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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What, you haven't heard 'The #1 Record'? Impeccable timing for this new single by Escape-ism (featuring DJ Henry Rollins). escape-ism.bandcamp.com/track/the-1-...

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THE #1 RECORD, by ESCAPE-ISM

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My fav new album this week is Pugnello, the fourth and best so far from Ireland’s 🇮🇪 Gilla Band. Either this or Music, Fashion, Film has to be rock album of the year. And although I bailed on paying € 99 for Charli’s tour, I have my Gilla ticket for January. gillaband.bandcamp.com/album/pugnello

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just got back from a great 🇸🇮🇭🇷 vacation, where I also updated my playlist with 👍🏻 new music from 🇪🇸 Bb trickz & 🇩🇴 Chapo 240, 🇯🇲 Sean Paul, 🇬🇧 Cimm & Neffa-T, 🇺🇸 Anthony Naples, 🇬🇧 Scuba, 🇺🇸 Daedelus, 🇮🇪 Gilla Band, 🇿🇦 Officixl RSA, 🇿🇦 M&N Projects and 🇺🇸 Tinashe on Apple Music and Spotify

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Heavy Rotation: 2026

All of the best new music on Spotify—cutting edge pop, hip-hop, rock, house, amapiano, techno, jazz, R&B and less easily identifiable beats. Find another playlist that's more on-point and get...

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NEW POP POLL nominations - this one's going to be a banger

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is my thread for thirteen Singles of the Week of Autumn 2026. The first is by Spanish rapper Bb trickz, who continues her excellent series of dembow releases with ‘Algo Bien’. It features Dominican bad boy Chapo 240 and what sounds like a sousaphone. youtu.be/gQmXuVS_WvQ?...

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ALGO BIEN

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Historians rightly say people's actions should be judged by the standards of their time. But what often gets lost is that those standards weren't what we think. Many 18thc Europeans hated colonialism--as an e.g., here's Immanuel Kant in 1795 castigating it as "truly appalling." It was contentious...

"Excerpt from Kant: "If one compares this with the inhospitable conduct of the civilized—and primarily commercial—states of our own continent, the injustice they display when visiting foreign lands and peoples (which they equate with conquering them) is truly appalling. To them, upon their discovery, America, the lands of the Negroes, the Spice Islands, the Cape, and so forth, were territories belonging to no one; for they counted the inhabitants as nothing. In the East Indies (Hindustan), under the pretext of merely establishing trading posts, they introduced foreign military forces—bringing with them the oppression of the natives, the incitement of the region's various states into widespread wars, famine, insurrection, treachery, and the whole litany of evils that afflict the human race.

China and Japan (Nippon)—having had experience with such guests—wisely restricted access: the former permitted entry but not full admission, while the latter granted even that limited access to only a single European nation, the Dutch, whom they nonetheless kept isolated from the native population, much like prisoners."

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God tier AI slop from Trump this morning. A picture of his photo op with Xi, except the spouses are gone, a woman who looks like Natalie Harp is in the background, Trump is only wearing one glove, and what looks like a Russian TU-22 bomber is flying overhead. Pure uncut brainrot.

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My fav new album this week is All Together Now, by the American saxophonist Nicole McCabe (west coast) and drummer Savannah Harris (east coast). Produced by Spencer Zahn, who also released it on his record label. Avoiding the obvious, finding beauty. suddenquarterly.bandcamp.com/album/all-to...

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This week I am on vacation in 🇸🇮🇭🇷 and still managed to update my playlist with 👀 new music by 🇬🇧 D1, 🇺🇸 Standing On The Corner & Danny Brown, 🇺🇸 Revival Season, 🇺🇸 Lael Neale, 🇺🇸 Jeremiah Chiu, 🇺🇸 Lamin Fofana, 🇬🇧 Low End Activist & 🇨🇦 Seekersinternational, 🇺🇸 Black Meteoric Star, 🇺🇸 Wet,

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is, as many have pointed out, the least realistic thing in a movie about a time traveling killer robot.

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Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Guys.... Remember how "Children Of Men" was set in 2027?

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5th Iranian White Van Regiment 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very funny that Ed Sheeran, who was so keen to co-opt and monetise Irish culture, failed to take into account how ingrained support for Palestine is in a country that has suffered from famine and genocide from its overbearing neighbour (where he was born and raised)

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My fav new album this week is The Sgidonologist III by the South African 🇿🇦 producer Djy Ora. Including this one I’ve had three fav amapiano albums this year… and they’re all by Djy Ora. What more recommendation do you need? This is the good shit. music.apple.com/nl/album/the...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

Here's what I think about when I think back on 9/11. The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You could listen to me play my fav new music for two hours in Heavy Rotation on Echobox.radio. Last Friday's show archived here: www.echobox.radio/shows/heavy-... Playlist:

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you would have told me in 2003/2004 I wouldn't even bother to listen to a new Dizzee Rascal album at some point...

