MTT was a great musician and a lifelong friend. He championed my music starting in 1971, when he and I and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed my "Four Organs" in Boston and two years later in Carnegie Hall.

This paragraph struck me. We really will completely lose the 20th century high modernism soon. Inevitable in many ways, sure, but this fills me with a profound sadness.

Grammy-winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the bird-like maestro affectionately dubbed MTT and a “bad boy of classical music” while leading almost all the major orchestras of the United States and Europe since his teen years, has died in his San Francisco home.

The key question for RoW is "Will your local budget constraints outlast American Stupidity?" I am American and I have bad news about our strategic supply of stupidity, not even mentioning our widespread surface moron reserves and easy to access offshore blinkeredness.

RIP Roland Barthes you would have loved adversarial hermeneutics

"Unc's Folly" is the name for the fedora wall at your local Goorin Brother's

How crime or noir movies flip the valence of stealing from violating a clear societal taboo is interesting narrative trick and core to the noir approach to ethics but it is not just "it looks cool"

Going to sit down and do a marathon art house films of the 80s and 90s with blue in the title, as a bit.

Wise Gruyères.

I'm gen x star sign with gen z rising.

I have been shamed into doing things the old fashioned way

I feel like we get really hung up on "Was the Biden economy good for people or not" which I don't think is the right question. The real confounding thing that I have yet to see anyone have a good answer for was "Why did people think the Biden economy was worse than the Trump 1 economy?"

Driving that stream High on cocaine Salmon Jones you better Watch your speed

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

The legend is that if you're ever lost in a Canadian forest, sing out "The year was 1778" and walk toward the voice singing "How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now".

When I need a motorized circular blade but all I have is rip saws? Skils issue.

This is the greatest interiors feature I have seen in years. A home lived in By a real human being: Tour Richard Hell’s Book-Filled East Village Home www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/as... "Dutch engineers aren’t known for being generous with praise, but they raved about Lenssen’s work. 'Looks decent enough,' reads one five-star review in the ASML shop."

related to tim curry’s birthday, but i happened to be thinking about this meme heavily the past couple days already

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

In Northern California, when someone tells you to wear your Sunday best, you wear your $250 hiking pants and new shell.

Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.

If someone gives you a 5 second clip you shouldn't be asking me to defend it, you should be asking yourself why you chose to react to something clearly cut to manipulate you.

These do, in fact, strongly taste of Guinness and I honestly don't know how I feel about it.

My mentions after @buttplug.engineer RTs a dumb joke

There's a lot in the article — shifting composition of demand in DTLA, usual sincere and insane policing demands— but this quote is just 'what does inflation look like'. Cedd Moses: “Our sales are hitting new records at our bars downtown, fortunately, but our costs have risen dramatically.”

What is something in the article about you, according to nine people familiar with the matter? "No matter the topic, conversations would inevitably turn to epistemology or the 1952 film The Bad and The Beautiful"

I'm a day 3 man myself

Pushing back on a narrative I see a lot here (and in lots of other places!)

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Toyota Sienna Minivan in British racing green. Wut?

If you want revenge, then dig two graves. the first one is a practice grave to get a feel for it and the second is your main or "show grave"

Look I get that number big but you fucked up 38 trees in yours, your neighbors, and city property. www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...

Big AI training today at the office and everyone was confounded that Claude couldn't read PDFs on the web and I didn't want to explain robots.txt to people.

Good morning, friends!

So why "Beauvoir" and not "de Beauvoir"? Because this "de" is a nobiliary particle, and these particles are omitted when referring to someone by locative surname only. In English we use these rarely, but we do use them, and in certain circumstances we drop the particle too.

Anthropic are many things but a source for prudent software engineering advice they are not, their uptime meter looks like somebody puked up a box of Chiclets. They’re not even putting up two nines.

Boichick knower has entered the chat.

You may think that wetlands are not relating to or situated on the shore of the sea but it is the littoral definition.

there is spectrum: completely organic diy bands — pure Fugazi — on one end and completely manufactured industry plant bands — pure Menudo — on the other, and between there is a grey area of completely normal PR & marketing behavior. Where the boundary for any particular group ends up? mostly gender

To mog, or not to mog. That is the question Whether 'tis maxxing in the mind to cortisol The negs and cope of outrageous fortune, Or blackpill against a sea of stacies And by out face them. To die—to mew,

It's taken... Idk how many months but I have finally received a text from a gubernatorial candidate and it is from <Drumroll> 🎉Xavier Becerra🎉

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

I want to fuck you like botanical I want a pistel on the inside I want fuck you like botanical My apomixis is flawed

The lights in one elevator at the office are out and I just want to play "Everything in its Right Place" every time I enter it to make the space that much more liminal

Pronouncing GDP "guh-dup" and acting surprised when anyone corrects me like I've never heard it said out loud

Happy 25 year anniversary to Mikhail Gorbachev throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game at my high school in college station, texas