I Blame Jan Garbarek This saxophonist turned the tables on me—but what can I do but listen?

“I once heard a bootleg tape of #JanGarbarek jamming as a teenager. I couldn’t believe what I heard. He was playing hot #hardbop like he had been born in Philly or New York.” #music #jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky #TedGioia open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...

The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened The state of the culture, 2025

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Read #TedGioia ❤️ the state of the culture
2026 resistance movement to the flattened culture by social media. Say no to uniformity! Take back your own creativity ✊🏾 fuck Musk, Zuckerberg

Quadro de fundo branco cujo título é "The Rise of Dopamine Culture". Da esquerda para direita, a primeira coluna mostra uma categoria e três colunas à direita, em ordem crescente, mostram os respectivos hábitos de uma Cultura Tradicional Lenta, Cultura Moderna Rápida e Cultura da Dopamina. - Esportes: pratique um esporte > assista a um esporte > aposte em um esporte (BETs); - Jornalismo: jornais > multimídia > clickbait; - Vídeo: Filmes & TV > Vídeos > rolagem de vídeos curtos; - Música: álbuns > faixas - > Tiktoks; - Imagem: ver numa galeria de arte > ver no smartphone > rolar no smartphone; - Comunicação: cartas escritas à mão; voz, e-mail, ... > textos curtos; - Relacionamentos: namoro/casamento > liberdade sexual > deslizar em um aplicativo. Fonte: TED GIOIA The State of the Culture, 2024 - by Ted Gioia https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

Observando o gráfico, percebi que sempre mantive a música no "Slow".

Já na linha de Esportes (Athletics), mesmo triste ver como as BETs tomaram conta do futebol brasileiro.

Fonte: TED GIOIA
The State of the Culture, 2024 - by Ted Gioia […]

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Was pop culture better when you were a kid?

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#SpencerKornhaber #KERA #KrysBoyd #Podcasts #TedGioia

Welcome to the Worldwide Wall Why are web platforms turning into bunkers and internment camps?

w/ no connection to the original purpose of social media, namely connecting you w/ friends, family, interests.

But, like Google, the social media platforms don’t care...lost interest in anything except holding people captive.' #TedGioia

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Ted Gioia on AI's Threat To Music. #ai #music
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#AIinMusic #TedGioia #FutureOfMusic

Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time? Or how we all became Clint Eastwood

the Most Dominant Personality Type of Our Time #TedGioia

“In the course of just 60yrs, this unsettling personality type went from the Bates Motel to the CEO suite to the US Presidency.

Presenting a mask to the audience…this flat acting style bcame...👇
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“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
—Ornette Coleman

#jazz #theimperfectart #tedgioia #burden #improvisation #ornettecoleman #geoffdyer #butbeautiful

"The Infrastructure of the Recording Industry Is About to Fail” The entire Hollywood ecosystem is tottering on the brink

Super interesting read by #TedGioia

Netflix now wants to spend less on making movies, but chrge more...Spotify even worse AND its CEO is dumping mkt shares.

It's a topsy-turvy entertainmt ecosystem where nothing is solid-enduring where only distributors get
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Google Is Now the East India Company of the Internet Long ago, another company tried to control global connectivity—it had an unhappy ending

#TedGioia #$GOOGL

"By 1603, the East India Company had three ships. A decade later that had grown to eight. But the bigger it got, the more ambitious it became.

The rates of return were enormous—an average of 138% on the first dozen voyages. . . "
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#currentlyreading on #audible #jazz #TedGioia

The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming

If you aren't reading @Ted Gioia, you should. He's brilliant and so far, always right. For instance, he's uncovered the Spotify scandal that's... really quite something. We are being fed fake crap, while real artists are starved for money and listens.
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Original post on mastodon.social

"Our single best hope is a cooperative streaming platform owned by labels and musicians. Let’s reclaim music from the technocrats. They have not proven themselves worthy of our trust."

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Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?

Ted Gioia on why big tech companies (with money invested in AI) are suddenly getting into the publishing business
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#publishing #business #ai #TedGioia #tech #companies #money

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Ted Gioia on Substack Let’s give some praise to Substack CEO Chris Best who (according to the NY Times) turned down Elon Musk’s offer to buy Substack—and potentially put Chris in charge of the entire merged Substack and Tw...

Pretty cool...thx #ChrisBest !
& #TedGioia
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The State of the Culture, 2024 Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

Some genuinely useful tips at the bottom, but please take the time to read the whole article - it might just help save your sanity. Please redistribute!

#sanity #mentalhealth #culture #art #entertainment #technofascism #irony #tedgioia

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