I am grateful for friends that want to spend 90 minutes talking about the relationship between AI adoption and nihilism (with side quests through ritual and the making of meaning).
In today's mail... Charanjit Singh’s Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. I’ve been trying to track down a (reasonably priced) copy of this record since it was first reissued in 2010. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FapG...
Raga Bhairav
YouTube video by Charanjit Singh - Topic
youtube.com
My conversations today: Delisting Syria, good. Platner replacements, duds. Dems are fucked, thanks. Kelsey Pfendler, holy shit. Cities benefitting from stadiums, lies.
I wrote this thing a while back based on what I was hearing in our workshops. It does have some man work tips. The most surprising, and potentially fun, suggestion is dress differently if you're a straight cis white man. This creates room for other sorts of difference. medium.com/modus/be-a-p...
Be a Pal, My Dudes
A guide to being an ally in the workplace
medium.com
Graham, it shouldn't be so hard for you to not be terrible. Now... we have to ask, do Maine voters like Troy Jackson enough? I know most of them are sick of Susan Collins' bullshit.
coffeekid@coffeekid.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery Democrat I know in Maine will be voting for Graham Platner, and most lefties outside of Maine struggle with that. If you're of those struggling, you should read this
thanks to @currentform.com for introducing me to @lifewinning.com's Perfect Sentences: buttondown.com/perfectsente...
Perfect Sentences
This is a newsletter by Ingrid Burrington. Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Reader submissions are accepted. Pay...
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I've had this song looping in my head all day... The President, he's got his war Folks don't know just what it's for Nobody gives us rhyme or reason Have one doubt, they call it treason
coffeekid@coffeekid.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo agoRoberta Flack - Compared to What: https://youtu.be/wDUk9Lsy_yQ?si=Du6REcY0LdJ21opt
Every Democrat I know in Maine will be voting for Graham Platner, and most lefties outside of Maine struggle with that. If you're of those struggling, you should read this
Shay Stewart-Bouley@blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy final piece on Graham Platner and the US Senate race. At almost 5000 words, it's long but based on several meetings with Platner and others. I'm not arguing with people online, so there are no comments. Life is too short to be stressed. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...
Local metal/dive bar hosting a fundraiser for Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition… delivering much needed sonic catharsis. #doom
If we’ve worked together you know that I’m no Luddite, nor am I overly nostalgic, but I am critical of many of the people and things that have made the internet shitty… this is why I often praise The Boring Internet
Terry Godier@terrygodier.com · 3mo ago📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…
Someone must be making a movie about Mako Nishimura: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
theguardian.com
And there we were all making fun of that Bourne film where Julia Stiles is all "double click on the folder that says CIA BLACK SITE" gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...
this is what I'm talking about when I say early 90s New England/Boston hardcore shows were a little intense...
coffeekid@coffeekid.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3mo agorecent conversation prompted early 90s memories of Friends Stand United (Fuck Shit Up) and the Boston Beatdown documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkEZEuTbug
Trying to find the first couple of Sadies' albums on vinyl, only to be reminded AGAIN there was time when bands only made CDs. Dear Travis (and Bloodshot Records), what do we need to do to get Precious Moments pressed into a limited run? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvL6...
every time I read de Beauvoir, even the little things, I feel like I should read more de Beauvoir…
![What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [the students] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression of thirteen million blacks, the terrible poverty of the South, the almost equally desperate poverty that pollutes the big cities. They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world. At the age of twenty, they are convinced that their thought is futile, their good intentions ineffective: “America is too vast and heavy a body for one individual to move it.” And this evening I formulate what I’ve been thinking for days. In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.
Simone de Beauvoir, in America Day by Day](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztxohsr2l7sceyvqm73xgxfp/bafkreidaiobbjodurkzbhpqbb3iwa6tf4wagayzeuy5qpyqlpeyqzauxyy)
![What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [the students] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression of thirteen million blacks, the terrible poverty of the South, the almost equally desperate poverty that pollutes the big cities. They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world. At the age of twenty, they are convinced that their thought is futile, their good intentions ineffective: “America is too vast and heavy a body for one individual to move it.” And this evening I formulate what I’ve been thinking for days. In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.
Simone de Beauvoir, in America Day by Day](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztxohsr2l7sceyvqm73xgxfp/bafkreignpgygjcwzpzn6inmjf45zfe3qurnbdohgw6xdfzokxxjyxbaeuy)
In all honesty, I feel confident she'd do a better job than Vance...
coffeekid@coffeekid.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4mo agoIf we're going to send unqualified people to negotiate ceasefire agreements, can we at least send someone that people actually like? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/14/dolly-parton-poll-most-popular-in-the-country
Jared Golden (Maine) proving my point that 97.5% of Jareds are terrible people.
I work hard to remove jargon and make my work as accessible and approachable as possible. Today I had a client tell me they wanted to run my proposal through Claude to add a few big words before sending it to their boss. I don't love this world.
atproto pals, who is making interesting things related to music? less interested in music making, more interested in everything else. thanks.
paying taxes to the most corrupt government in US history makes me seriously unhappy. also, I really should be making those quarterly payments... some day.
last week I saw a sticker with Leon Czolgosz’s last words (credited to Fred C. Nieman) and now I can’t stop wondering if the sticker vandal made a mistake or a deliberate choice…
“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living.” This line got me hooked on Dewey as a young designer (nearly 30 years ago). It now feels obvious, but it turned on so many lights: design as a democratic process / democracy as an outcome of design
