2026-04-05
Fred Again.. X 1/2 of Daft Punk have an amazing set, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
Dylan Brady also had a great mini mix at the Piñata store. I hope he ends up doing more solo stuff and keeps working with Skrillex. Hearing sets like these make me want to get a turntable and try a crack at another DAW. One day, perhaps. I found out about this set from Kieran's interview.
Conservation of Bass: a puzzle game in which a fish tries getting glasses of water. This is a creative take on block puzzle mechanics. And like that law of thermodynamics, you can neither create nor destroy them; they can only be rearranged.
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There was this article about Woody Brown, a novelist with nonverbal autism who was able to "break out of his cage" through the help of speech aids. However, this case is unfortunately reminiscent of Anna Stubblefield, a woman who claimed that she and a man with nonverbal autism fell in love and that this love was consensual due to those same speech aids. These cases hit close to home for me as my older sister has a similar condition. She's verbal, but her speech is limited. It's clear that she has an intellectual disability along with her autism, and thankfully the science over the last decade or so has learned to make that distinction. As a child, my parents attempted to get my sister to use those same speech aids, thinking that they'd help her "break out," but they didn't do anything. Since then, research has backed this up.
So with that, I will flat out say that Woody isn't writing those novels—his mom is ghostwriting them. How can someone obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine make allusions to Sisyphus in the same breath? That's because he can't. More than that, the fact that the literary community seems to be going along with it and eating it up is a real disservice to people with those conditions and their loved ones. Shame on his mother for putting her son through that, and shame on those assholes at UCLA going along with this charade so they can service their agenda. I hope they get the punishment they deserve.
American Diner Gothic: I didn't want to share this piece since it's been making the rounds literally everywhere, but whatever. Obviously the delusional chauvinist tech bro that wrote this is an out-of-touch dipshit, but his general observations are salient. However, the idea of young people being "placeless" doesn't really capture the phenomena fully. It's not that young people are placeless, but that all the places are being homogenized into one place; anglophonic, loosely American, and while seemingly catering to any niche, actually serves none of them. It's not socioeconomic precarity that's to blame, but the given of constant connectivity. No longer is culture bound to institutionally elite cities; even someone living in podunk Wisconsin can participate in the wider conversation. Is it liberating? Is it just the panopticon growing and mutating? Weirdly enough, it seems to be both.
Bo Lueders, guitarist of hardcore band Harms Way, dies at 38. Harms Way is an awesome band, and I was fortunate to discover them back when that running man meme was popular. Seriously, y'all, you are not alone. If you're struggling, reach out to someone.
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