Weβre all looking for the guy who did this
Weβre all looking for the guy who did this
Then, after Johnny Kidd died, they reinvented themselves as a quasi-punk band (leather jackets, skull logo). m.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ0g...
Dβoh! I got a podcast.
So exhausting..
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
We all remember learning about that famous negotiation that ended World War II in history class.
My interview with writer, librettist and music critic Paul Griffiths is out now in the latest issue of Exacting Clam. It's also free to read on the website: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18...
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While weβre still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like itβs nothing.
On this day in 1988, Remembrance received its first performance. The work was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University in memory of Paul Fromm, and later was included as part of Three Occasions for Orchestra. #ContemporaryClassical #Orchestra #MusicHistory
youtu.be/A_wfoA8Bw6I
Five photos of people in various settings with the Press Forward logo centered between them. Description: Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face.
ποΈ Local journalism matters.
Thanks to a $1M Press Forward grant, weβll support 300+ newsrooms with training, tools & services in collaboration with Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) & The Poynter Institute.
Details β‘οΈ blog.archive.org/2025/07/16/
Steve Dallas: βOpus! Get yer butt back in bed! Donβt step outside! Hey, twitwit! Donβtβ¦ DONβT! Itβs not Door Dash! Donβt go out there! Do notβ¦ oh jeezusβ¦β Opus answers the door holding an Igloo cooler, says: βAlrighty! Let me have it fellas!β to a couple of ICE goons in full tactical gear.
Berke Breathed just posted the first new Bloom County strip in foreverβ¦
The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
I've never seen the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline so viscerally represented. This is incredible.
π Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!
Check it out β‘οΈ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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As House Republicans pass a budget bill that takes from the poor to finance tax cuts predominantly for the rich, Trump is hosting a dinner for investors in his crypto business who spent a total of $394 million to gain access to him. It's clear who they really serve.
'Want to βwatch democracy get scannedβ? '
thank you!
www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/you-...
60% of American households canβt afford a minimal quality of life.
Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 β the biggest one-year increase ever.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
leaving academia like
A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say
*crab-walked
πΊ Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine.
βA time machine for the web,β preserving everything from lost government websites to books & recordsβbefore they vanish.
π Explore: web.archive.org
π₯ Watch β¬οΈ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k
Collide-O-Scope New Music concert at Di Menna Center. Great to hear John Link, Elliot Carter and for the first time Elenor Sandreskyβ and catch up with friends !
Publishers Weekly on "this scintillating diptych":
www.publishersweekly.com/9781681379258
Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong!
We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science
(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)
Iβve found itβs more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
This Saturday May 3, Collide-O-Scope Music performs solo and chamber works by Elliott Carter, John Link, and Eleonor Sandresky at the DiMenna Centerβs Benzaquen Hall in NYC. #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #NYCConcerts #NYCMusic #JohnLink #EleonorSandresky
www.elliottcarter.com/events/2025-...
The Amphion Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of volume 5 of Elliott Carter Studies Online, featuring new articles and never before published interviews. Learn more at the link below! #ElliottCarter #OnlineJournal #Musicology #MusicHistory
www.elliottcarter.com/news/elliott...
π§΅ THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures Iβve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
whatβs your favorite place to teeter? mine is on the edge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMYh... Here's the live stream for the concert of my music at William Paterson on Monday, April 7th, 7:30pm. With the amazing Nina Berman, Carl Patrick Bolleia, John Ferrari, Marianne Gythfeldt, Payton MacDonald, Caroline Stinson, and the WP New Music Ensemble.