New VFTL out today. voicesfromthelake.bandcamp.com/album/ii

⬇️ www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...

Remembering dear Sleazy on this day of his passing in 2010. ❤️

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

So how'd that go

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

10/10 moods youtu.be/geLF8j2rmxw

Thank you for your attention to this matter! www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Yes, pls. Let's just finally tax these motherfuckers out of existence. time.com/7331119/zohr...

"Would you like to leave a tip?" at a self-checkout screen. Seriously, what are we doing here?

“a company representative may need to peer into your house via neo’s camera eyes to get things done” lol. lmao.

This is so bleak: www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

“.. AI’s closest historical analogue here may be not electric lighting but radio. “.. radio turned into one of the biggest bubbles in history—peaking in 1929, before losing 97 percent of its value in the crash ..” @wired.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

Solid use of dial-up samples on this Tony Price proper... liesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ibm-co...

Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.

*THE TOP 1% OF U.S. EARNERS NOW CONTROL MORE WEALTH THAN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS No worries... it's going to trickle-down any day now!

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

New Kelman Duran album out today... kelmanduran.bandcamp.com/album/scorpi...

New deep ambient/experimental set from Patrick Russell on.soundcloud.com/iE6E2v9XgTuD...

"tyrant rules is such a fool" youtu.be/jrIsNoLztVw?...

we had a long weekend dreaming of a world without that putrid malevolent POS and it was glorious don’t forget that feeling mes amis

Don't forget that the Fed is not only about the price of money. It has broad regulatory responsibilities whose enforcement could be weaponized for political and personal purposes, and it has an infinite balance sheet crony capitalists would love to get their hands on.

New Carrier on Modern Love is pretty cool. youtu.be/VTwpdHprLc4?...

Well, here we are... the U.S. government is now the largest single shareholder of a major publicly traded company. $INTC

Easily my fave podcast right now. Top effort from Adam X! youtu.be/52JghXNxiY4?...

"To scan the AI headlines is a daily exercise in trying to determine the cost that society is paying for these perceived productivity benefits." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Wonder what will happen when ai companies begin collapsing in next year or two. Will other companies find similar power hungry uses for these distressed assets? Or will electrical demand drop? If the latter the US coal industry will take a massive hit

"The percentage of U.S. adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, the lowest by one percentage point in Gallup's nearly 90-year trend." news.gallup.com/poll/693362/...

On repeat today.... so good! on.soundcloud.com/RaJFFNPSTQMF...

Theo the mood lifter. soundcloud.com/resident-adv...

Watched 'Shame' (2011) last night. It's basically Requiem for a Dream - but for sex addiction. Grim af.

Intergalactic Gary, proper vibes, always. on.soundcloud.com/zdLOETtDydNv...

No, I want all of this. youtu.be/woo6sZq7dm8?...

New LP from Helena Hauff & Kris Jakob on Tresor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vi... tresorberlin.bandcamp.com/album/r4

This ⬇️

However dumb you thought the Tariff Formula was, trying to undercut the independence of your reserve-currency central bank because you Can't. Stop. Spending. is much, much, much dumber. And infinitely more damaging. History has the receipts.

"Large media companies, and the NY Times in particular these days, like to use the phrase "experts said" instead of simply stating facts." kottke.org/25/07/journa...

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

Fresh 3hr transmission from Traxx... youtu.be/_LbySOQmITo?...