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Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake In 1942, John Cage composed a short piece of music adapted from the text of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

The absolutely gross and obscene inequity.

Air Canada, this is disgusting!

#AirCanadaStrike #cdnpoli

Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry investors eager to own a piece of Hawaiʻi.

Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure.

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#Hawaii #Climate #Foreclosure #Homes #Housing #Maui

Consolation for Life’s Darkest Hours: 7 Unusual and Wonderful Books that Help Children Grieve and Make Sense of Death From Japanese pop-up magic to Scandinavian storytelling to Maurice Sendak, a gentle primer on the messiness of mourning and the many faces and phases of grief.

7 unusual and wonderful children's books to help kids (and the inner child we each carry) navigate grief and loss www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/23/b...

Unicorn success stories - and the hidden costs behind them (ENG/SV) What is it about the story of fast-growing companies and the celebration of Swedish entrepreneurial spirit that resonates so strongly with us? The answer likely lies in the fact that these companies w...

“When a company builds its success by underpaying creators, outsourcing environmental costs, or avoiding transparency, it’s not entrepreneurship - it’s reallocation.”
www.thisisweave.com/post/unicorn... Unicorn success stories - and the hidden costs behind them (ENG/SV)

We don't need to destroy nature to Build Canada - WWF.CA Speak up to make sure nature is a part of Canada’s growth, not a casualty of it.

Sign and share 🌿

Fake bands and artificial songs are taking over YouTube and Spotify AI-generated songs have made their way onto streaming services and it’s not just ambient or electronic music: fake bands, be they rock, salsa, or jazz, are also abundant

Fake bands and artificial songs are taking over YouTube and Spotify
AI-generated songs have made their way onto streaming services and it’s not just ambient or electronic music: fake bands, be they rock, salsa, or jazz, are also abundant

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On Consolation: Notes on Our Search for Meaning and the Antidote to Resignation The thing about life is that it happens, that we can never unhappen it. Even forgiveness, for all its elemental power, can never bend the arrow of time, can only ever salve the hole it makes in the…

On Consolation – gorgeous gorgeous read on our search for meaning and the antidote to resignation www.themarginalian.org/2025/01/22/o...

Hawaiʻi makes history as first state to charge tourists to save environment A Hawaiʻi vacation will cost you more in the near future thanks to a new “green fee” that the governor signed into law this week.

Hawaii makes history as first state to charge tourists to save environment.

A Hawaii vacation will cost you more in the near future thanks to a new “green fee” that the governor signed into law this week.

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#Travel #Vacation #Hawaii #GreenSky #GreenFee #Climate

YouTube video by Neil Finn Neil Finn - Don't Dream It's Over (live with strings, Auckland 2015)

Happy birthday, Neil. Always keeping this message in mind.

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On Play The necessities of survival make our lives livable, but everything that makes them worth living partakes of the art of the unnecessary: beauty (the cave was no warmer or safer for our paintings, an…

Play and the course of civilization www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/27/h...

Oh good, Audible is planning to start using AI narrators and translators. Audible announced yesterday that they’re going to start rolling out AI narration and translation, according to The Guardian and their own press release. It’s another use of AI that not many people …

Audible announced that they’re going to start rolling out AI narration and translation (and we’re feeling skeptical).

University of Guelph divests fully from fossil fuel companies | CBC News Just five years ago, the University of Guelph held millions of dollars in their investment portfolio in fossil fuel companies. Last week, they announced that they had successfully divested from those ...

Divesting matters

Lets keep going
#HigherEd

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Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Saves Lives “…a stillness in which the germ of what is not yet palpable pauses and gathers to begin one more time.”

Why are we not better than we are – astonishing read on how poetry saves lives or, rather, what we do to save ourselves www.themarginalian.org/2022/08/14/j...

dreaming is free blondie's indelible "dreaming," driven by the powerful clem burke (r.i.p.)

One might cast it off as simple pop, but Dreaming stands the test of time. Clem was a huge factor in its distinct energy and the band as a whole. RIP, CB. May we all have a cup of tea (take a breath) & keep on dreaming (find hope & strength). A nice tribute to both open.substack.com/pub/anniezal...

YouTube video by Little Simz Little Simz - Point And Kill feat. Obongjayar (Official Video)

Can’t get enough of this track (and video) right now. Thank goodness DD22 has such great taste in music. #littlesimz

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Naviar Records Turns Poetry Into Sound Inspired by haiku, Naviar Records bridges poetry and music.

Inspired by haiku, Naviar Records bridges poetry and music. Here are some of the label's essential releases.

Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity Where we go when we go to sleep and why we go there is one of the great mysteries of the mind. Why the mind at times refuses to go there, despite the pleading and bargaining of its conscious owner,…

Insomnia and the secret life of ideas – Kafka on the relationship between sleeplessness and creativity

New Article by Columbia Professors Explores the Legacy of Sonic Pioneer Steve Albini and Electrical Audio - That Eric Alper The International Journal of Arts Management has published a compelling new study “Legacy of a Sonic Maverick: Steve Albini and Electrical Audio” authored by Philippe Ravanas and Justin Sinkovich, both professors in the School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Columbia College Chicago. Theis article is provides an in-depth exploration of legendary producer and sound engineer […]

A new study in The International Journal of Arts Management dives into Steve Albini’s legacy—his raw sound, industry-defying ethics, and the entrepreneurial vision behind Electrical Audio. A must-read for music lovers and industry pros alike. zurl.co/xHc1M

I still own this cd.

Of Schoolishness, Space and Emergence into vibrant systems: a joint podcast with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design If what our culture most urgently needs is for a critical mass of us to grow into adults and then elders, how can we help our young people to step beyond the artificial boundaries of our old, rigid sy...

How can we help our young people to step beyond the artificial boundaries of our old, rigid system into a world where they are fully connected to all parts of themselves, each other and the web of life?

accidentalgods.life/of-schoolish

#AccidentalGods #podcast with Tim Logan

#FutureLearning

Zangoma’s Cross-Continental Rock ‘n’ Roll From Zambia to Finland, Zangoma fuses vibrant rhythms and bold aesthetics to reimagine a historic sound for the 21st century.

From Zambia to Finland, Zangoma fuses vibrant rhythms and bold aesthetics to reimagine a historic sound for the 21st century.

The Neurophysiology of Enchantment: How Music Casts Its Spell on Us “Music so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.”

How music casts its spell on us – the neurophysiology of enchantment

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”

I keep coming back to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – uncommonly lovely invented words (drawn from real etymologies from around the world) for what we feel but cannot name

Thanks, Ian. That’s kind of you 🎵

So glad to see you here, not least because you got the “debut post”. ❤️

Just to get things started now that I’ve made my way over here, a debut post. Holding optimism for this space.