I'll be on CKUA speaking to Grant Stovel about International Songwriter's Day and Music In Orbit in about ten minutes. Might even pick a song to play.

It feels good to finally be fully into the public infrastructure for music project. A survey is being/about to be sent to about 2000 musicians in Canada. If that's you, please consider filling it out, I promise it will be used for good ❤️

UC Press is selling books by donation this year at SCMS which is cool and I grabbed a copy of Music Streaming Around the World. Worth a look if you like #deals

This is taking place in about an hour (central time)

Team Venezuela let's go

Our five year old gets to skip school today to Irish dance in bars and schools across the city

haha, yes, this is the work around. (thanks!!)

Podcast #344 - Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age - Radio Survivor While the work of radio stations using terrestrial transmitters is a typical discussion topic on Radio Survivor, for this episode we find ourselves examining music and talk beamed down from satellites...

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Ep. #1005: Brian Fauteux - Kreative Kontrol Brian Fauteux is here to discuss his book, 'Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age,' his lifelong interest in underground music, culture, and media, how the advent of satellite rad...

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Music in Orbit by Brian Fauteux - Paper

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One year since Music In Orbit came out, and I feel like you get to do a year anniversary post and then have to shut up about it forever. Still available via UC Press and locally at Audreys. Below are a few select posts and interviews I've done about the book since it has come out

The public sphere is a little more structurally transformed today

Even the CEO is tired of Bluesky

I had figured out how to find solid blocks of writing when the kids were pretty young, but, like often home sick and stuff. I'm finding it hard to figure this out for this new phase of after-work and weekend activities. I'm thinking big things like, "maybe a white board?"

Nobody in mountain time complains about the start time of a hockey game. We're just happy to be included.

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm album cover. Largely white, with lettering in grey and some sparse trees as glimpsed in a snowy landscape.

"I must have been 16 when this album came out and it was such a soundtrack to my youth. There are lots of other records from around that era that define that time for me, but I think as a body of work it’s pretty much flawless."

Jamie Campbell Bower on Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

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Unbelievably great day to have phoned it in at work and watched these games all day

Happy #WorldRadioDay. Have you seen this, have you heard about this?

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You absolutely need to get some 50/50 tickets

In fifteen minutes, a brand new episode of WHAT DO WE KNOW is airing. We're doing an all vinyl show today. We got the new Kid Rock song. We have everything. CJSR 88.5 FM, cjsr.com.

Leaning into something that is celebratory, flawless, colourful, joyful, powerful, beautiful, etc., etc., is the right move when Trump and Vance and Kid Rock and Rob Schneider or whoever are taking their ball and going home.

When asked if they would vote for their province to begin the process of separating from Canada and seeking a new agreement to define its future relationship with the country, approximately three in 10 residents of both Alberta (29%) and Quebec (31%) say yes. This includes those who say they would definitely or probably vote yes, and those who say they would lean toward voting yes. However, new Ipsos research which "stress-tested" these sentiments by introducing real-world consequences reveals that actual committed support for separation is roughly half these levels in both provinces, with only 15 to 16% of Albertans and Quebecers maintaining their support after considering possible costs. This means that for roughly half of separatist supporters in both provinces, independence is more a political message than a plan they are prepared to endure costs to achieve.

To set the record straight, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said today that about 30 per cent, or 1M, Albertans support independence. This is false. The latest IPSOS poll found about 15 per cent support for separation from Canada when those polled were informed about the "real-world consequences."

Does this include doctors of philosophy?

At least in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada they do

They do. Even in daycare.

Those two guys don't give a fuck about how sunny it is