These are amazing. From the inimitable @hcrichardson.bsky.social the REAL stories of the 250th. No Vanilla Ice or MMA fights here!

Hot take: BoC are overrated. Don't get me wrong 'Music...' is one of the greatest IDM albums of all time and everything they've done is amazing. But the think pieces on what their albums are "about" are hilarious. At end of the day they're an electronic instrumental act, not scholars or writers!

This is a great way to head into the weekend!! Obviously these assholes will appeal, ignore judges orders, etc. but this is a very good sign that the good guys will win in the end! As a local resident, if they're taking volunteers to help pull his name off the building, SIGN ME UP!!!

Sad to see @ninaprotocol.bsky.social is closing their virtual doors. As much as @bandcamp.com remains a platform that seems to still be doing the right thing, they ARE owned by private equity now so potential for enshittification is out there. Maybe @subvert.fm or @mirlo.space will take off?

This does sound reasonable, but keeping in mind that YouTube is owned by Google, who are attempting to shove AI content down our throats in the most aggressive way possible, I'll consider myself extremely skeptical that they REALLY care!

Just spitballing here, but perhaps FIRING everyone with expertise who could've probably been helpful here wasn't a great move?

The legendary techno producer Speedy J and friends. This is a SEVEN hour live set that's totally improvised. Absolutely insane! Did I watch the whole thing? No. I wish I had that much free time, but what I've been able to watch in bits and pieces is mind-boggling!

I'm going to have to spend more time digging into this but for the moment I'm just gonna offer a big 'ol "huzzah" for Pope Leo, this is a very powerful document and a pretty full-throated denunciation of AI. You love to see it!

This is DISGUSTING. Fuck the entire Osborne family. Let this icon rest in peace. Create something of your own you parasites, or just slink away into obscurity and enjoy living off his millions. You are scum. Anyone who engages with this is scum. FUCK AI and FUCK the OSBORNES!

Sad to see that the Democrats are just as useless as the Republicans on data centers. Not surprising, but disappointing!

Just finished this incredibly powerful and important book. It's a very tough read and can leave one feeling hopeless about the state of our world, but regardless it's essentially important. Thank you to @ibramxk.bsky.social for brilliant work!

Humbled by the lovely words that @etherdiver.bsky.social had to say about my recent album! Thank you so much!!

Truth in advertising!

Watched last night. He's even more amazing than I remember from the little I knew about him. Depressingly timely.

I have GOT to get off Gmail. It's so deeply enmeshed in my daily life at this point (which is of course what they wanted) but the company just sucks now. No one wants this, no one wants AI. Fuck you Google!

The word 'skepticism' is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting in this headline @wamu.org a better choice would be 'are in complete opposition to' come on do better! wamu.org/story/26/05/...

This is fucking insane. Luckily the parents push back shut this shit down but what the hell were these researchers thinking? www.404media.co/researchers-...

Happy Monday. Why not start your week by reading about 8 great electronic music albums that were released in the first half of May!

A fascinating article on the art of listening to music from a very cool website called @thetonearm.com

At this point in time electronic music fans probably almost take @planetmurecords.bsky.social for granted since their output is so consistently top notch, but the new release from ITAL TEK is simply next level amazing. About as good as we can expect electronic music to be in 2026! Stunning!

Well it's NOT a Bandcamp Friday but for no reason I'll offer a few free codes for my new album. We all need some joy, on the assumption my music would do that! m497-xphq fe3d-e2pt 57xp-ud7b gmcg-ehpx 3rj3-3e3p dvbl-hudn pgv4-v5xe r2bj-yra3 x7dr-ga48 j54a-3ne2 arwe-uc7b hmxm-e34u jbe9-uwvp fx7u-54t2

STOP! USING! META! PRODUCTS! It's REALLY easy. Google/Apple/Microsoft are admittedly harder to divest yourself from, but NO ONE needs Facebook, Instagram or What's App. Trust me! You won't miss them! Destroy this company!

Pretty sure I share this guy every week, but he's just so goddamn spot on all the time!! All the hyperscalers saying they're bringing on all these data centers are full of shit, they're not getting built. And the more communities find out about these things the less they like them!

Wow this was intense! Powerful, amazing acting, incredible writing, basically flawless. One of the best series HBO has ever aired! Essential.

