Aaron Vehling
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Aaron Vehling
@aaronvehling.com
Journalist in law, music, film, etc. Currently: Legal news pub. Also, Publisher/EIC/Words: Vehlinggo.com. Past: Stuff in City Pages (RIP), Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, and several newspapers. Rosendale, NY, via NYC via Minneapolis.
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I wrote liner notes for the vinyl reissue of Sally Shapiro's classic debut, Disco Romance. Check it out! It was an honor to be chosen by a band I love so much.
sallyshapiro.bandcamp.com/album/disco-...
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somehow it's "hoarding" when I keep my old tech as long as possible and resent forced obsolescence

but not "hoarding" when billionaires and tech companies suck up all the money and burn though the planet in search of endless growth
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The old craft brewing industry is dying, and the new craft brewing industry struggles to be born; now is the time of Monsters.
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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wrote about the "hemp ban" that Congress snuck into the government-reopening bill, the impact it's already having on angry farmers and brewers and small-biz owners across the country, the misconceptions around the plant, and the lobbies that agitated for this crackdown: slate.com/business/202...
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Makeup and Vanity Set & @sferro.bsky.social; @glitbiter.bsky.social; Danz CM; and Dave Porter's Pluribus score are on today's edition of The List. vehlinggo.com/2025/11/23/m...
The List: MAVS & Sferro, Glitbiter, Danz CM, 'Pluribus'
Today’s edition of The List finds us in the world of some familiar faces and others newly gracing these pages. Dive in. Makeup and Vanity Set & Sferro — “Daikatana” The synthwave pioneers are teaming ...
vehlinggo.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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FYI: If you're sad that Shudder's CREEPSHOW series has come to an end, never fear: a brand new anthology of stories based on the show is coming soon.
Exclusive: CREEPSHOW Haunts A New Medium With 13 TALES OF TERROR Short Story Collection
If you're sad that Shudder's CREEPSHOW series has come to an end, never fear: a brand new anthology of stories based on the show is coming soon.
dlvr.it
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I spend a fair amount of my days telling streamers to stop autoplaying. My friends, they do not in fact ever stop autoplaying.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Netflix as a delivery service of DVDs and Blu-rays > as a streamer
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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evergreen
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I’m having that thing where you log on to social and everyone is reacting to the new thing but the reactions are vague, aghast, angry enough that you’re struggling to figure out exactly what the new thing is. German must have a word for this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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The only music video for a 'Mats song should be a camera pointed at a speaker, but at least they shot this at the CC Club, which once could have held the title of best bar in the country
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
How is this song 25 years old? This means when it released, 25 years earlier was 1975. God I’m old.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Think about this from the perspective of the musicians who create the music & who the monopoly power of the major labels renders relatively powerless. You will be furious.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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R.I.P. Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, bassist of #TheStoneRoses and #PrimalScream

buff.ly/qN3AvUA
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Fuck
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This is why I’m glad I don’t work for The Onion. I could never top this.
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM