I just dropped off two bags of books to the Friends of the Public Library book sale warehouse and managed to not buy anything to bring home (but I did lend mom $5 so she could buy some sheet music) please clap
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NO TIME FOR FEAR, my New Deal history podcast is live, baby!!!!! We might live in the dumbest timeline ever, but America did a lot of really good stuff nearly a century ago during the height of the Great Depression that we can use as a blueprint moving forward. It's still making its way into all of the podcast directories but is now available via Apple podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-time-for-fear/id1791957947 #history #podcast
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Anyway, there's so much terrific old pervy ragtime, blues, and jazz music out there. A friend of mine used to have a compilation CD we'd play at her parties in New Orleans with these bawdy tunes. I don't remember the album title, but this playlist has really similar energy https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6BZdtFDzuuUb6pkNuf40zi?si=eda920f39f904c21
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I'm so grateful for so many reasons that I got to live and work in New Orleans for several years, but one of them was really internalizing and learning the history that America has always been a funky, weird, and horny place and that any attempts to paint it otherwise are totally ahistorical at best, and often motivated by some really sinister politics at worst.
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Now I'm obsessed with knowing whether it was the WPA that helped get this song preserved (peep the WPA stamp on the lower right of Alan Lomax's catalog record) https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.5949/
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It's always a good time to cue up Jelly Roll Morton's iconic, nasty, and wildly horny song The Dirty Dozen, but especially lately since I'm so tired of America's neo-Puritans and neo-Prohibitionists. https://youtu.be/aRSMaKJySlY?feature=shared
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There has been some talk recently about how crypto lobbyists are trying to get privately managed funds and endowments (so think large state employee pension funds) to get into crypto and this is the kind of thing that should scare the shit out of everyone and an example of how the traditional stock market could do well but something overexposed to crypto could bankrupt tons of normal people https://wapo.st/40lJ0IR
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The older I get, the less I like to engage in politics forecasting but I think it’s quite possible that we’ll have a parallel weird economic situation where the conventional stock market does very well and yet there’s a huge bubble with crypto that leads to staggering losses. The scary stuff is that crypto evangelists keep trying to have their cake and eat it too, where they get the benefits of investors without the regulations of normal securities.
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The pastor who gave a benediction at the inauguration has launched his own crypto? We truly live in the dumbest timeline possible.
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In this vein, this is worth a read: https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/we-will-outlive-them-yiddish-song-protest-slogan
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Fully plan to outlive all of these assholes fueled purely by spite. They want us to be scared and to cry and I refuse to give them what they want. Fuck em!!
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Also yes to the aspect of people hosting less. I feel like this still happens in my corner of the Midwest, maybe because you can still buy a single family home here on a middle class salary, and at the same time I know lots of people who don’t host as often as their house and lifestyle would reasonably accommodate. My husband and I used to host more pre-Covid (monthly potlucks) but even now we have people over to our house several times a year. Side bar: I love hanging out at peoples houses!
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This article was pretty much genetically engineered to be relevant to my interests and I’m extremely glad for research bearing out that socializing and even temporarily pretending to be an extrovert is good for people’s mental health. I’VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YALL. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/
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even though i've had my ham license for a while (which requires passing a test that gets into electrical theory), trying to wrap my brain around how the electrical grid works is always a mind-bending exercise (i find the concept of load balancing totally fascinating). This is such a helpful primer about why scientifically and economically, electricity is not like other consumer commodities https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/11/14/which-power-plant-does-my-electricity-come-from
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but also, as someone who often texts my friends wanting to see if they're down to hang out, and then never hearing anything back from them, meanwhile they keep posting status updates on instagram stories, part of me is like...... a lot of the loneliness epidemic sure seems self-inflicted and with all the characterizations of self-sabotage.
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at the risk of sounding like a galaxy brain pundit I do think there are two things going on here with an AI girlfriend/boyfriend phenomenon: both classic Marxist alienation and also an extreme form of feeling entitled to complete psychological safety which is connected to a pathological fear of rejection. Someone on reddit called this thing the "high fructose corn syrup of relationships" and I'm kind of inclined to agree with that characterization.
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like, someone close to me recently told me that she spends a lot of time asking ChatGPT for advice, and it kind of made me sad because it's the type of conversation where I'd be so happy to jump on a call and have that same conversation with her. idk, I just think our social skills are so totally atrophied and there is no way in which we can possibly build a better world if people aren't talking to other real people.
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part of me is beyond horrified by this, part of me thinks it's safer than my era of early 2000s internet adolescence when you'd chat with someone from an AOL chatroom for weeks and get a crush on them and for all you knew, it could be some gross old dude. But man, idk what it says about our society if people are spending this much time with someone who they know isn't a real person on the other end of the line https://archive.is/X7EaA
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The LA Public Library has established a support fund for librarians impacted by the wildfires https://lfla.org/laplstafffund/
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