Utamu
@utamu.bsky.social
Scribe, wanderer, head nodder, knee slapper, looks like we got ourselves a reader. #215.
The help comes from "context, from understanding historical international allegories to what we're doing. You recognize this isn't the first time something has happened. You want to see if it can inform the way that you ought to respond. We're learning. You learn by comparison, analogy & example."
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The help comes from "context, from understanding historical international allegories to what we're doing. You recognize this isn't the first time something has happened. You want to see if it can inform the way that you ought to respond. We're learning. You learn by comparison, analogy & example."
"He has literally torn down the WH. We're no longer at the point where we need to be warned about what's coming. We need understand what's going on, knowing what our options are in terms of how to preserve our democracy, to make sure that we're not going to be the generation that lost the republic."
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"He has literally torn down the WH. We're no longer at the point where we need to be warned about what's coming. We need understand what's going on, knowing what our options are in terms of how to preserve our democracy, to make sure that we're not going to be the generation that lost the republic."
"There's no use in warning anymore. We've got masked, totally unaccountable secret police grabbing women out of daycares & building prison camps everywhere. In less than a year, POTUS has stuffed multiple billions of dollars into his own pockets, into those of his family."
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"There's no use in warning anymore. We've got masked, totally unaccountable secret police grabbing women out of daycares & building prison camps everywhere. In less than a year, POTUS has stuffed multiple billions of dollars into his own pockets, into those of his family."
“Doing the right thing doesn't always pay off in the short run, but your country will ultimately get this right. The good guys will be rewarded & the bad guys will be punished or forgotten. Having faith in those kinds of moral outcomes is a nice guiding light to have in dark times like these.”
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“Doing the right thing doesn't always pay off in the short run, but your country will ultimately get this right. The good guys will be rewarded & the bad guys will be punished or forgotten. Having faith in those kinds of moral outcomes is a nice guiding light to have in dark times like these.”
"The lyrics are about dissociation and distance (the song describes the narrator’s fear of a landscape scraped of modernity, reclaimed by nature), but they are also about connection—hope in a damaged place, love where we least expect it."
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"The lyrics are about dissociation and distance (the song describes the narrator’s fear of a landscape scraped of modernity, reclaimed by nature), but they are also about connection—hope in a damaged place, love where we least expect it."
"Byrne has an appropriate amount of trepidation about the intersection of AI & music (“It’s frightening when you’re asking it to create songs out of whole cloth.” Occasionally, he even sees himself in things, as on “(Nothing but) Flowers,” a track from “Naked,” the final Talking Heads album."
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Byrne has an appropriate amount of trepidation about the intersection of AI & music (“It’s frightening when you’re asking it to create songs out of whole cloth.” Occasionally, he even sees himself in things, as on “(Nothing but) Flowers,” a track from “Naked,” the final Talking Heads album."
"Byrne’s musical career has been marked by experimentation & intensity, first as front man of Talking Heads, the band that he started in 1975 with the drummer Chris Frantz & the bassist Tina Weymouth, two friends from art school, and then as a solo artist. Yet there’s a stillness at its center."
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Byrne’s musical career has been marked by experimentation & intensity, first as front man of Talking Heads, the band that he started in 1975 with the drummer Chris Frantz & the bassist Tina Weymouth, two friends from art school, and then as a solo artist. Yet there’s a stillness at its center."
"Byrne is not w/o affect, or energy, or enthusiasm—he laughs often, tossing his head back & letting out a big, chewy guffaw, sometimes in response to something funny, other times for largely indiscernible reasons—but I also noticed that there’s a preternatural quietude about him."
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Byrne is not w/o affect, or energy, or enthusiasm—he laughs often, tossing his head back & letting out a big, chewy guffaw, sometimes in response to something funny, other times for largely indiscernible reasons—but I also noticed that there’s a preternatural quietude about him."
"Byrne, in a gray suit & flip-flops, took a couple of laps around the stage; Fallon chased after him as the #TheRoots played a version of Frank Zappa’s “The Man from Utopia.” While Byrne is on tour supporting his new solo album, “Who Is the Sky?” He'a traveling with several folding bikes."
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Byrne, in a gray suit & flip-flops, took a couple of laps around the stage; Fallon chased after him as the #TheRoots played a version of Frank Zappa’s “The Man from Utopia.” While Byrne is on tour supporting his new solo album, “Who Is the Sky?” He'a traveling with several folding bikes."
