If you're into experimental covers that take the original song in completely new directions, have I got a kicker for you: “If I Had a Boat" the Lyle Lovett song completely reimagined by William Tyler and Kieran Hebden. https://song.link/s/34tYGDKDSIafyGqeyADe9w

Oh hey happy 33rd to that time #phish honored Gordon Lightfoot with several teases during their visit to Ontario. Great YEM with Sundown and Edmund Fitzgerald teases (EF pops up elsewhere too) relisten.net/phish/1993/0...

New Noah Kahan has major singalong vibes. Like Coldplay, it was written for an arena.

It’s weird and dystopian that I hear about some shooting near the president and immediately assume it’s fake or staged.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonesmurphy/116465770088302104 The markets haven’t reflected reality in quite some time. The current manipulation happening is exacerbating the problem. There’s only one way this ends and it’s a massive crash when it becomes impossible to prop up any further.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116460738795625630 “Only the best people”

RE: https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/all-news-bogkkc4vz/-/a-VKIuQWIgRj-zs7kLHOrI_Q%3Aa%3A3199477-%2F0 I truly hate to be this way, but it doesn’t matter. The Republican Party, and more importantly the oligarch / Epstein class still supports him and that’s all that matters.

You really can’t beat #merlefest.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@augieray/116455099212852089 Repeat with every topic ad infinitum.

[NYT Connections] For once a clever purple category that wasn’t impossible.

RE: https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/116450352515100211 This is how censorship starts…

Alright, I've now hit this Tuesday gig 6 times this year and I've seen enough to say it's maybe the best thing going in NYC livemusic right now. Just hasn't been anything short of remarkable. And I'm discovering a lot of great new local talent. Two weeks ago […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

From "What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat" by Noah Hawley: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/

Dave Mason dies at 79. Traffic was such an incredible and influential band. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/dave-mason-dead-traffic-we-just-disagree-1236571499/

RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116445099742718990 You already know our entire economy is rigged and everything is more expensive so the Epstein class can fiddle while the planet burns. But if you needed proof, here it is.

This strategy—using fake AI profiles to boost political causes—was tested during the 2022 recalls in San Francisco. We called them the "Wencils" and they disappeared after being mapped and exposed. And now: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

@VeroniqueB99 I was entering Zion National Park in Utah the other day, it was a long line. The group of four in front of me were interrogated by the park ranger if they were US residents. They said they weren't. She then pointed at this sign and informed them […] [Original post on aus.social]

Highly recommend this in-depth article on Gillian Welch in Bitter Southerner. https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-13/gillian-welch-this-land-is-her-land

Very strong Newport Jazz lineup this year...

If the 25th amendment isn't invoked and successfully carried out, the constitution is completely irrelevant and we are fully under authoritarian rule. This is literally the situation it was designed for.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/116442604909330519 Yes. This is real.

Anybody got experience installing #nethack 3.6.7 onto a #mac? Having trouble figuring this out… #gaming

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal https://popular.info/p/the-media-blackout-of-jared-kushners

Pope Leo says people being ‘defrauded by the rich’ in latest forceful sermon | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-trump-africa-rich-b2961061.html

- R. Reich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-consumers-are-fcked

RE: https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/all-news-bogkkc4vz/-/a-6k5UebQ0RGayYY9LJHe-Bg%3Aa%3A3199477-%2F0 Here's an archive link to this article: http://archive.today/vbyG2 (no paywall)

Walmart is implementing digital price tags across all their stores by the end of the year. We’re entering an era when the price you pay is not correlated to the cost of a product to stores, but “optimized” for the maximum amount you can personally afford. Surveillance capitalism is what will […]

Just checking on how the Invisible Hand of the Market is doing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116436949194729929 #democrats have been trying the centrist path for 40+ years and it’s never worked.

When it becomes more profitable for capitalism to eat itself rather than to build things and we allow that to happen, we are signing our own death warrant as a society. Widening income inequality inevitably leads to revolution. https://www.instagram.com/p/DXRG3c_ii88/

Weird coincidence or something in the zeitgeist? Friday night I saw Fust, Merce Lemon, and Thomas Dollbaum at Motorco in Durham. A smallish rock club that holds about 400 people. The big encore number where all three bands came out and played together? Warren Zevon’s “Lawers Gun and Money.” […]

#fust is one of my favorite bands right now. They were so good last night at Motorco.

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Sadly, it quite often feels like that. There's always a war going on somewhere (and the USA is involved in at least half of them) #war #Peace

Man, Trey was struggling with the vocal last night at the Sphere. DWD, 20 Years Later, etc. sounded hoarse and croaky. #phish

Since it's the season of the Sphere and soon PH@MSG, just a reminder that Jim Dolan is a fascist and a very bad human being and while I wouldn't pretend to tell you what to do, I'd personally think long and hard about whether you want to give this guy your money. (And also noting that there are […]

At no point in the past 30 years of my career in the technology industry has any boss ever said "gee Ross, the latest technological advances have made you 5x more productive, would you like to cut back to working 8 hours a week for the same pay?" and I have very much noticed the absence of that […]

#recommNeds 2026.51 Matt Douglas: Repetition Sketchbook There's much to bemoan about our current digital age, but there's something to be said for four guys getting together to jam in January and then by the end of March the pristine recordings are […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

Oh wow, Sylvan Esso team up with Gregory Alan Isakov for a cover of Mazzy Star’s "Fade Into You." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqxukzCXVA8

Looks like the #gratefuldead saw all that money #phish was making on LivePhish and said "we want in on that!"

I love how quickly memes are made. I think it's important to be able to quickly sum of complex societal and political situations in just a few words and an image.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/all-news-bogkkc4vz/-/a-4mNHcOyTS7udJsP1fSAAKA%3Aa%3A3199477-%2F0 I would expect nothing less.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116414554707588991 Narrator: “She could not”

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116414524025814726 The power of independent investigative journalism.

Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™. Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea. Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug. We make […]

#phish Sphere ticket prices have collapsed! Tons of cheap tickets are available. https://www.reddit.com/r/phish/s/qhmGy6mO3l