I’m falling further and further behind as the year goes on but am still posting what gets played. My hope is that I’ll catch up during holidays or something. I’m currently 26 plays short for the year, approximately 5 plays per month. Such calculations don’t help much, though. In any case, you can find the available April plays here on Apple Music. Enjoy!
Zoh Amba
O Life, O Light Vol. 1, 2022.
Donald Byrd
I’m Tryin’ to Get Home (Brass With Voices), 1965.
Yusef Lateef
Live at Ricky Scott’s, 2016.
William Basinski
The Deluge, 2015.
Charles Brackeen
Bannar, 1987.
George Freeman
Birth Sign, 1972.
Imagining an Alternative to AI-Supercharged Capitalism | Kottke.org
“Social-media companies use machine learning to keep users glued to their feeds. In a similar way, Purdue Pharma used McKinsey to figure out how to ”turbocharge“ sales of OxyContin during the opioid epidemic. Just as A.I. promises to offer managers a cheap replacement for human workers, so McKinsey and similar firms helped normalize the practice of mass layoffs as a way of increasing stock prices and executive compensation, contributing to the destruction of the middle class in America.” – Ted Chiang
Very happy to see that Laura Olin has resumed her newsletter. It’s always got something worth knowing, and her tone is inspiring, playful, compassionate. One of my favorites.
Making People Uncomfortable Can Now Get You Killed | Roxanne Gay for The New York Times
It’s so very easy to think we are good, empathetic people. But time and time again, people like us, who think so highly of themselves, have the opportunity to stand up and do the right thing, and they don’t. What on earth makes us think that, when the time comes, we will be any different?