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Please read the book. Given the subject matter, it doesn’t really feel right to say that you’ll “love it.” But you will learn a lot, and it will infuriate you and stick with you and change the way you think about lots of things that your elected officials really, really do not want to talk about.

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

I can't believe we're giving up like trees and animals and not being burned alive or drowned for what? For people to be able to use T9 auto complete on an entire college degree.

“SUMMER GOTH” t-shirt design by Rob Sheridan. A smiling skull face wearing sunglasses is melting as it stares into the summer sun. Available at https://robsheridan.threadless.com

It’s too fucking hot. So I made some new shirts for my goths and goths-at-heart out there deliriously embracing the skull-melting heat death of summer.

On tees & tanks in a variety of styles/colors at robsheridan.threadless.com (sizes up to 5X in our “classic” style tees)

All I ask for - for my work as well as others - if the music you're listening to on Bandcamp resonates with you: post a review. Give it some thought. It really, really helps us keep going when morale starts to flag and it's really important for us to know how the work affects you.

This is genuinely the news every day

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

Y’all like tapes and field recordings, right?

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Patrick Cosmos - Future National Sports (Not On Label) Plume Girl - Unnameable Glory (mappa) Siavash Amini - Caligo (Room40) Annie Blythe, Brendon Randall-Myers - Only in the Dark (cmntx records) Chronophage - Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship (Post Present Medium) DADUB - How to Shoulder the Radiance of Revelations (OPAL) Erez Dessel - PRO FAKE NO REJECT (Corbett vs. Dempsey) Fuubutsushi - Columbia Deluxe (American Dreams) Guided By Voices - Goodnight El Dorado (Guided by Voices Inc) Charbel Haber, Nicolás Jaar and Sary Moussa - Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day (Ruptured Records) Ava Mendoza / Gabby Fluke-Mogul / Carolina Pérez - Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance Music) Alan Niblock, John Butcher, Mark Sanders - Tectonic Plates (577 Records) Open Mike Eagle - Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse Records) Benoît Pioulard - Stanza IV (Disques d'Honore)

Rip Van Winkle - Blasphemy (Splendid Research) Jaleel Shaw - Painter Of The Invisible (Changu Records) Colin Andrew Sheffield - Serenade (Elevator Bath) Isaac Shieh - Caprice Reimagined — New Works for Natural Horn (New Focus Recordings) sister. - Two Birds (Mtn Laurel Recording Co.) Slikback - Attrition (Planet Mu) Laetitia Sonami - Dangerous Women: Early Works 1985-2005 (Lovely Music) Aho Ssan & Resina - Ego Death (Subtext Recordings) Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley - Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance Music) Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers - Clube da Mariposa Mórbida (Nyege Nyege Tapes) Urs Graf Consort - Fireproof Sweat (bison) Michael Valentine West - Liquid architecture (EVEL) Patricia Wolf - Hrafnamynd (Balmat) Yearns - Fata Morgana (Room40)

Another Friday filled to the brim with interesting new music! I'll be sharing my thoughts in the replies while I listen thru the day

there are plenty of cool plugins but even the coolest plugin doesn't match the vibe of ripping a sick riff through a cool boutique pedal tbh.

Clear, stark, useful 🧵, with action steps.

Toshimaru Nakamura / Gintė Preisaitė - Live at Ftarri (Ftarri) Tatsuro Murakami - Mita Koyama-cho (Mystery Circles) Tortoise - Oganesson Remixes (International Anthem) Universal Affirmation Ensemble - Unconditional Propositions (Katuktu Collective) DOOR EATER - try (Not On Label) KASAI - 〽 (CHINABOT) Sveið - Latent Imprints (577 Records) AGF - works for Sergiu Matis (Not On Label) Tim Barnes - Lost Words (Quakebasket) Tim Barnes - Noumena (Quakebasket) Belgium Limp - Soft Synth, Hard Cheese (Primordial Void) Melaine Dalibert & David Sylvian - Vermilion Hours (Ici d'ailleurs) Dedalus Ensemble - Performing Philip Glass: Music with Changing Parts (Sub Rosa) DJ Bebedera - Clássico (Príncipe) Marti Epstein - For Jack (Sawyer Editions) Exploding Star Orchestra - Holy Mountains (Selo Sesc) JPA Falzone and Morgan Evans-Weiler - Ascending Music (Sawyer Editions) Jasmine Guffond - Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity (LINE) Heat On - Heat On (Cuneiform Records) Henzo - The Poems We Write For Ourselves (Sneaker Social Club) Herbert & Momoko - Clay (Strut) Joane Hétu - Elle a son mot à dire (Ambiances Magnétiques) Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme - Ghazel (Ruptured Records) Kwan / Pauly / Shaw Trio - Lunches for the Week (Out Of Your Head Records)

