The March 2023 record-a-day playlist is up at Apple Music. I’m still playing catch up and it appears at the time of this posting I’m 13 (!) days behind. I’ve got a bit of free time these next few days and hope to do some listening.
Redefine Happiness and Meaning
from Four Arguments for Eliminating TV | Jerry Mander
Eight Conditions for Autocracy to Flower
- Eliminate personal knowledge
- Eliminate points of comparison
- Separate people from each other
- Unify everyone’s experience
- Occupy the mind with distractions
- Encourage drugs and conflict
- Centralize knowledge and information
- Redefine happiness and meaning
Fan culture is rooted in conformity, obedience, group identity and mob behavior, and its rise mirrors and models the spread of intolerant, authoritarian, aggressive tendencies in our politics and our communal life.
Inventories of Light | The New York Review
Changes in color are registered cumulatively, as if each plane were taking an inventory of the light hitting it. How [Miyoko] Ito was able to consistently produce this surface effect is one of the most dazzling and confounding aspects of her work.
Don Cherry
Organic Music Society, 2012.
Asher Gamedze: Turbulence and Pulse
Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet
Stellar Pulsations, 2012.
John Coltrane
“Live” at the Village Vanguard, 1962.
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT | The New York Times
The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.