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Start your day with this amazing Go Kurasawa set from #KEXP ✨️
https://youtu.be/Cx-BhTkZf8A?si=uEAucpNDmrHqCO6w
Soft Shakes is one of my favorite #psych albums of the past year. Go wrote and recorded it entirely on his own. You'll hear a range of percussion and bells, cornet, tenor sax, clarinet, flute, and more.
He met the studio musicians in Nashville 10 days prior to the show and they put these beautiful arrangements together. Incredible!
"Change was driven then by ordinary people making choices for their lives. Debate about identity, belonging, and responsibility were as much a story of 1776 as they are in 2026. #America250 is a reminder that civic engagement, open dialogue, and community action still matter today, and we have the power to shape the nation we want to be a part of."
From a Mass Cultural Council write up on recent America250 funded projects in MA: https://massculturalcouncil.org/blog/change-was-driven-by-ordinary-people/
Anyone know what the musicians from les georges leningrad are up to these days?? I loved them in college and think about them not infrequently.
I just read their wikipedia page and saw that they had a cool stage show, something i never knew about them! Just loved their #music from the lowcountry of SC before youtube etc 🌴
It's national #library week in the USA ❤️
celebrate by taking action! call your legislators this week about a piece of legislation affecting libraries in your state or municipality.
my state of MA had the 4th highest number of book ban attacks in 2022 and there's a bill in the House (already passed by Senate) to make it harder to ban books. Here's an email template to write your MA legislators about it: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ma-house-book-bans-spring2026
I care about AI's effect on the environment, but i'm worried we've already created lasting destruction with putting the entire economy into AI the last few years. Every day i think about all the money that has been siphoned off from the macro level investments to the micro level - all institutions pivoting their projects and focus from whatever useful thing they were doing before to AI.
Some of the $$ + labor would have been spent on infrastructure or social goods. But now it's gone, poof.
I wrote for @Nature about how archivists and librarians have laid the groundwork for a smooth transition to open, #FAIR, and reproducible research data. Bring us in early on your next project and get involved in digital library communities to build longlasting relationships✨
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03935-1