For your listening enjoyment, twelve remixes of "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac that are varying degrees of unhinged ethanhein.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

The Supreme Court:

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

There's a certain kind of unhinged prose that tells me that a comment is by a person and not a bot or LLM and I never thought I would cherish that kind of writing so much

Okay there is no reason this should work as well as it does www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nadnd...

I know the multitracks to "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac are in circulation from Rock Band 3, if someone wanted to share them, my podcast listeners and I would appreciate it

We were talking about circle of fifths root movement in class today. I played a quadruple plagal cadence (C, G, D, A, E) and asked if it sounded familiar. Someone immediately identified as "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror. The kids are alright.

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

Me to my Korean friends as I watch their democracy succeeding at punishing an insurrection while our own failed miserably to do so:

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Happy In A Silent Way Day to all who celebrate www.ethanhein.com/wp/2026/happ...

I guess you don’t know what the majority of the largest base of dem voters do on Sunday, and how that’s influenced liberation movements since Reconstruction.

2026 basically

Fentanyl's next target? Helping you kick your heroin addiction www.businessinsider.com/ai-next-targ...

There is a lot of tech we are impressed by — I think a better question is why isn’t the right impressed by solar panels or mRNA vaccines or electric cars or a multitude of other incredible moves forward that they’ve thwarted at every turn

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

This "why does the left hate AI?" thing is like when the right believes protests are paid for by George Soros; they need a SECRET CONSPIRATORIAL AGENT because they refuse to believe that, actually, a lot of people are independently looking at what AI is being made to be and saying "ok that sucks?"

Where's the Juan Atkins or Derrick May for that matter

I'm not thrilled that now we have to associate the perfectly reasonable slogan "Get Active and Eat Real Food" with that creep

as a suno hater this IS what i think. the thought of listening to music made by poor people disgusts me. i make 1 trillion dollars a year with my chiptune and i record it through a famicom made of solid gold

‪The moment when the Democratic party repudiated Jesse Jackson and what he represented--which is what the "Sister Soulja moment" was--is an important origin point of so much of what makes the Democratic party useless and also kind of the enemy, too

I got to hear Jesse Jackson up close at a protest for... I forget what back in the 90s, and he was electrifying, spellbinding, incantatory. RIP

I’d love to get every single Democrat on board with “abolish ICE and dismantle DHS” but you’re going to need some votes from folks who don’t want to embrace that particular rhetoric and good news “there’s just too much corruption we’ve got to dismantle it to solve the problem” is sitting right there

oh man, I will admit that while I rarely miss things about twitter, I do miss the chaos of getting online and finding out JCO is posting but not knowing if she's doing some lightly incoherent racism or delivering two to the chest and one to the head of some right-wing weirdo

Put your hand up if you received the ELIZA vaccine at a young age and are now immune to chatbot spiraling

I don't know what I expected reading Moby Dick to be like but I'm excited every day to check in on my favorite scallywags and see what nautical hijinks they're getting up to

shoutouts to @sevenfortyfour.bsky.social who composes banger remixes in between working what i understand to be a dogshit miserable grocery store job making barely enough to live.

A false herring! My favorite literary device!! Followed closely by a Macgruber and then a Catch 44!

Industryyyyyyyyy

Your inability to love the process of creation enough to devote yourself to it is not a gatekeeper, Kim Petras' record label, which refused to drop her new album, is a gatekeeper. Warner Bros, which scuttled Batgirl for an insurance payout, is a gatekeeper

like it’s sort of true that working class people tend to not have as much free time to learn things as those more well off, but that’s an issue with a system that forces people to have to constantly work to survive. ai comes from the same system: at best it’s a band-aid, at worst it’s facilitating.

Hey look here comes a $2.45B corporation to tell us about class solidarity

if you want working class music, it is currently on SoundCloud by some trans girl rapper named Spleen Recital who makes beats by sampling kitchen appliances.

Also implying that working class people wouldn't have the time or money to create music implies some pretty disgusting things about how much extra time and money you think working class people should be left with.

Bluegrass was invented by Black Americans Rock and Roll was invented by Native Americans This cartoon is racist along with being classist

partially, i think it presumes that the reason working class people don't make music is that it's 'difficult', and AI makes it 'easy'. which in a way is the flipside of the thought that people are rich because they worked hard for it, and you're poor because you didn't work hard enough.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

this is Isaac's reply to @ethanhein.bsky.social's post with the original meme, which asserts critiques of GenAI music-making are classist Here is a thread of music I've made with Reaper (one ~$60 charge), free plugins, and gear I borrowed from @aadl.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOL...

While we're debating AI: in 1939, Clement Greenberg dismissed Norman Rockwell and Tin Pan Alley as kitsch. Now we respect it. So won't we have a critical re-evaluation of AI slop in the future?

"GenAI helps working class people make art" is bad, but I feel like people don't talk about the very obvious reason why it's bad. Best case you're treating the symptoms of a bigger problem, *or* people are trying to sell us a way to do art without stopping production.

Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, and Derrick May (the Belleville, MI teenagers who invented techno music in the early 1980s) were not upper-class

fixed it, kinda. still can't quite get the slopstink off

I don't think Uncle Pennybags would do this. I think he would admire the entrepreneurial spirit that is leading to her posting a new AI generated album of citypop video game covers to YouTube every day.

the funny thing about the fact that you could produce a whole record at home since the Amiga is that occasionally people still produce a whole record at home on an Amiga

i’m literally a working class person who makes music. i don’t want a computer program to do it for me. i want to make it myself. that’s the fun part

I just spent the last two years of my life producing a 22 track instrumental album. I am not rich, never have been, and I made everything with two computer programs (FL Studio, Audition) and the skills and knowledge I cultivated from 25 years of making music. I've been doing this since I was -19-.