"Musk excels not because he can’t stop winning, but because he understands that, in the financialized logic of our age, winning is less important than the perception that you will win."

Tonight! Gonna be a Big Fun Time!

Juneteenth can and should be recognized as a memorial of an important victory, but it also serves as a reminder: The Declaration of Independence and US Constitution contain powerful rhetoric of the promise of freedom, but the act of attaining it is a process, and we're still in the middle of it.

Here's my actual true opinion. The only way to fix all of this nonsense is rent affordability and health care . If people can afford the rent and get healthcare, then they can start and go to work for normal businesses, and write and make art and music. And there can be third places, etc etc.

Tomorrow, I'm playing a show at AS220 with fine friends. I'm bringing the full rig, you won't get more infrasound for $10 anywhere else you might think of spending your Friday night.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Why I Don’t Use “Patient Zero”

the reactionary centrists have found a home on the political compass

Right there with you, Sylvia.

The fact that it requires a single variance - let alone 9 of them - to build a three-decker in Boston is unconscionable and is one of the reasons why we face such an extreme housing shortage. The Boston everyone knows and loves is effectively illegal today.

One of the very greatest Rhode Islanders.

8 years ago today. The olds and the

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Boycott Uline.

"The “small crowded island” argument allowed anti-immigration politics to be presented as technocratic rather than ethnic. It translated anxieties about belonging and identity into a language of arithmetic."

New little guy just dropped.

"Godzilla is an emblem of what it’s like to be at the mercy of forces completely beyond your control, set loose by people who do not pay the price for what they’ve done. A living atomic superpower, pursuing goals unintelligible to outsiders, leaving a trail of destruction.." @seantcollins.com writes

RI needs new Senators so bad.

this is a masterpiece

If you are around Poughkeepsie tomorrow, I'll be performing a bari sax set in a 5 million gallon cistern with a 15 second reverb time with a bunch of real cool folks. Should be pretty neat! www.poughkeepsiecistern.com/openhouse

Yeah because once you’ve practiced your little heart out and shown up to a gig with two people total in the audience, nothing can possibly hurt you

i have my own strong opinions about this but curious what you guys think this paragraph is doing in the Virginia Supreme Court's decision to nullify the will of the people

SHAFT

it really doesn't seem like this description could possibly be 100% accurate but somebody posted the ad in the replies and this description is 100% accurate

I teach an AI module in my Advanced Audio Theory class. I spent a significant amount of time designing a homework assignment that I was ethically comfortable with. I still had a third of the class refuse to do it for ethical reasons. (I gave them an alternate assignment.)

School's out! Let's rock! Tonight in Providence.

many people are mocking this without reading the article: "Despite being better known for its bidet washlets that have defined the Japanese toilet globally, Toto is also the world’s second-largest producer of electrostatic chucks used in the manufacturing of Nand memory chips."

Happy May Day from Fidel Catstro and Frida Katlo! They won’t come if you call their names, but the will always come running when they hear The Internationale.😻 #MayDay

Soniferous Aether xkcd.com/3238/

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

It's literally the same people running the same playbook.

With so much awful news, here is something to brighten your day:

"The Straight of Hormuz is open!" The Straight of Hormuz:

Here's the thing: Democrats already know who can win. They know which policies are popular with voters and which candidates are vocally in support of those policies. They're going to throw a billion dollars into trying to prevent those candidates from becoming the nominee.

I'm looking forward to recording this concert.

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

The word "peptide" has a sexy vibe to it. According to Biochemistry 101, a peptide is a bunch of amino acids strung together, held together by peptide bonds. We are built of peptides. Anecdotes found on social media forums are more convincing than dry scientific evidence. 🧪 archive.today/HZ626

This has made me laugh until my eyes water several times today.

this part. politicians reacted to the spectacle. if they were truly concerned about ice abducting our neighbors, they would've opposed ice before midway blitz and would speaking up now as ice continues to kidnap our neighbors, just without the splash they made last fall

It's not "they want to segregate trans people like they did Black people." It's "they want to segregate Black people again, and trans people are the trial balloon, and that's why the arguments are essentially the same."

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

The main point in talking about eugenics as a science isn't to air science's dirty laundry. It's to give scientists who might otherwise be convinced that their empirical findings justify heinous shit on the basis of "that's just the facts" a moment of pause that maybe the science is in fact wrong

Another Matt whose birthday is today! All the best Matts are having birthdays up in this day.

My maiden? Iron.

There's a German word for the molten fury I feel reading announcements like this, but future Syracuse grads won't know what it is