this is the way.

whatever the conclusion this raises some other points. first of all, i think it's clear any society needs an agreed upon moral framework to be viable. laws that apply to everyone, some belief that, say, violence is bad and should be avoided. lying is bad, stealing is bad. universally. call me crazy

re the shocking displays of incompetence, venality, prideful ignorance, brutality, belligerence, violence etc. of almost our entire elite class: one wonders whether this is just an indictment of how most people are when they find out there are no rules, or whether these are uniquely terrible people

NEW: If you use a VPN that connects to overseas servers—which is often the whole point—it may, ironically, subject you to warrantless surveillance under US law. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/using-...

I’m being haggled to death by yet another booking client; as of this post, I’m @ $101/200 raised for meds & groceries to get me and my sons through the end of the month. Anyone who donates $50+ can get a custom song from me; I’ll be recording the next one in my queue this week! 🎶 #HelpFolksLive2026

americans confronting their own mortality: okay, so, imagine a cheeseburger

official testimonial page on the hotmail website (1997)

One of my friends is on probation and barred from Pitt's campus and another friend's kid is on house arrest and facing felony charges for campus protesting. Can't imagine why there hasn't been more of that.

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face

one vote for Low End please

midnight marauders but just barely

Both

AND.

MM For me, there’s a grittiness to it, and an element of time and place that are gripping from start to finish.

I think that I think Midnight Marauders is *better* but The Low End Theory looms too large to be denied.

Midnight all day

Low End Theory - sonically a game-changer for hip hop imho

Low End imho

On vinyl: Low End Theory Riding in a car: Midnight Marauders

Low End for me. It feels more neighborhoody, more friends hanging out in a basement and cracking jokes-eque. Midnight Marauders is more polished, I'd understand why someone would call it their best...but for me there is something more endearing about LET.

MM

Damn... Why bro? I gotta pick Low End. But God Lives Through and Electric Relaxation are on Midnight Marauders 😭😭😭 but Low End has way more tracks I don't skip 😭😭😭😭

MM for me!

Low End

Low End

Low End Theory or Midnight Marauders?

Wild as hell I gotta learn lessons and continue to grow as a person even tho the world is ending

"Get in the booth, bitch" but the booth is life

Podcasters on the front line

send $35 for pasta si vous plait i got the munchies like a motherfucker $natoudelatour

“So y’all hate Black people who are ICE agents?”

I’m being haggled to death by yet *another* booking client; as of this post, I’m @ $5/200 raised for meds & groceries to get me and my sons through the end of the month. Anyone who donates $50+ can get a custom song from me; I’ll be recording the next one in my queue this week! 🎶 #HelpFolksLive2026

lol maybe our next feature is "community notes" the "get online and say anything" contingent is too strong for existing curatorial tools.

Saw this right as a friend shared Opera's web retrospective, a neat little interactive site spotlighting interesting bits of the Internet and web culture going back to 1995. I've seen it all, and gawdamn I miss it!

society made a wrong turn when we started using the computer for anger. the computer should only be used for happy

putting one album on repeat for several days is severely underrated

I unironically think that AI could replace most CEOs and upper management. Not because I think AI is good, capable, useful, or competent, but because I don’t think most CEOs are any of these things either.

Revisiting Music for 18 Musicians and what a work! Emotive, full of motion, the subtle rise and fall. Wondrous. 🎧

This film was one of the biggest influences on Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Seeing it for the first time, Miyazaki told his friend, "I guess we’re failures, aren’t we?" This is Crac -- the first masterpiece by animator Frédéric Back. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-lament...

i couldn't figure out why the driver of that fire truck from the air canada crash would cross an active runway without so much as looking both ways for cross-traffic but then it all made sense

New — I collected stories from travelers at airports around the country on Monday after ICE agents were deployed to help TSA. No one understood beforehand why they would be there, and after a day with them around, it’s no more clear. Read the multi-city dispatches:

There's a great book on this by @brendankoerner.bsky.social There are several episodes in here that really should be movies. l www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/208640...

Someone called the news desk this afternoon and said we've got to "report the news in a balanced way or you're dead" and that he'd tell Trump to revoke our license and hung up before I could say "well do it bitch"

Some loving kindness for ya dumbass

As we hurtle into an energy crisis, remember that North America could have chosen to be more resilient fifty years ago, in the first oil crisis. That is what the Dutch and the Danish did. We tripled down on fossil fuels. This is an example of "design debt" and the balloon payment is due.