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MICHAEL J.
@michaeljsalter.bsky.social
· Jun 20
I am a creator, just not of the content variety.
Merry Christmas 🔥
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Merry Christmas 🔥
"Everything's High but Christmas Cheer!"
Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950
Who doesn’t treasure a handmade present?
As the years go by, we may begin to offload the ill-fitting sweaters, the never lit sand cast candles, and the Styrofoam ball snowmen.
www.openculture.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Everything's High but Christmas Cheer!"
I understand the need for a framework and a hook but I'll take gardening and real conversation over chicken wings and cleverly researched questions any time.
Digging with Dev Hynes and Flo
YouTube video by NTS
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November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I understand the need for a framework and a hook but I'll take gardening and real conversation over chicken wings and cleverly researched questions any time.
"From out here, from this place where I sit with my mother’s ghost, I can see how entangled these systems are and how deep the wounds they inflict can be."
Kernel | MY GHOSTS REMIND ME OF A WORLD NOT YET MADE
I climbed a tree today and let it hold me in my grief. Tangled in its branches, I lay my head down, ear to bark, and listen t...
www.kernelmag.io
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"From out here, from this place where I sit with my mother’s ghost, I can see how entangled these systems are and how deep the wounds they inflict can be."
Another giant lost. RIP D'Angelo.
D’Angelo, Groundbreaking R&B Artist, Dies at 51
From his 1995 debut Brown Sugar to his 2014 comeback Black Messiah, he helped define the neo-soul movement
pitchfork.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Another giant lost. RIP D'Angelo.
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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)
Photo of Karlheinz Stockhausen by Kathinka Pasveer via Wikimedia Commons
You may hear the phrase “electronic music” and think of superstar dubstep DJs in funny helmets at beachside celebrity parties.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)
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Evan Gendell’s brand identities are love letters to the rich texture of Detroit > buff.ly/UHkkWCR
October 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Evan Gendell’s brand identities are love letters to the rich texture of Detroit > buff.ly/UHkkWCR
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The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity
The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity
In the late 70s and early 80s, a handful of musical duos emerged who would have tremendous impact on post-punk, alternative, new wave, and experimental electronic music. Bands like Suicide, NEU!, and ...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity
Music is for healing
‘Roads’ 2025 – Together For Palestine
YouTube video by Portishead
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September 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Music is for healing
Yesterday‘s patch is not today‘s patch!
August 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Yesterday‘s patch is not today‘s patch!
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We should have a larger convo about how companies like American Eagle use beautiful people to add glamor to unglamorous products. In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman committed suicide at a factory that made American Eagle clothes bc of abuse. This is the cost of cheap, trendy clothes.
July 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We should have a larger convo about how companies like American Eagle use beautiful people to add glamor to unglamorous products. In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman committed suicide at a factory that made American Eagle clothes bc of abuse. This is the cost of cheap, trendy clothes.
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Imagine you're a brand that doesn't want to pay whatever Cindy Crawford, Kendall Jenner, and Gisele Bündchen command. Can you create an AI "model" based on them? A basic idea of property rights is that you own your body and thus what your body creates (labor). How does this work with AI "models?"
July 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Imagine you're a brand that doesn't want to pay whatever Cindy Crawford, Kendall Jenner, and Gisele Bündchen command. Can you create an AI "model" based on them? A basic idea of property rights is that you own your body and thus what your body creates (labor). How does this work with AI "models?"
Great convo re: Annie Leibovitz' work.
Emily Keegin Dissects 'Genius' Annie Leibovitz Photos
YouTube video by The Cutting Room Floor
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July 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Great convo re: Annie Leibovitz' work.
RIP Ozzy. Loved your music since childhood. Was good to see you in it until the end. 🕊️
BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath singer who rose to heavy metal stardom, has died at age 76, his family says.
Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76
Word of Osbourne’s demise came weeks after the ailing front man reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates.
nbcnews.to
July 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
RIP Ozzy. Loved your music since childhood. Was good to see you in it until the end. 🕊️
Crying already
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley - Official Trailer | Directed by Amy Berg
YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing
youtu.be
July 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Crying already
I am a creator, just not of the content variety.
June 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I am a creator, just not of the content variety.
There was a time early on when I thought using a drum machine or auto tune was cheating the experience of music. I don’t know if I’ll ever come around on the AI stuff, but it’s as fascinating as it is frightening.
Timbaland's AI music project is a ghost in a misguided machine
The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.
www.npr.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There was a time early on when I thought using a drum machine or auto tune was cheating the experience of music. I don’t know if I’ll ever come around on the AI stuff, but it’s as fascinating as it is frightening.
RIP to another legend we were raised on.
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson has Died
Brian Wilson, the musician best known for his pioneering work with The Beach Boys, has died aged 82. The news was shared in a post by Wilson’s family on social media, which said: “We are heartbroken t...
thequietus.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
RIP to another legend we were raised on.
His music will live in all of us, forever.
Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82
The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.
www.npr.org
June 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
His music will live in all of us, forever.
