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
We didn’t start listening to AI music with AI. We started when human time was flattened into machine time:
medium.com/the-riff/you...
medium.com/the-riff/you...
You’ve Been Listening to AI Music for 25 Years: You Just Didn’t Know It
Confusing correction with care made AI music inevitable
medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We didn’t start listening to AI music with AI. We started when human time was flattened into machine time:
medium.com/the-riff/you...
medium.com/the-riff/you...
Neoliberal economics is best understood as a metaphysical project that presents itself as a technical one.
December 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Neoliberal economics is best understood as a metaphysical project that presents itself as a technical one.
But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for everyone seriously engaged in making money. - Dostoevsky
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for everyone seriously engaged in making money. - Dostoevsky
Universities no longer primarily exist to transform students through disciplined encounters with knowledge. They exist to keep capital moving smoothly through a multi-layered system: tuition dollars, govt-backed loans, real estate financing, bond ratings, admin payrolls, downstream labor markets etc
i get cancelled for this take a LOT but one of the most important things I think we need to do is start handing out failing grades again. if you can't do algebra, you should not pass algebra. but, of course, for political reasons,,,,
regardless of specific early childhood reading strategies, there's a top to bottom belief in education right now that the most important thing is that no one who's actually good at things should be rewarded very much for it and that deep engagement with the material is for nerds and losers
December 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Universities no longer primarily exist to transform students through disciplined encounters with knowledge. They exist to keep capital moving smoothly through a multi-layered system: tuition dollars, govt-backed loans, real estate financing, bond ratings, admin payrolls, downstream labor markets etc
Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. This is a large factor in the irrationalism which dictators and demagogues exploit. - Susanne K Langer
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. This is a large factor in the irrationalism which dictators and demagogues exploit. - Susanne K Langer
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“… a broader movement in Modernity where human practices, once relational and embodied, became instrumentalized in service of measurable outcomes.”
This is the same pathology I described eight months ago diagnosed through music rather than academic journals.
Rudolf Steiner’s ‘preserving jars’ and Paul Valéry’s ‘twice-dead language’ made literal.
medium.com/the-riff/the...
Rudolf Steiner’s ‘preserving jars’ and Paul Valéry’s ‘twice-dead language’ made literal.
medium.com/the-riff/the...
December 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“… a broader movement in Modernity where human practices, once relational and embodied, became instrumentalized in service of measurable outcomes.”
This is the same pathology I described eight months ago diagnosed through music rather than academic journals.
Rudolf Steiner’s ‘preserving jars’ and Paul Valéry’s ‘twice-dead language’ made literal.
medium.com/the-riff/the...
Rudolf Steiner’s ‘preserving jars’ and Paul Valéry’s ‘twice-dead language’ made literal.
medium.com/the-riff/the...
December 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is the same pathology I described eight months ago diagnosed through music rather than academic journals.
Rudolf Steiner’s ‘preserving jars’ and Paul Valéry’s ‘twice-dead language’ made literal.
medium.com/the-riff/the...
Rudolf Steiner’s ‘preserving jars’ and Paul Valéry’s ‘twice-dead language’ made literal.
medium.com/the-riff/the...
Cult of Personality is a song recorded in lived time about historical figures rendered cultic through the stripping of time, mined of quidditional context, and rendered instrumental.
And now we live in a time where music itself has been stripped of temporality...
youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0?...
And now we live in a time where music itself has been stripped of temporality...
youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0?...
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Official Video)
YouTube video by LivingColourVEVO
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Cult of Personality is a song recorded in lived time about historical figures rendered cultic through the stripping of time, mined of quidditional context, and rendered instrumental.
And now we live in a time where music itself has been stripped of temporality...
youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0?...
And now we live in a time where music itself has been stripped of temporality...
youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0?...
I don't know if I can knock out Technics and Time 1 before the end of the year and complete my reading challenge of 60 books.
