Jeffrey Anthony
@musefoundry.bsky.social
Founder of Muse Foundry, developing the Certificate of Embodied Production (CEP), a framework that verifies human, ungridified music. Former Pandora Music Analyst
https://www.musefoundry.studio/ | https://medium.com/@WeWillNotBeFlattened
https://www.musefoundry.studio/ | https://medium.com/@WeWillNotBeFlattened
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Does ‘Perfect’ Music Make Us Worse at Democracy?
How the gridification of music from Taylor Swift to everyone else trains us out of mutual recognition
medium.com
We've been trained by perfect music to expect perfect synchronization from humans.
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
Why do all these promo shots for modern TV shows look embalmed?
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
Taxidermy Chic: Why Everything Looks Dead Now
How streaming platforms are training us to accept our own obsolescence
medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Why do all these promo shots for modern TV shows look embalmed?
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I find Radiohead’s stage setup perplexing. Each member is in their own bubble with their back to the others. As a musician, performing live, the visual is just as important as the aural. I guess this is mirror of how culture works now.
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
Radiohead - Just - live Madrid 2025-11-07 night 3
YouTube video by Javi Dieguez
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I find Radiohead’s stage setup perplexing. Each member is in their own bubble with their back to the others. As a musician, performing live, the visual is just as important as the aural. I guess this is mirror of how culture works now.
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
This is the Democratic Party behaving like a statistical organism which is trapped inside a self-normalizing distribution, incapable of singular, haecceitic action.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is the Democratic Party behaving like a statistical organism which is trapped inside a self-normalizing distribution, incapable of singular, haecceitic action.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.
Ezra Klein is a walking Central Limit Theorem in taxidermic bodily form.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Ezra Klein is a walking Central Limit Theorem in taxidermic bodily form.
From a piece I published on Medium about the stakes of generative AI music:
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
From a piece I published on Medium about the stakes of generative AI music:
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
‘This habit of hearing only flawless synchronization conditions us to experience other humans as sources of disagreement and delay. The aesthetic normalization of perfect time translates directly into diminished tolerance for the temporal and affective plurality on which democracy depends.’
Yes & this has been going on in music for decades. The gridification of performances- using algorithms to make performances 'perfect'- teaches us to reject difference & unlearn how to move together in time, making democratic coordination much more difficult.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
‘This habit of hearing only flawless synchronization conditions us to experience other humans as sources of disagreement and delay. The aesthetic normalization of perfect time translates directly into diminished tolerance for the temporal and affective plurality on which democracy depends.’
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
wow, this is fascinating. it reminds me of two things:
1. Heart Rate Variance - it is healthier to have minute variations in the time between each heartbeat, because that means your body is actually responding to tiny changes in your system. 'Perfect' in-time beats aren't so good as responsiveness
1. Heart Rate Variance - it is healthier to have minute variations in the time between each heartbeat, because that means your body is actually responding to tiny changes in your system. 'Perfect' in-time beats aren't so good as responsiveness
Yes & this has been going on in music for decades. The gridification of performances- using algorithms to make performances 'perfect'- teaches us to reject difference & unlearn how to move together in time, making democratic coordination much more difficult.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
wow, this is fascinating. it reminds me of two things:
1. Heart Rate Variance - it is healthier to have minute variations in the time between each heartbeat, because that means your body is actually responding to tiny changes in your system. 'Perfect' in-time beats aren't so good as responsiveness
1. Heart Rate Variance - it is healthier to have minute variations in the time between each heartbeat, because that means your body is actually responding to tiny changes in your system. 'Perfect' in-time beats aren't so good as responsiveness
Yes & this has been going on in music for decades. The gridification of performances- using algorithms to make performances 'perfect'- teaches us to reject difference & unlearn how to move together in time, making democratic coordination much more difficult.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yes & this has been going on in music for decades. The gridification of performances- using algorithms to make performances 'perfect'- teaches us to reject difference & unlearn how to move together in time, making democratic coordination much more difficult.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
Incredibly accurate take on PhD programs.
"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."
Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?
1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Incredibly accurate take on PhD programs.
The Mixtape We Never Got to Play For Jack DeJohnette
Remembering Jack, and how to live inside time
medium.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
We've been trained by perfect music to expect perfect synchronization from humans.
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Does ‘Perfect’ Music Make Us Worse at Democracy?
