This Saturday, my dear friend Daniel Wyche and I are debuting a new work at AS220. The opening will include a 2-hour durational performance (feel free to enter and exit at your pleasure). Next week, the piece moves to the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence. “What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

Sometimes I wish, because struggle is real.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

This is a song I've been enjoying of late, maybe you will too.

Back in my day, Morrissey cancelled shows because he just didn't feel like singing that day. What is the world coming to?

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Weizenbaum makes a compelling argument over several pages that the invention of the computer arrested social innovation and progress in institutions, allowing for the preservation of a conservative way of life that is both resistant to change and unable to deal with the complexity it itself created

I am consistently pleased to both be a guy people know and a guy who knows guys.

The bitter irony of this being illustrated with an AI generated image.

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Just as with the AI Ghiblification stuff, this is being led by people who want to believe that wisdom is just something you can hack with enough data. Just as they think they can conquer art, they also believe that the entirety of the human experience can be substituted with enough data.

yo this guy is cooking

area man beats sandwich crime charge, will not be sub-poenaed

Tried a schedule a back-to-school COVID booster for myself this week and was very unhappy to find out I could not.

Once again, Colorado has yet ANOTHER irresponsible funeral home director (and please stop electing morticians to be coroners, because whoo boy is THAT a giant fuckin’ conflict of interest!) I’m so sorry. CW for the bad things that happen when bodies are neglected Gift link

But in the opposite direction, folks who say "you're willing to let fascism advance because you won't vote for Newsom just because he's not perfect" never turn that lens on themselves. You're willing to let fascism advance by voting for Newsom, just because candidates to his left aren't "perfect."

I don't post as much about what I actually do as I should, so: I got to record this absolutely killer performance by Laura Cocks, and I think the recording came out quite well. OCCO array of ADK 3Zigma on the main tree for the mic nerds.

This really gets to the failures of liberalism. Liberalism requires good faith on both sides of any conflict, so much so that liberal politicians and institutions will invent it for their opponents who will use that assumption of good faith to destroy liberal politicians and institutions.

Ms. Rachel remains braver than the troops and better than every politician

Happy 10th to @theonion.com’s finest moment

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New on the blog: The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we took a deep dive into the obscure typefaces used on Black Sabbath’s first four album covers. fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/t... (Buckle up, it’s a long one.)

When architecture is viewed as cultural and human enrichment rather than a playground for the rich, the results speak for themselves. The brickwork of Iran gained such traction because it reminded us that better, more beautiful buildings are being built elsewhere.

I keep seeing job postings for music/arts faculty positions with "a focus on AI." What do you think happens to those gigs when the bubble pops?

After 30 years of seeing shows at the Middle East, I'll be playing there for the very first time on July 30th along with a cast of luminaries including Clew of Theseus, Red Shift Andromeda, TimxDonaghy, Distorting a Woodpecker, and Vile Remains. Hopefully I can get the Terror Generator on the stage.

I broke up with WeTransfer last year when they doubled the cost of the lowest useful tier. I'm very glad I did. I don't see any way for a media professional to use this service any more, I don't own the rights to my clients work that they are asking me to sign away.

Fascinating and grim piece of writing but also we must applaud the author's cute pseudonym www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Transmisogyny and autistiphobia both demand impossible performances - then violently punish for failing or succeeding “too well”. Too much, not enough. Too visible, too hidden. Too real to ignore, too inconvenient to affirm. Both are systems built to erase. To deny what’s always been.

Uline's owners are the 2nd biggest political donors to Trump, so found a non-MAGA alt rec'd on Reddi: EcoEnclose. For shipping boxes for original comic art, so I got EXACTLY the size I wanted. It's half the price once you add in shipping to my house from Uline. EcoEnc $120.32 vs Uline $238.38.

This Friday, I'm pleased to be joining an illustrious bill at All Saints Memorial Church in Providence. Come and celebrate the season of rebirth with us. Doors at 6:00, music at 7:00.

This was a fun recording, a single 2nd order ambisonic mic mixed with a smidgen of the direct sound.

Things are feeling good at Holden Chapel at Harvard for my residency tomorrow. Talk at 1, concert at 8, both free and open to the public.

To be clear, this is not a filibuster. No legislation is being blocked. Booker could have filibustered the budget resolution. He could have at least had the decency to vote against Rubio. This is just a show.

We are asking Democrats to throw their bodies into the gears of the fascist machine. Democrats like Booker are oiling up all the parts to the machine while complaining about the smell.

I'm pleased to say that I've been invited to be a resident artist at Harvard's Shelemay Sound Lab. On April 11th, I'll be presenting a workshop on working with very low frequency sound and architectural resonances followed by a concert, where I will be joined by the wonderful Asha Tamarisa.

This would some some of my problems I bet.

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Tomorrow, Magdalena Abrego and I will be backing Lani Asuncion to perform her piece "Bloodless: Blood, Bones, Aloha" at the SMFA in Boston. It's an early show and free with RSVP! More about the work and RSVP here: artgalleries.tufts.edu/events/187-b...

Tomorrow at the SMFA, Magdalena Abego and I will be backing Lani Asuncion to perform her piece "Blood, Bones, Aloha." It is an early show and free with RSVP! I'll drop the RSVP link below.

I'm going to be covering "AI" with my advanced audio theory students this semester and I'm going to include this in my slide deck.

Puberty blockers was the compromise.

It’s so much easier not to feel compassion for these people because they wouldn’t feel it for you. It’s easier and it feels much better in the moment. I think this is one of those many inconvenient cases where the harder, less comfortable thing is also the right one.

Providence people of Bluesky: I'll be in town this Thursday for a Mood Machine book talk at Lost Bag, 7pm! The evening will also include the collective creation of a hyperlocal music streaming server only accessible at Lost Bag & populated by local artists. To submit tracks emaill [email protected]

I was very pleased to record this concert.

calling him ugly just holds up a mirror showing us the ugliness in your own soul btw

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

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