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https://eddie-stats.com/ Writer/Editor/Curator/Most Interesting DJ In World. b. New York, New York. raised Detroit, Detroit. #Books #Music #Magazines #Vinyl #Records #Rum #DJLife
me reading most mainstream music histories noap noap noap* *checks footnote: See, there's your headline right there!
Semi-Auto Didact@eddiestats.bsky.social · 4d agoabs...my take-to-my-self is that the really important things are often there in the official history but usually treated as footnotes ^ ^ this is a good re-setter
in a waiting room thats playing Melt With You by Modern English (which was my first ever concert) still goes
The owner class in Detroit's convenience stores and gas stations, and now cannabis aren't Muslim -- they're Chaldeans, Iraqi Christians. Abdul El-Sayed's family is from Egypt. He's Muslim. Different country, different religion. Here's a relevant article. mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/ghetto-groce...
mellonurbanism.harvard.edu
Personal #booksky status update: Finished 'We Move Tonight', clearing out all the recent addit'ns re-focusing on Masouri & Veal, only 6 currently open books (really 5 are active, Schofield is not too related to my current writing so I'll probably pick it up again when I knock these others out)
Semi-Auto Didact@eddiestats.bsky.social · last wk.A quick update on the books finished the Ronson book and Carissa Chew essay, about 30% thru 'We Move Tonight' and maybe 1/4 into the dub book most monumentally I had to return Aesthetic of The Cool because somebody had it on hold (meaning I cdnt renew)...
It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
when your jam is the jam, there's a tab at the bar but
Let's attempt a sunset reset with El Rego et ses Commandos: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ih...
El Rego Et Ses Commandos - Se Na Min
YouTube video by MrHotpantsImComin
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Gosling's & coconut water goes pretty hard oh is it Tuesday
Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats - Shake Hands [Sierra Leone, Afrobeat] (1974) https://redd.it/18mhzcx https://youtu.be/3sqLmFutU_c
Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats - Shake Hands [Sierra Leone, Afrobeat] (1974)
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in betwixt yapping about records on the #reggaesky very occasionally people pay me to play them in a rum bar this coming Mon. 8/10 is one such, whereat the Double Barrel crew & I will be kicking off #NYRumWeek at Mr. Melo with a tasting of El Dorado rum + riddims dm for RSVP info #vinylsky #rum
if you have a telescope and look closely, tonight you may be able to see Whitey on the moon 🔭 www.space.com/astronomy/mo...
A 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon tonight. Will you be able to see it?
While the impact itself probably won't be visible from Earth, observers may have a chance to spot a plume of debris rising above the lunar surface.
space.com
this story and this fact are exhibits A1 and A2 supporting my theory that sci fi has already happened to us
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)@bowiesongs.bsky.social · yesterdayin re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
futurism.com
In grad school John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" (1972) was a fascinating as part of an introduction to the field of #VisualCulture . Berger's radical action with his Booker Prize money (remembered in this short documentary) is history we seldom hear recounted. #BlackPantherParty60th
Seeing G: John Berger, the Black Panthers and the Booker Prize, 50 years on | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
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All this internet and muthafukkas carry the same 7 arguments on every platform.
Keebler.@inayamchele.bsky.social · 2d agothey on Threads arguing about splitting group dinner checks.
Thinking about making Pass Me The Lazer Beam by Don Carlos a holiday Monday tradition. It's okay to set attainable goals.
whoo this sentence really jumped out <<In one case, The Washington Post ran a front page story advertising the location for white servicemen to meet and carry out further attacks on black people in the city.>>
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d agoI think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...
