Across America, a massive bipartisan revolt is erupting against the spread of data centers powering the AI boom. It may be the most united Americans have been on anything in years, and their leaders aren't listening. #Velshi

The silver lining here is that a winnowing is happening. It‘s a good thing that AI users are so easily detectable.

If you're planning to listen to the new Boards of Canada, that's all well and good. But it would be cooler if you revisited The Books' 'The Way Out' first. Similar ballpark, but (oh-so) superior: books.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...

Real talk.

“Two Sisters” from the Nine Pound Hammer single ahead of my upcoming LP on @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com - I fell in love w/ the melody of this jealousy-based murder ballad from 1600’s England. My recording is a fragment, the story is really long. This song is also known as “Dreadful Wind & Rain”

As they say in Super Troopers, ‘desperation is a stinky cologne.’

I'll be speaking at this year's Children's Literature Association Conference, which begins tomorrow in Pittsburgh. I'm a part of the panel called 'WEAPONS: Violence, Moral Panics and Safety in Children’s Literature, Media and Cultures.' www.childlitassn.org/chla-2026-co...

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

I reviewed the three recent Drake albums at @spectrumculture.bsky.social. ‘Three albums fail to capitalize on the attention aimed Drake's way after Kendrick Lamar bested him, creating the impression that the Drake character is content to live on streams alone.’ spectrumculture.com/2026/05/25/d...

I'm sitting here grinding my teeth. They didn't choose. They didn't make a judgement call. They just ran probabilities without regard for the result. It doesn't understand anything, it makes answer-shaped answers. Stop attributing agency to a glorified equation.

Probably the most underrated band. I will never understand how little attention they got, given the quality of the music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJu...

Do you like found-footage horror films? Can you TRUST found-footage horror films? Find the answer and much more in this wonderful new book, releasing next month from @edinburghup.bsky.social.

Dire.

Available next month. I contributed the closing chapter, 'Horrors of Digital Communication in Found-Footage Supernatural Films.'

A type of accelerationism I can get behind.

One does not simply wait for Drake to drop.

OUR NEW SINGLE "found an enemy" IS STREAMING EVERYWHERE NOW! MUSIC VIDEO AT LINK IN BIO. Produced & Mixed by @billymannino.bsky.social Mastered by Mike Kalajian Single Art by @chemicalmessiah.bsky.social

The paper-bag trick, the hanky over the face, the glasses at a funny angle, tricks in the arsenal for dads all over the country for years to come. He was fashioned from the funniest of funny bones and could light up the darkest of rooms. Happy 100 to Eric Morecambe. youtu.be/8FYZ5Y4PONM?...

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

Cannes Film Festival Attendee Eating Nachos Out Of Plastic Beret

I reviewed the new @buddybench.bsky.social EP for @spectrumculture.bsky.social. 'Homes Like Cells, Bodies Like Ashtrays is big on feeling, lyrically unreserved and musically agile...one of the most memorable records to emerge from the thriving Denver emo scene.' spectrumculture.com/2026/05/11/b...

Should have been a hit. In my mind, it is. What is great pop music, if not this? And that verse melody is straight off 'Ys,' which, as source material goes, is unbeatable. Listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xhG...

'Virtuosity,' starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, was unfairly maligned. Wacky in some ways, but it has plenty of ideas that resonate. Mid-'90s visual effects are pleasingly frozen in time.

The Dean does as he May.

the sheer gall to first steal her face and then brag about it, on record!

Can confirm the stress of ALMOST missing out on this. Don't let that be you.

Fire Walk With Me, the song. Synthesizes my musical and cinematic tastes to a tee. buddybench.bandcamp.com/track/formic...

If you're not listening to all available versions of 'Kim Smoltz,' what are you doing in its place? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itfi...

At Caméra-Stylo, I am editing an ongoing feature called The Complete Works of David Lynch (Auteur Series No. 1). The latest article is Zachary Sheldon's 'Saint David.' Enjoy!

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity. Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: bit.ly/4twnWMU

At Caméra-Stylo, I am editing an ongoing feature called The Complete Works of David Lynch (Auteur Series No. 1). The latest article is Zachary Sheldon's 'Saint David.' Enjoy!

TFW you know you and your sibling easily clear many/most of these songwriters.

Exciting opportunity, indeed!

Semi-regular reminder that this is the best Islands album: islandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-slee...

One thing I keep thinking about my mom is how she used to smile at everyone. It didn’t matter who you were she always had time for a smile. It’s a small thing, but it says everything about her. 😊

And 9 seconds later … www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Dire, dystopian, etc.

One of the best music videos that I don‘t ever hear anyone talk about:

Hey friends, is there anyone here who is available to do a one year visiting professorship of Practical Theology - remote for Northeastern Seminary or do you know of any one? Let me know asap.

On the new Ben Wheatley film 'Normal': It's like 'Hot Fuzz' with zero heart or 'Fargo' with no understanding of regional/cultural specificity. Wheatley and Amy Jump should have insisted on writing or rewriting the script. Worth seeing for the power-outage visuals, which is a distinction, of sorts.

I reviewed the new Friko album for @popmatters.com.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Anybody who is still judging teenagers and 20-somethings as lazy or unserious because they are struggling to launch should understand that they’re trying to climb an economic ladder that started to splinter before they were even born,” Jessica Grose writes.

I reviewed the new Friko album for @popmatters.com.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

Magnetic Fields' 'i' appreciation post. 22 years later. Dozens and dozens of complete listens. Underrated entry in that unbelievable discography.

Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue

Tuesday morning tune. This album is shaping up to be something special.