Marc Hogan

👀 had a feeling about this a year ago: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/a...

Quoted in the NY Times again:

(gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-concerts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk8.Q7bQ.tbfMmTyf-5M2&smid=url-share

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Great piece from Marc, and so fun that he spoke to @neddyo.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy!

Reading this made me realise that I can’t even remember when I started checking Setlist.fm. It’s one of those things that feels so obvious once it exists, but only works because of the anonymous labour of its users. An old internet story in the present!

Violet points out a second important Privacy setting where Gemini lurks.

Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83

Jack DeJohnette's art will live forever: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time

Now that I've had more coffee, gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time

Wrote about Setlst.fm for the @nytimes.com. Thanks @themountaingoats.bsky.social @plasmatron.bsky.social @superchunk.bsky.social and many more. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Showdown at Ohio Teachers’ An Ohio judge has blocked state officials’ plans to shake up the board of the $102.5B State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Carl Aveni on October 15 granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit by teacher groups challenging the changes as unconstitutional and discriminatory. For decades, according to the ruling, the 11-member Ohio STRS board has consisted of seven elected teachers—five active, two retired—and four state appointees. A provision in an Ohio budget bill signed in June by Republican Governor Mike DeWine aimed to flip the board’s makeup. Under the new law, teachers and retirees would have three elected seats by 2028. The remaining eight board members would be appointed by the governor, state treasurer, and legislative leaders. Members of the Ohio Education Association, the Ohio Federation of Teachers, and the Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors sued the Ohio STRS board last month challenging the budget provision. Another state court judge blocked the planned overhaul on an interim basis in September. But the preliminary injunction would last until the case is decided.

Another state court judge blocked the planned overhaul on an interim basis in September. But the preliminary injunction would last until the case is decided. The teachers “are likely to prevail upon the merits in their constitutional challenge,” Judge Aveni wrote in a 24-page opinion. He called the board provision “wrongly grafted onto the otherwise wholly separate single-subject appropriations bill” and found that the measure wasn’t considered on “three separate days” as required. Spokespeople for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who represents the defendants, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Yost sued last year to remove two members from the board; the case is ongoing, state court records show. Ohio STRS in April named Aaron DiCenzo, the system’s head of alternatives since 2021, as interim CIO. DiCenzo didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, either. The teacher groups applauded the court’s injunction. “This is an unconstitutional power grab by the legislature,” said OEA President Jeff Wensing, OFT President Melissa Cropper, and OC AAUP Executive Director Sara Kilpatrick in a joint statement. “Educators, just like all other public employees in Ohio, deserve a meaningful voice in our pension plan.” DiCenzo succeeded Matthew Worley, who retired in March after 31 years with Ohio STRS. The allocator’s boardroom overseers, too, have seen their share of turnover recently, with a pair of board members resigning last year amid more drama than can be detailed here. The board’s composition structure, at least, remains in place for now. —Marc Hogan

Wrote about the battle over the Ohio teacher pension board, for The Allocator newsletter. Subscription information is here: www.withintelligence.com/investors-re...

No more reposts or signal-boosts for people who screenshot text without a link. It’s 2025, and I am done even allowing for the possibility of good faith. You are denying readers context and depriving a writer and their outlet of any chance of profit, all for the sake of boosting your own clout. No.

Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66 Synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid

Dave Ball was a prodigiously talented, warm-hearted & wonderful person to work with over the 7 years I've represented Soft Cell. It's been terribly sad to represent his passing, yet I have done my 'Not Dad' proud in getting the news everywhere

Rest in Power Dave! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Always astounded by how Google, the most tested and refined search engine in history, now buries the search results it was founded on below a quick and dumb AI sprawl that almost always misunderstands your search intent

Include the link! The fact that bluesky doesn't aggressively suppress links is one of its best features, right up there with the nuclear block. It's great for publishers and also the only way we will ever make progress on the "didn't read past the headline" problem of social media

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The Iowa Capitol building during the No Kings rally

A lot of people enjoying a gorgeous afternoon in Des Moines yesterday. Couldn’t find where they allegedly got their paychecks.

