San Francisco area noiseheads! I'm happy to be joining an amazing lineup with John Bischoff, Anti-Ear, Fletcher Pratt, Famous Techno, and Earth Jerks at the next Noise Pancakes, 8/15! Come join us, you know you want to.
Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social
Startup engineering leader, Infrastructure engineer-type, psych-noise guitarist & experimental musician. https://www.charnel.com/mason (he/him)
A rare and deeply revealing conversation with Makoto Kubota about Les Rallizes Dénudés, Takashi Mizutani, the Japanese psychedelic underground and the unfinished fourth album that became ‘Disque 4’. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/07/les-...
Les Rallizes Dénudés and Japan’s Psychedelic Underground: Makoto Kubota on Takashi Mizutani, ‘Disque 4’ and the Lost Years - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine
For most of their existence, the Japanese band Les Rallizes Dénudés left remarkably little official evidence behind them. Their music circulated through copied tapes, bootlegs and incomplete live reco...
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The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Mineko from Angel'in Heavy Syrup is back! With a band featuring folks like Kawabata, Suhara, Koizumi, and more. Check out the newly-released live recording from the debut show, out now: kawabata-makoto.bandcamp.com/album/itakur...
Itakura Mineko & Band masters Live in Osaka 2026, by Itakura Mineko & Band masters
9 track album
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These people are allowing themselves to be lied to. “It’s just impossible to take time off right now" is only true if you allow it to be. Live your life, don't throw it away chasing illusions.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
This is Noah Webster's definition of 'cat' from his 1828 dictionary. Don't worry. We like cats more than he did.
![the cat-bloc
CAT, n. [Ir. cat; Fr. chat; D. kat; Dan. CAT-HOOK kat; Sw. katt; G. kater, or katze; L. catus; Vulgar Greek, xaris, or yaros; It. gatto; CAT-MINT Port. and Sp. gato; Lap. id.; Pol. kot; peta, so cal Russ. kots; Turkish keti; W. cath; Corn. CAT'S'-PAW kath; Arm. gaz or kaz; Basque catua.
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In Ar. kitta, is a male cat.
Class Gd.
perceived, surface of turn in the
a tackle on 2. A dupe;
uses.
CAT-SALT granulated leach-brine CAT SILVE
No. 56.] 1. A name applied to certain species of car- nivorous quadrupeds, of the genus Felis. The domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful. It is kept in houses, chiefly for the purpose of catching rats and CAT-TAIL, mice. The wild cat is much larger than the domestic cat. It is a strong, ferocious ani- mal, living in the forest, and very des- tructive to poultry and lambs.
The wild cat of Europe is of the same
reed, of the stance of tresses, &c 2. A substan-
&c.
species with the domestic cat; the cata-CATABAP" mount, of N. America, is much larger and a distinct species.
Ed. Encyc.
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Looks like we need every Democratic member of Congress to go stick their hands in the Reflecting Pool and get arrested, just to make a point about how ridiculous it all is.
the US president, with the explicit support of the US legislature and the US supreme court, is stealing billions of dollars in thousands of ways. meanwhile the NYT is on the case of whether, when mamdani paid a thousand dollars for a knicks ticket out of his own pocket, he got a ticket for VIPs
I wrote about the hugging female skeletons defector.com/and-they-wer...
And They Were Tomb Mates! | Defector
There comes a time in every skeleton’s death when, upon their being discovered in a grave hugging another skeleton, modern people start foaming at the mouth guessing at what that relationship might ha...
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Anyone know where to send emails for @wikimediafoundation.org leadership, telling them they're being asses and that this is not what we donate to them for? medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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This post from @leahreich.com is excellent, and largely mirrors my own experience making the shift from the walled garden of Substack to Ghost: not without its downsides and much lonelier, but I've no regrets at all. www.leahreich.com/why-did-i-le...
Why Did I Leave Substack, Anyway?
Last week, my friends at Scratch reached out to ask if I'd be interesting in answering questions about why I moved my newsletter off Substack. Of course I would! I've written some about it here, as yo...
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Open call for artists! 🤖 Our latest major project is the first ever crowdsourced soundtrack to the all-time classic film Metropolis. To mark the 100th anniversary, we are inviting artists to contribute to a special soundtrack with more than 1,000 combinations. citiesandmemory.com/metropolis/
"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.
Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue
Exciting! My 90s zine Ongaku Otaku, about Japanese indie music, is being reprinted in one giant book! For folks in Europe, check out www.kormplastics.nl/ongaku-otaku/, and it's also being printed for sale in the U.S. via www.soleilmoon.com/shop/mason-j... to keep it affordable!
Ongaku Otaku – Korm Plastics
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Nobody should be using, subscribing to, or visiting Substack. This is just the latest in a long series of reasons.
kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo agoHey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
A new generation of poets rises, inspired by the same springtime that roused Dickinson and Shakespeare. A torch, passed.
They're Using This Shit To Set Up A Surveillance Apparatus That Will Send Thugs To Your Door If You Criticize Trump Like it's that fucking simple, that is what this is for, the Dems are just too fucking dim to understand that this is what this is
Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 4mo agoPlease read every word of this phenomenal piece www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/e...
If you're taking to the streets for No Kings protests today, know your rights. Find your nearest event at nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=aclu When using this link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.
These tech leaders who now require their developers use AI tools and count token usage as "productivity" are the same as yesterday's foolish leaders who thought counting lines of code was a legitimate way of grading developer performance.
Really sucks to read that the Silver Sprocket store on Valencia is closing on Monday. Hands down my favorite comic shop in town, and while we still have a good selection of stores, it's been a uniquely valuable one. Reminder to go buy comics at your favorite shop while you can!!