Max Carpenter

I'll be DJing at Night Club 101 before and after this very cool reading tomorrow evening. come out to Alphabet City if you like good things

q: why did the outfielders raise their arms during this play?

a: according to the ancient scrolls in which the rules of baseball were found, if a ball lands and doesn't bounce that ball is declared god. the players were worshipping god. i doubt there will be a game 7 or any further baseball seasons

Cube (opening for Autechre in Portsmouth last night)

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If you need another reason to support us, our independence means we can be politically open. In today’s fascistic media landscape, we value this, and hope you do too.

AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …

Cube (opening for Autechre in Boston last night) playing a new track that he later told me is looping an Aaliyah sample. so groovy

look, josh, I'll like your posts on both platforms, but maybe change them a little on each. call him "Tim Hanks" or something on Bluesky

Dr.Timothy Leary meets the Grid Origins of Dance

Dave Ball was surely (for my generation at least) one of the most influential electronic musicians of all time: Soft Cell, PTV, Jack the Tab & here’s one of my favourite 12”s from his work with The Grid. REST IN BLEEPS. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIF7...

Janus Films Acquires U.S. Rights to ‘Blue Heron’ (EXCLUSIVE) Janus Films will distribute Sophy Romvari's directorial debut "Blue Heron" for a 2026 release.

Sophy Romvari + Janus Films

y'all are gonna wanna see this incredible movie

amen

It feels like an opportune moment to revive mid-century European avant garde art collectives that walk around waving squids at people or whatever.

We live in oppressively categorized times — politically, thru capitalist surveillance, etc. It might be radical right now to engage in pure nonsense.

Clicked on a Pod Save America video and listened to a segment discussing ICE’s use of surveillance technology that—I am not making this up—seamlessly transitioned into one of the Jons reading ad copy for SimpliSafe home security cameras that framed them as a necessity to protect yourself from CRIME!

Can't handle how cute she is!!! bb griffin 😭

Tone Glow 194: Rebeka Rusjan Zajc An interview with the Slovenian pianist about Thelonious Monk, making music feel unlimited, and her two albums 'Prelude' and 'Introducing Rebeka Rusjan Zajc'

an interview I did with an incredible musician, Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, is up on Tone Glow's substack. read if you're interested, but, more importantly, throw on some of Rebeka's incredible piano work: toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...

YouTube video by YugNotsnhoj Why bother?- Peter Cook

I popped this on while complaining to Spectrum's AI support bot about my internet bills going up, and by the time the bot rudely ended our chat I no longer cared cuz this is still among the funniest recordings I've ever heard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63x...

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Electro, by William Fields from the album FieldsOS

williamfields.bandcamp.com/track/electro

YouTube video by Charizard X ian curtis rides a rollercoaster

Wheeeeeeeee!

opening for autechre & mark broom at project house in leeds 💣 4_11_25

A headline from Mother Jones: Anti-Vax Groups Struggle to Explain How Tylenol Fits In With Their Whole Thing

A paragraph from that Mother Jones article: Since President Trump’s rambling Monday announcement about the supposed cause of autism and a purported new treatment, anti-vaccine groups have grappled with what the administration’s latest revelations mean for their movement. While some MAHA activists appeared to be overjoyed that the president had brought their cause to a national stage, others were frustrated that it was Tylenol, and not vaccines, that took the brunt of the blame.

Guys, if you can't pivot your entire worldview on a dime to accommodate the latest piece of incoherent cognitive dissonance, I have to question your commitment to even being a conspiracy theorist

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

best meme i ever made

I'm currently typesetting tonight's AVCX+ crossword, by hand, as I have for years. Other companies would call this an inefficiency and automate it. But we still do it this way because we like its human touch, and no corporation can force us otherwise.

I like this job. I'd like to keep doing it.

JD Twitch, esteemed Scottish DJ in duo Optimo, dies aged 57 The producer and DJ, real name Keith McIvor, had been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour earlier this year

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

If you've never heard Optimo's (ambient-adjacent) Sleepwalk mix, I suggest you prioritize it in Keith's memory: www.mixcloud.com/pablodiscoba...

RIP to JD Twitch 😭. Undoubtedly one of the most inspiring souls in music, mixes, dancefloors. Gone far too soon. That we'll never get to see him spin again is deeply tragic, but he left us with so many riches. ♥️

We’re seeing right now (and the gen X in me is about to come out) that corporations can never be trusted.

If they’ll hold a pride event in a certain political climate, they’ll be just as apt to fire people for critiquing fascists in a different moment. There is no integrity there.

As we move toward our fall subscription drive, we hope you’ll consider supporting us in part bc we are an independent media company.

No, crosswords are not as vital as journalism. But yes, all content that we consume matters, and it should be as free as possible from corporate control.

Donald J. Trump t @realDonald Trump I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 966 ReTruths 2.91k Likes 9/17/25, 8:26 PM

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.”

Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.