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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

me? I'm choosin ta-exit this app

Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The factory that built them was thinking of a living room. The sonidero who buys them turns them into a public address system for the whole block, and then into a way of talking to a cousin in Chicago." www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

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Tepito: A Neighborhood Governs Itself

A dispatch from Mexico City's legendary barrio reveals how true innovation—from sound-system message networks to black-market tech adaptation—happens far beyond Silicon Valley. Filmmaker and technolog...

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

guy next to me at the taqueria was ordering from the menu and said he didn't know how something was pronounced. I'm wondering what Spanish word he means, and the bartender is like "Narragansett" 🤣

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If an essay repeatedly uses the phrase "Our analysis extends this argument..." it's a pretty clear tell, no? Trying to decide whether to stop doing this peer review right now or not. Don't make me read slop.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

artichoke flowers, because they're beautiful. and you don't eat too many immature flowers -- so check em out as they mature. glorious flores.

a collection of artichokes and those that have gone to flower

close up of an artichoke flower on the plant, still very purple

interim stage artichoke flower, halfway between what we eat (immature) and full on thistle bloom

artichoke flower in a vase in the house, looking super blue/purple. so gorgeous.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

what was the first kirkified solemn media spectacle? have they always been reflexively kirkified? i was recalling krista mcauliffe jokes just last month.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the skyline looks so weird without the Citgo Sign. they can't bring it back (slightly moved) soon enough.

the Boston skyline, as seen from the Mass Ave bridge. The Citgo Sign is but a skeleton of its former self. Apparently it's being moved slightly? anyway, something of a gaping cultural/color hole at the moment.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the first product he can think of that we get from Mexico is "hot tamales." qué chiste.

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M. Azevedo @azevedoaudio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The thing about this that really sucks is in many places, 60 dBA is the municipal noise limit. I would bet they spent enough money to get to 59.5 dBA at the property line and not s penny more.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't know why more people aren't talking about the Badu / Alchemist album that dropped today. listening now and it's solid as you'd expect.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this level of impassivity is impressive, disciplined even

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a little treehouse of horror spotted at the farm today: a paper wasp nest engulfing an apple

a paper wasp nest in an apple tree. at the top of the nest an apple is halfway engulfed by the nest. it is backlit by the sun and the leaves are looking bright green against a light blue sky.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

suddenly realizing that the clarinet-led sections in, say, "Peaches en Regalia" are very banda sinaloense. Zappa is Los Angeles through and through. has anyone talked about this?

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I keep getting pushed these audio "books" that are very clearly sloppy cash-ins. the tells are so obv: MOR phrasing, a level of generality that rarely mentions specific artists, songs, or examples, and an interminable set of variations on the same central, general points. brain rot history.

a screenshot of the AI "art" for an AI "audiobook" on reggaeton. imagine the cliches and they are there.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

soundtrack at the peluquería today pivoted from a Prince Royce playlist to an Adele playlist and no one batted an eye, just kept humming along

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

scored some rare doritos in hong kong

two bags of chinese doritos: the green bag on the left is coriander and the black bag on the right is "century egg"

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

40 years on, "Move Your Body" continues to fuel the party, Chicago to Santo Domingo youtu.be/SDELn1RPd1A?...

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Party

YouTube video by Jey One - Topic

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"because the final destination is the United States, there will be no congregating onboard today, especially near the lavatories"

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

just boarding a 16 hour flight that will have me arrive at home 4 hours from now #timetravel

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Upton Sinclair didn't have this to write about

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

wondering if Iran knew it could still take out Bessent, Miller, and Rubio and decided against it because they're doing such effective damage

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

guess where in the world I am right now? what timing! otoh, it could be raining cats and dogs.

Victoria's peak towering above a ton of skyscrapers, as seen from my hotel window

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

it is still so wild to me, an academic by habit, where you might write an article and see it published months or years later, that when I write for, say, Pitchfork, I deliver a draft and the piece gets published a day later. where is the middle ground?

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

just a random Saturday evening in the neighborhood. Ethiopian basslines resounding all afternoon. got as close to the soundsystem as the dog would let me. distorted Teddy Afro jams still ringing out as the sun set. even from a distance the bass warbled my camera.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

reading Pedro Páramo and learning cool new words

search results for "turicata," which is the Spanish -- and Latin! (Ornithodoros turicata) -- name for the relapsing fever tick. no duerma en ese rincón!

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

fuubutsushi was a vibe. we wanted to be so soothed in the pandemic era.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

an early example of Cuban rhythms in rock'n'roll, recorded in Nashville in 1956. (You might know the Diamonds' cover.) Sounds like they're doing their best with the percussion in the room, using a woodblock for the clave. but what's the instrument we hear first? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9G7...

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1st RECORDING OF: Little Darlin’ - Gladiolas (1956)

YouTube video by The45Prof

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the only guy who should continue using X without us haranguing him

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Miss Affleck" was a teacher at my elementary school, which is how I've been watching Ben Affleck on screen since Voyage of the Mimi

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

* and, what's more, re-recorded

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

this 1972 printing is already pretty yellow, but I can't resist snapping a pic on a smoke-hazy day like today. I'm looking up too. pulled this one off the shelf for a re-read last week because it remains prescient, and hoo boy, does it ever.

me holding a yellowed copy of John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up in my backyard, which is lit at midday with an unnatural yellow haze on account of wildfires in Canada.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I work on a farm several hours a day this time of year, for money and veggies and health, and I just love how sore and tired my body is right now and how little explosive diarrhea I have

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

oh you forgot about the time DJ Joe put Tego Calderón on a Jump Around loop? yo no. open.spotify.com/track/53g46W...

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Dj Joe, Tego Calderón · Fatal Fantassy 3 · Song · 2002

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've always associated the "soul delay" theory of jet lag with @greatdismal.bsky.social 's Pattern Recognition (2003), yet here it is a decade earlier in a play by García Marquez!

a picture of part of page 21 in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado"; the text in question, about jet lag and delayed souls, reads: "El avión se parece a un milagro, pero va tan rápido que una llega con el cuerpo solo, y anda do so tres días como una sonámbula, hasta que llega el alma atrasada."

me holding a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado"; a thin, black book with a picture of a sillón

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

dime la verdad: would you lick-a the spicy fence?

a red warning sticker that came with some fencing we bought for the farm. the fence contains cayenne pepper to deter chewing and it is literally labeled as "SPICY FENCE"!

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

working up a new unit in Technomusicology where I task students with making a remix using only short loops (2 beats?) of the source material. having trouble finding any good writing on the practice of composing with short loops. any articles come to mind?

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

national anthems symbolize nationalism so well. they all suck shit.

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

world cup footage cut to RFK Jr in the stands and he was roundly booed at the bar here

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"This was a new way of working. We were trying to emulate the hip-hop pioneers in New York. We loved how you could make random connections and how it made our quirky British songs sound cool and American."

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

when the timeline forks in a good way

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

little known fact about becoming a trillionaire: you must then be thrown into the nearest volcano

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Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

the new MoM album is 🔥 probably Perry's posthumous best. someone should pay me to write about it.

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