AI image generation done "in the style of." certainly a fine line here between inspiration and plagiary. Like all things, tread carefully.

excellent cheat sheet

Love this, well documented, takedown of Musk lies. Not exactly unique content these days but well done from Doctorow

I’ve entered my Hat Phase of life. Is this my vibe? It may very well be.

if you know Plantasia, you already know why this is exciting. If you do not know Plantasia, go listen to it immediately and then come back to this. Loads of new Garson tunes, unearthed and remastered. Exciting!

They Might Be Giants on Comedy Bang Bang FM; a free preview. I do not pay for CBB but it's quite nice of them to release this teaser.

not ready for production yet but this text-to-video engine looks quite promising

instrumental, dance-y, disco-y, quite fun. also streaming if ya prefer.

Futel is half hacker project and half public good. At it's core, it's a literal payphone that anyone can use, for free, to make outgoing calls, as well as leverage free voicemail services. Beyond that, it's also a zine documenting its usage, an incoming number to hear all sorts of audio ephemera. In short, a fascinating series of phone interfaces that also provide services that may be critical for those in need.

You can read more about the project on their site and blog or spend a few minutes with this YouTube presentation that walks through all of it.

b-sides and rarities from the Sumday era of Grandaddy. a delight.

Bookmark worthy

a $60,000 turntable! $60,000!!

I’m told this is an excellent read. Adding it here so I remember to actually read it.

A true crime / comedy podcast involving two brides and one turd. AKA must listen!?

An insightful read and plenty of replies with thoughtful commentary. Funny to predict how a giant company like Meta is going to swim in open source waters but this provides some context.

good ole Sanborn Fire Insurance maps opening up a new, old, world. Pretty fascinating tbh. I would walk around in an old neighborhood with an awkward headset!

Truly, a quality theory worth knowing

A little over ten years ago, I got an email from a guy named Matt Smith. He said he liked what I was doing with yk Records and had an album he'd just finished recording at Battle Tapes but wasn't sure how to make all the pieces fit. I loved what I heard and we worked to release The World and Ourselves in 2013. It continues to be an album in the yk catalog of releases that I feel gets highly overlooked.

Cut to: ten years later and Matt has moved from New York to LA, had a family and been generally busy with life stuff. But a second album has been percolating the whole time. I'm happy to announce that percolation will yield a brand new record this summer in the form of New Public Domain; eleven tracks of infectiously melodic pop/rock songs.

We will be releasing the first single, "Talk Talk Talk," in a few weeks but you can actually get the first morsels of music in this announcement video.

We're going to release the album on exactly the same day as his first album because.. why not?

As classic as it gets in terms of internet content

NY Magazine runs through all the shows canceled this year. It is wild how many of these I’ve never even heard of. Worse; some sounds very entertaining!