I am beyond pleased to share that next weekend I will be presenting "1000-Footer," a new work commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio for the 24 channel array at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago. The program will be presented on Saturday Sept 12, Sunday Sept 13, and Monday Sept 14, all are free.

The thing about this that really sucks is in many places, 60 dBA is the municipal noise limit. I would bet they spent enough money to get to 59.5 dBA at the property line and not s penny more.

Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

Nothing but respect for Dolly in this 1977 interview. Barbara Walters: “Do you ever feel like you’re a joke and people are laughing at you?” Dolly: “I know they make fun of me. But actually the joke is the public. I know exactly what I’m doing and I can change it anytime.”

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Some people get mad at me On Here when I criticise Jeffries but i s2fg if y'all don't start realizing that politicians aren't your friends, & rather are your recalcitrant & often feckless employees whose jobs are to operate levers of power and who need to be held to account, we're gonna get nowhere.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.

I can’t stop thinking about how the kids have lost partying.

jon christian@jonchristian.net · last mo.

kids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend

Reform UK's Richard Tice says the UK should learn from the Middle East and install desalination plants around the UK. The same party that calls wind turbines abominable eyesores that must be cleared from our horizons, wants to spread these across our coasts instead

This whole thread is worth your time, re: the Arday tragedy and Trojan horse propaganda, but this is the clincher: don't be a fucking mark.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

Liberals will always choose fascism over socialism.

Some Wisconsin Democrats claim they'll vote Republican if democratic socialist Francesca Hong wins primary

Hong's rise in the Wisconsin Democratic primary has exposed a sharp divide, with some voters saying they would cross party lines in November rather than support a DSA-aligned candidate.

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AI is the aesthetic of fascism.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago

In AI-generated America, everyone is glossy, white-coded, good-looking, and generic, which mirrors the Republican party’s project to dismantle pluralistic democracy, erase difference, and embrace homogeneity.

It really is quite funny how the people who insisted for years that leftists needed to be pragmatic and meet voters where they are have planted their flag in support of Israel and data centers, two of the most unpopular stances in the country

You stupid motherfuckers

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

"Automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space" seems like a sentence I should have heard decades ago because now that I have, it just seems incredibly obvious that is what they are.

John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment complaints against him.

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Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

if you only looked at the use of “working class” by people who opine on the democratic party’s “need to win back the working class” you would never suspect that every historically feminized profession is working-class

I truly fucked up not doing my due diligence on Platner before offering high praise for his communication skills. Enough was out there at the time that I should have been more cautious. Especially because I met adventurer dudes like him reporting in Iraq. Deep respect to all who got it right. 1/2

If we want to talk about books that should be reprinted in original covers, this is the favorite I own: 1895 first US edition of "The King In Yellow."

Joe Banks@joebankswriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why don't books get re-published in original/classic covers, like albums? I was having a rant with a friend about why John Brunner's excellent and incredibly prescient 1972 novel The Sheep Look Up isn't better known, and he said, 'if I could get it in the original cover, I'd buy it like a shot' 1/2

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

People who make excuses for a rapist they have a parasocial attachment to will definitely do the same for other men in activist spaces or in their personal lives 🧵

Queer Satanic@queersatanic.com · 7mo ago

the anarchist you know defending Chomsky right now despite all we know about Chomsky’s ties to Epstein is telling you he absolutely will do the same for his domestic abuser buddy at the distro or the radical bookshop owner who sexually harasses employees or the FNB organizer who rapes volunteers…

look i'm not saying Schoenberg was autistic, i'm just saying the guy who said "you have to use one of each note before repeating any" seems like the kind of guy who would sort his M&Ms by color

The human mind cannot comprehend this: “And if the launches were spaced perfectly evenly, the firing rate would no longer be in the realm of countable rhythm; it would be in the realm of pitch. The F above middle C vibrates at about 349 cycles per second. The show averages 354 events per second.“

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor@chadtopaz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.

Massachusetts is about as pure of a distillation of America as you can get. It's where the country started, it's filled with precious national history, it's a paragon of education and civic engagement, it's filled with the loudest and most irritating people alive.

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

As a person who has spent the better part of the past 20 years setting up noise shows in places that arent New York, LA or London, I really feel for the organisers behind this DC State Fair thing

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

"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."

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...