Hooray for rewriting multiple paragraphs of script because I realized I mistranscribed one (1) note. Turns out it was a really important note!

You know, 11 years ago. Same shit

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Big same.

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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

I can't help but remember the buildup to the war in Iraq, and all the lies the Bush administration told to try to justify their greed. I don't have anything useful to add, but I just want to remind folks my age that we've seen this before and we know what it is.

Ok, fellow youtubers, I think we can retire the "I promise this is interesting" thumbnails now.

Sick! Again! I'm over having corporeal form, I would like to be a being of pure energy now. A floating consciousness in an infinite void, bound only by my capacity to contemplate novel thoughts.

Just woke up from a dream that I'd been elected to an SMT leadership position and am very relieved to report that it was just a dream.

Another year in which I am unjustly overlooked by the Sight and Sound poll.

What's fascinating here is that Paul McCartney isn't even the best *Beatle* to use as an example of someone experimenting with substances in their creative process.

I see we're doing "content creator" discourse again. Great. Love that. Not tedious at all. Maybe we can argue about the technical definition of "clickbait" next to keep the party going.

Messed up that the autoharp doesn't play itself.

There are good arguments here, but this is embarrassing:

Time for another round of my favorite game: Are Literally Any Of The Authors Music Scholars?

1) Went to see The Mummy in theaters when it came out. I was 9 years old. Needless to say, I have never seen most of The Mummy. 2) While road tripping across the country for college, my sibling and I went to see GI Joe in Amarillo, Texas. Theater was empty, so we just MSTK3k'd it up the whole time.

Not a member of AMS, but to weigh in from my perspective as a professional content creator, the thing that strikes me about the attached "strategy memo" here is how it repeatedly conflates a smaller audience with a less valuable service.

Posted this on Patreon but I'll share it here too:

This is a very apt summary of a discomfort I've long felt but lacked the words to describe. Obviously the dissolution of shared realities runs much deeper than just genAI, but the ability to replicate the artifice of social participation without society makes it a horrifyingly powerful accelerator.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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As a rule of thumb, I'm inherently distrustful of any take that presupposes one specific thing that art is "for". Art need not justify its existence, its existence is its justification.

I 100% agree with Jacob here, and I'm admittedly pulling this slightly out of its intended context, but I'd like to spin off into a related but somewhat contradictory point that's also really important: It's cool and good for artists to want to get paid for their work. Art is a form of labor.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

...Is spotify's "listening age" formula just adding 15 years to whenever the music you listen to came out to place you in the cohort that would've been teenagers at the time? Because if so, that's some of the most preposterously naive methodology I've ever seen.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

"All I ever wanted was to give them something great, why does nothing ever turn out like it should?"

Even setting aside the AI-specific stuff, as a professional "content creator" and self-styled artist, this hits hard.

Today is my birthday. In lieu of presents, please send me one (1) interesting fact about music.

I think I'm gonna take this week off of social media to spend time with my family. Won't be checking bluesky or slack for a bit, so if you need to reach me, no you don't.

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Didn't get the teaching position I was trying to get after graduating, had burned out on the idea of being a performing vocalist/leading a band, and wanted an excuse to keep learning music theory.

See? I told you I'd talk about it:

This is one of the most difficult puzzles of educational YouTube: repetition and effort are the two biggest tools for information retention, but without extrinsic motivation they also drive viewers away, so we make things smooth and most of the details don't stick with audiences long-term.

For over 20 years, I've used tinyurl for various things, and for most of that time, it's been a simple, free tool. But recently, every time I open the site, it aggressively pushes me toward a paid subscription plan, and like... a subscription to what? You are a link shortener.

Uh-oh, just learned Blue Prince has a mac version now. That's probably not great for my free time.

“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”

Supergroup of Billy Joel, Billy Idol, and Billie Eilish send tweet

I've never been a member of AMS (I'm barely even a member of SMT) so I can't personally sign this, but I have to assume at least a couple current/former AMS members follow me so if that's you, you should probably be aware of this petition.

Can't believe everyone's posting about Pluribus in an attempt to trick me into believing that Apple TV is real. I'm not falling for that.

Bach, you have to stop. Your clavier is too well-tempered. Your concertos too Brandenburg. They’ll kill you

This is now my second-favorite explanation of music theory after, of course, Jacob Gran's "composer fan fiction".

It feels like a lazy answer because it's so obvious, but I don't think any book has had as profound an impact on me as Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. It fundamentally changed my understanding of the nature and purpose of faith, and, far more importantly, the nature and purpose of stories.

Ok, I need to confess something: I have, for many years, known the Rage Against The Machine song Bulls On Parade, and I've known that it was called that. But somehow, I also thought they had a song called Pocketful of Shells, which I also knew, and I never noticed that they sounded exactly the same.

Anyone got a summary of what's happening with AMS? I'm one too many steps removed to have any direct context but all my mutuals are going wild.