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My fav new album this week is It’s Nothing Personal. by the British producer Loraine James. Her second of the year, it’s a name-your-price Bandcamp-only affair brimming with energy, much more engaging (for me) than her ‘official’ Hyperdub release in May. lorainejames.bandcamp.com/album/it-s-n...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is why North Korea is the richest country of all.

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am once again live on Echobox.radio at the top of the hour for two hours of top new tunes in Heavy Rotation. Tune in!

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Antenna anarchy from below sea level. Independent radio broadcasting from Amsterdam.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a great example of how, for an MTV obsessed kid in 1983 or so, the 70s looked like they had happened on another planet. You'd see a sleeve like this and recoil: "that's what bands looked like?"

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For decades Hard Luck (1921) was Buster Keaton's only major lost film. It was reconstructed in 1987, but the ending was still missing. That footage, seen here, was later found in a Russian archive and added in

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The only other witness who could identify the shooter is [Suge] Knight, and you would’ve had a better chance of Shakur walking into the courthouse than Knight swearing to tell the whole truth."

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The entire Wu-Tang Clan in a small venue (Melkweg, Amsterdam) in 1995 to instead go see a Michael Jackson stadium show to write a concert review.

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Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

balancing out horrific footage at work with new geolocations of fun stuff in my spare time: Daft Punk - Human After All music video at 36.0888624,-117.9617862

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My fav new album this week - if I plug my ears when she does a little antisemitism during 'Witch Doctor' - is When the World Blows by Erykah Badu & The Alchemist. Which otherwise is a fascinating, sometimes even funny deep groove funk and soul record. controlfreaq.bandcamp.com/album/before...

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This week I finally saw Les Parapluies de 🇫🇷 Cherbourg (1964) for the first time, and updated my playlist with 👬 new music from 🇺🇸 Wishy, 🇺🇸 Mike Reid's Separatist Party, 🇬🇧 Friendly Fires, 🇷🇺🇩🇪 Anna Kost, 🇺🇸 Prince, 🇺🇸 Allah-Las and 🇺🇸 Erykah Badu (but not the antisemitic song) on Apple Music and Spotify

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 30/08/2026

This sucks, and it doesn’t even include the little cha-ching sound effect that follows “Anne Frank on it”

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Anybody have any idea what Erykah Badu is talking about when she mentions Anne Frank in the song 'Witch Doctor'?

'Cause a witch is just a medium
And a medium like the media
And you eat it up, what they feedin' you
That's witchcraft (Mm), that's witchcraft (Mm)
You believe it 'cause you need it
And they bank on it, Anne Frank on it
And you eat it up (Up), what they feedin' you
That's witchcraft, that's witchcraft (Ooh), uh

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Peoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An hour to go - LAST CALL for votes!

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don't finish the day without listening to Funky Dolly. Look at the players on these 1978 sessions!

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Performance
Anita Ball – background vocals
Jeff Baxter – guitar synthesizer
Paulinho DeCosta – congas
Richard Dennison – duet vocal, background vocals
David Foster – piano
Jim Gilstap – background vocals
Jerry Hey – trumpet
David Hungate – bass
Kim Hutchcroft – soprano-tenor baritone sax
Augie Johnson – background vocals
Jim Keltner – drums, special effects
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Myrna Matthews – background vocals
Joe McGuffee – steel guitar
Michael Omartian – piano
David Paich – piano
Dean Parks – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Gregg Perry – piano
Dolly Parton – lead vocals
Mac Rebennack – piano
Bill Reichenbach – trombone
Stephanie Spruill – background vocals
Larry Williams – tenor sax, flute
Amanda Winbush – background vocals
David Wolfert – acoustic guitar, electric guitar

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Job de Wit @jobdewit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This new Wishy single sounds like the kind of American college radio banger from ca. 1994-1996 that would occasionally find its way to my receptive European ears www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5iY...

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Wishy - Sensational (Official Video)

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On the subject of Dolly’s union/working class solidarity, her 9 to 5 LP included Woody Guthrie’s ´Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’, a protest song about the racist mistreatment & media coverage of exploited Mexican farm workers who died when the plane deporting them crashed in 1948.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

no one has ever had, or will ever have, a better creative day than Dolly Parton writing Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day

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