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Official Portrait
Read more . . . →The painting is finished. The crowd behind it has some notes. Two guys in nice suits, big smiles, holding up a portrait of a thrilled public while the actual public screams and points directly at them. You have to admire the commitment. They commissioned the painting, framed it, brought it to the event, and held it up with both hands in front of the people it’s supposed to depict. The angry mob is right there. They can see around the frame. Nobody in this image cares. The painting is the press release and the press release is the whole job....
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Boxplot - Constant Spring
Boxplot's Constant Spring bounces more than it weighs, and it makes the case for liquid DnB without any big-name co-sign. Why is this guy a secret?Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Bluff - Cold Nights
Bluff made deep dubstep that sounds like the weather getting louder. Played it on a freezing walk home and the sub did the rest. Headphones only.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Amazon Built a Suggestion Box and Then Deleted the Suggestions
Read more . . . →Amazon warehouse workers in Rock Tavern, New York walked off the job this week after months of reporting unsafe conditions to a company that responded by deleting their complaints. Literally deleting them. Amazon has an internal feedback system called “Voice of the Associate,” and when workers used it to flag dangerous conveyor belt speeds and falling packages, management scrubbed the posts. The injury rate at that facility hit 6.3 per 100 workers, with 97 percent of those injuries severe enough to require missed days or restricted duty. Amazon’s response to that number was not to slow the belts. It was...
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Blake Farfan - Contours
Blake Farfan keeps dropping melodic house that belongs in a car ad to almost nobody. Contours deserves way more ears than it's getting.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Nothing to Hide
Read more . . . →He’s waving at it. That’s the whole problem. The showerhead is a security camera. Water comes out of it and so does whatever the terms of service say about your bathroom data. He looks up at it with the exact face of a man who clicked “Accept All Cookies” in 2014 and has been living with the consequences since. Cheerful. Resigned. Slightly wet. This is what “I have nothing to hide” looks like with the towel off. The camera is in the shower and the shower is in the cloud, and somewhere a server just logged his rinse cycle.
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AVE - Meet Me In The Dark (Joel Corry Remix)
Joel Corry strips AVE down to the vocal and bolts on a lean pump built for daytime radio. Shameless, and it works better than it should.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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angelrot - backtoback
angelrot smashes hyperpop sugar into real low-end aggression on an NCS upload. Did not see the bite coming, and now it's on repeat.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Your Human Rights Money
Read more . . . →The State Department just spent $177 million of human rights money on far-right pet projects. Afrikaner rights in South Africa, “Western civilizational norms,” and $2 million specifically earmarked for groups that reject what the grant documents call “gender ideology.” They burned through the money on the last day of the fiscal year so it wouldn’t lapse. That’s not governance, that’s a smash-and-grab at closing time. One of the biggest recipients is the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, run by a former Trump policy adviser. So human rights funds are now paying a Trump ally’s org to fight communism, which in...
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Ideas Man
Read more . . . →They labeled the briefcase IDEAS so you’d stop asking what’s in it. Shot like a film noir, which tracks. A man in a hat hands a briefcase to a suit in a marble corridor with the Capitol dome visible at the end. Another figure walks away in the background, presumably carrying his own briefcase to the next office. The word on the leather is doing heavy lifting. If it said CASH the composition would be identical and nobody would be confused. They put the quiet part right on the handle, in block letters, and called it democracy.
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