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#morningcoffeelisten David Byrne’s 2004 album Grown Backwards. Groovy, skittery percussion & funky basslines over string ensembles as Byrne's quirky, metaphoric lyrics capture the paranoias & anxieties of post-9/11 America. Listen: https://davidbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/grown-backwards-deluxe-edition

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Grover Washington, Jr.’s 1975 album Feels So Good. Washington's spacious, glimmering electric funk never looses its way, thanks in large part to bassist Louis Johnson's nimble grooves & Washington's always-ascending soprano sax. Listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKjIq6GHEkvFVBY9oQE5F9

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#morningcoffeelisten Sonny Rollins’s 1962 album The Bridge. Soulful & spare, this album of mostly ballads evokes the almost monastic 3 year period Rollins spent alone, honing his technique by playing on the Williamsburg Bridge. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLriPIg0RpIgweZ9bD1lA3F6aoxySomwSC

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Hah this is fantastic & I love how it keeps turning.

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Just a note that if I find you're doing that dumb Twitter thing where you follow and unfollow over & over trying to get my attention or to get me to follow you back I will block you. #publicserviceannouncement

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#morningcoffeelisten Tindersticks's 2016 album The Waiting Room. 25 years in, the indie band delivers a brooding collection of songs that sound like soundtracks to films that don't exist. Gritty, rapturous, cutting, this quiet music should be played loud. tindersticks.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...

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Winter Textures https://johnpauldavis.org/photography/winter-textures/ #photography

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Subsequently, & appropriately, in response to the reminiscence described in my previous post, I have discontinued shuffle & am just listening to @tmbg.bsky.social

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"Doctor Worm" by @tmbg.bsky.social came on shuffle. My elder son, now 21 LOVED this song when he was 3 & would headbang to it in his carseat. Once, as he was falling asleep he asked me, "Daddy, is Dr Worm an actual worm?" & I said "Yes" & he asked "how does he play the drums?" then fell right asleep

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#workoutlisten Inhaler's 2025 album Open Wide. The Dublin rock band expands their sound while staying true to the elements that made their first 2 albums so compelling. Still hard to believe these lads are 25 & under given how well they write & play. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Is the 38% of people polled in the NYC mayoral primary who support Cuomo just because of name recognition or are the memories of New Yorkers really that short they've forgotten 2021, when we learned Cuomo is a serial sexual harasser, fraudster who used the NY state government to benefit his family?

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Bring it on.

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#morningcoffeelisten Brittany Howard's 2024 album What Now. Breakup songs that celebrate moving away from unhealthy love & find joy in the music itself which ranges from R&B, soul, psychedelia, rock & jazz that comes together as a unified whole guided by Howard's genius. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Am I the only one who prefers Around The World In A Day (the album) to Purple Rain (the album) while preferring Purple Rain (the song) to Around The World In A Day (the song)?

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#morningcoffeelisten Peter Gabriel's 1992 album Us. Gabriel fronts an all-star cast of musicians from around the world, blending alt-rock & subtle electronica to house his plaintive, incisive, musing explorations of love, grief, reconciliation & healing. petergabriel.bandcamp.com/album/us-2

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Submitting poems to literary journals is sorta like trying to feed yourself in total darkness, via time machine. You bring the food to your face & then 2 weeks to 9 years later, you learn whether you successfully get to eat a yummy snack or have poked yourself in the eye with food-covered fingers.

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https://johnpauldavis.org/photography/morning-reflection/ #photography

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#morningcoffeelisten David Wax Museum’s 2024 album Secret Creature. The band evolves their alt-country Mexo-Americana, focusing here on intimate examinations of love & self-exploration. Fetching melodies & disarming, quietly poetic lyrics, tenderly sung. https://davidwaxmuseum.bandcamp.com/album/se

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Discovered some submissions that got accepted I'd forgotten even existed - here's one from 2019 with these prescient lines: "The artificial intelligence the company developed with funds that could have been raises turned out not to be intelligent or even useful" juked.com/2021/05/john...

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#morningcoffeelisten Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade's 2020 album RoundAgain. The quartet Redman assembled for his solo debut reunites 25 years later. 4 giants of contemporary jazz deliver a set of lively, masterful interplay, deeply felt. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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I would love to see this, actually.

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#morningcoffeelisten Billy Bragg & Wilco's 1998 album Mermaid Avenue, which sets previously-unheard lyrics of Woody Guthrie's to music written by Bragg & Wilco. Vibrant glittering folk-rock with infectious melodies highlighting Guthrie's still-applicable fiery politics. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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#workoutlisten Sunny Day Real Estate's 2000 album, their most recent, full of winding post-prog song structures, big satisfying riffs, soaring vocals, mystical contemplative lyrics, thundering drums. The godfathers of emo made the Platonic ideal of area rock records. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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#morningcoffeelisten Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band's 2023 album King's Highway, a majestic, expressive & expansive set that finds the band at its finest. Simultaneously uplifting & daring. Wordless hymns of boundless love & hope. Sunday morning on Saturday night. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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thicket

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A 12 year old will be 17 in 2030, when we are expected to hit or surpass 1.5 Celsius warming above preindustrial levels, so something tells me those 12 year olds would rather not have to face climate disasters & food shortages in exchange for likely wrong answers made from plagiarized content.

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Also, LLMs are plagiarism machines that return deadly & racist answers & make any software they're added to harder to use, & are accelerating the ruination of our only planet, but say more about how people deserve to self-learn wrong answers to their questions.

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& of course HILARIOUS that anyone would ask a question & be okay with getting a wrong answer - that any answer is better than no answer, as if these self-learners don't want the truth, just empty "content," which supposes they have no project for which they asked the question, which is WILD. 2/2

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There's so many things wrong with this. For example, there's no such thing as "self-learning." Learning is a social activity. LLMs hide the history of knowledge & strip the social aspect in such a way as to make the activity, whatever it is, to be something other than learning. 1/2

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