J Herskowitz
@jherskowitz.com
🎸 as Quarantine Angst (https://quarantineangst.com/)
▶️ Advising + Tinkering
⏮️ Product @ SeatGeek, Spotify, Tomahawk, LimeWire, AOL music, DigiScents, GameShark & some other stuff
🪹 Brooklyn, NY
▶️ Advising + Tinkering
⏮️ Product @ SeatGeek, Spotify, Tomahawk, LimeWire, AOL music, DigiScents, GameShark & some other stuff
🪹 Brooklyn, NY
If your jonesing for some new melodic indie rock guitar music, the one still has that new car smell... 🔗
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If your jonesing for some new melodic indie rock guitar music, the one still has that new car smell... 🔗
In NYC? Come see my brother-in-law's art exhibit later this month/next month.
www.thepaintingcenter.org/daniel-suthe...
www.thepaintingcenter.org/daniel-suthe...
The Painting Center: More Than A Gallery
www.thepaintingcenter.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In NYC? Come see my brother-in-law's art exhibit later this month/next month.
www.thepaintingcenter.org/daniel-suthe...
www.thepaintingcenter.org/daniel-suthe...
I'm not face-blind, but there is no way I could describe *anyone* well enough that a sketch artist could draw anything that looked like them.
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I'm not face-blind, but there is no way I could describe *anyone* well enough that a sketch artist could draw anything that looked like them.
How LimeWire ended the Napster music revolution
The last big thing in file sharing.
www.theverge.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One of the perks of not making music until later in life is occasionally getting messages like this from old friends you haven't seen in decades.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
One of the perks of not making music until later in life is occasionally getting messages like this from old friends you haven't seen in decades.
My new song is here. It's what I hear in my head when I imagine the Louvre heist going down.
lnk.to/repressionWE
lnk.to/repressionWE
Quarantine Angst - The Repression of Banditry
Listen to The Repression of Banditry by Quarantine Angst.
lnk.to
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My new song is here. It's what I hear in my head when I imagine the Louvre heist going down.
lnk.to/repressionWE
lnk.to/repressionWE
I feel like someone at Spotify just stumbled across the flowcharts I made 8 years ago. 😆
artists.spotify.com/royalties-gu...
artists.spotify.com/royalties-gu...
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I feel like someone at Spotify just stumbled across the flowcharts I made 8 years ago. 😆
artists.spotify.com/royalties-gu...
artists.spotify.com/royalties-gu...
Huh, I just happened to notice that my music has been getting played far more on Pandora than I would have ever guessed (I haven't looked at those stats in probably a year).
It is always fascinating to me how my most streamed song on one service is one of my least streamed on another.
It is always fascinating to me how my most streamed song on one service is one of my least streamed on another.
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Huh, I just happened to notice that my music has been getting played far more on Pandora than I would have ever guessed (I haven't looked at those stats in probably a year).
It is always fascinating to me how my most streamed song on one service is one of my least streamed on another.
It is always fascinating to me how my most streamed song on one service is one of my least streamed on another.
I'm just going to tell myself that this democratic capitulation is all part of a master plan to get Grijalva seated and the Epstein files released.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm just going to tell myself that this democratic capitulation is all part of a master plan to get Grijalva seated and the Epstein files released.
Hey look, I took apart the loft I made for my daughter 15 years ago and turned it into a fireplace — and I only yelled profanity a handful of times!
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hey look, I took apart the loft I made for my daughter 15 years ago and turned it into a fireplace — and I only yelled profanity a handful of times!
Saying it louder for the Supreme Court in the back... TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Saying it louder for the Supreme Court in the back... TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
I added one additional little guitar part (with big effects) on my new song this afternoon and then hit upload.
"The Repression of Banditry" will be out everywhere next Friday (11/14). 🎸🎶 😌
"The Repression of Banditry" will be out everywhere next Friday (11/14). 🎸🎶 😌
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I added one additional little guitar part (with big effects) on my new song this afternoon and then hit upload.
"The Repression of Banditry" will be out everywhere next Friday (11/14). 🎸🎶 😌
"The Repression of Banditry" will be out everywhere next Friday (11/14). 🎸🎶 😌
Relatively recently I learned that I went to high school with the new Governor-elect of New Jersey. When I was trying to remember her, one of my friends that was in the same class as her told me "oh you wouldn't have known her, she was really smart". 😶🌫️
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Relatively recently I learned that I went to high school with the new Governor-elect of New Jersey. When I was trying to remember her, one of my friends that was in the same class as her told me "oh you wouldn't have known her, she was really smart". 😶🌫️
Of all the crazy things I've seen at the NYC Marathon, the craziest so far was the guy on the 3:15 pace running in jeans.
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Of all the crazy things I've seen at the NYC Marathon, the craziest so far was the guy on the 3:15 pace running in jeans.
We had our first trick-or-treater at 4pm. I started drinking 🥃 at 4:30. It's a race to see if I can outlast the candy supply
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We had our first trick-or-treater at 4pm. I started drinking 🥃 at 4:30. It's a race to see if I can outlast the candy supply
But don't worry, several startups that spin out of Microsoft will build sex robots...
In this conversation with MIT Technology Review, the CEO of Microsoft AI discussed AI as a digital species, why he believes “seemingly conscious artificial intelligence” is a problem, and why Microsoft would never build sex robots (his words).
Read the full interview ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Read the full interview ⬇️⬇️⬇️
“We will never build a sex robot,” says Mustafa Suleyman
A conversation with the Microsoft AI boss about boundaries, digital species, and the future of chatbots.
www.technologyreview.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
But don't worry, several startups that spin out of Microsoft will build sex robots...
TIL the name of the French police division in charge of the Louvre heist investigation translates to "Brigade for the Repression of Banditry".
Related: I think I may now have the title to my next song.
Related: I think I may now have the title to my next song.
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
TIL the name of the French police division in charge of the Louvre heist investigation translates to "Brigade for the Repression of Banditry".
Related: I think I may now have the title to my next song.
Related: I think I may now have the title to my next song.
Took less than 5 minutes.
October 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Took less than 5 minutes.
Left the beach on North Carolina to go hike along the Virginia/West Virginia border.
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Left the beach on North Carolina to go hike along the Virginia/West Virginia border.
It seems the Spotify Android app now link-shorten (spotify.link) when you copy a song link - which seems to break most universal link platforms. Unclear whether they consider this a feature or a bug.
October 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It seems the Spotify Android app now link-shorten (spotify.link) when you copy a song link - which seems to break most universal link platforms. Unclear whether they consider this a feature or a bug.
Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.
October 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.
I wish there was a rewind button on YouTube recommendations so I could easily jump back to my regular programming after going down some fleeting rabbitholes on woodworking, camper vans and electric motorcycles.
October 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I wish there was a rewind button on YouTube recommendations so I could easily jump back to my regular programming after going down some fleeting rabbitholes on woodworking, camper vans and electric motorcycles.
I'm not really a scary movie guy, but I just watched Weapons and enjoyed it.
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'm not really a scary movie guy, but I just watched Weapons and enjoyed it.
There is a lot of software I use lately that I swear the product manager(s) of it has never used.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There is a lot of software I use lately that I swear the product manager(s) of it has never used.
I'm honestly quite surprised that Spotify is testing inflicting everyone with this UI for a feature that most people aren't going to give a shit about. If you want to just scan the playlist to see what's in it, good luck.
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm honestly quite surprised that Spotify is testing inflicting everyone with this UI for a feature that most people aren't going to give a shit about. If you want to just scan the playlist to see what's in it, good luck.