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RIP Julee Cruise. You had a strange, long pull on many of us for a brief spotlight. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/10/julee-cruise-singer-david-lynch-collaborator-dies-aged-65-b52s

Encrypting Secrets in Music Using a custom encryption scheme based on musical notation, US musicians smuggled information into and out of the USSR. https://www.wired.com/story/merryl-goldberg-music-encryption-ussr-phantom-orchestra/

Those are really nice treatments. Especially love that first shot. Also 👏 on the C3040 and G2 mentions.

Continuity & Desktop View, while not revolutionary, will be interesting to start to see showing up.

Ambitious taking over every auto display panel? Take that Elon Musk. Also take that nearby ambulances.

Finally caught up on final, first 1/2 split season Better Call Saul. #kimwexlerfanclub

Listening to Sinatra’s ignored non-masterpiece

A very Lapham’s Quarterly article on color photography https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/new-look-same-great-look “When we judge the color photograph, we not only think of how the subject looked in nature, but we also remember how painters throughout the centuries have rendered similar objects. The color photograph has to satisfy a double standard—fidelity to real life and a recognizable approximation to traditional art.”

^ That’s a great photo (there are plenty of The Hawk). __________________ RIP philosopher Joseph Raz https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/05/philosophys-gentle-giant

Just finished the limited-series six episodes. Really worth your time.

Wilco’s Cruel Country “reality ruins everything”

I kinda thought the singularity would be more dramatic.

Remember for those 20 or so months when Ryan Adams was the shit?

The rise and fall of taxi dance halls, where eager male customers paid their ballroom partners ten cents per song https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-dance-business-that-scandalized

A little good news... Ukrainian man drives 3,700km to be reunited with parents and fiancee – who live just 10km away https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/ukrainian-man-drives-3700km-to-be-reunited-with-parents-and-fiancee-who-live-just-10km-away

Threat Level Midnight

Hope it's a sky-high day!

Anyone heard the DCA Stealth?

Old Enough! (Netflix). Does this ever get old?

It actually looks worse than that now. It seems a very Silicon Valley neighborhood. Dilapidated Smug Mug, RV park for homeless, car repair shops, Mozilla and Atlassian HQs, my 100 unit complex, dead flower shop complex/new 451 housing complex, new low/medium income housing/old Opera browser US HQ, gas station. Its mostly built on early silicon processing companies land so you sign wavers when you buy on the poisoned soil. So you know, basically paradise.

One of the Goth Seeds and his computer desktop..: