Eric Lemmon
@ericlemmon.bsky.social
// Experimental music and instrumental composition with a focus on tech and politics
// https://linktr.ee/eclemmon
// Performing often with ensembledecipher@bluesky.social
// St. Louis based
// https://linktr.ee/eclemmon
// Performing often with ensembledecipher@bluesky.social
// St. Louis based
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correction: they are all retiring, announced or not
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
correction: they are all retiring, announced or not
The most recent post from a folded wet sock who has a strongly worded letter.
NEW: The Trump administration is ordering states to 'immediately undo' any action to provide full SNAP benefits during the GOP shutdown.
42 million Americans rely on SNAP to eat. Trump is demanding that they go hungry.
42 million Americans rely on SNAP to eat. Trump is demanding that they go hungry.
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The most recent post from a folded wet sock who has a strongly worded letter.
👏 ANYTHING 👏PROGRAMMED 👏REFLECTS 👏THE 👏BIASES 👏OF 👏THEIR 👏CREATORS
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
👏 ANYTHING 👏PROGRAMMED 👏REFLECTS 👏THE 👏BIASES 👏OF 👏THEIR 👏CREATORS
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Once more, for old times’ sake
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Once more, for old times’ sake
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Despite all these signals, expect Trump to claim Democrats cheated without any evidence, as he did in 2020, and for our media to both-sides his lies
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Despite all these signals, expect Trump to claim Democrats cheated without any evidence, as he did in 2020, and for our media to both-sides his lies
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday will endorse his former foe, Andrew Cuomo — who he recently called a “snake and a liar” — to be the next mayor of New York.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/a...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/a...
Mayor Adams Endorses Cuomo, Who He Once Called a ‘Snake and a Liar’
Outgoing mayor backs former rival, joins him courtside at MSG.
www.thecity.nyc
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie
It’s pretty much this, but of course satire and reality are now a perfect circle. @bencollins.bsky.social knows…
youtu.be/xQyf3QgRP-c?...
youtu.be/xQyf3QgRP-c?...
September 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It’s pretty much this, but of course satire and reality are now a perfect circle. @bencollins.bsky.social knows…
youtu.be/xQyf3QgRP-c?...
youtu.be/xQyf3QgRP-c?...
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Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...
New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...
My man Mamdani is a grade A memer.
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My man Mamdani is a grade A memer.
Reminds me of how MAGA Haberman calls everything Trump does “remarkable.”
August 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reminds me of how MAGA Haberman calls everything Trump does “remarkable.”
Like others have commented, I’ve lived in an apartment that was stabilized and the landlord did not give us the rider because they were trying to illegally destabilize it. I only learned that the unit should have been stabilized from longtime tenants of the building.
Cuomo says Mamdani's claim that he didn't know his apartment was rent-stabilized when he moved in is "implausible to me."
August 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Like others have commented, I’ve lived in an apartment that was stabilized and the landlord did not give us the rider because they were trying to illegally destabilize it. I only learned that the unit should have been stabilized from longtime tenants of the building.
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My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
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Apropos of nothing, here's a thread about the process of editing an essay collection I wrote when the book Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919184/postpolitics-and-the-aesthetic-imagination) was about to come out: bsky.app/profile/diss...
July 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Apropos of nothing, here's a thread about the process of editing an essay collection I wrote when the book Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919184/postpolitics-and-the-aesthetic-imagination) was about to come out: bsky.app/profile/diss...
Just heard the #kygo remix of #tinaturner’s “What’s Love”—nothing can be new 😵💫😵💫😵💫 fml
July 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Just heard the #kygo remix of #tinaturner’s “What’s Love”—nothing can be new 😵💫😵💫😵💫 fml
@kyla.bsky.social I think this definition of what being human is is contested 🤨
July 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@kyla.bsky.social I think this definition of what being human is is contested 🤨
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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Table of contents for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination!
June 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Table of contents for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination!