William Lang
@williamlang.bsky.social
Musician who plays trombone, and MTGArena. Also likes sports, art, climbing, and taking pictures of flowers. Quietly Bi.
Our country is running Concentration Camps.
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Our country is running Concentration Camps.
the Metamorphosis was the book that unlocked my heart, and it's interesting to watch the goodreads review where the person is just so close to getting it, but can't handle feelings.
The news about Olivia Nuzzi's forthcoming memoir AMERICAN CANTO sent me down a Reddit rabbit hole, first about Ezra Pound, then Dante, then this, thanks to a commenter who mentioned a Goodreads review that criticized Kafka for his "lack of a clear magic system" in The Metamorphosis. Please enjoy
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
the Metamorphosis was the book that unlocked my heart, and it's interesting to watch the goodreads review where the person is just so close to getting it, but can't handle feelings.
ICE is kidnapping and harming children. There's no other way to accurately describe this.
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
ICE is kidnapping and harming children. There's no other way to accurately describe this.
and andy and i look exactly the same, who could believe it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 AM
and andy and i look exactly the same, who could believe it.
Power Cube is fun when it hits. I also have a mox, a lotus, oko, a demonic tutor, and an ancestral recall so...
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Power Cube is fun when it hits. I also have a mox, a lotus, oko, a demonic tutor, and an ancestral recall so...
i came here to PLAY TROMBONE and EAT CHEESE and i can't PLAY TROMBONE because it's TOO LATE for my NEIGHBORS but i'm also OUT OF CHEESE
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
i came here to PLAY TROMBONE and EAT CHEESE and i can't PLAY TROMBONE because it's TOO LATE for my NEIGHBORS but i'm also OUT OF CHEESE
i see a lot of concert postings and can't help but notice we're moving back away from diverse programming. it'd be great to not pat ourselves on the back too quickly and avoid going back to business as usual.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
i see a lot of concert postings and can't help but notice we're moving back away from diverse programming. it'd be great to not pat ourselves on the back too quickly and avoid going back to business as usual.
We need to shut down ICE and arrest the people involved.
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We need to shut down ICE and arrest the people involved.
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
merf mutes - the review! 3D printed mutes are here to stay.
YouTube video by William Lang
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November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Awesome Halloween decorations
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Awesome Halloween decorations
just thinking that comics and most young adult fiction for the last few decades (or even longer) has centered around an ordinary person discovering they have powers/are special. and now ai chatbots talk to people like they are those protagonists, which they've been kinda trained to idolize.
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
just thinking that comics and most young adult fiction for the last few decades (or even longer) has centered around an ordinary person discovering they have powers/are special. and now ai chatbots talk to people like they are those protagonists, which they've been kinda trained to idolize.
this is now known as the "everyone is 12" theory i think
there's a connected thought here i've been mulling over for a few years. it feels like we're not allowed to grow up? like own a house, have a steady job, etc. we're just been fed the same material from the 80s, and there's this sense of being an eternal child
The people I actually know, in real life, who listen to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are 45 and think they're 22, which explains a lot of things.
October 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
this is now known as the "everyone is 12" theory i think
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a wonderful Schubert song and Golnaz Shariatzadeh, part of the Iranian Female Composer Association, variations on the same
after the schubert - the first chord of Golnaz's piece is super magical at 4 minutes in! i'm grateful that she trusted us so much with writing this piece
youtu.be/UGNe7m7PAX8
after the schubert - the first chord of Golnaz's piece is super magical at 4 minutes in! i'm grateful that she trusted us so much with writing this piece
youtu.be/UGNe7m7PAX8
Schubert Der Tod und das Mädchen & G. Shariatzadeh Variation on Schubert’s Der Tod und das Mädchen
YouTube video by William Lang
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August 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
a wonderful Schubert song and Golnaz Shariatzadeh, part of the Iranian Female Composer Association, variations on the same
after the schubert - the first chord of Golnaz's piece is super magical at 4 minutes in! i'm grateful that she trusted us so much with writing this piece
youtu.be/UGNe7m7PAX8
after the schubert - the first chord of Golnaz's piece is super magical at 4 minutes in! i'm grateful that she trusted us so much with writing this piece
youtu.be/UGNe7m7PAX8
There is no magically going back to normal. What existed before also was rotten. We have to fix it ourselves.
It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.
October 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
There is no magically going back to normal. What existed before also was rotten. We have to fix it ourselves.
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a reminder that this rise in AI slop is because technofascists cannot make art. they think “art” is a tool to rule over us & will supress our art in the process.
fascists hate art because they don’t understand it. they have no culture, only death.
fascists hate art because they don’t understand it. they have no culture, only death.
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
a reminder that this rise in AI slop is because technofascists cannot make art. they think “art” is a tool to rule over us & will supress our art in the process.
fascists hate art because they don’t understand it. they have no culture, only death.
fascists hate art because they don’t understand it. they have no culture, only death.
Great show at MoMA with Stephen Prina and TILT Brass followed by an even more fun show with my group loadbang tonight deserves a bottle check
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Great show at MoMA with Stephen Prina and TILT Brass followed by an even more fun show with my group loadbang tonight deserves a bottle check
There's something so dream logic about this that I kinda like it? Just wish that was the intent and it wasn't made by evil tech
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There's something so dream logic about this that I kinda like it? Just wish that was the intent and it wasn't made by evil tech
Can't believe they're making a whole clothing store for the Vice President
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Can't believe they're making a whole clothing store for the Vice President
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No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
Point five is really important. The protests provoked errors from the administration (shit force one) that may haunt them for years. That’s what happens when you stop being reactive.
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
ICE is trump's private army. how do we think that ends? trump is rebuilding the white house. do we think he's planning on leaving?
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
ICE is trump's private army. how do we think that ends? trump is rebuilding the white house. do we think he's planning on leaving?
i'm gonna start a walking club for fathers that have free time during the day and call it the step-dads
October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
i'm gonna start a walking club for fathers that have free time during the day and call it the step-dads
listen to Xenia. beautifully performed by Nick May and Alex Siu Lin Li www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDe...
Close your eyes, if you can
YouTube video by Nick May - Topic
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October 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
listen to Xenia. beautifully performed by Nick May and Alex Siu Lin Li www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDe...
idk. i hate this format but am apparently kinda good at it. 🏆with tricks. no clue how this worked. the land enchantment thing was mvp i guess
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
idk. i hate this format but am apparently kinda good at it. 🏆with tricks. no clue how this worked. the land enchantment thing was mvp i guess