M Mmkd
@malmmcd.bsky.social
Musician, Journalist, Sound Engineer
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One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.
Merle Haggard, Son Of Bakersfield
Kaleb Horton reflects on the passing of his hometown hero
web.archive.org
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.
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Couple of days ago, deep in my alt-weekly archival reading, I posted a 1999 Chicago Reader story on demolition site brick scavengers. Here's some great work from San Diego Reader, 1991, on even bleaker work: bombing range scavengers in the Imperial Valley. www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1991/fe...
Range runners harvest scrap explosives in Chocolate Mountain target area.
“There are four or five dealers in Imperial County who buy scrap off the range, and none of us has been harassed by the law. But the range runners have really been harassed.”
www.sandiegoreader.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Couple of days ago, deep in my alt-weekly archival reading, I posted a 1999 Chicago Reader story on demolition site brick scavengers. Here's some great work from San Diego Reader, 1991, on even bleaker work: bombing range scavengers in the Imperial Valley. www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1991/fe...
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Now playing: this absolute ripper on @orenambarchi.bsky.social's label: blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/trance...
Trancedance (40th anniversary edition), by Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata
4 track album
blacktruffle.bandcamp.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Now playing: this absolute ripper on @orenambarchi.bsky.social's label: blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/trance...
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The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Happy National Relaxation Day to all those who celebrate.
August 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Happy National Relaxation Day to all those who celebrate.
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Taco - the trade that ate itself: timharford.com/2025/07/taco...
Taco, the trade that ate itself
Does he always chicken out, or doesn’t he? Like all loyal listeners to the FT’s Unhedged podcast, I’ve been telling my friends about Rob Armstrong’s perfect new acronym: Taco — Trump Always Chicken…
timharford.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Taco - the trade that ate itself: timharford.com/2025/07/taco...
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A really, really disturbing story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How fake-will fraudsters steal millions from the dead
A trail of suspicious wills led to an organised gang committing fraud and stealing millions from dead people's estates.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A really, really disturbing story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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*The jargon of wine snobs. Tannins do exist objectively, but there was a time when tannins could not be called "grippy," and the time will come when tannins are no longer "grippy," so enjoy those "grippy tannins" when you may, oenophiles
jackyblisson.com/wine-tannin-...
jackyblisson.com/wine-tannin-...
a nerdy little guide to tannin descriptions - Jacky Blisson
A glossary of the many wierd and wonderful tannin descriptors used by wine writers, and what they really mean for wine drinkers.
jackyblisson.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
*The jargon of wine snobs. Tannins do exist objectively, but there was a time when tannins could not be called "grippy," and the time will come when tannins are no longer "grippy," so enjoy those "grippy tannins" when you may, oenophiles
jackyblisson.com/wine-tannin-...
jackyblisson.com/wine-tannin-...
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I adore Belle And Sebastian. The band, and the black and white television serial about a boy and a dog in the alps. This is the story of how and why they're more interconnected than you might think.
timworthington.org/2019/05/05/w...
timworthington.org/2019/05/05/w...
Wrapped Up In Books
Belle And Sebastian was a black and white dubbed children’s television series that gave the band Belle And Sebastian their name – and they both had a lot more in common than you might h…
timworthington.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I adore Belle And Sebastian. The band, and the black and white television serial about a boy and a dog in the alps. This is the story of how and why they're more interconnected than you might think.
timworthington.org/2019/05/05/w...
timworthington.org/2019/05/05/w...
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My day in London as seen through the eyes of Matthew Goodwin. This post is free
open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
Professor Goodwin goes to London
Or: The Heart of Darkness 2
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My day in London as seen through the eyes of Matthew Goodwin. This post is free
open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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A thread of London documentaries currently on BBC iPlayer from the 1950s to 1990s.
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
June 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A thread of London documentaries currently on BBC iPlayer from the 1950s to 1990s.
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
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Despite no demand for it, I also published an English version. There may be a lot of strange sentences, but my English isn't good enough to correct them, so I'll leave them as they are. 🙂
Ricky Maymi and Beijing Underground Rock Scene
open.substack.com/pub/tomaverl...
Ricky Maymi and Beijing Underground Rock Scene
open.substack.com/pub/tomaverl...
Ricky Maymi and Beijing Underground Rock Scene
Beijing’s underground rock scene enjoyed its 'golden age' in the late 2000s.
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Despite no demand for it, I also published an English version. There may be a lot of strange sentences, but my English isn't good enough to correct them, so I'll leave them as they are. 🙂
Ricky Maymi and Beijing Underground Rock Scene
open.substack.com/pub/tomaverl...
Ricky Maymi and Beijing Underground Rock Scene
open.substack.com/pub/tomaverl...
