J.W. Ricci

Ok I hate posting on the internet, especially when so heady, half baked and idea-guy-like, but this one’s been mulling about for a while and just needs to come out. One of the most beguiling trends I’ve been noticing lately is that it seems like the type of people who claim to be the most anti ai

But recommendations algorithms are generative AI for culture. Sure, it’s easy to hate ai generated art. But when real, human made art and artefacts are essentially next token predicted into someone’s awareness, and transmitted through them into our culture, we have… AI generated culture baby

Ok I hate posting on the internet, especially when so heady, half baked and idea-guy-like, but this one’s been mulling about for a while and just needs to come out. One of the most beguiling trends I’ve been noticing lately is that it seems like the type of people who claim to be the most anti ai

friends that are artists, craftspeople, farmers, musicians, etc. etc. are on and seem to be using instagram (a lot!). (This seems to be a uniquely American situation. It might not have been a lasting movement, but half of the Danish indie music scene joined Pixelfed in early 2025.)

Ok I hate posting on the internet, especially when so heady, half baked and idea-guy-like, but this one’s been mulling about for a while and just needs to come out. One of the most beguiling trends I’ve been noticing lately is that it seems like the type of people who claim to be the most anti ai

A musician friend relayed the most (only?) positive account of his experience with TikTok that I’d ever heard. “If you keep positing it shows your stuff to so many people!” (He’s blowing up…)

Ok I hate posting on the internet, especially when so heady, half baked and idea-guy-like, but this one’s been mulling about for a while and just needs to come out. One of the most beguiling trends I’ve been noticing lately is that it seems like the type of people who claim to be the most anti ai

Imagine you spend 7 years writing a book and now it’s out! You’re invited onto a podcast hosted by a “master of the art of conversation”. Wow! It’s going well, then halfway through, for no apparent reason, they start reading verbatim from an LLM — a summary of your work, questions about you, etc…

The host makes you answer questions the LLM generated. Then they abruptly pivot again and claim to be in touch with something called “pure awareness”. Then the interview ends. You pack up and head home — “that was weird!”, you think. Some time later, the podcast is published and you listen back…

Imagine you spend 7 years writing a book and now it’s out! You’re invited onto a podcast hosted by a “master of the art of conversation”. Wow! It’s going well, then halfway through, for no apparent reason, they start reading verbatim from an LLM — a summary of your work, questions about you, etc…

Through a Frame / Pollen Drop is out now... musings on leaving and returning, on decade-long cycles of life, on stepping too far, and on gradually learning one’s way. lnkfi.re/through-a-fr...

, with pushes and pulls, calls and responses, and dynamic movement, all spawned from one source.

Listen at the link in my bio, and thank you for listening <3 🙏

Through a Frame / Pollen Drop is out now... musings on leaving and returning, on decade-long cycles of life, on stepping too far, and on gradually learning one’s way. lnkfi.re/through-a-fr...

There are sounds from electric guitars that Eli and I layed on top of a turned-up amp, re-amping my acoustic guitar, resonating the electric guitars, and recording them through effects and pedals.

Through a Frame / Pollen Drop is out now... musings on leaving and returning, on decade-long cycles of life, on stepping too far, and on gradually learning one’s way. lnkfi.re/through-a-fr...

but I feel a sense of spaciousness, ease and openness in these pieces, as if it has taken a decade for my musical expression to soften, ripen, settle in. And it has.

Through a Frame / Pollen Drop is out now... musings on leaving and returning, on decade-long cycles of life, on stepping too far, and on gradually learning one’s way. lnkfi.re/through-a-fr...

In 2014, I moved from North Carolina to Copenhagen, Denmark to learn how to build windmills. I dropped out of school in 2016, convinced that the most important thing I could do was to play guitar all day every day.

On Friday May 8, I'll be releasing "Through a Frame / Pollen Drop", my first new music in 6 years. Around the release, I'll be performing Through a Frame, Pollen Drop, and a couple other instrumental guitar pieces at some of Durham/Hillsborough's natural/artificial areas.

Come for ~20 minutes of music. Stay for a walk. Hope to see you there :) Thu May 7, West Point on the Eno Dam (6p) 36°04'16.1"N 78°54'38.5"W Fri May 8, Brumley North Labyrinth (6p) 36°02'05.2"N 79°02'30.8"W Sat May 9, Occoneechee Speedway Grandstand (6p) 36°04'26.7"N 79°04'54.6"W

Wondering how many more nazi salutes, how many more changes to platform policy to allow for harassment of marginalized folks, how many more hitherto unthinkable horrors will need to happen before my otherwise ultra lefty, arty, compassionate, community oriented friends join me on Mastodon.

Bsky would be nice too, but I’m afraid it’s just a bandaid for the current problems.

Desperately looking for more music like Yo La Tengo (@actualylt.bsky.social) - "Leaving Home" from the Old Joy soundtrack. The !*&%ify algorithm is swinging and missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapp...