mass hunger and illness. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...

TIL that Erma Franklin’s version of “Light My Fire”changes the 4th word of the song, so: "You know that I would be untrue / You know that I would be a liar.” She’s right. It’s better that way. open.spotify.com/track/0wc3BU...

With continued stresses from a floundering economy, political and demographic pressures, and no oil shipments on the horizon, Cuba’s humanitarian situation deteriorates. Families spend entire days searching for fuel, cooking gas, or basic goods rather than working. english.elpais.com/internationa...

A felicidade do pobre parece A grande ilusão do carnaval A gente trabalha o ano inteiro Por um momento de sonho pra fazer a fantasia De rei, ou de pirata, ou jardineira E tudo se acabar na quarta-feira

Another view of the Mon Laferte concert at the Macroplaza del Malecón in Heróica Veracruz

Massive crowd at Mon Laferte concert at Veracruz carnaval

Shout out to the North Side Skull and Bone gang www.wdsu.com/article/new-...

Cuba: the evidence seem to suggest that the opportunity for Trump to strike a historic deal is at hand. But, despite the president’s claims, there are and have been no negotiations involving high-level officials between Havana and Washington. www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubi...

joyce is going after elon again

El presidente descartó una operación militar en el país similar a la de Venezuela.

Tristeza não tem fim Felicidade, sim A felicidade é como a pluma Que o vento vai levando pelo ar Voa tão leve, mas tem a vida breve Precisa que haja vento sem parar

And QEPD Luis Chacón Mendivel “Aspirina,” who passed on Feb. 10. A sad week for rumba. cafefuerte.com/de-luto-la-r...

QEPD Amado Dedeu, founder of Clave y Guaguancó, in La Habana www.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

"Everybody understands that this is a massive violation of human rights," Cuba's U.N. ambassador says of the U.S. oil blockade against the island.

A reminder that this famous photo was taken in 2014, during Obama's presidency.

World Service has lost much of its quality and most of its independence in the last decade or two, so this has been coming. But it's still a tragedy.

Postmambo is in Veracruz.

Postmambo is changing planes at DFW. Waitress to customer: you want any breakfast or just beer?

REMINDER: It’s a felony to share someone’s Social Security data without consent. DOGE shared the private data of ALL 340 MILLION OF US– including our SSNs, wages, and medical history!

“Dark, dark stuff.” She sounds shaken.

Yup. Still winter.

New solo album from Cuban pianist Roberto Carcassés. open.spotify.com/album/2yvlca...

Grandin brings out the layers of historical meaning in Bad Bunny's performance!

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Happening now: eight and half million people are being tortured.

This is a terrible thing to be happening. 🧵

👀 Apparently Morocco, Algeria, the Polisario Front and Mauritania are meeting today at the US Embassy in Madrid www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...