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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And today in unfortunate word-limit-forced web-design cropping...

screen shot of job announcement cropped to read:
"The Danish School of Education (DPU) at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, invites applications for a position as an ass..."

greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Love this. We're roughly the same age & share memories of Old York Road Skating Club (we had to be on ice the same time at an open Friday night skate) & these Flyers glory days are as I remember experiencing them, as are the up & down years. Even now, from far away in Denmark... LET’S GO FLY-ERS!!

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just received notice that the Copenhagen show has been cancelled. Any insight into what happened? Obviously disappointed to not be able to see you play.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy 25th anniversary to El Ray with a fun show in a motorcycle repair shop

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I found this via Cory Doctorow, and the part I've screenshot gets to the heart of it, similar to how you frame it...they just think everything they'll try will work, because they are galaxy-brained geniuses and we're all dunces davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-elon-mu...

It has been pretty clear for months that Musk has approached the Twitter acquisition as though nothing had been tried until and unless he or a close personal friend tried it themself. Musk decided that he could quintuple Twitter’s revenues, basically through sheer force of will and a bit of brainstorming. He announced multiple goals that were fundamentally at odds with each other (ban all bots! Make Twitter fun again, without all the harrassment! But leave up everything that doesn’t break the law!).

What’s clear in the Musk text exchanges is that his fellow tech elites thought it would inevitably work. They don’t come across as sophisticated investors who have analyzed the business model and identified innovative solutions that no one else could see. They’re mostly just spitballing. They didn’t have some bold plan for vertical integration that would make the platform more viable. They were just a bunch of bros piling into Elon’s cybertruck for a road trip to rescue the digital public square. (Get in losers, we’re buying Twitter!)

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not sure I would want to sit that close to either of them for prolonged eye contact. 😬

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Never let them forget: They hunted the vice president to kill him. They built a gallows on the Capitol lawn. They assaulted police officers with flagpoles and bear spray, and they tried to seize the presidency for Donald Trump.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So let's solve the problem of a somewhat meaningless regular season by making it almost totally meaningless?

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IndivisibleLasVegas ❌👑 @indivisiblelasvegas.org · 17/08/2026

At a CCSD School Board mtg, our member Amanda Nuchols, a woman who is an amazing leader & activist, stood up for trans rights. One School Board member, Lorena Biassotti, wore an anti-trans shirt. Lorena is a coward and hater. This is what courage looks like. This is what activism looks like.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is absolute genius. The song and the video, but my word, especially the video. He was one of my favorite finds from the lyrics prompt last year.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Even seeing the picture is clearly Nyhavn it took a few paragraphs into the story to understand why Copenhagen is the "Vegas of Europe", something I've never heard it called. But spoiler, it's not about gambling 🤷‍♂️

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Siri, how does one take a short position on Italian Parm futures?

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you're a Muse fan you should give a listen to the @whatismusicpod.bsky.social season on Muse. They do full artist discography deep dives...very thoughtful & informative. I started listening to them during the REM season & got me loving REM even more than I did, which was a lot.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The UK ETA (travel authorization needed for a visit) process was so smooth. Uploaded the relevant document images to a website that worked. Could have also used an app that works well.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And @futureofmusic.bsky.social @sterlewine.bsky.social @hearingthingsco.bsky.social someone at @defector.com Would be nice for this to be more of a story, AI slop farms camping on existing artist names

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I found a mailto link on Murray's website to let him know, and wrote to Peter's management. Of course there's no obvious way to let Spotify know.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So if @nedraggett.bsky.social @drownedinsound.bsky.social & other music journalists want a story to chase, AI slop farms camping out on older band names seems to be a thing? Or maybe it's been written about & I didn't notice?

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

(not the) Plimsouls song open.spotify.com/track/51FLwB... (not) Guadalcanal Diary song open.spotify.com/track/5qTgVu...

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

When people wonder why us AI critics call it theft, this is a prime example. And of course Spotify & maybe other services do fuck-all checking up front, because they are careless about protecting artists.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today on my Spotify new release playlist I saw songs by The Plimsouls and Guadalcanal Diary. Turns out they are clearly AI generated slop using existing band names. Might be on other services as well. If anyone knows Peter and/or Murray, let them know. I wrote to Peter's management.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

When it comes to owning the libs, money is no object.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

But of a stretch to say they nearly went down. Yes, they ended up in the lower bracket of the mid-season split but there were 3 teams so much worse that they were all but safe with even average results.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I love this essay, not only because it affirms some of what I thought were the film's themes (allegory for the current moment in America, shattering of norms) but points out other ways the Nolan is using art as social commentary that I didn't pick up on, but make sense in context.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We spent not a ton of money on toys, but still bought some. What did one of the cats play with most? That part of a plastic lid under the perforation that acts as like a stopper for it when factory sealed. It dropped to the floor after opening the container and she went batshit for it. Cats 🤷‍♂️

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is where I almost believe the on-its-face wacko theory that his staff show him AI-generated pics and video of things he believes to be true so as to keep him mollified and to stay in his good graces.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Though music-making tech has gotten much better, so it's easier than ever to release good sounding home-recorded music. Before of course you could do 4-track cassette recording at home, but the sound wasn't great.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yes, as a music fan I love that. As a musician with musician friends, I've seen what streaming has done to working musicians. Not a fault of the tech, just the greedy people running it & expectations of casual listeners that art should be free, despite that it takes time & labor to create.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/08/2026

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Or you do it yourselves with clipart, free-use creative commons images) and some software of some sort that you have access to, even free Canva. Or go really old school with cutout magazine images, letters (or write it out), glue, tape and go make copies.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think he knows he has no shot, will run anyway for the visibility, money, etc...and is setting himself up for the next gig as a lobbyist for these creeps, as well as more podcasting. Currying favor now for the soft landing later.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reuters:

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And the ref in the bright yellow jersey. It's like a desktop strewn with highlighters.

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greg 🇩🇰🚴‍♂️🎸⚽️ @amnesiac13.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If we do number of wind turbines adjusted for population, Denmark (where I live) has to be right up there. And we're doing alright, not failing as far as I can tell.

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