Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
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Librarian (academic), musician, radio DJ on extended hiatus, curry lover, resident of Lincoln Nebraska
"Sadly, this shadow economy made headlines only because of the tragic suicide of Jason Arday, a disabled Black man who was the victim of a targeted witch hunt organized by a network of academic eugenicists affiliated with the famous techno-fascist Peter Thiel..."
How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?
One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…
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In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 10-1-1973 https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/08/herbie-hancock-headhunters-wlir.html
Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 10-1-1973
I recently posted a couple of concert albums by Chick Corea and his band Return to Forever, and John McLaughlin and his band the Mahavishnu Orchestra (as I write this in August 2026). I'm not into that kind of jazz. But I do want to post all the worthy concerts from certain concert series, and I know other people do like this kind of music. So here's a Herbie Hancock concert from that same time period, the early 1970s, as part of the WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series. Hancock has to be one of the most famous jazz musicians of all time. A lot of that has to do with his 1973 album "Head Hunters." On this album, he switched styles, combining instrumental jazz with funk more than he had on any previous album. Here's what the Wikipedia entry about the album has to say about how it was received by the public: "The album was a commercial and artistic breakthrough for Hancock, crossing over to funk and rock audiences and bringing jazz-funk and jazz fusion to mainstream attention, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard 200. Today the album is regarded as a landmark of fusion and has influenced artists in numerous other genres." In fact, it went Platinum, and became the best selling jazz album of all time, up until that point. That album was released on October 26, 1973. This concert took place on October 1st. So Hancock had his new band, the Head Hunters, and his new funk-jazz style, but I guess the audience wasn't familiar with his style until they heard it in this concert. The sound quality is excellent. However, there was a problem with the recording in that there was a lot of hiss. But that kind of thing is easily fixed these days. I ran all the songs through the MVSEP audio editing program, and got rid of most of the hiss. I'm assuming this sounds better than any previous versions of this bootleg. This album is 57 minutes long. 01 talk by emcee (Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters) 02 The Spook Who Sat by the Door [Instrumental] (Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters) 03 talk (Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters) 04 Butterfly [Instrumental] (Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters) 05 Sly [Instrumental] (Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters) 06 Chameleon [Instrumental] (Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters) https://pixeldrain.com/u/vaEwA778 alternate: https://bestfile.io/en/80bsDdTfQjnBjjZ/file The cover image of Hancock is from an unknown concert in 1973.
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The NY Times writes that “Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.” As if it’s just a run of bad luck instead of an ongoing con job against the American people.
Trump: "I do have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un ... I didn't like the fact that we're doing these massive military exercises really against North Korea when I'm friendly with him."
Apparently, trying to destroy the University was really unpopular. Good riddance.
In stunning upset, Wyoming Freedom Caucus loses most of its House seats, backslides in Senate - WyoFile
The caucus will likely have 10 reliable votes in the House come January, with two more possible lawmakers that often vote in line with the group. It had a consistent majority in the most recent legisl...
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That's who DC is, they don't have this picture of us nationally. We are Black people & allies, this city was vastly majority Black most of the 20th century & is still strongly Black now. So get that as who's here. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social @harrietsdreams.bsky.social
Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3d agoWhen you see footage of the people of DC standing in the streets at political action, whether against Trump's occupation of our city by the National Guard, or by ICE, or against our constant cop brutality, with signs & speaking, who do you? Black people, in majority, up front. Because that's DC.
"I brought him the Encyclopaedia Britannica and he asked 'what year?' I said 'I think it's 1911'...'Oh, the best year for that Encyclopaedia. Give it to me!' And he takes it and starts licking the book and the little old librarian says 'you must not lick the book, sir. You must not lick the books'."
Borges and Me: New film tells story of writer's 1970s tour of Scotland
A film about the great Argentinian author's trip around Scotland in 1971 has premiered in Edinburgh.
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New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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#OtD 17 Aug 1887 Black nationalist Marcus Garvey was born in Jamaica. He inspired a movement in Jamaica and the US called Pan-Africanism, although his politics were criticised by many Black radicals such as WEB Du Bois and CLR James shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
Tucker Carlson: "Putin, on the spectrum of Russian politics, is firmly on the moderate side." Glenn Greenwald: "Yes." Tucker: "And Pro-European, and his early career was in Europe, in East Germany as a KGB officer, famously speaks German."
For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
The Bellevue Police Department, in Nebraska, has been using electric-shock gloves for three and a half years. “Road patrol officers check out the gloves before their shifts, and all school resource officers have a pair assigned to them.” nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
Updated: Electric shock gloves already in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha
Electric shock gloves are making headlines after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it was planning to outfit its agents with the technology. They've already been used in Nebraska for years...
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I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.Can’t count how many times the dystopian stuff that make people want to abolish ICE is also something that’s already being used by police or subjected upon people in the criminal legal system.
I think there were maybe other things going on with this couple.
J Kelly@john63kelly.bsky.social · 5d agoLetter from ‘The Wire’ in 1991. My wife’s not much of a jazz fan either, but this seems a tad excessive!
Contemplating my great new A. Pablo record makes me think of the other excellent reggae instrumental LPs I have picked up over decades of low key collecting. This was probably the first one, dating from the mid/late 80s
This came in the mail today... finally I have a vinyl copy of one of all-time favourite instrumental reggae albums! My previous copy on two cassettes was purchased from the Rockers Intl shop in Kingston, back in the depths of time when it was Pablo's latest release
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman
Trump says he’ll “never apologize” for jacking up costs on Americans because in Iran he “did the right thing”
Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
Todd Blanche: "Everything that I do will not be the right path or the right decision"
Fun fact: he has neither the right nor the ability to do what Mr. Root says.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.🚨🚨🚨 WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: You have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections. If you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship, and a limit to mail ballots TRUMP: Let me just say stranger things have happened. I'll leave it at that
every day, every hour, brings us images that are totally beyond the powers of parody
OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump was guarded by an Avenger air defense system while playing golf.
Mette Frederiksen and Giorgia Meloni issued a statement on Instagram declaring a partnership aimed at “protecting Europe’s Christian cultural heritage” by expelling more migrants, building “return hubs in third countries,” and finding “innovative solutions outside Europe.” Full post below🧵 1/2
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
This came in the mail today... finally I have a vinyl copy of one of all-time favourite instrumental reggae albums! My previous copy on two cassettes was purchased from the Rockers Intl shop in Kingston, back in the depths of time when it was Pablo's latest release