michael metzger

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

happy birthday!

the two greatest jangly records of all time are painfully out of print

see, this is why we need more gap earth gear

guessing you weren’t the guy in the castor shirt standing next to me then!

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Square profile picture New York Post @nypost San Francisco vigilantes spraying Narcan into unsuspecting homeless people: ‘New strategy for moving bums out of your way’ https://trib.al/kpAJf8N

Incredible that the Bell Riots, DS9's grim vision of 2024 broadcast in 1995, remains way way way more optimistic than what is actually happening in San Francisco

Democrats can demand a rollback of the Supreme Court ICE racial profiling case. It’s a trivial legislative fix. It poses virtually no political risk for them. It protects 68 million people from open government persecution. It protects basic constitutional values. No government funding without this.

good morning! ice is creeping around chicago and the city is evicting unhoused people from a public park

YouTube video by HBO Max The Other Two | Jesus Slays | HBO Max

“Jesus Slays” from HBO’s The Other Two m.youtube.com/watch?v=bSA_...

this goes to my long-standing thesis that trump is the id of the united states (a liar, a scammer, a rapist, racist as fuck, only interested in himself and how much people are paying attention to him)

electric fuckin' nebraska
never thought i'd live to see the day
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

If you listen to Palestinians, you don’t need to wait for the Israeli intelligence data.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

a fun thing i discovered teaching with film prints—MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, which people generally watch in 24fps, plays *radically* differently when shown at silent speed

great list! recently acquired a (beat to hell) print of FELICIA that i’m excited to screen in my doc class next year.

Tuca - Drácula, I Love You [Brazil, MPB/Psychedelic] (1974)

Tuca - Drácula, I Love You [Brazil, MPB/Psychedelic] (1974)
https://redd.it/5eoe5y
https://youtu.be/Mol7vixCKYU

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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in celebration of successfully getting empty bottle tickets today (and of the cat o’nine tails release), here’s a clip of cindy lee doing “i don’t want to fall in love again” at lincoln hall in 2022

Paul Weller marching for Gaza

once you come to terms with the fact that people genuinely can’t tell the difference between motion smoothing and 24fps, it’s hard to be surprised by anything about where we are as a society

If anyone in your life is looking for an educational resource to better understand Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, I have archived ~700 articles – written largely by Palestinians – under #Palestine in the last three months.

The feed is updated every day.
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I’m going to cry

Brown just sold out every trans student at the university to preserve some STEM funding.

These universities will not live down the shame of their capitulation.

TRANS PEOPLE ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE

Newly digitized 16mm outtakes from DeWitt Beall's portrait of the Conservative Vice Lords, LORD THING (1970), showing young people dancing, kissing, and hanging out.

I hate everything.