@subvert.fm is live! New co-op owned platform. Bandcamp is great but putting all our trust in a corporate owned entity is not smart these days. If you're a producer/artist or fan, check it out!

Probably a worthwhile stop for all of my NYC friends!

They should invent a new Nobel prize of some sort to give to @edzitron.com he's a freaking hero. Essential reading! Every word is gold! www.wheresyoured.at/am-i-meant-t...

If you want a break from doom scrolling why not check out my new Substack in which I heap praise upon some new electronic music albums! It'll make you happy and you might discover some new music you like!

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!

Waking up this morning to an email from @ultimae.bsky.social alerting that there is a new MARTIN NONSTATIC album available was about as good a way to start a day as one can have. And to no surprise, it's absolutely incredible!

Another thing AI and data centers are ruining is the wonderful work organizations like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive are doing!

I've been a reader of @igloomag.bsky.social for I'm not even sure how many years now, but a LONG time. To have them review an album I made is surreal and to have them say really nice things about it is an incredible honor. To say that they've made my day would be quite an understatement!

Just sharing a track from my 'The Byzantine Business of Reality Maintenance' album for no particular reason...

Amnesty International has issued a travel advisory urging visitors NOT to come to the UNITED STATES for the World Cup. The Republican Party has destroyed this country. This is heartbreaking. But I agree. Don't come here. We don't deserve your money at this moment in time!

Watched this last night. Obviously a deeply flawed man (and this must've been released before it was accepted fact that he'd fathered Sally Hemmings' children) but listening to the intelligence and intellectual breadth of mind and then thinking about where we are today is pretty heartbreaking!

Can we please put him out to pasture?? I'm NOT a JD Vance fan AT ALL, but having a Prez who's under 75, not dementia-riddled and can complete full sentences will, regardless of how vile he is, still be refreshing!

Very happy with my #BandcampFriday purchases from QuadratoX, Nachtzug (Mindcolor Music), Tsrono, PhenoTone (Zoku-Zoku), and Mint Delue (Ping-discs). Seems as if none of these fine artists or labels are on BlueSky or I'd have tagged 'em! Apparently no one bought any my albums, but that's ok!

It's #BandcampFriday so get out there and support independent music and culture! All proceeds go directly to artists and labels today. I'll drop a link to my humble project. I've got my list, hope everyone is ready to do some shopping! There's so much great music out there go find it and buy it!

Plenty of vitriol justifiably should be directed at the fascists in the SC for yesterday's decision. But while it wouldn't necessarily have changed a lot of these 6-3 decisions, let's take a moment to thank Ruth Ginsberg for her selfish egotistical decision to NOT resign while Biden was president.

My new album on CD thanks to the kind folks at #ElasticStage (who don't seem to be on BlueSky or I'd have tagged them) and it's so cool! Upload process was easy, customer service was great. They ship from UK so if you're outside of UK it's obv pricier but I'm so excited to have this it was worth it!

Me and everyone I know today...

I'll just say my skepticism is off the charts and leave it at that...

Another good thing to do today: visit a local independent bookstore. Buy books from them. I did. You'll feel better!

Sharing something good. Wife and I went to @washingtonspirit.com game last night. Audi Field is a pretty great spot and it was almost sold out. For women's sport that isn't always the case. Great seats, lots of fun, and they won 4-0. Officially a @nwslsoccer.com fan! Go Spirit!

First of all I love @harpers.bsky.social every issue is filled with nuggets of gold. Like this! Never heard of this writer before but she's fantastic and this is an absolutely incredible article in its scope. It's much broader than "what we do with our shit" although that's a brilliant frame for it!

So Whiskey Pete fired the Sec of the Navy while we literally have ships in an active theater of war, and his temporary replacement is a man who thinks Monterrey, CA has been overrun by a coven of witches? Sounds about right, nothing to worry about here!

Just finished this amazing book, phenomenal. I'd never heard of Ben Lerner until I read a review of his new book and was intrigued. So when I was in a bookstore with a gift card very recently I saw this and remembered! Book reviews matter!

Congrats to our neighbor state for doing the right thing! To the Republicans who started this: FAFO!

Cancel Prime. Don't watch anything on their channel. Don't buy anything from them. We can break them if we want to!