Michael Kalus posted a photo:

Wow, this one hurts. He had his hands in everything. "Recorded by Steve Albini" is practically a genre in itself. Just look at this insane discography. I own so many of those records, and of the many others that I don't, I feel like I probably ought to check them out. There comes a moment in every GenXer's life when they realize that every record they've ever loved was recorded by this one dude.

Let's start with his thundering 1993 article, "The Problem With Music". "Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."

Then there's this 2015 article about his business practices, "Punk Rock Ethics Are Good Business".

"A bakery opens because a guy wants to make bread. That's why people start businesses. It's because they want to do something with their time. They want that enterprise to be how they spend their days."

Here's an interview with him talking about him coming to terms with his 90s "edgelord shit".

I was gonna link to a few sample videos, but it just kept growing, so now it's a mixtape. Please enjoy jwz mixtape 245 of Albini-related music. (He probably hated music videos.)

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Wissenschaftliche Forschung der Woche:

Computer models show heat waves in north Pacific may be due to China reducing aerosols

So eine ähnliche Geschichte gab es schonmal mit Emissionen von Schiffen und Flugzeugen.

Scheiß Nordkoreaner immer!!1!

Die Musiktherapeutin Sielke Defloo hat zusammen mit ihrem Freund einen Track mit Klängen aus dem Pflegeheim De Liberteyt nahe Gent produziert und dabei die Idee entwickelt, für die Bewohner*innen eine Art Boiler Room zu schaffen. Gedacht, getan und so ravten sich die Alten durch einen Abend. Never too old. Da sehe ich mich ja ein bisschen in 15 bis 30 Jahren.

(via Faze Mag)

Last night, a friend I thought would know better was telling me how excited they were about "AI". My gesticulating ten minute response hit points such as: fraud at scale, fruit of the poisonous tree, VCs with sunk costs in Chinese GPU manufacturers who saw their cryptocurrency scams dissolving, data centers with ocean-boiling climate impact larger than some countries, and the wholesale destruction of the entire concept of objective truth.

Their response was a Marge Simpson-like, "I just think it's neat."

I had not ranted as such length since... last week... when...

...when another acquaintance I thought would know better told me how they were now Ayn Rand-curious and that the books are not what I thought they were (spoiler: the books are exactly what I think they are.) "Why are you calling her a fascist?" they asked. "Explain to me how, in her financialized worldview, she would argue against putting cripples into ovens." "Well, but, but..."

"Also", I added, "This edgelord 'Just Asking Questions' posture you're adopting is Not a Good Look given that we're probably less than a year away from brownshirts executing immigrants in the street."

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