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back in the early days of Twitter I used to talk about the fact that the boy band business model was one of the few viable ones for major labels in the digital era

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Youssef Yancy was in the Decoding Society for a minute Amazing theramin and trumpet player He also played with James Brown He's the one that told me about Gotcha! (check out some films- James yells out Gotcha when the band misses one of his moves - his hand signals the amount they're getting fined)

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tracking down the scores for a couple of his electronic works is on my "to do" list

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as Sonny Sharrock would've said "they struck a blow for mankind or whatever"

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I hope Federal employees realize that if they all ignored Elmo's email that plan would fall apart. He can't fire ALL of them. In fact, he can't fire ANY of them. And I hope they realize the people who DO answer that email are more likely to see negative repercussions than the ones that don't.

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"Was it cause of his skin color? Or his skill? We'll never know" --- Said by an obviously unqualified white dude who is also obviously alcoholic.

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this is my kind of petty 😂🤣

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I'm tellin' y'all... Trump's gonna f around & make her the next president If he issues an arrest warrant for her (which is likely imo) that will seal the deal it'll be a wrap after that - for Him

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I had the phrase Thomas Chatterton Williams muted when I was on Twitter. It's been popping up in my feed here b/c of his back & forth w Jamelle Bouie. time has been unkind to his cancel culture letter so now he's a very snobby "just asking questions" guy looks like I'll be muting him again soon

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when the (all Black) Tuskeegee Airmen won the first Top Gun competition in 1949 the Air Force refused to announce that the contest winner Had A Winner the A in MAGA has Always been about returning to that time

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@dieworkwear.bsky.social is gonna have field day with this lol

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there's a whole generation that thinks that biology is a series of scripts and code who therefore posit that things that can be scripted and coded are at least quasi-biological because they have been told they are smart they think they're immune to the Dunning-Kruger effect

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Descartes imposed the machine metaphor on humans Tech bros are trying to convince us that machines are biological Both metaphors can be dangerous Remember what's what We're not machines - we are not controlled Machines are not human - we are their controllers

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the manly thing would be for all the gay politicos in DC to come out of the closet & tell everyone who doesn't like it to go f themselves if you ain't doin' or facilitating that stay out of the be " a man" conversation

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all of Orange Julius' betas are out here pretending that they're alphas lol first of all If you're "a man" you don't need somebody to tell you to be one! second since when is it "manly" to listen to a dude who spends as much time and energy on his eyes as Vance does?

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as I said after the 1st crash of the Orange Regime it's well-known that there's an air traffic controller shortage I've already postponed one trip cause of Trump's (non) response to it Trump's BS is killing people Pray no one you know will be one of them or Make Some Noise

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It took years for the false info that I went to Berklee School of Music removed from my Wikipedia page. Now they think I'm a Brazilian rapper lol s/o to meu irmão B Negão

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I wish I was shocked this but I'm not there are no helicopters landing on the roof & Superman's not coming We have to do this ourselves

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rereading The Revolution Of Everyday Life is both reminding me why I do what I do the way I do and reiterating that we've slid back 40 years in a few weeks

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or he could put that 5K BACK so people don't lose their houses when they get sick or a disaster strikes

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"You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it"

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Oops

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Putin is a slick mofo He's spent decades seeding white supremacy in the US & selling Russia as it's haven Now that he's got his way in the US He's pivoting to multiculturalism so he can sell himself the world's "good imperialist"

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Our state was built around values of multiethnic harmony. This is the bedrock foundation underlying our consolidation...Our adversaries,...people with neo-colonial mindsets – halfwits, in fact – are unable to realise that diversity makes us stronger en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...

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I'm seeing A LOT of crap takes today Less "diversity" = more people saying stupid s#it

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I'm just sayin'... it's gonna be ironic that capitalism is gonna end up being the thing that defeats the BS "anti-DEI" push

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beyond the language crimes (see the thread) this is just bad faith writing - Black as in people has been spelled this way since the Stokely Carmichael days he's this generation's Stanley Crouch - the hateful social commentator version, not the hateful jazz critic

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this guy is dangerously racist in that old-fashioned MAGA way every Black kid is on drugs = every Black child is inherently dysfunctional - therefore they need to be on drugs Taking those children away from their (equally dysfunctional) parents is a no brainer if that's your view

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IF that includes outperforming people who work in the finance industry or outperforming investors in a way that allows people working minimum-wage jobs to invest & free themselves I'm down SO - tell me Is That Info Being Scraped Too?

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when the opps start quoting Neitzsche you should know that "hopes and prayers" phase has passed

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it will be ironic that capitalism, not the right-wing's caricature of woke is what's gonna end up defeating MAGA

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That was always what the Again in MAGA was about Going back to the time when Black servitude was the law of the land and Affirmative Action for white men was justified by God and "nature"

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The Secretary Of Defense has never read Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, or John Boyd

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Using Curb or Arro is mandatory in Manhattan

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That was Chris Shaw www.chrisshawmix.com/bio behind the register. I don't know who that was on trumpet

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the tech bros guru confirms Silicon Valley's blind spot and lets us know that the tech emperor's clothes are made out of our acquiescence

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbn...

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this is like saying My Dog peed on your leg Your Pants unexpectedly got wet

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eye like this xray.fm/broadcasts/6...

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related thoughts: a) when 48 Laws Of Power blew up, it made me apprehensive - cause it's about maneuvering around an autocrat b) when I was younger, I didn't quite get the Tao Te Ching now it seems like common sense - cause it's about maneuvering around autocrats

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People often stick "I am honored" at the front of some communication about something that they received as a result of their hard work that should've occurred in the natural course of events. This isn't one of those situations. I am genuinely honored by the piece that George Grella wrote.

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this will never get old (unfortunately)

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"Saturday’s order came in response to a lawsuit filed on Friday by Letitia James of New York" I'm tellin's y'all... Trump's gonna f' around and make Tish James the 1st woman president www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

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Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.

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after all of this over are we still going to let pretenders assert there’s no such thing as systemic racism?

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part of the problem with "musicians are employees" is that people didn't understand that copyrights are a form of wealth We didn't need to make "bitcoins" we already had them now somebody else has them & people want to kowtow to the possessors instead of taking what's their's back

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on the other hand I support the executive orders that deem that any mention of Blackness will get you fired

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I don't know how to say this beyond standing up to authority is a muscle and some of you have never exercised it

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The assault on copyright was...a “canary in a coal mine”.. it was one battle in a broader war that has now manifest in lawless, incompetent, and violent individuals mucking about in the federal government illusionofmore.com/the-copyrigh...

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