"In 2019, Byrne rode a bicycle onstage at the “Tonight Show” while promoting “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” a Broadway production that he wrote and starred in that year. (In 2020, it became a film, directed by Spike Lee.)"
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"In 2019, Byrne rode a bicycle onstage at the “Tonight Show” while promoting “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” a Broadway production that he wrote and starred in that year. (In 2020, it became a film, directed by Spike Lee.)"
"Spotting Byrne on 2 wheels has become a NYC rite of passage, like sussing out the best halal cart in midtown. I never saw him traverse the city via any other mode of transit, even when the heat index was approaching hellscape. He simply reapplied sunscreen and pushed off."
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Spotting Byrne on 2 wheels has become a NYC rite of passage, like sussing out the best halal cart in midtown. I never saw him traverse the city via any other mode of transit, even when the heat index was approaching hellscape. He simply reapplied sunscreen and pushed off."
"Sacks described his WH experience as “incredible” & hailing the admin’s work on AI & crypto. Trump described Sacks as “great” before signing exec orders to speed the building of data centers & exports of A.I systems. Then he handed Sacks the presidential pen."
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Sacks described his WH experience as “incredible” & hailing the admin’s work on AI & crypto. Trump described Sacks as “great” before signing exec orders to speed the building of data centers & exports of A.I systems. Then he handed Sacks the presidential pen."
"Visa & NYSE sponsored the A.I. summit. The organizers declined to disclose what the companies paid. Hoffman said “All-In” lost money hosting the event & that “no VIP. reception occurred.” NYSE declined to comment."
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Visa & NYSE sponsored the A.I. summit. The organizers declined to disclose what the companies paid. Hoffman said “All-In” lost money hosting the event & that “no VIP. reception occurred.” NYSE declined to comment."
"Sacks has recommended A.I. policies that have run counter to national security recs, alarming some of his WH colleagues & raising questions about his priorities. He has 708 tech investments, at least 449 stakes in cos w/ ties to AI that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies."
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Sacks has recommended A.I. policies that have run counter to national security recs, alarming some of his WH colleagues & raising questions about his priorities. He has 708 tech investments, at least 449 stakes in cos w/ ties to AI that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies."
"Sacks has offered astonishing WH access to his tech industry compatriots & pushed to eliminate govt obstacles facing A.I. companies. That has set up giants like Nvidia to reap an estimate of as much as $200 billion in new sales."
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Sacks has offered astonishing WH access to his tech industry compatriots & pushed to eliminate govt obstacles facing A.I. companies. That has set up giants like Nvidia to reap an estimate of as much as $200 billion in new sales."
Sacks" unveiled an “A.I. Action Plan” drafted Sacks, a longtime VC. Trump declared A.I. was “one of the most important tech revolutions in the history of the world.” Then he picked up his pen and signed executive orders to fast-track the industry."
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Sacks" unveiled an “A.I. Action Plan” drafted Sacks, a longtime VC. Trump declared A.I. was “one of the most important tech revolutions in the history of the world.” Then he picked up his pen and signed executive orders to fast-track the industry."
@nytceciliakang.bsky.social: Sacks, one of Trump’s top tech officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the WH. He'd convened top govt officials & Silicon Valley execs for a forum on the booming AI business. The guest of honor was Trump."
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
@nytceciliakang.bsky.social: Sacks, one of Trump’s top tech officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the WH. He'd convened top govt officials & Silicon Valley execs for a forum on the booming AI business. The guest of honor was Trump."
@monicaklein.bsky.social: "NYC's >3M immigrants are central to our city's strength, vitality & success & the Mayor-elect remains steadfast in his commitment to protecting the rights & dignity of every NYer, upholding our sanctuary laws & deescalation rather than use of unnecessary force."
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
@monicaklein.bsky.social: "NYC's >3M immigrants are central to our city's strength, vitality & success & the Mayor-elect remains steadfast in his commitment to protecting the rights & dignity of every NYer, upholding our sanctuary laws & deescalation rather than use of unnecessary force."
"Not only are large-scale ICE raids being met by 100s of protesters, but in 2 months, NY will be led by an immigrant mayor for the first time in 50 years. Mamdani, who moved to US when he was 7, campaigned on protecting NY's immigrant community from these very same raids."
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Not only are large-scale ICE raids being met by 100s of protesters, but in 2 months, NY will be led by an immigrant mayor for the first time in 50 years. Mamdani, who moved to US when he was 7, campaigned on protecting NY's immigrant community from these very same raids."