I read less books this year, but I surveyed and re-read many of the books I previously read in service of consolidating a coherent world picture.
I read less books this year, but I surveyed and re-read many of the books I previously read in service of consolidating a coherent world picture.
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I don't know if I can knock out Technics and Time 1 before the end of the year and complete my reading challenge of 60 books.
I read less books this year, but I surveyed and re-read many of the books I previously read in service of consolidating a coherent world picture.
I read less books this year, but I surveyed and re-read many of the books I previously read in service of consolidating a coherent world picture.
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
WELLS DESK, on this report:
".. Blue Owl is up to its gills in data center exposure. .. lenders are getting stricter .. data center build outs now have another form of headwind that is not related to actual infrastructure build out but rather financial complexities .."
www.ft.com/content/84c1...
".. Blue Owl is up to its gills in data center exposure. .. lenders are getting stricter .. data center build outs now have another form of headwind that is not related to actual infrastructure build out but rather financial complexities .."
www.ft.com/content/84c1...
Oracle’s $10bn Michigan data centre in limbo after Blue Owl funding talks stall
Investment firm concerned about tougher debt terms and the risk of delays to the vast project
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
WELLS DESK, on this report:
".. Blue Owl is up to its gills in data center exposure. .. lenders are getting stricter .. data center build outs now have another form of headwind that is not related to actual infrastructure build out but rather financial complexities .."
www.ft.com/content/84c1...
".. Blue Owl is up to its gills in data center exposure. .. lenders are getting stricter .. data center build outs now have another form of headwind that is not related to actual infrastructure build out but rather financial complexities .."
www.ft.com/content/84c1...
One person’s fraud is another person’s infinitely scalable content engine. Capital doesn’t care whether it’s fake, only whether it circulates.
The human body, once a required constraint on production of 'content,' is now rendered obsolete.
The human body, once a required constraint on production of 'content,' is now rendered obsolete.
December 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One person’s fraud is another person’s infinitely scalable content engine. Capital doesn’t care whether it’s fake, only whether it circulates.
The human body, once a required constraint on production of 'content,' is now rendered obsolete.
The human body, once a required constraint on production of 'content,' is now rendered obsolete.
Content as hollow container for capital circulation.
Representation for me, simulacra for thee.
When the argument is "it's better than nothing" one must always ask why "nothing" is the only other option on the table.
When the argument is "it's better than nothing" one must always ask why "nothing" is the only other option on the table.
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Content as hollow container for capital circulation.
The #1 song of 1975 Captain & Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us Together” is something to listen to today. Hal Blaine's drumming would never be allowed to stand in 2025. The herky-jerky sixteenth-note snare and kick pattern at the end of every chorus? Delete, copy-paste groove.
youtu.be/GpBZNh70uhA?...
youtu.be/GpBZNh70uhA?...
Love Will Keep Us Together
YouTube video by Captain & Tennille - Topic
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The #1 song of 1975 Captain & Tennille’s “Love Will Keep Us Together” is something to listen to today. Hal Blaine's drumming would never be allowed to stand in 2025. The herky-jerky sixteenth-note snare and kick pattern at the end of every chorus? Delete, copy-paste groove.
youtu.be/GpBZNh70uhA?...
youtu.be/GpBZNh70uhA?...
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I'm sharing this brief essay—on modes and mediums in scholarly publishing—just published in @jepub.bsky.social 30th anniversary issue. It's a worlds-colliding piece for me, media studies meets academic publishing journals.publishing.umich.edu...
