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Bop Spotter
Bop Spotter

I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.

Heard of Shot Spotter? Microphones are installed across cities across the United States by police to detect gunshots, purported to not be very accurate. This is that, but for music.

This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it's not about catching criminals. It's about catching vibes. A constant feed of what’s popping off in real-time.

#music#art
·walzr.com·
Bop Spotter
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Finding ourselves on this lush, beautiful, abundant planet is not some testament to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of life. Nor is it a coincidence. This is where life could happen; we are here because this is where we could be. Even here, even where things were as comfortably laid out as our brightest minds could ever imagine, it took billions of years, reproductions beyond counting, before any individual life got advanced enough to think something as silly as "Hey, let's go live on Mars."

#science#space#capitalism
·defector.com·
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Feeling Good Doesn't Require the Democrats
Feeling Good Doesn't Require the Democrats
Or: you absolutely don't have to hand it to them Over the last couple weeks, and for the first time in my adult life, the Democratic Party has risen to the historical moment, seeming to wake from the fever dream of appeasing Republican Christofascism and shake off decades of accumulated
·all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io·
Feeling Good Doesn't Require the Democrats
Garbage Day: It's ok to enjoy this
Garbage Day: It's ok to enjoy this
Is Harris a perfect candidate? Of course not. The perfect candidate can not and, in a democracy, should not exist. But it is also not cringe to feel optimistic. It is not cringe to imagine something better than the deranged culture wars we have had to endure for the last decade. And even if Harris does shit the bed in the next three months and Trump somehow wins, it won’t have been cringe to say you went down swinging, letting yourself believe this might work.
#america#politics#election
·garbageday.email·
Garbage Day: It's ok to enjoy this
Are You on Team ‘Weird’?
Are You on Team ‘Weird’?
In case you hadn't noticed, over the course of the first week of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, when it was hard to know what was real or what was happening, "weird"
#politics#america#election
·talkingpointsmemo.com·
Are You on Team ‘Weird’?
Look At These Fucking Weirdos | Defector
Look At These Fucking Weirdos | Defector
What a weird week. Just eight(!) days ago, Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee, his party and the campaign were dead in the water, and its voters were begging for a miracle. Today, 99 days out from the election, the Kamala Harris campaign is pulling in donations hand over fist, polls have shifted to […]
#politics#america#election
·defector.com·
Look At These Fucking Weirdos | Defector
Kworb.net - All your music data needs in one place
Kworb.net - All your music data needs in one place
A website that collects and analyzes music data from around the world. All of the charts, sales and streams, constantly updated.
·kworb.net·
Kworb.net - All your music data needs in one place
Low Earth Orbit Visualization | LeoLabs
Low Earth Orbit Visualization | LeoLabs
A visualization of satellites, debris, and other objects tracked by LeoLabs in low earth orbit
·platform.leolabs.space·
Low Earth Orbit Visualization | LeoLabs
Cong Burn Strokes
Cong Burn Strokes
iOS and desktop music synthesizer, drum machine, etc.
#music
·congburn.co.uk·
Cong Burn Strokes
'American Fiction' And The Wet Eyes Of The Sentimentalist | Defector
'American Fiction' And The Wet Eyes Of The Sentimentalist | Defector
We tell ourselves stories to feed our delusions. It’s an ugly world out there, and so many Americans prefer the easy way out. We genuflect to the guru and the influencer; we admire the charlatans who can captivate a crowd and turn a quick buck. We prefer the CliffsNotes to the book, and all the […]
Any real art finds its level by meeting humans and life on their own terms. In place of that sort of probing, American Fiction gives you a movie about angst and love, a fantasy of good negro life so mired in sentiment it has no politic but the simplest judgment of the most obvious racism we can all agree is bad, and no depth outside of what we all need is more love in our lives. Implicit in a film like this—as with so much of the cinema, literature, and non-fiction by and about black people that has emerged post-George Floyd—is a participation trophy for the white, liberal audience: Kudos to you for watching; go tell a friend. Assuage your guilt for the price of a ticket; you're the good guys, after all.
#race#movies
·defector.com·
'American Fiction' And The Wet Eyes Of The Sentimentalist | Defector
Moo Card Player - Hicks.design
Moo Card Player - Hicks.design
A journal post about my MOO card music player setup, using square business cards and NFC tags to play digital music with more physicality (quicker too!)
·hicks.design·
Moo Card Player - Hicks.design
Pitchfork’s Importance Shouldn’t Be Underrated - The Atlantic
Pitchfork’s Importance Shouldn’t Be Underrated - The Atlantic
archived 19 Jan 2024 01:45:41 UTC
Saying you’re a Pitchfork person can be mistaken for saying you take its opinions as your own, when ideally it just means that you want a discerning companion for making your own discoveries and judgments.
#musicwriting
·archive.is·
Pitchfork’s Importance Shouldn’t Be Underrated - The Atlantic
Pitchfork’s absorption into GQ is a travesty for music media – and musicians | Laura Snapes
Pitchfork’s absorption into GQ is a travesty for music media – and musicians | Laura Snapes
Perfect summary.
It is bleak on so many levels, first and foremost the job losses during a straitened time for media. Pitchfork was one of the last stable music outlets going – where else are the former staff, and the site’s hundreds of freelancers, meant to work now?
Incorporating Pitchfork into a men’s magazine also cements perceptions that music is a male leisure pursuit, and undermines the fact that it was women and non-binary writers – Lindsay Zoladz, Jenn Pelly, Carrie Battan, Amanda Petrusich, Sasha Geffen, Jill Mapes, Doreen St Félix, Hazel Cills; the fearless editing of Jessica Hopper and then the most recent editor-in-chief Puja Patel, to name but a handful – who transformed the website in the 2010s. It also suggests that music is just another facet of a consumer lifestyle, not a distinct art form that connects niche communities worthy of close reading, documentation and, when warranted, investigation.
#internet#musicwriting#business
·theguardian.com·
Pitchfork’s absorption into GQ is a travesty for music media – and musicians | Laura Snapes
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned | Artnet News
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned | Artnet News
Ben Davis on the fallout from his critical review of Devon Rodriguez's "Underground," and what it says about "parasocial aesthetics."
But it seems to me that the majority of Rodriguez’s fans are most engaged by his appealing social-media persona, not his actual artworks. If this is the case, then it’s logical to think that it changes how criticism is perceived. His followers feel like I am attacking a person they like, not judging artworks or analyzing a media phenomenon. I think that explains the character of the reaction, which has a level of raw personal anger completely out of joint with what I wrote in my article.
#internet#criticism#art
·news.artnet.com·
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned | Artnet News
Is Bandcamp as We Know It Over?
Is Bandcamp as We Know It Over?
Following its acquisition by the music licensing company Songtradr, layoffs spell trouble at the beloved online music platform.
#musicbusiness
·pitchfork.com·
Is Bandcamp as We Know It Over?
The Last Refuge
The Last Refuge
Regarding Rosemary Kirstein's 'Steerswoman' books.
#bookreview
·maxgladstone.substack.com·
The Last Refuge
The Body (Often) Tells the Truth
The Body (Often) Tells the Truth
When your frustrated gestures and missteps and bodily distress signals are read as a sign of your incompetence, not a problem with the world, you’re often being done an injustice
#health
·katemanne.substack.com·
The Body (Often) Tells the Truth
You Think You're Not That Ambitious. Are You Dead Wrong About That?
You Think You're Not That Ambitious. Are You Dead Wrong About That?
The surest sign that you’re incredibly ambitious is a complete and total lack of ambition on all fronts.
Being an overachieving perfectionist becomes worse and worse over the years, in other words, because it turns every source of joy into a source of self-hatred and failure. Aiming for perfect, aiming to be the best, sorting through data to see who’s better, setting impossible goals for yourself: These are poisonous habits that destroy your relationship to your own body, block you from the small pleasures of your day, and leach the natural optimism from your cells.
Every time you check in with yourself, you help yourself. Every time you ignore an old, warped story about what your sensations and feelings mean, you improve your connection to your body. It sounds obvious, of course! But it’s exactly what the perfectionist overachiever — even the one hiding inside that aging stoner on the couch playing Assassin’s Creed for the third hour in a row — doesn’t remember to do. PERFECTIONISTS IGNORE THEIR BODIES, EMOTIONS, AND SENSATIONS. SECRETLY AMBITIOUS SLACKERS IGNORE THEIR TRUEST DESIRES AND PASSIONS.
#therapy#advice#mentalhealth#creativity
·ask-polly.com·
You Think You're Not That Ambitious. Are You Dead Wrong About That?
Leaving the keyboard that plays itself down by the river between 2:30 and 3:30 AM August 3rd 2017, by id m theft able
Leaving the keyboard that plays itself down by the river between 2:30 and 3:30 AM August 3rd 2017, by id m theft able
1 track album
I found a keyboard at the dump that when turned on plays itself. The occasional faux piano notes sound at seemingly random pitches and dynamics, usually with a fair amount of space in between. It seems to be struggling to stay on, the LED blinks and flashes the whole time and notes often abruptly cut out as it resets itself. It's been my favorite thing to listen to this week. So, naturally, between about 2:30 and 3:30 that morning I took this keyboard down back of my place by the river, turned it on and left it to play along with the frogs, mosquitoes, mysterious mammals, insects and passing cars.
#music#fieldrecording
·idmtheftable.bandcamp.com·
Leaving the keyboard that plays itself down by the river between 2:30 and 3:30 AM August 3rd 2017, by id m theft able
Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known
Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known
Near misses involving U.S. commercial airlines happen on average multiple times a week, a New York Times investigation found.
But the most acute challenge, The Times found, is that the nation’s air traffic control facilities are chronically understaffed. While the lack of controllers is no secret — the Biden administration is seeking funding to hire and train more — the shortages are more severe and are leading to more dangerous situations than previously known. As of May, only three of the 313 air traffic facilities nationwide had enough controllers to meet targets set by the F.A.A. and the union representing controllers, The Times found. Many controllers are required to work six-day weeks and a schedule so fatiguing that multiple federal agencies have warned that it can impede controllers’ abilities to do their jobs properly.
The roots of the current staffing shortage date to the early 1980s, when the Reagan administration replaced thousands of controllers who were on strike. Since then, there have been waves of departures as controllers become eligible for retirement. The F.A.A. has struggled to keep pace.During the pandemic, many controllers left, and the F.A.A. slowed the pace of training new ones because of health restrictions. The staffing shortage became a crisis.
#travel#safety
·nytimes.com·
Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known