Jokić vs. Şengün rocks!

Finally getting around to recommitting to this book today and it's already blowing me away. A demanding read but thoroughly worth it so far. Pretty fatigued by reading about AI right now, but this is proving to be an exception.

pals you gotta quit spotify

This is always such an essential list that—among many other things—lets me know that there's new Doug Paisley (dougpaisley.bandcamp.com/album/rough-...) that I somehow didn't know about all year!

Just a reminder that this CFP closes later this month on Thurs 18 Dec 2025! cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

Finally made time today to ~delve~ into Sam Kriss' AI "voice" essay in "NYT Mag" - so good! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

Just a perfect track: voicesfromthelake.bandcamp.com/track/mono-n...

I gave a new talk on AI, cultural hegemony and the importance of the digital survival of "small" languages online this past Tuesday at University of Copenhagen. Notes and partial slides now online: ethanzuckerman.com/2025/12/05/g...

Nourished By Time's "Cult Interlude" having actual lyrics on Apple Music is funny lol

TSwift payola'd "Rolling Stone"—buying out their entire homepage on release day along with a 5-star review—only to end up #15 on their year-end list of best albums lol Yikes

Pablo Torre on "Trueanon" - so good!

It's funny that this guy said he was retiring from live performance like ... 15 years ago, and now he just dines out perpetually on these ~residencies~ lol

Very cool!

More breakbeatz on songz plz!!! sophiastel.bandcamp.com/track/everyo...

Lol (but also shudder) @ the Kalshi guy talking about prediction markets surfacing truth essentially. Somebody in critical LIS or history of economics more well-versed in this than me please write about this!

Jake Vaadeland live review: clearly the best of the retro-fetishist, Boomer-baiting crop of music guys (see also: The Dead South, Colter Wall - why do they all seem to be from SK?). But anyway, clear talent and absolute commitment to the bit, including the mid-show 'ad reads,' which are charming.

Dec = SZA Szn

The Sophia Stel EP "How to Win At Solitaire" - another end-of-year revelation from the "Gorilla VS. Bear" list. Wow. sophiastel.bandcamp.com/album/how-to...

I didn't get a video from the show last night, but Foxwarren did a full-band "Green Glass" as the encore and it ruled. Thankfully, somebody uploaded a recording from Thalia Hall! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLma...

Jalen Johnson is like a create-a-player I would've made in "NBA Courtside 2002" lol

The Ninajirachi album is insanely good. Somehow completely slept on that this year - wowww!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxek...

All these AOTY lists (including mine!) dropping before the new VFTL out this week! voicesfromthelake.bandcamp.com/album/ii

Hearing Matt Devlin repeatedly attempt to make "Notorious B.I. 3" a thing is not my fav part of this Raps season lol

lol this rocks taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves

Good music again this year:

Eryk's writing/perspective remains so indispensable!

I have an article in copyediting that's going to be out hopefully by the end of this year(!) on, essentially, the political economy of fabricated/hallucinated citations, and I keep finding new examples to add like this lol

I think winter really is here lol

Bob's delivery of "They've done a lot of research on it / But what it is, they’re still not sure" kills me in this song lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXt...

Bop www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvg...

Anyone have good book recs for (critical) data studies stuff? I feel like I've always been circling around this field without ever fully engaging with it. Excited to read a bunch of Rob Kitchin over the holidays, but ... other stuff? I just bought this (mitpress.mit.edu/978026254440...)

I keep trying to write a Substack post about the new OPN, but I've literally written a single character in my evenings this week and can't stop replaying the record. But I have seemingly ... nothing that I can actually put into words about it? lol Good album.

New jaime brooks post on AI music: jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/what-will-...

Me: "C'mon, Robert time for the new album. No more endless iterating '___ of a Lost World' shit" lol Also Me: Immediately books ticket to THE CURE: THE SHOW OF A LOST WORLD event experience in theatres when sent promo email

Poptimism in the mid-2010s Sloptimism in the mid-2020s Is this ... anything? lol

“…ChatGPT’s dangerous answers don’t sound risky to a non-doctor. The chatbot always sounds confident and authoritative.”

Such a good ep of "KYE" with Kate Wagner about MAGA and architecture, McMansions, etc! know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tru...

Kind of shocking how good the new Oneohtrix LP is!!!

Really good book so far!

(Go Riders!)

My halfway-through-November addled academic brain: Yes—that's right—it's PSL* Season!!! *Primary Source Literacy

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Looks good! limn.press/issue/ghostw...

Re. the new Rosalia LP: People are debating whether there’s a hidden Frank Ocean feat, but they can’t decide if it’s … actually Frank or a soundalike... How is this … the most Frank situation imaginable? lol

New season of "Shell Game" (www.shellgame.co) debuting next week! Looks like he's gonna be tackling "agentic" AI within the start-up space. Can't wait, to be honest.

I think "citation faithfulness" is a rich heuristic for engaging students in good faith re. AI literacy (or whatever we're choosing to call it.) 1 thing I do find interesting about the concept is that what an assessment of it requires to some extent flies in face of the accelerated/ing logic of AI.

I have a piece in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today: With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again Trying to consider the nature of the project and its vision of neutrality vs. @wikipedia.org's (without getting into e.g. article comparisons). www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...