Tonight at 9 in #Ithaca I’m playing Naked Noise 12 (which involves—to be clear—no nakedness). I’ll be one of 18 musicians performing a two-hour improvisation. Psychedelic, immersive, ritualistic.

With Robert Redford having passed, I beg you all to watch Sneakers (1992), one of the most prescient movies in recent decades, and certainly the best hacker film ever made. Also it's very funny.

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Don't let anyone relitigate the possibility of a better world. It is not up for debate. Don't let them drag your technicolor heart into their monochrome hell of greed and resentment.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

my band's new single heavy sad synthpop b-side is a banger in Spanish seeming.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

my band's new single heavy sad synthpop b-side is a banger in Spanish seeming.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

Since @seantcollins.com was asking about ridiculous things we've dreamt, here's a greeting card I was handed a few years ago in a dream.

Opinion | Fiscal challenges are real. but the attack on the humanities comes down to something much deeper. chroni.cl/3JD7MiG

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the absolute greats, and the only songwriter of note ever to put his catalogue willfully into the public domain. This was my first favorite of his: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytG...

Marcel Proust whips out a Black & Decker drill and lobotomizes you on the dancefloor. This is Requiem Mash II, a stew of late twentieth-century subculture and tomfoolery. I made it for you. 124 songs in under 38 minutes. Featuring "Scatman Will Tear Us Apart." alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/requie...

Damn @salexanderreed.bsky.social is a national treasure, this is delightful (and love love love the heavy dose of Light Asylum in there) alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/requie...

Marcel Proust whips out a Black & Decker drill and lobotomizes you on the dancefloor. This is Requiem Mash II, a stew of late twentieth-century subculture and tomfoolery. I made it for you. 124 songs in under 38 minutes. Featuring "Scatman Will Tear Us Apart." alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/requie...

I was depressed, but then @salexanderreed.bsky.social released a forty minute 124 song mashup and that became untenable.

If we're talking about Ozzy, one of my favorite tidbits is that the first Black Sabbath album was recorded in a single day. Like, "Oh it's Thursday night. What did you do today?" "Invented metal."

Nurse, this is no simple Duran Duranxiety. I fear I am going into Duran Duranaphylactic shock. I need a Duran Duranesthesiologist before I have a Duran Duraneurysm.

People want to spend more time thinking about history, art, literature, and meaning. That scares rich bastards shitless. Archived link at archive.is/5Yprj.

Walked by a car show and met a very sweet guinea pig and her 1911 Maxwell AB.

Oh hey, I wrote a thing.

Woke up this morning and wrote a short fugue in three voices based on Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU0j...

Ever notice how the uncommon poetic meter of Bowie’s 1971 “Bewlay Brothers” is identical to (the vastly inferior but definitely earlier hit) “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro, 1968? (@bowiesongs.bsky.social?)

RIP Mark Snow, composer for the X-Files and much more I was lucky enough to interview him when I was a teenager. Here's the transcript. www.patreon.com/posts/37607776

America is bad at diagnosing slow violence. But murder by neglect, impoverishment, and starvation, is still murder.

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

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Back to the important work. Here's a sign I liked.

News: Seeming embraces strength in flexibility with lead single from first new album in five years regenmag.com/news/news-se...

Something I made

Here's Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb at age 17 telling fascists to fuck off. Not enough industrial acts were taking a clear stand like this in 1983. www.youtube.com/watch?v=awu3...

RIP Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb www.youtube.com/watch?v=66F2...

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

The rich must be taxed. Politicians who say this should not be the case are your enemies. You should grow up and stop accepting lies.

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

Strudel on roses and whiskers on strudel Doorbells and sleighbells and strudel with noodles Strudel that flies with the moon on its wings These are a strudel my favorite things

Happy World Goth Day! This is the Aegis Archive, a nonprofit library of over 2000 rare goth zines from the 1980/90s. We’re always looking to do outreach, to help scholars, and to grow the collection! #goth #zines youtube.com/watch?v=26o-...

Happy World Goth Day! This is the Aegis Archive, a nonprofit library of over 2000 rare goth zines from the 1980/90s. We’re always looking to do outreach, to help scholars, and to grow the collection! #goth #zines youtube.com/watch?v=26o-...

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

It's Trent Reznor's 60th, so here are a few interesting NIN bits from my archival observations! First, here he is calling out homophobia at TVT Records and defending Gary Talpas in 1991, which is great to see.

I have a new piece up @thequietus.com about how Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, Nikolas Schreck & Michael Moynihan used the 1980s/90s underground scene to promote neo-Nazi terrorist doctrines. Please share with your music friends! thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

All those Moomins will be lost in Tampere like tears in rain

RIP Jacky Black of TKK. Awful news.

It is BS that self-evident wrongdoing cannot, in public discourse, be attacked on ethical grounds—and that instead the arguments are pragmatic, semantic, economic, ecological, or populist. It reeks of bad faith, sealioning, moving goalposts, and cowardice on all sides.

In the '80s-'00s, artists dug then-nascent AI toys: Eno, Bowie, the downtown scene, all of IDM, etc. Is there any good writing about the cautiously alarmed turn that many of them have taken since '22 against modern AI? I'm writing on Laurie Anderson—again—and she's among those to be pivoting away.

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

Browsing goth zines in the Aegis Archive, here’s an incredible aside from a 1996 issue of Journal of the Dark.

Was listening to Prince (Good Love, 1988), and I did not expect this lyric.

Very sorry to hear of Joshua Clover’s passing.