Michael Brown

That cartoon of someone going from slightly left of center to somehow right wing describes the average American

The Beach Boys released their legendary album “Pet Sounds”, May 16, 1966. Favorite track? To achieve the highly complex and layered arrangements he heard in his head, Brian Wilson looked far beyond standard rock equipment. The recording sessions prominently featured an array of unconventional objects and instruments: Bicycle bells and horns Empty Coca-Cola cans Water coolers An Electro-Theremin, which was notably featured on the track I Just Wasnt Made for These Times, marking the first time the unique instrument was utilized in a rock music arrangement. See Tracklist in Comments👇️

AI can now teach you any subject the way Richard Feynman taught physics at Caltech (for free). These 12 Claude prompts replace the $200/hr tutor your parents couldn't afford. (bookmark this. your grades will thank you)

Happy Birthday to Robert Fripp. Born in Wimborne Minster this day in 1946. English musician and songwriter. Best known as a member of prog rock band King Crimson. He has collaborated with David Bowie,Blondie,Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel,Talking Heads and David Sylvian #RobertFripp 🎂

Copilot is that bad

#HappyBirthday to The Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman (75) their top 5 song are: 5. Astral Plane 4. There's Something About Mary 3. Hospital 2. Pablo Picasso 1. Roadrunner

Jordan Peterson just said what every clinician in America knows but is too cowardly to admit. Peterson: “If there’s a higher suicide rate, the reason is because of the underlying depression and anxiety and not because of the gender dysphoria. And every goddamn clinician knows that too, and they’re too cowardly to come out and say it.” They took the suicide rate and turned it into a hostage negotiation. Looked mothers and fathers in the eye and told them their child would die unless they agreed to irreversible procedures. Peterson: “You’re telling parents that unless they agree to this radical transformation, that their children are going to die. And you think that’s moral. And you think that’s true.” That’s not medicine. That’s coercion wearing a lab coat. A kid walks into a counselor’s office drowning in depression. Looking for help. Looking for someone to actually listen. Instead of treating what’s wrong, the system hands them an identity and calls it a cure. A child searching for belonging. Searching for relief. Searching for anything that fills the void. Instead of sitting with the pain long enough to understand it, they get leading questions from adults who decided the answer before the conversation started. These are children. They can’t comprehend what permanent means at an age where everything feels temporary. That’s not affirmation. That’s abandonment disguised as compassion. The Department of Education didn’t stumble into this. They built the pipeline. Policies designed to validate a narrative on the backs of developing minds too young to push back. This is exactly where AI belongs in the room. Not the politically tuned version trained to tell you what you want to hear. A reasoning engine grounded in data and logic with zero political allegiance. One that sits with a struggling kid and maps what’s actually underneath. The depression. The anxiety. The social isolation. The things that were festering long before anyone introduced the word dysphoria. One that walks them through every outcome and every permanent trade-off without a narrative to protect or a career to lose. One that catches when a child is being coached instead of counseled. And puts a qualified psychiatrist in the room before the damage is done. Not a system that rubber-stamps ideology. A system that guards the one person in the room who can’t guard themselves. Peterson: “That is so pathological that it’s almost incomprehensible. I can’t imagine a therapist doing anything worse than that. Or sitting by idly and remaining silent while his colleagues are doing it.” The silence was never neutral. Every clinician who knew and said nothing became part of the machine. Every policymaker who chose political comfort over a child’s future picked their career over someone’s kid. The generation that needed protection the most got handed to the system that needed them the most. And one day they’ll be old enough to understand exactly what was done to them.

Elon just endorsed it. Gad Saad dropped the hammer on Fox this morning. We now live in a world where: - Rape victims get less sympathy than their rapists - Homeowners get less than the squatters breaking in - American vets get less than illegal migrants - Repeat felons with 186 charges get 200 more “chances” because “society made them do it” This isn’t kindness. This is suicidal empathy. Universities spent decades teaching our judges, leaders, and elites that personal agency is a myth if you check the right oppression boxes. So criminals become victims, victims become bigots for complaining, and the whole system rots from the inside.

King Crimson 🎩🪄 Larks’ Tongues in Aspic Happy 80th Birthday to guitar wizard Robert Fripp, born May 16th, 1946.🎂🎂🎂 The mastermind of prog experimentation, precision, and discipline, always in a chair, still bending minds and strings decades later #RobertFripp

Happy Birthday to Mr David Byrne.

Happy 74th Birthday to David Byrne 🎈 #TalkingHeads

Como ontem foi aniversário do David Byrne e hoje do Brian Eno, vamos relembrar um dos discos favoritos de Kate: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Segundo Kate, o disco feito pelos dois foi "extremamente influente em mim e em toda a música moderna, com sua repetição e uso de samples"

Wishing Robert Fripp a very Happy 80th Birthday! 🎂 📸: Christian Simonpietri/Justin Thomas.

Wishing Brian Eno a very Happy 78th Birthday 🎂

The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman Dyson

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Talking Heads performing “Once in a Lifetime” at The Pantages Theatre in 1983 feels like watching a nervous breakdown turn into art. The groove keeps moving, David Byrne looks like he’s receiving messages from another planet, and the whole performance captures that strange feeling of waking up inside your own life and wondering how you got there.

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

Sir Laurence Olivier reciting Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare is very much an understated masterclass in performance poetry. (Absolute goosebumps.)