Mark Duggan

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Your regular reminder to donate directly to your local public radio station and *not* NPR, which is corporate-funded, beholden to major donors, and thoroughly addicted to its shitass both-sides sanewashed clickbait “journalism.”

Now back to my ☕️.

a photo of JG Ballard

“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.”
—JG Ballard

Wonderfully informative 🧵 on vinyl pressing

(still waiting for that vinyl record emoji…)

Finally got a chance to see ‘Eno,’ which was a treat, being a big fan of both Brian Eno and filmmaker Gary Hustwit.

Eno’s approach to and view of his art is always revelatory. The film is vaguely unsatisfying but a visual and technical feast, which makes it art in its own right.

"Come you masters of war / You that build the big guns / You that build the death planes / You that build the big bombs / You that hide behind walls / You that hide behind desks / I just want you to know / I can see through your masks" - Bob Dylan

album.ink/BDylanTFBD

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Little snow in California and the West as a warm winter nears end California's snowpack remains much smaller than average after months of extremely warm conditions across the West.

Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth

Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg
Upper Colorado River region: 66%
Oregon: 34%

"Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future."
www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org

Mash up of Unknown Pleasures Joy Division sleeve and Neil Sedaka.

Love Will Tear Us Apart and Neil Sedaka’s version of Love Will Keep Us Together were recorded in the same studio. (Strawberry, Stockport.)

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Dexter!

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

Musique de notre temps (1976) by Éliane Radigue album cover. Photograph of Radigue at the controls of a large analogue synthesiser, with the entire image tinted very light pink.

'Music recorded through the late 60s and 70s was released during the 2000s, and the extraordinary focus Radigue had maintained over the period of half a century became clear, revealing a sound world that few had previously had chance of hearing.'

Remembering Éliane Radigue

buff.ly/gevaoCH

The ship's creaking
Taking on bullshit

Immanuel Wilkins plays saxophone as he perorms on the Tiny Desk Concert

"In a set that spans Immanuel Wilkins' exceptional catalog, the jazz saxophonist brings the heat to the Tiny Desk."

Immanuel Wilkins — Tiny Desk Concert: www.npr.org/2026/02/24/g...

Happy 73rd birthday John Nommensen Duchac, aka John Doe, songwriter, bassist and co-founder of the LA punk band X, born February 25, 1953 in Decatur, Illinois.

Photo: Carry Eisthen

#punk #punks #punkrock #johndoe #x #xtheband #history #punkrockhistory #otd

A closeup view of a vintage synthesizer showing patch cables and control knobs.

A vintage synthesizer with several dozen wires running across its front panel.

A woman performs on a synthesizer.

An older woman smiles as she holds a plastic cup of water.

Electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla 200e modular synth was a star in its own right at her December 13, 2025 show in LA.

YouTube video by Mystery Circles Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio - Wattzotica (Full Album)

Nightcap 2.0

LA sonic trippers Galecstasy + Mike Watt - WATTZOTICA

Improv psych jazz with that Watt low-end.

Legendary composer Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’ Music Mouse is back for its 40th anniversary.

Music Mouse was on the Amiga 500 that I had in the late ‘80s and provided hours and hours of geek.

It (and the Amiga) are back (!!!), and it’s not like there’s anything going on in the world from which I need another distraction...

YouTube video by Gio Pitskhelauri J Dilla - The Light Remix Instrumental (14 minute version)

Dilla beat nightcap

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcfl...

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

No shame

Badlands, Carrie, Days of Heaven, There Will Be Blood, The New World, The Tree of Life, The Master, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, Killers of the Flower Moon. My lord. Give the man his Oscar!

That squishy sound you hear is iHeart and Audacy execs’ spines turning to jelly as they look for a way to obey and still retain whatever listeners they have left for their shitty programming.

Making my way through middle age like

78 rocking years 🎸
Happy Birthday Stuart Tyson Kindell aka Billy Zoom, American guitarist and co-founder of the punk rock band X, born on this day in 1948, Savanna, Illinois, US.

📸 Michael Hyatt

#punk #punks #punkrock #billyzoom #x #xtheband #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Today is also the anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

February 19—not a great day in American history!

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology.

Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"