Alan Lamb - Archival Recordings: Primal Image / Beauty (Room40) Nick León - A Tropical Entropy (TraTraTrax) Luiz Ser Eu - Sarja (Phantom Limb) Stephen O'Malley - But remember what you have had (Portraits GRM) Lila Meretzky - Simultaneous Contrast (Sawyer Editions) Huw Morgan - Melos (Sawyer Editions) Sary Moussa - Wind, Again (Other People) novisad - Seleya [2025 Edition] (Keplar) Andrew Pekler - New Environments & Rhythm Studies (Faitiche) perila - omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est (West Mineral Ltd.) Pi'erre Bourne - Made In Paris (Interscope) Sharpie Smile - The Staircase (Drag City) Adam Silverman - Elegy for the Earth (New Focus Recordings) Simonel - Cartographies of Silence (LINE) Thisquietarmy x otay:onii - Howl and Tell (Katuktu Collective) galen tipton & Shmu - dewCLAWS (Orange Milk) Bruno Tonisi - Sensational Conversations (Lugar Alto) Rafael Toral - Sound Mind Sound Body (2025 CD Edition) (Drag City) Rafael Toral - Wave Field (2025 CD Edition) (Drag City) Zeynep Toraman - a lifetime of annotations (Sawyer Editions) Zimoun - Harmonium I-VI (Room40)

It's another huge Friday for new music, and I'll be sharing my thoughts in the replies thru the day ⬇️

hi, cis folks!

so senate’s king nerd struck the trans healthcare bans from the budget bill—that’s good! but the GOP may put it back in, meaning dems need to be ready to challenge it on the floor—that’s doable, but they need to know you want them to!

today’s a great day to call senators: reps.fyi 🧵

if you're flying high and feeling real energized today, it's a good time to put that into community defense and mutual aid babyyyy let's go

Actually love the framing of gAI as an anti-tool when it comes to using it to write

everyone else has the crimes and crumbling well covered so i'm going to keep talking about my silly life

Physical things will have to wait for the end of summer, the other side of an ocean, and more $$

sold the last of my record collection today 😢⚫️🎶🎵🎧😭 but it had to be done. Now to convince myself to sell the Electribe EA-1 I fixed and my other music gear 😫

2003 antiwar protests were the largest in US history. And that was after 9/11, under a popular president, and while most people believed the WMDs lie. Completely different conditions today. I believe the antiwar movement will be big. And I believe it will win.

Bandcamp Discover amazing music and directly support the artists who make it.

First, ultimately, if you can afford it, it's better to buy music than rent it from a streamer. The best place to do that for all small labels is of course bandcamp.com .

As people are once again realising that Spotify is an awful company, thought I'd do a short thread of the things I use instead of it.
(As with Substack, I'm not judging you if you use it -- the world is *a lot* -- and no choices are perfectly ethical. But it's *better* if you don't).

new Matmos groove just dropped, join the party

Tonight I had a friend who actually plays the guitar and has a good amp test the guitar I built from spare parts over the last year after a major rewire this week. Now it works great! She made it sound like magic

A pinback button. It shows the transgender “trine” combining three sex symbols, with a “peace sign” in the middle. Around the edge it reads, “Money for hormones, not war.”

i think a more trans focused "gender abolition" wouldn't regard gender itself as a system of oppression, but rather a source of joy

Happy Juneteenth, y'all!

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

Important.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Juneteenth Digital Toolkit A digital toolkit created with information about the origin of and how to observe Juneteenth, which is a time to celebrate, gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future.

I feel like people need reminding: We have acknowledged #Juneteenth here for generations, without acknowledgement from the federal gov’t or corporate sponsorship. We will continue to do so. Them folks can only gentrify our holiday if we let them.
Some background:

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