How the gridification of music from Taylor Swift to everyone else trains us out of mutual recognition
medium.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We've been trained by perfect music to expect perfect synchronization from humans.
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Damn, RIP Jack Dejohnette. He was the biggest influence on my drumming and musicianship.
www.jazzwise.com/news/article...
www.jazzwise.com/news/article...
Jack DeJohnette, jazz drumming legend, dies aged 83
The great jazz drummer, who worked with Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins and Charles Lloyd among others and who also enjoyed a successful solo career, has died aged 83 of congest...
www.jazzwise.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Damn, RIP Jack Dejohnette. He was the biggest influence on my drumming and musicianship.
www.jazzwise.com/news/article...
www.jazzwise.com/news/article...
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
“We may decide to release water volumes in the future, But … we should only do so if the lack of data undermines the programme or is required by regulators”
Companies like Amazon use selective disclosure to obfuscate their water and energy use, knowing full well that those metrics are bullshit
Companies like Amazon use selective disclosure to obfuscate their water and energy use, knowing full well that those metrics are bullshit
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“We may decide to release water volumes in the future, But … we should only do so if the lack of data undermines the programme or is required by regulators”
Companies like Amazon use selective disclosure to obfuscate their water and energy use, knowing full well that those metrics are bullshit
Companies like Amazon use selective disclosure to obfuscate their water and energy use, knowing full well that those metrics are bullshit
Just started reading Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines. The opening thesis reads to me like Owen Barfield’s life’s work - language as poetic first, becoming functional only later in so-called ‘advanced’ cultures.
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Just started reading Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines. The opening thesis reads to me like Owen Barfield’s life’s work - language as poetic first, becoming functional only later in so-called ‘advanced’ cultures.
I do appreciate my son's honesty:
October 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I do appreciate my son's honesty:
Trump Plans to Open Almost All of US Coast to Offshore Drilling:
Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Plans to Open Almost All of US Coast to Offshore Drilling
The Trump administration is readying a proposal to open almost all US coastal waters to new offshore oil drilling despite opposition from state governors and the president’s previous efforts to close ...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Trump Plans to Open Almost All of US Coast to Offshore Drilling:
Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The perversity of destroying actual human capacity in service of its simulation.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The perversity of destroying actual human capacity in service of its simulation.
We've been trained by perfect music to expect perfect synchronization from humans.
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Does ‘Perfect’ Music Make Us Worse at Democracy?
How the gridification of music from Taylor Swift to everyone else trains us out of mutual recognition
medium.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We've been trained by perfect music to expect perfect synchronization from humans.
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
University of Arizona says no to Trump admin letter
October 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
University of Arizona says no to Trump admin letter
Is there anyone who thinks the Internet as it is currently structured is good?
My daily experience is one of 'this is one steaming pile of garbage.'
Yet we hold up the architects of this dump as gods reshaping human culture.
We've lost the ability to judge good from bad by elevating neutrality.
My daily experience is one of 'this is one steaming pile of garbage.'
Yet we hold up the architects of this dump as gods reshaping human culture.
We've lost the ability to judge good from bad by elevating neutrality.
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Is there anyone who thinks the Internet as it is currently structured is good?
My daily experience is one of 'this is one steaming pile of garbage.'
Yet we hold up the architects of this dump as gods reshaping human culture.
We've lost the ability to judge good from bad by elevating neutrality.
My daily experience is one of 'this is one steaming pile of garbage.'
Yet we hold up the architects of this dump as gods reshaping human culture.
We've lost the ability to judge good from bad by elevating neutrality.
Omg
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Omg
I stopped going to the burrito shop down the street over 6-months ago because they jacked their prices up to the point of absurdity. All the recent reviews back then were like this place is too expensive not worth it.
Decided to stop by today and they lowered their prices by ~20%
Sign of times?
Decided to stop by today and they lowered their prices by ~20%
Sign of times?
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I stopped going to the burrito shop down the street over 6-months ago because they jacked their prices up to the point of absurdity. All the recent reviews back then were like this place is too expensive not worth it.
Decided to stop by today and they lowered their prices by ~20%
Sign of times?
Decided to stop by today and they lowered their prices by ~20%
Sign of times?
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
RIP Anthony Jackson Jr en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony...
Anthony Jackson (musician) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
RIP Anthony Jackson Jr en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony...