Digging the sound of Chicago-based band Glyders, their debut LP came out last month on #DragCity youtu.be/NyuvmzSBH8A?...

Hubble has imaged the largest planet-forming disk ever seen! At 400 billion miles wide, it is roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system. The disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, offering new insights into how planetary systems form: https://bit.ly/477sQ9b 🔭 🧪

it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions

Best news of the day: we had seconds more daylight than yesterday. 9 hours, 7 minutes of daylight and gaining. Before you know it we will be so back.

Concerning to see police and fire oddly stationed by the Chicago river in the Lincoln Yards wasteland south of Cortland, helicopter audible above. Seeing no news/tweets, hopefully they’re just testing lights 🙏

I am welcoming advice on YEMSG tickets and any sections to avoid. Phish tix only came thru with the 30th for me, so I need the 29th and 31st. Sound quality > sight lines. Do prices usually fall or rise over the next week? This will be my first time in MSG after decades seeing shows at 150+ venues!

Officially bought into The Darnold GEQBUS lore. Again. Wild game, super entertaining. ✌️

This is like straight-reporting that every state now begins with the Trump- prefix: Trumpbraska, Trumpabama, Trumpizona, etc. Authoritarianism much, NPR?

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

The year is 2025 and U.S. CBP is hopscotching Green Bay Road over Chicago’s North Shore like a slinky, protecting what border exactly?

We don’t have to do this to ourselves or your children. Embrace science and innovation, folks. It’s the 21st century, not the 19th. Let’s have some fun.

Many in my generation and those before pursued media careers bc establishment cannot be trusted, and to propel indy media: by/for the people, to fortify the present and build a better future without falling into the corrupt authoritarian sinkhole. Nothing new.

Marc Andreessen made the web usable with Mosaic (which became Netscape). WTF happened to his old egg head?!

I was so idealistic growing up I thought we’d never be involved in another war and world peace was possible. Until that one night the skies lit up over Baghdad and Arnett, Blitzer and crew brought it to us live on CNN. youtu.be/bhrtL_XVv3s?...

Needless to say, watching a CBP helicopter circling low over this residential Evanston neighborhood and into Wilmette is unnerving and completely unnecessary.

“Shame” indeed. Thanks @danielbiss.bsky.social for consistently getting in CBP’s faces and not backing down ✊

Multiple helicopters over Evanston right now, including this green military(?) chopper

👏 and to paraphrase Public Enemy: don’t believe the slop. youtu.be/9vQaVIoEjOM?...

Another Monday, a new week to come together and heal this broken world and troubled timeline.

N2 Goosemas had many “you had to be there” moments, these snaps hardly capture it. Great to get quality time with everyone under one roof. Music is healing.

Dear friends, if you have or hear of extra Phish MSG NYE tickets, I’m your guy, looking to buy two. Phish tickets granted my request for 12/30 and that’s all, and I’m grateful for that. YEMSG.

Goedde’s lights production always brings big joy and stimulation to live Goose. Bringing a massive horseshoe into a hockey arena helped shrink the room, at times making it feel like we’re under a big top. And the curtain of lights is impactful in smaller venues, still the light-bending magic was 🔥

Pigs was a treat with the sweet Bogie solo searing the air. Also loved how they treated Radiohead’s “Burn the Witches” with a shoegazey layered guitars vibe ala JAMC/MBV/Stone Roses.

A moment of reverence for this place. The Dead played Providence Civic Center some 19 times over the years. And now, LFG, happy Goosemas!

Made it to Providence for Goosemas !!!! Now strategizing the next 4-5 preshow hours before the circus begins for real. Hydration, food, friends, inebriation. Let’s go!

Clicked for the headline and this awesome photo of Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy (at the Old Town School of Folk down the street). Stayed for the great article ✊ blockclubchi.co/4oHGJBS

Can you tell which friends use talk to text vs those who text with their fingers (thumbs) just by reading? Sometimes I think I can. Period question mark jay kay.

As someone who’s worked in social media for two decades, I agree that children under 16 should have very limited access to social networks, if any. The “nanny state”-ness of Australia’s full ban is a bit of a turn off, but I’m very interested in the results. www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...

Perennially amused by Dylan’s offbeat midwestern tour stops. Never fails. And then there’s the proscenium Hancher Auditorium in beautiful Iowa City.

Frank Gehry’s gifts to the world contain multitudes. The design defines the vibe, from Disney Hall in DTLA to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. 🩶 Here in Chicago, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennial Park is unique in how it holds space for community, like a blanket of sound extended from the bandshell.

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social is the new album intended to be a musical? Great soundscapes and stories, would be epic. Thank you.

TFW your webcam’s mic malfunctions into robot mode on a meeting with 50 people and you have no idea why everyone is cracking up 😂

They were still working on the Cortland bridge when I walked home at 5pm. Smelled like paint. North sidewalk remains open while the bridge is closed to vehicles. Cortland sidewalk is snowy/icy, unlikely to be maintained like the street itself (but that’s another story) #PlowTheSidewalks

been listening to a radio station play the same five or six seconds of the same song for the past 30 minutes. it's still going. let's embrace this madness together, come on. it'll be nice. bsky.app/profile/stac...

We make the same mistakes all over again youtu.be/gJ2np7R-Uwg?...

It’s the best night of the year to mass unsubscribe to unwanted emails.

I wrote about the Netflix CicLAvia buyout and how the Branding of Everything™ during LA's megaevent era has now become our reality — but it's less about the unavoidable commercialism that's already seeped into our major events, and more about who sets the standards that align with our values

One of my 3 TBA concert dates just got A’d - I’ll be playing Bonnaroo on June 13!

It’s Sphere y’all. Worth it.

Fart walks are healing 📝

X, a place to complain to brands and argue with bots

A halftime made for us midwestern GenX/elder millennials. Go Lions, beat the Packers!

Stereotypes of European countries, according to ChatGPT (a very strange mix)

“Sidewalks are for People” is such a slam dunk of a name for a petition. How will the bots counter? www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

For the eleventieth time, AI mostly just knows words and patterns, and doesn’t comprehend. Create a strategy with words? Ok. Execute that strategy? Not so much.

I was just reminded that our high school video show theme song was EMF “Unbelievable” when it was current! #old