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All this AI danger stuff and what to do to mitigate risk. I'm not seeing enough about the 1974 moratorium on recombinant DNA experiments and the 1975 Asilomar Conference as models for how to deal with this type of disruptive/potentially destructive technology. We forget about that because it worked.

It’s kind of crazy but the lead singer of Camper Van Beethoven is my current most trusted voice on the dangers ( or lack thereof) of AI.

Stay cool Atlanta

Jupiter and Venus, Mercury rising.

I have found the worst name for a restaurant ever.

Happy birthday Pete Townshend , who was born 40 days before Debbie Harry, which is crazy.

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This has white collar crime written all over it.

The only song title better than Smells Like Teen Spirit.

My new corner record shop.

And Moby continues to be a complete asshat.

At a certain point in your life, you begin to ask the question, in what order does everyone die?

Why did I not know that you can fly to the North Pole?

Brussels 7AM

We should all talk more about Wardell Gray. He spanned swing to bebop and skipped over to funk jazz before it really happened through his tone. His Central Avenue period is crazy.

No words

Duke is puke. Just saying.

The whole world is watching Beetlejuice tonight.

In Australia, this is the worst thing to happen today.

Sad toothbrush

If I chose my Nusrat streaming on anything other than album covers, I’d probably still choose this one tonight.

Moon over Wrightsville tonight.

Suddenly StubHub sucks worse

Ex post facto, but Todd Snider's High Lonesome and Then Some has the most There's A Riot Goin' On vibe in the entire Americana canon.

Everybody is nervous and thanks for acknowledging that. I wish we in health care made it a little bit easier about these difficult conversations, we have a lot to learn from each other.

I don’t think that Robert Christgau would mind my sharing that when he came out of anesthesia after his back surgery in Little Rock in 2020, the first thing he asked for was “more Todd Snider”

What a picture

Stockholm, 5:11AM.

Oslo 5AM

I can't believe that I'm the only person who thinks that Duran Duran's "Rio" is a rip-off of Spencer Davis Group's "I'm a Man". Am I?

This is seminal and I for one and going to spend the next few months creating a physical version of this that sits next to my Giddens jazz roadmap. Kudos Rod!

Nothing is cooler than this.

And the sky was grateful that Hayes Carll returned to the White Water Tavern tonight.

Not sure any of you pay attention but this year’s Giro d’Italia was one of the most exciting GTs in my memory. Congrats to Simon Yates, WVA is back, Visma is on fire, and great top 10 GC finish for Brandon McNulty