Marc Hogan
@marchogan.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc. Past lives: Pitchfork, SPIN, BusinessWeek. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
Thanks Chris Dalla Riva for the shout-out here: www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...
The hidden cause of cultural stagnation
Long copyrights incentivize IP management over creativity
www.slowboring.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thanks Chris Dalla Riva for the shout-out here: www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...
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Many Rivers To Cross by Jimmy Cliff on Apple Music
Song · 1972 · Duration 3:00
music.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I do want Google computers to read my email and skim out the obvious spam; I didn't need Google computers reading my email to spam me with Google's own redundant and/or out-of-date alerts about package deliveries on top of the emails that already told me that information
Seems like that Gmail thing isn't true but maybe there's a lesson here about what happens when you keep turning new features on by default and you make it difficult or impossible to turn them off, and also what happens when you lump useful machine learning in with forced slop under the "AI" label
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I do want Google computers to read my email and skim out the obvious spam; I didn't need Google computers reading my email to spam me with Google's own redundant and/or out-of-date alerts about package deliveries on top of the emails that already told me that information
Just so I'm not only being negative, an album from this year I was recommending to a friend the other day that didn't seem to get much press was Safe Mind's Cutting the Stone safemind.bandcamp.com/album/cuttin...
Cutting the Stone, by Safe Mind
10 track album
safemind.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just so I'm not only being negative, an album from this year I was recommending to a friend the other day that didn't seem to get much press was Safe Mind's Cutting the Stone safemind.bandcamp.com/album/cuttin...
Usually don't post my paywalled stuff here but this one is a doozy, just want it out there www.lifeannuityspecialist.com/c/5031374/70...
Iowa Insurer Repeatedly Covered Up Fraud, Its Former Investigators Say
Iowa Insurer Repeatedly Covered Up Fraud, Its Former Investigators Say
www.lifeannuityspecialist.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Usually don't post my paywalled stuff here but this one is a doozy, just want it out there www.lifeannuityspecialist.com/c/5031374/70...
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I have the same feeling about autocorrect, where just dealing with the mistakes and the cognitive load of spotting the non-human errors (as opposed to human ones which are just spelling mistakes) is much higher than simply typing the messages yourself.
I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?
Time to look into your settings, folks.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have the same feeling about autocorrect, where just dealing with the mistakes and the cognitive load of spotting the non-human errors (as opposed to human ones which are just spelling mistakes) is much higher than simply typing the messages yourself.
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Happy birthday to Bjork, whose first five albums delineated a state of emergency where I wanted to dwell forever. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/r...
Ranking Bjork albums 1993-2004
I love her, I love her, but the drop-off has been serious, almost fatal because as a fan for twenty-five years I understand the depths of her asceticism. Vulnicura and last year’s Utopia have…
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Happy birthday to Bjork, whose first five albums delineated a state of emergency where I wanted to dwell forever. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/r...
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Sitting here listening to so many beautiful songs that Mani gave us, with the Stone Roses and Primal Scream both. RIP.
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Sitting here listening to so many beautiful songs that Mani gave us, with the Stone Roses and Primal Scream both. RIP.
*Linus voice* Criticism is getting too dangerous
marc there's a bomb in your car
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
*Linus voice* Criticism is getting too dangerous
I finally figured it out: That one band is like Greta Van Fleet except instead of Led Zeppelin they sound like the guy from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah fronting Cold War Kids.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I finally figured it out: That one band is like Greta Van Fleet except instead of Led Zeppelin they sound like the guy from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah fronting Cold War Kids.
Wrote again about what seems to me like one of the year's big stories, life insurers pouring money into credit vehicles that are less liquid and more opaque, for The Allocator newsletter. This time the news peg is a Moody's report. Subscription details: pardot.pageantmedia.com/l/284832/202...
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wrote again about what seems to me like one of the year's big stories, life insurers pouring money into credit vehicles that are less liquid and more opaque, for The Allocator newsletter. This time the news peg is a Moody's report. Subscription details: pardot.pageantmedia.com/l/284832/202...
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Amazing work!
Every song by Elizabeth Morris of @allodarlin.bsky.social, ranked! After four months of work (!!!), my next huge feature is about a band you maybe haven't heard of that might end up being everything to you: joeydaniewicz.com/2025/11/17/m...
All 69 Songs by Elizabeth Morris of Allo Darlin’, Ranked
It’s easy to see where things begin; it is harder to see where they end.
joeydaniewicz.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Amazing work!
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years
Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years
Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
www.wbur.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
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OMG Same! I was fresh out of college and I submitted a one act play called "Midnite Vultures" to a local competiton and won $50 and had the Naples Players do a table reading. That eventually led me to a freelance writing career!
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
OMG Same! I was fresh out of college and I submitted a one act play called "Midnite Vultures" to a local competiton and won $50 and had the Naples Players do a table reading. That eventually led me to a freelance writing career!
Midnite Vultures changed the direction of my life. I wrote a review of it for my first college journalism class, with former Jet editor Clarence Waldron, and he wrote on it ”go to the head of the class.”
Yes. "Midnite Vultures" really predicted the sound of 21st century pop music to an uncanny degree! When Kanye released "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" I was like "congrats on being a decade late to Beck?"
I was incredibly upset that Sea Change was so much more revered than Midnite Vultures, and history has proved that opinion right
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Midnite Vultures changed the direction of my life. I wrote a review of it for my first college journalism class, with former Jet editor Clarence Waldron, and he wrote on it ”go to the head of the class.”
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I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
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if magdalena bay could keep putting out two charming new songs a week indefinitely that would be great.
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
if magdalena bay could keep putting out two charming new songs a week indefinitely that would be great.
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bluesky’s current demonstrated willingness to suspend entire accounts on a hair trigger basis is alarming.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
bluesky’s current demonstrated willingness to suspend entire accounts on a hair trigger basis is alarming.
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The incipient market for 'totally unsmart, completely dumb, absolutely basic fridges that just do the job at keeping your food cold or frozen' is going to skyrocket if it hasn't already.
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The incipient market for 'totally unsmart, completely dumb, absolutely basic fridges that just do the job at keeping your food cold or frozen' is going to skyrocket if it hasn't already.
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Wait, who are these sociopaths who don't listen to music every day???
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wait, who are these sociopaths who don't listen to music every day???
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Robyn rises from the dance floor, making herself known to us only when the world needs her most.
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Robyn rises from the dance floor, making herself known to us only when the world needs her most.
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Sure, are all y’all gonna pay for it? And keep paying for it?
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sure, are all y’all gonna pay for it? And keep paying for it?