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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Plenty of great music out of Latin America so we don't *need* Bey's take on some pan-American project. But I also really like her deep-dives into different genres on Renaissance and Cowboy Carter. Would be an interesting and ambitious LP.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wonder if Beyonce gonna drop a love-letter album to Latin music at some point. The old and new Spanish tracks on B'Day are fun.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This sucks. I proposed to my wife under a giant dragon-turtle lantern at Zoolumination years ago. We looked forward to it every year.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OK the thing is even if Hardy was way worse at rapping you'd still have a Czarface album providing a solid chassis

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As for retention policy, the city considers prompts to be akin to working papers and that they can be requested but don't need to be retained once the creator is done with them. Per a statement, Metro ITS can control Copilot retention but other platforms require users to manually delete copies.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I think the main obstacles were a change in retention policy in the middle of my reporting and my own underestimation of how big these requests would be. bsky.app/profile/quin...

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This thread from one of the city's at-large councilmembers highlights many of the questions I had going into this AI story and a few that remain afterwards.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I read through a lot of documents and even AI prompts to get a sense of how the Nashville government is approaching AI. Like other cities, the approach seems slow and cautious. But there are still calls for more clarity on AI guidelines and evaluation of usage. www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...

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Humans in the Loop: What Role Is AI Playing in Nashville Government?

AI slop has taken over Nashville. Posters and logos made with image generators abound on social media and on business signs. The uncanny aesthetics, betrayed by cluttered imagery and fonts, bold outli...

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My latest article is this week's cover story: a look at how Metro developed its AI policy and how the city is overseeing the use of these tools.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Honestly really depressing seeing how "woke" got beaten down into meaningless in the last decade. I never used it but always thought "stay woke" was a pretty cool phrase an older wiser person could say.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

hey guys, no one is obligated to use the phrase "woke 1.0" at all

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Open Mike Eagle and Channel Tres were a weekend soundtrack combo that worked better than expected.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've never seen footage of the Language Police killing someone with an illegal chokehold.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Packed house at the Belcourt for the Mary Oliver doc with a post-screening poetry reading. Feels like a good excuse to reshare my article exploring Nashville's lack of a poet laureate (and why it could be nice to have one). www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

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Despite a Thriving Literary Scene, Nashville Lacks a Poet Laureate

Asking poets about what an established laureate could bring to the city

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A new generation of ratfuckers rises

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was walking through a four-way stop in Nashville and a driver barreling down the road started waving at me to get out of the way while they were still like a block away. They had no plans of stopping.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ok well at least they made sure Shakira and Burna Boy made it

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We stopped the game for ... All this

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

this was such a good deep cut, shout out to these prolific graff writers

You know Oprah vs. Moist is the real Nashville Super Bowl. —Andy Gasparini

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 16/07/2026

Our 38th annual “You Are So Nashville If …” issue is here! See this year’s winners, honorable mentions and more. www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst…

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'Pokémon Go' turned 10 years old this week. I spoke to the Nashville fans building community around the game, many of whom have been fans of the Pokémon franchise since its start 30 (!) years ago. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

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In the Club: 'Pokémon Go' Nashville

Nashville fans build community around the hit phone game from 2016

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

i think even the most serious godzilla movies should have the infamous tail slide at one point

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Speaking of Marsha Blackburn, check out Eli's story on the race for the governor's seat in Tennessee.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 09/07/2026

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn's fortune cookie ad is the latest in the gubernatorial frontrunner's storied career of anti-Chinese bigotry.

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Marsha Blackburn Has Always Been This Racist

The Tennessee senator’s fortune cookie ad is the latest in her storied career of anti-Chinese bigotry

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Julianne Akers @julianneakers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Still feeling a little delirious after leaving the courthouse at 2:00 a.m. this morning, but I can’t stop thinking about this moment from the Nashville Metro Council’s public hearing on data center regulations.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

seeing this in Chicago really surprised me

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
Gustave Caillebotte

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I noticed this trend in Nashville, which is why I spoke to the folks at Grand Palace about silk-screen printing in the AI era. (I also spoke to prominent tattooist and fine artist Elisheba Israel Mrozik!) www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

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Physical Education: Commercial Artists Don’t Fear AI … Yet

Talking with silkscreen printers and a tattoo artist about maintaining customers despite the rise of generative AI art

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nixon one of the top 10 worst theater kids, right?

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I saw a webinar where a journo mentioned taking note in Excel and after trying it out ... I don't hate it. I wouldn't use it for interview notes but for connecting little story beats, dumping links and adding to-dos, it kinda works for me. Think white board or murder board.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yglesias argument is obviously dumb and in bad faith but I always liked my history teacher's argument it was a gumbo: you can recognize the components but they've all added and absorbed flavor.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Seeing Justin Long and John Hodgman reunite for Ozempic commercials feels like one of the darker corners of reboot culture.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

He plays best when he's got something to prove

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