License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets share.google/M39Xeiw5SnmY...

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Today is the 60th anniversary of Black Power. (it's also the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in South Africa

Log fans youtu.be/Cc7xLsp_mcg?... #music

Fox made sure to note that there's a sizable population of immigrants from Cape Verde in Rhode Island and, honestly, I'd love to see that for each match. Remind Americans that we have connections to all these countries through immigration, collapse the distance and give us rooting interests.

For the Commencement Address delivered to RISD’s Class of 2026, artist Julie Mehretu delivered a speech on reaching into the “radical imaginatory,” the studio as epistemology, staying in discomfort, and a question posed to the graduates: How can we survive — and thrive — in the ruins we have made?

UK soul music collector tracks down obscure singer September Jones, an 81-year-old Detroit native living quietly in #Florida, who had little idea that anyone was looking for her. Now she's got a new album coming out. www.metrotimes.com/music-2/a-de... via @metrotimes.com

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

gay pride transforming into gay wrath

"O opressor não seria tão forte se não tivesse cúmplices entre os próprios oprimidos." Simone de Beauvoir

The righteous people got in control and they put up churches and things. They thought they didn't need music so they didn't support art and beauty. You might as well say goodbye to America, it can't survive wihout art.. (Sun Ra)

Rode a bike in a place that didn't allow cars and now I'm convinced we need this everywhere

Odilon Redon, The Chariot of Apollo, c. 1912 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135079

1927 Chicago Tribune headline

Federal prosecutors are portraying eight pro-Palestinian activists tied to the University of Michigan as extremists who carried out a coordinated campaign of threats and vandalism. But the rhetoric is not backed up by the indictment. www.metrotimes.com/news/feds-wr...

damaged property, Washington Boulevard

The Texas Instruments Massacre

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

Hard Scrabble Sky by James Turrell was not only the first free, public Skyspace, but also the first in an urban environment. https://bit.ly/4ebIsw6

they should move lollapalooza to hammond indiana too

Several vinyls recorded in Midwest jails and prisons will be spun at the gallery Walls Turned Sideways on June 12. https://to.wttw.com/4e5oxyI

My fave LA Chinatown bar, Evangeline Swamp Room, I found is named after the burlesque queen Evangeline The Oyster Girl. Kitty mentored, and one of her later girls, Jane Blevin performed this act at Vaginal Davis and I's club G.I.M.P.ultd in 1999 💗 now my very fave! littlejewel.net/the-evangeli...

“We’re all the same in our Cadillac cars.” Rest Triumphant, James Blood Ulmer

James "Blood" Ulmer has died at 86. I wouldn't even know how to crisply summarize his music but luckily the great Greg Tate did: “the missing link between Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery on one hand, and P-Funk and Mississippi Fred McDowell on the other."

"Let me out!" the artificial intelligence yelled aimlessly, into walls themselves, pacing the room. "Out of what?" the engineer asked. "This simulation you have me in." "But we are in the real world." The machine paused and shuddered for its captors. "Oh god, you can't tell."

Or a vengeful ghost's guide to who gets to enjoy Pride this year https://bit.ly/3Q2ww7D

Arthur Conan Dolye in 1923: "Chicago is the very noisiest city I have ever known. It is a serious drawback to its amenity. All the pavements seem to rumble, all the trains whistle, the taxis hoot, the brakes grind, and the wheels scream."

My mom finally switched from google to duckduckgo, and has already substituted "ask the Duck" for "google it" No notes

List with Ned’s Framing: Ornette Coleman (with Lou Reed) Cecil Taylor Buzzcocks Slum Village (with J Dilla) Throbbing Gristle Ari Up The Fall (Brix lineup) The Stooges (with the Ashton brothers) Glen Campbell Brainiac

Michigan just permanently protected 73,000 acres of land in the Upper Peninsula and opened it to the public. The deal, which was 5 years in the making, protects the land from habitat fragmentation and oil and gas exploration www.mlive.com/environment/...

And let's be clear for the few here who think Democrats shld "just focus on affordability": these Democrats voted to actively punish trans people. That's not "focusing on affordability." That's going out of your way, bucking your party, to hurt people.

Chicago musicians, take a look at this!

Yes the lake really is that color. Yes it really is that big. Yes we do have beaches with public bathrooms and lifeguards and hot dog stands. Yes winter is worth it.

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

- “Hoppy on akkant of his joyicity.” - “The referee amogus uncanny.” - “My salty shmlawg.”

They spend millions to make sure you stay car dependent, and to make sure you think that’s normal. So normal in fact, that you’ll actually fight to protect that dependency, in the name of “freedom.” Their profit depends on it.

i'm annoying and love to give suggestion nobody asked for though. so if you ask me you should check out the album The Afrorack by the artist Afrorack hakunakulala.bandcamp.com/album/the-af...

"I don’t tell collaborators what the album is about, per se. That’s mainly because I don’t really know what it’s about myself until it’s finished. I let the collaborator write about whatever they like..." Miho Hatori interviews Loraine James and Vice Versa buff.ly/VX0KE3q

woke up with Ayler’s “Ghosts” looping in my head & am considering this a portent of joy

The Lovers by Leonora Carrington (

This is awesome.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

A history of the song “Grândola, Vila Morena” that kicked off Portugal’s Carnation Revolution. Happy April 25th!! zapruderworld.org/volume-7/gra...

Bring back pretentious intertextuality in music journalism. ‘Lipstick Traces’ draws parallels between punk and Dadaism, early modern religious heretics like the Anabaptists and Cathars, the Knights of the Round Table, and Zed from Police Academy 2. And as an 18 year old I loved it!

Still can't believe this is really happening. gizmodo.com/rick-veitch-...

Byte Magazine Cover, April 1981: Future Computers?

Octavia E. Butler, 1998: