Two things I wonder are if there was something that less than 100 men could ever do to take him away from you, and whether an eight-nation army could hold him back.
Marc Masters 🌵
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I write about music & my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” http://highbiasbook.com/ I host the Music Book Podcast. I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic. DON'T USE AI.
Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
wired.com
It's weird to be old enough to have grown up when players stayed with teams for much/all of their careers. I'm all for free agency but I still have the kid habit of thinking of the players as "ours" in terms of the fans watching them grow etc. I get attached. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
Sources: Yankees acquire Luis Garcia Jr. in trade with Nationals
Luis Garcia Jr., who is hitting .283 with 23 homers, has been traded from the Nationals to the Yankees in exchange for four right-handed pitchers, sources told ESPN.
espn.com
There are so many interesting and illuminating features in this collection. Currently reading a piece w/Eno and Byrne explaining Bush of Ghosts at length, from the very awesome New Wave section.
Which of this year’s out of contention teams do you think would be in contention if there were a salary cap? Pretty sure the answer is none. None more in contention.
Mets payroll is bigger than Dodgers payroll. How are Mets doing this year anyone know
I dunno which is dumber, that the D-backs brought in their closer in the bottom of the 8th with a 10-2 lead, or that they had to pull him before he even got an out because he was so awful (5 hits, 5 runs allowed). Luckily they won 12-8.
a friend of mine was listening to the Dead in his backyard & his neighbor said "is that the Dead?" & he said "yeah" & the neighbor said "well turn it up!" and my friend laughed and said "like Freedom Rock!" & the neighbor stared blankly at him, having unknowingly acted out an ad he'd never seen
baffled when I see writers/editors say "using AI for that part of the writing process isn't wrong, that part isn't 'actually' writing." Yeah it is, that's why it's called a process.
The July edition of my Good Experimental Music roundup is up today. Free to read/share! Thanks to all my subscribers, this is even more fun to write than my Bandcamp column that got axed, their loss! :) www.goodexperimentalmusic.com/good-experim...
Good Experimental Music: July 2026
This time around: guitar and banjo essays, vocal drones, a meeting of four improv stalwarts, and instruments crafted out of abandoned plows.
goodexperimentalmusic.com
My favorite album of this century recently turned 25. "Our memories are corruptions that have been broken and pieced back together. Endless Summer replicates this." Jon Buckland at @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Waves Eaten by Flames: Endless Summer by Fennesz at 25 | The Quietus
25 years on, Jon Buckland looks at the complex emotional affects triggered by Christian Fennesz' third album, Endless Summer.
thequietus.com
"goes to see the Flaming Lips once" (h/t @maura.bsky.social) www.fashiontimes.co.uk/katy-perry-i...
Katy Perry Gets Trapped in Giant Bottle During Performance as Fans Ignore Her Pleas To Roll Her Back
Katy Perry's inflatable bottle stunt at Isle of MTV Malta turned into a viral spectacle as fans pushed her in the wrong direction, creating a comedic moment during her headline performance.
fashiontimes.co.uk
New episode of the Music Book Podcast: we talk to John Davis about his excellent book “Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC,” published last fall by Georgetown University Press. themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...
Top 4 OPS leaders in the MLB. In 2022 the Nats traded the guy in 3rd to the Padres in exchange for the guys in 2nd and 4th. Looks like that deal has worked out.
“There is no ethical use of generative AI. The labour of working creatives has already been steadily devalued over the years, and now it has arrived at a place where it only holds financial merit when fed to the machine.” www.anxietyshark.ca/an-empty-bit...
An empty bit of good.
Let the machine work and drain and sputter and purge, may we dance and clap at what meagre pleasures it can conjure.
anxietyshark.ca
"The great lotion lockup was a corporate moral panic, which has been a disaster for their profits and for the rest of us a degrading enshittification of running basic errands."
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Good chat with Michael Brook about his new 4AD reissue and his career. last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/michael-broo...
Michael Brook on Revisiting Cobalt Blue, the Infinity Guitar, Film Scoring, and Leaving Work at Work
This is a free post from Larry Fitzmaurice's Last Donut of the Night newsletter. Paid subscribers get one or two email-only Baker's Dozens every week featuring music I've been listening to and some cr...
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Trying to imagine what Siskel and Ebert would think of AI in movies.
