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Igor Stravinsky, drawing by Jean Cocteau

The City Investing Building, completed in 1908 in lower Manhattan, demolished in the 1960s.

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This post is going to make me sound like a total assole and I preemptively apologize. This is not directed at anyone in particular. Giving music recs to people feels awesome and listening to music recs from people is a miserable experience 85% of the time. I’ll mention a classic song I like and someone will be like “Have you heard The Breadsticks cover of that? It is so good!” and you pull it up and give it a try and it is hot garbage. It is coworker music. It is music you find on a playlist created for a popular YA ship. It is worse than the original by every conceivable metric and you sit back and realize someone thinks this is really good and you don’t want to hurt their feelings so you have no clue how to respond. We all know the phrase ‘you can’t eat at everybody’s house’ but you really cannot listen to everyone’s music recommendations. Especially if it is unprompted. People are just rearing to tell you to listen to some bullshit. And it has nothing to do with how cool the person is, there are some very cool and chill people in this world who unironically listen to Imagine Dragons in their free time. You cannot possibly know if their taste in music is good or horrendous until it is too late and your ears have been subjected to some torment.

thevaultofretroandvintage

mcfandrew

I read that as “Mormonism is the work of Satan,” and ngl I liked it.

science70

Commodore 887D Electronic Calculator, 1975.

Photography: Chris Hannah

nobrashfestivity

Channa Horwitz, music notation

She is recognized for the logically-derived compositions created over her five decade career. Her visually complex, systematic works are generally structured around linear progressions using the number eight.

cosmonautroger

Suzi Quatro

random-brushstrokes

Rithika Merchant - Sun Feeders (2021)

mothmiso

Naqshbandi Mausoleum (2) (3) (4) by tombomba2

post #1; post #2; post #4; post #5

plumslices

Dawn and Twilight bed by Emile Galle

slunch

tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content

bitchking-of-angmar

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

Have a paywall free link to the source!

megmca

“Strangled, water-buffalo caterwaulings.”

mcfandrew

Tell us how you really feel. TBF, I don’t disagree, but Winters got scalded here.

Not to miss the point, though. Joe Lim is abandoning Floodify to run a Planatir fork to do more of the same, so don’t think this guy has had some moral epiphany.