Jeffrey Anthony
@musefoundry.bsky.social
Founder of Muse Foundry, developing the Certificate of Embodied Production (CEP), a framework that verifies human, ungridified music. Former Pandora Music Analyst
https://www.musefoundry.studio/ | https://medium.com/@WeWillNotBeFlattened
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Jeffrey Anthony
@musefoundry.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Does ‘Perfect’ Music Make Us Worse at Democracy?
How the gridification of music from Taylor Swift to everyone else trains us out of mutual recognition
medium.com
We've been trained by perfect music to expect perfect synchronization from humans.
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Democracy requires coordination across difference.
Taylor Swift’s Opalite vs. Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams shows how our loss of rhythmic tolerance mirrors our political one.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
Is Suno a Music company?
If we classify music as entertainment or treat it as a mere projection of unarticulated feeling, then calling Suno a music company makes sense.
But music is not mere entertainment, and it is not a mere projection of unarticulated feeling.
If we classify music as entertainment or treat it as a mere projection of unarticulated feeling, then calling Suno a music company makes sense.
But music is not mere entertainment, and it is not a mere projection of unarticulated feeling.
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Is Suno a Music company?
If we classify music as entertainment or treat it as a mere projection of unarticulated feeling, then calling Suno a music company makes sense.
But music is not mere entertainment, and it is not a mere projection of unarticulated feeling.
If we classify music as entertainment or treat it as a mere projection of unarticulated feeling, then calling Suno a music company makes sense.
But music is not mere entertainment, and it is not a mere projection of unarticulated feeling.
"It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions." Neil Postman
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions." Neil Postman
Jazz session today
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Jazz session today
This isn’t really culture. It’s political economy. When the state extends copyright terms it creates incentive structure where firms extract rents from legacy catalogs instead of investing in new work. Stagnation is downstream of policy & capital allocation, not some failure of cultural imagination.
A lot of contemporary cultural output is cynical IP management — a company buys an artist’s old song catalogue and orders up a biopic to try to revive interest in their new assets.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...
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 12:12 PM
This isn’t really culture. It’s political economy. When the state extends copyright terms it creates incentive structure where firms extract rents from legacy catalogs instead of investing in new work. Stagnation is downstream of policy & capital allocation, not some failure of cultural imagination.
Eryk's observation that ChatGPT "came into a world where proximity to others was correlated with the risk of death," is chilling. Seeing it through that lens makes the whole trajectory feel far more unsettling.
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Eryk's observation that ChatGPT "came into a world where proximity to others was correlated with the risk of death," is chilling. Seeing it through that lens makes the whole trajectory feel far more unsettling.
This critique echoes the exact argument Patrick Deneen and other post-liberal conservatives make. They frame the promise ‘you can be whatever you want’ as the core ideological failure of modern liberalism and use it to justify a post-liberal social order.
“You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up!”, so damaging to so many folks (and we’re all living in the wreckage)
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This critique echoes the exact argument Patrick Deneen and other post-liberal conservatives make. They frame the promise ‘you can be whatever you want’ as the core ideological failure of modern liberalism and use it to justify a post-liberal social order.
See's an incredibly arrogant statement by philosopher I've never heard of; research what this person is famous for; aghast at how incredible sophomoric and quite frankly - lazy it is.
Asks AI: Is this what this person is really famous for?
AI: "Yes, that is an accurate summary of their position."
Asks AI: Is this what this person is really famous for?
AI: "Yes, that is an accurate summary of their position."
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
See's an incredibly arrogant statement by philosopher I've never heard of; research what this person is famous for; aghast at how incredible sophomoric and quite frankly - lazy it is.
Asks AI: Is this what this person is really famous for?
AI: "Yes, that is an accurate summary of their position."
Asks AI: Is this what this person is really famous for?
AI: "Yes, that is an accurate summary of their position."
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
Op-ed: @jagjaguwar.bsky.social founder Darius Van Arman on the challenges facing independent artists and labels in today's music industry and how regulators can help
Op-Ed: The Struggle For Independence In The Modern Age
Jagjaguwar's Darius Van Arman on our shared fight against market concentration and for art, culture, and access.
stereogum.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Op-ed: @jagjaguwar.bsky.social founder Darius Van Arman on the challenges facing independent artists and labels in today's music industry and how regulators can help
Oriana's point about ad agencies adopting synthetic humans ltracks with what I’ve been calling the rise of ‘taxidermy chic’ in marketing & platform imagery. This aesthetic is preparing us to accept embalmed, frictionless human substitutes.
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Oriana's point about ad agencies adopting synthetic humans ltracks with what I’ve been calling the rise of ‘taxidermy chic’ in marketing & platform imagery. This aesthetic is preparing us to accept embalmed, frictionless human substitutes.
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
Feels like a paint-by-numbers arrangement. Everything lands exactly where the template says it should.
youtu.be/ss9fRdpYdyI?...
youtu.be/ss9fRdpYdyI?...
KNEECAP feat. SUB FOCUS - NO COMMENT (OFFICIAL VISUALIZER)
YouTube video by KNEECAP
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Feels like a paint-by-numbers arrangement. Everything lands exactly where the template says it should.
youtu.be/ss9fRdpYdyI?...
youtu.be/ss9fRdpYdyI?...
Delicious moment when Patti Smith tells Ezra Klein his politics of abundance is bullshit.
I'm sure Klein was thinking 'sure, but do I have survey that will knocks your socks off.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
I'm sure Klein was thinking 'sure, but do I have survey that will knocks your socks off.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Opinion | Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Delicious moment when Patti Smith tells Ezra Klein his politics of abundance is bullshit.
