OpenAI wanting the US government to take 5% is not "democratization" or something, it's a bailout. OpenAI can't get the money from private investors or the stock market and needs the hole in their budget filled so they are trying to take US tax dollars.

Just four measures can contain a universe. aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...

I've often said that the downfall of the great American experiment will be placed squarely at the feet of the awful, awful Citizens United decision. SCOTUS today: "Hold my beer and watch me speedrun this shit."

People can have their souls saved in lots of different ways. This was mine. aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...

"Y'know what the world needs? Another betting app." (said nobody, except for shitty little techbros who should be regulated out of their hubris)

Last week, we gallivanted a little. aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...

I giggled like a tween. But now I'm off to cry, because the mule shit is real.

More of this please. This ruling gets to the heart of what made me deeply uncomfortable about AI overviews.

Many thanks to Ethan Iverson for hosting my expanded reflections on Sonny Rollins, including a Desert Island list of recordings. substack.com/@iverson/not...

Some spiciness at the (bottom of the) front page of the Saturday Economic Times here in Mumbai.

Jeff Parker has released the 'Happy Today' album-length concert film. It was captured by director Charlie Weinmann at the set at LA’s Lodge Room that became 'Happy Today,' the new album from Parker’s ETA IVtet—Jay Bellerose, Anna Butterss, Josh Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUJO...

This is well worth the watch. What Suno and the equivalents are doing to education in the creative arts is infuriating AF.

My favorite (and most-admired) people in the world are the ones who preserve the mindset of an eternal student of their craft. They are never ever boring. Sonny Rollins was the opposite of boring.

The colossus has transitioned. I don't think there's been a single gig in the last two years in which someone hasn't called a Sonny Rollins tune. What a life. What an inspiration. 🐐

Temperature. It's what's up.

Airport terminals after the last flight is done are a whole vibe.

Finally had time to do a deep dive into Darktable, and it took just about 2 hours of tinkering to convince me that I'm done paying the Adobe tax, and that it's actually an upgrade.

This timeline.

If I were handsome AF, this would be my face right now as I fill out this fucking ballot.

No AI here

An exercise on building linear backbeat stickings from paradiddle inversions (inspired by conversations with my teacher Erik Egol). aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...

This article says everything I've felt about the way companies are shoving AI down the throats of their employees, and destroying the pipeline that creates expertise that can debug when the AI is full of shit.

Happy birthday to THIS FUCKING EXCELLENTNESS (and ♥️ to his protector Alice). @bwjones.bsky.social

I'm a latecomer to discovering Jeff Parker's music. My path was McCraven -> Butterss -> Parker, arriving only 3 years ago. But damn, there's something about the kind of improvisation that he's fostered with the IVtet that's just mesmerizing.

The dreaded ballot has arrived. What an absolute shitshow of a Governor's race this is.

Meshell Ndegeocello could be the entire reason we evolved from single-cell creatures, and I would be fine with that. 🐐

I transcribed & wrote up a couple of exercises that sensei Allison Miller posted on IG back in 2023. Whenever I'm away from my kit for a few days these always help me bring back my timefeel. aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...

Perfect accompaniment to a quiet evening with a book.

A pattern that -- in hindsight, looking at pictures I've collected over the years -- helped me get a little more comfortable with street photography. (spoiler: it's still like chalk-on-a-blackboard for the way my brain works) aarondsouza.net/log/posts/20...

There's a lovely quote attributed to Matthew Carter in the context of typeface design, that one must find "the fascination greater than the frustration". A big reason I left was because the company I worked for shifted that balance too far off kilter in a lot of the ways that this article outlines.

When @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social of the New York Times investigated my father's reliance on AI for medical advice, she asked two respected oncologists to revew the "report" prepared by Perplexity. What they found truly shocked me, something so error ridden to be worse than useless. It was lethal.

I am grateful to the New York Times and reporter @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social for sharing the sad story of my father’s reliance on AI for medical guidance, and how it caused him so much pain, and likely hastened his death. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

David Sánchez has a new album imminent. I had a chance to hear this music live when he visited the Bay Area last September, a short while before they went into the studio to record it. It's gorgeous, and I simply can't wait to get my hands on the finished version.

Looking at the futures markets and wondering how many insiders managed to execute a bunch of trades before the closing bell.

Earlier this year I was working on some drumming exercises, and stumbled onto an interesting pattern around fast flams in repeated sticking sequences. For the life of me, I couldn't find it articulated anywhere, so I wrote it up myself. With luck, one other drummer out there will find it useful.

For the last ten years, I have repeatedly written several letters to my Republican relatives that I have never sent. This captures so much of what I want to say to them.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Either/Orchestra REPRESENTING! #BigEars

Which one's the robot?

I see Bernie is drinking deep from the well of dumbfuck juice these days.

Apparently my parents were just like: "Yeah, that works for a passport photo AND (BONUS) ALSO for potential mug-shot and milk-carton use cases."

It's rare to find music that restores. Restores equanimity. Restores one's belief that humanity might be worth preserving for a little longer. This album does it for me.

I have a musician joke, but Spotify already slopped an AI version of it.

Shark Fin Cove. From a photo walk with Matteo about 10 days ago. Not thrilled with the composition (there were too many people around to frame well), but the light was gorgeous.

@bwjones.bsky.social a possible direction punk is going. And I'm here for it.

This is an absolutely beautiful, glorious description of the products in our lives. The things that once were simple tools that met needs, now demand relationships, have opinions, and occupy cycles of our lives. Do yourself a favor, scroll down and read this page www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

I hate this timeline.

If there is one artist that can make me feel the same feels as listening to Joe Henderson, it's Melissa Aldana.

Billionaires should not be allowed to happen.

Them chickens, coming home to roost and such.