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NEW PAPER, NEW THREAD! 👀
We collected insects in creeks polluted with raw sewage. 🤢 Microplastics in caddisflies were once rare. But now, in some creeks, more than half of all cases include artificial material! 🤯
A shitty thread on plastics and poop, thankfully, without the smell of it 💩
1/x 🧵👇
We collected insects in creeks polluted with raw sewage. 🤢 Microplastics in caddisflies were once rare. But now, in some creeks, more than half of all cases include artificial material! 🤯
A shitty thread on plastics and poop, thankfully, without the smell of it 💩
1/x 🧵👇
May 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NEW PAPER, NEW THREAD! 👀
We collected insects in creeks polluted with raw sewage. 🤢 Microplastics in caddisflies were once rare. But now, in some creeks, more than half of all cases include artificial material! 🤯
A shitty thread on plastics and poop, thankfully, without the smell of it 💩
1/x 🧵👇
We collected insects in creeks polluted with raw sewage. 🤢 Microplastics in caddisflies were once rare. But now, in some creeks, more than half of all cases include artificial material! 🤯
A shitty thread on plastics and poop, thankfully, without the smell of it 💩
1/x 🧵👇
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Does anyone besides me and Bruce Sterling ever use Flickr anymore? Well, I put a fresh batch of pictures on my page. www.flickr.com/photos/rudyt...
Rudy Rucker
Explore Rudy Rucker’s 5,425 photos on Flickr!
www.flickr.com
May 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Does anyone besides me and Bruce Sterling ever use Flickr anymore? Well, I put a fresh batch of pictures on my page. www.flickr.com/photos/rudyt...
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It seems impossible that things just keep getting stupider and yet
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It seems impossible that things just keep getting stupider and yet
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A long piece on the German War Graves Organisation that is definitely worth reading.
March 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
A long piece on the German War Graves Organisation that is definitely worth reading.
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new piece by @globalvoices.org's @ivansigal.bsky.social at @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/to-build-a-b...
www.techpolicy.press/to-build-a-b...
To Build a Better Democracy, Start by Rethinking Your Relationship to the Internet | TechPolicy.Press
Ivan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention.
www.techpolicy.press
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
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I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons
Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth
www.irishexaminer.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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“The Trump administration is absolutely hell-bent on achieving a ceasefire, with powerful entities it cannot control (Ukraine, Russia, Europe) standing in the way of that…Russia is laughing at the Americans.” New update from Stefan Korshak. stefankorshak.substack.com/p/march-8-da...
March 8 — Day 1107a — Wisdom in the Noise, Der Germans, Sky Shield and Fighter Pilots, Rakish Diplomacy
Hi All!
stefankorshak.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
“The Trump administration is absolutely hell-bent on achieving a ceasefire, with powerful entities it cannot control (Ukraine, Russia, Europe) standing in the way of that…Russia is laughing at the Americans.” New update from Stefan Korshak. stefankorshak.substack.com/p/march-8-da...
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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We've been saving up all our anger and now, we is a gonna blow. Send him for a visit.
March 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
We've been saving up all our anger and now, we is a gonna blow. Send him for a visit.
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🇺🇲 Google ---> 🇪🇺 Ecosia
🇺🇲 Chrome ---> 🇪🇺 Vivaldi
🇺🇲 Translate ---> 🇪🇺 DeepL
🇺🇲 Gmail ---> 🇪🇺 Mailfence
🇺🇲 Maps ---> 🇪🇺 Here WeGo
🇺🇲 ChatGPT ---> 🇪🇺 Le Chat
🇺🇲 Chrome ---> 🇪🇺 Vivaldi
🇺🇲 Translate ---> 🇪🇺 DeepL
🇺🇲 Gmail ---> 🇪🇺 Mailfence
🇺🇲 Maps ---> 🇪🇺 Here WeGo
🇺🇲 ChatGPT ---> 🇪🇺 Le Chat
February 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
🇺🇲 Google ---> 🇪🇺 Ecosia
🇺🇲 Chrome ---> 🇪🇺 Vivaldi
🇺🇲 Translate ---> 🇪🇺 DeepL
🇺🇲 Gmail ---> 🇪🇺 Mailfence
🇺🇲 Maps ---> 🇪🇺 Here WeGo
🇺🇲 ChatGPT ---> 🇪🇺 Le Chat
🇺🇲 Chrome ---> 🇪🇺 Vivaldi
🇺🇲 Translate ---> 🇪🇺 DeepL
🇺🇲 Gmail ---> 🇪🇺 Mailfence
🇺🇲 Maps ---> 🇪🇺 Here WeGo
🇺🇲 ChatGPT ---> 🇪🇺 Le Chat
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My Dylan age - World Gone Wrong (1993)
February 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
My Dylan age - World Gone Wrong (1993)