FYI: if you send a journalist a lengthy, unhinged email and then type “this is off the record” at the end, it is not off the record.

October 16, 2025 Dear Marc: Thank you for taking the time to contact me. As your senator, it is important for me to hear about the issues that concern you. I appreciate hearing your concerns regarding the potential use of military troops through the Insurrection Act in responding to protests. The Insurrection Act has been law since 1807 and states “Whenever the President considers unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws … in any State … he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.” The Insurrection Act has been invoked a dozen times in U.S. history. Examples include President Eisenhower’s decision in 1957 to enforce the desegregation of Central Little Rock High School in Little Rock, Arkansas following Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. President George H.W. Bush invoked the Insurrection Act in 1992 during the Los Angeles Riots and federalized the California National Guard to stop the rioting. There are statutory protections in place to prevent abusive domestic use of military forces. The Posse Comitatus Act, which was passed in 1878, outlaws the willful use of any part of the Armed Forces to execute the law unless expressly authorized by the Constitution or an act of Congress. Existing case law also states that "execution of the law" in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act occurs (a) when the Armed Forces perform tasks assigned to an organ of civil government, or (b) when the Armed Forces perform tasks assigned to them solely for purposes of civilian government. The Act is not violated when the Armed Forces conduct activities for a military purpose such as training exercises. Should the Senate consider legislation concerning the Posse Comitatus Act, I will be sure to keep your thoughts in mind. Again, thank…

As a constituent, I emailed Chuck Grassley about Trump telling military leaders that troops should use Democratic-run cities as "training grounds" to fight the "enemy within." Here's his reply. Oddly enough, he used to worry about Posse Comitatus... in 1997: www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-re...

Aleta St. James' journey to motherhood On November 9, 2004, Aleta St. James became one of the oldest new mothers in history. Her babies finally arrived shortly before her 57 birthday—a testament to their mother’s incredible focus and deter...

without impinging on my wife's stories, can share this Katie Couric interview, which happened during the same summer job www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10506...

Not my story to tell but my wife worked for Sliwa’s sister in what was supposed to be a public relations type of summer job about 20 years ago and hoo boy

[Morrissey voice]

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

Yesterday: "Des Moines Public Schools board chairperson Jackie Norris tells Axios she's committed to her U.S. Senate campaign despite ongoing fallout" from Des Moines superintendent's arrest last month.
Today: Norris out of #IASen race.
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For real, @reverenddollars.blacksky.app overnight tribute to D’Angelo has been everything. 🙏🏽

10/16 - hit that archive folks of you weren’t listening live. KEXP.org

Read my new piece in The Wire on why I have never found the concept of hauntology especially helpful

D’Angelo Saw His Future in the Past To understand the late musician’s originality, look to his covers of the greats.

hello, here are frazzled d'angelo thoughts www.vulture.com/article/dang...

The Rise, Retreat, and Resurrection of D'Angelo D’Angelo, who died October 14, is remembered as an influential artist who studied the greats (James Brown, Prince) and later became one.

“D’Angelo reminded people that you can be successful by listening to your muse, ignoring industry trends, and giving the people innovative music”
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this explains so much

Don’t try to kill me with your love: The best of Jessie Ware Please forgive us for assuming Jessie Ware would tread the path of many Sade-influenced artists: a devolution from sophistication to enervation.

At once a chanteur and dance club diva, Jessie Ware has recorded some of the most ebullient music of the last 15 years. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/d...

The Second Coming of D'Angelo How soul's lost superstar D'Angelo reclaimed his mojo and finally released the epic 'Black Messiah.'

10 years ago, I stayed up all night with D’Angelo, two nights in a row. R.I.P. to a straight-up genius.
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