The Modal Mode of Thinking about Scholarly Publishing
The essay argues that the study of scholarly communication would benefit from attending to a “modal” sensibility—that is, a self-conscious sensitivity to the differences that different mediums make in understanding published works of scholarship. The essay critiques the unreflective textualism that dominates the conversation on publishing. The claim is that the primacy of text, as the sovereign medium of academic communication, is a largely invisible parochialism. The essay points to examples and traditions of multi-modal publishing as an entry point to taking the medium-specificity of publishing formats as an object of analysis. Such experimentation has followed, sometimes closely, the emergence of new mediums of storage and transmission within the societies that scholars work. The mid-twentieth century birth of the modern medium concept made multi-modality a conceivable, self-conscious project. Even so, the discourse on academic publishing has rarely registered the implications, including for inherited text-based formats. The essay concludes with a call for media scholars, curiously underrepresented in the discourse, to take up this task, with reference to pioneering works in the field.
journals.publishing.umich.edu
December 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm sharing this brief essay—on modes and mediums in scholarly publishing—just published in @jepub.bsky.social 30th anniversary issue. It's a worlds-colliding piece for me, media studies meets academic publishing journals.publishing.umich.edu...
Your Spotify playlist is teaching you to accept your own obsolescence: medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
Taxidermy Chic: Why Everything Looks Dead Now
How streaming platforms are training us to accept our own obsolescence
medium.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Your Spotify playlist is teaching you to accept your own obsolescence: medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
Music teaches us how to inhabit time together. Rhythm emerges through tension and resolution held in coordination, and freedom is enacted within that shared temporal negotiation.
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Music teaches us how to inhabit time together. Rhythm emerges through tension and resolution held in coordination, and freedom is enacted within that shared temporal negotiation.
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Apparently this is a sincere assessment. This is not a good assessment.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Apparently this is a sincere assessment. This is not a good assessment.
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Tilly Norwood is capital solving the bottleneck of the human body. Norwood removes the upper limit imposed by fatigue, aging, training.
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Tilly Norwood is capital solving the bottleneck of the human body. Norwood removes the upper limit imposed by fatigue, aging, training.
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
Tilly Norwood is capital solving the bottleneck of the human body. Norwood removes the upper limit imposed by fatigue, aging, training.
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Tilly Norwood is capital solving the bottleneck of the human body. Norwood removes the upper limit imposed by fatigue, aging, training.
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
From my article on Deezer's reports that only 3% of users can accurately identify AI-generated tracks:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
AI is technics built to extend capital’s metabolic limits. Its revolution isn’t cognition. It is the acceleration of capital’s circulation beyond what human bodies can metabolize.
2025 should be remembered as the year that the swipe became the last embodied gesture recognized by capital.
2025 should be remembered as the year that the swipe became the last embodied gesture recognized by capital.
December 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
AI is technics built to extend capital’s metabolic limits. Its revolution isn’t cognition. It is the acceleration of capital’s circulation beyond what human bodies can metabolize.
2025 should be remembered as the year that the swipe became the last embodied gesture recognized by capital.
2025 should be remembered as the year that the swipe became the last embodied gesture recognized by capital.
Orwell got it completely wrong.
You don’t need to burn books when nobody can remember what reading feels like.
You don’t need to burn books when nobody can remember what reading feels like.
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Orwell got it completely wrong.
You don’t need to burn books when nobody can remember what reading feels like.
You don’t need to burn books when nobody can remember what reading feels like.
This WSJ story on 55 Mexican drug cartel leaders being extradited to the United States under dubious legal claims between February and August...wow.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
‘Welcome to America!’ Captured Drug Lords Choose: Snitch or Suffer
Under pressure from the Trump administration, Mexico turned over 55 cartel leaders in a pair of cloak-and-dagger missions.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This WSJ story on 55 Mexican drug cartel leaders being extradited to the United States under dubious legal claims between February and August...wow.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
Recently published a piece on Medium arguing that AI audio isn’t music because it lacks the embodied temporal conditions that make musical meaning possible. The systems producing it inherit a Carnapian-style cosmology that treats feeling, contingency, and the body as noise,
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Recently published a piece on Medium arguing that AI audio isn’t music because it lacks the embodied temporal conditions that make musical meaning possible. The systems producing it inherit a Carnapian-style cosmology that treats feeling, contingency, and the body as noise,