every week i get an email that someone's trying to hack into my angelfire account and i just....

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systemic disinvestment is a synonym for pillaging, and that's what happened to places that actually get attention in that city. After the disinvestment came the venture capital and the opportunistic gentrification that passes private investment off as a public good. I'll never forgive them.

what had been, for me, as a child, the most exciting place on earth. Underneath what was the second tallest building in the country is an all but abandoned central station that still services rail lines that run for no one, not because people abandoned the lines but the reverse. Decades of

All I want is infrastructure. That's all I want. Trains. Busses. Schools. Medicine. These basic necessities are instead treated as utterly utopian and outlandish. I can't express how devastating it was to be back in Cleveland and to take the red line from the airport to Tower City, the ruins of

New SLAM exhibition brings ancient Rome to life in ‘Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan’ - Student Life The 7-foot-tall, 2,000-year-old statue of the Roman emperor Trajan, taken from Minturno, is quite an imposing sight. Once, this full-body statue would have been painted in vivid reds, deep purples, br...

yall should go to st. louis this summerrrr www.studlife.com/scene/2026/0...

I wrote up my thoughts on Lisa Downing's book AGAINST AFFECT

www.its-her-factory.com/2026/04/agai...

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An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

🔥 "reactive, not genealogical." 🔥

exactly/just tweeted it out/etc.

still need to dig into the rest, but felt it might be worth working through my heated reactions to the opening before doing so

Feeling Forever Defending affect theory (1)

got angry on main dandipiero.substack.com/p/feeling-fo...

every single one of these people is the same. oh, you mean there's no there there? under the house of cards that we've all been saying is only good at making our environment and our thinking capacities demonstrably worse? how strange. only the press treats AI credulously.

the way everyone is so frayed is palpable everywhere, but especially in public zones like airports. lashing out and fragile, absolutely ready to catch fire. many have been forgetting/foregoing the rules of respectful public interaction for a while, but in the end times things matter even less.

If you’ve been cheering people at Boston University for putting up pride flags in defiance of the administration’s prohibitions, you should know that you can donate DIRECTLY to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program!

100% of your gift goes to WGS (not some random uni account)

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Just a reminder, because it’s easy to forget, there are actually 45 democratic senators and 213 democratic representatives in the House, and somehow none of them have even an idea - not even an effort, an attempt - to prevent the president from murdering thousands and crashing the world economy.

Gregory Uhlmann's Call-and-Response with the Dark Sky Guitarist Gregory Uhlmann discusses 'Extra Stars,' a five-year collection of pieces inspired by stargazing in the California desert, and the Los Angeles musical community threaded through it.

Guitarist Gregory Uhlmann discusses 'Extra Stars,' a five-year collection of pieces inspired by stargazing in the California desert, and the Los Angeles musical community threaded through it. The Tonearm's Sam Bradley peers through the clouds.

Gregory Uhlmann's Call-and-Response with the Dark Sky:

Also IF IT IS FRONT PAGE NEWS THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH IRAN, it is ALSO FRONT PAGE NEWS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK US TO IRAN ARE TALKING LIKE THIS.

The war does not exist in a separate, more serious universe than its leaders! This is the guy who decides if it happens and how many people die!

Donald J. Trump * + @realDonaldTrump Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP 2.15k ReTruths 8.34k Likes 4/5/26, 6:03 AM

Every single person who allows this late-stage dementia-addled man to continue in office for a single additional minute belongs in The Hague.

AMS Lecture Series: Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Join the AMS Lecture Series with Dan Dipiero as he explores the 1980s UK indie scene, where gendered dynamics often overshadowed indie-pop contributions.

My lecture at the rock hall is less than a week away! To get to go home and talk about my favorite bands in this venue, where we used to take field trips, is an actual dream. Please send your musically inclined students/pals/relatives—it's freee
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Go if you can! Livestream if you can't! Listen to my conversation with the co-organizer either way! dandipiero.substack.com/p/emo-con-sp...

Long COVID disability burden in US adults - Communications Medicine Bonuck et al. quantified the disability burden of Long COVID in U.S. adults using years lived with disability and compared its NIH funding to that of 68 other conditions by sex predominance. Long COVI...

Although the scientific community first acknowledged the existence of #LongCOVID in late 2020, & the disability burden of Long COVID lies between that of Alzheimer’s & asthma - in the US, Long COVID received just 14% of its disability commensurate funding:

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Talking about my booook at Northeastern this week. Would love to see ya: camd.northeastern.edu/events/dan-d...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

ouf i shudder to think

Yeah, the genres are important for sure! It has a "feeling" and a sound. Plus playing brushes is much easier with it. I just view it as a special effect and am always blown away when (some of the best) musicians make it their whole approach.

w i l d l y. n o r e a s o n.
like, you don't have to do that. nobody is forcing you. to each their own, but i've never heard a good argument for it. in terms of pure physics, it makes NO sense. it's an objective handicap.

annual comment, but i truly can't believe there are drummers out there in the year of our lord 2026 learning/teaching traditional grip, which is not to say that it doesn't work; it obviously works. but it was invented for an antiquated purpose and makes everything wildly more difficult for no reason

what....is this

The meme of Principal Skinner: in the top panel he looks down with hand on chin considering an idea: “Have the bloated admin salaries and the expensive consultants been the problem the whole time?” Bottom image: he looks up and beyond the frame with more confidence: “No…no, it must be the humanities programs.”