I'm sure Klein was thinking 'sure, but do I have survey that will knocks your socks off.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
I'm sure Klein was thinking 'sure, but do I have survey that will knocks your socks off.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
New from 404 Media: IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Shows where and when someone flew, the credit card used. Hundreds of millions records; the airlines sell this data to the government through a broker they own
www.404media.co/irs-accessed...
www.404media.co/irs-accessed...
IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant
A bipartisan letter reveals the IRS searched a database of hundreds of millions of travel records without first conducting a legal review. Airlines like Delta, United, American, and Southwest are sell...
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New from 404 Media: IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Shows where and when someone flew, the credit card used. Hundreds of millions records; the airlines sell this data to the government through a broker they own
www.404media.co/irs-accessed...
www.404media.co/irs-accessed...
Man, the world sucks.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world still sucks.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world really sucks.
Sample population, rely on the CLT, and pretend that’s insight.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world still sucks.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world really sucks.
Sample population, rely on the CLT, and pretend that’s insight.
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Man, the world sucks.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world still sucks.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world really sucks.
Sample population, rely on the CLT, and pretend that’s insight.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world still sucks.
Sample population, rely on CLT, extract a policy agenda, implement agenda.
Man, the world really sucks.
Sample population, rely on the CLT, and pretend that’s insight.
What a muddled piece of moralizing. Spencer Jakab forces a narrative of historical necessity onto contingent market behavior and then treats those cycles as if they deliver built-in moral lessons. The 2008 crash was good because it was 'therapeutic.'
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Why We Could Use a Good, Long Bear Market
Stocks have experienced only brief downturns over the past 16 years, creating dangerous complacency.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
What a muddled piece of moralizing. Spencer Jakab forces a narrative of historical necessity onto contingent market behavior and then treats those cycles as if they deliver built-in moral lessons. The 2008 crash was good because it was 'therapeutic.'
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Walking the dog at first light this morning and noticed what appears to be the remnants of a rocket launch over Tucson.
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Walking the dog at first light this morning and noticed what appears to be the remnants of a rocket launch over Tucson.
AI isn’t cognition, sure. But these de-temporalized pattern engines still reshape our world because they’re ontologically tethered to *us*. They remix patterns and categories feeding those outputs back into our semiotic field thereby necessarily altering our cognitive horizon.
I’m gonna disagree with this one.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why.
We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
AI isn’t cognition, sure. But these de-temporalized pattern engines still reshape our world because they’re ontologically tethered to *us*. They remix patterns and categories feeding those outputs back into our semiotic field thereby necessarily altering our cognitive horizon.
Does it make sense to understand AI outputs as belonging to a non-semiotic domain of pattern production, one that sits outside the Peircean triadic structure of icon, index & symbol? In other words, a fourth domain of atemporal non-experiential pattern interpolation that generates symbol-like forms
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Does it make sense to understand AI outputs as belonging to a non-semiotic domain of pattern production, one that sits outside the Peircean triadic structure of icon, index & symbol? In other words, a fourth domain of atemporal non-experiential pattern interpolation that generates symbol-like forms
Deezer ran a study with 9,000 listeners and found that only 3 percent could tell the difference between a fully AI-generated song and a human-made one.
I dig into the implications here:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
I dig into the implications here:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
Deezer Reports Only 3% of Users Can Accurately Identify AI-Generated Tracks
130 days' worth of AI “music” floods the platform every day
medium.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Deezer ran a study with 9,000 listeners and found that only 3 percent could tell the difference between a fully AI-generated song and a human-made one.
I dig into the implications here:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
I dig into the implications here:
medium.com/the-riff/dee...
We’re being trained to accept our own obsolescence, the same way those embalmed images sliding across our screens normalize the erasure of embodied presence.
I just published a piece on the aesthetic logic behind that shift and what’s at stake:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I just published a piece on the aesthetic logic behind that shift and what’s at stake:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We’re being trained to accept our own obsolescence, the same way those embalmed images sliding across our screens normalize the erasure of embodied presence.
I just published a piece on the aesthetic logic behind that shift and what’s at stake:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I just published a piece on the aesthetic logic behind that shift and what’s at stake:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
Reposted by Jeffrey Anthony
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
Why do all these promo shots for modern TV shows look embalmed?
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
Taxidermy Chic: Why Everything Looks Dead Now
How streaming platforms are training us to accept our own obsolescence
medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Why do all these promo shots for modern TV shows look embalmed?
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I am calling this new aesthetic gesture Taxidermy Chic: what happens when an entire culture begins embalming itself in real time.
We're being conditioned to see our own obsolescence as natural:
medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...
I find Radiohead’s stage setup perplexing. Each member is in their own bubble with their back to the others. As a musician, performing live, the visual is just as important as the aural. I guess this is mirror of how culture works now.
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
Radiohead - Just - live Madrid 2025-11-07 night 3
YouTube video by Javi Dieguez
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I find Radiohead’s stage setup perplexing. Each member is in their own bubble with their back to the others. As a musician, performing live, the visual is just as important as the aural. I guess this is mirror of how culture works now.
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
youtu.be/4RRauFAavL0?...
This is the Democratic Party behaving like a statistical organism which is trapped inside a self-normalizing distribution, incapable of singular, haecceitic action.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is the Democratic Party behaving like a statistical organism which is trapped inside a self-normalizing distribution, incapable of singular, haecceitic action.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.
It is this form of governance that people intuitively vote against.