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Rsanford614
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Trying to follow the north star that the next thing I see, eat, hear, read, might be the best thing. Bylines in Columbus Underground, Pencilstorm, JazzColumbus, Agit Reader.
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thomascostello.bsky.social
ICE is making its way through Columbus. CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services) is giving gift cards to families to keep them home and fed.

If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
CC - small appeals link
CC - small appeals link
crisohio.app.neoncrm.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
My second playlist of favorite tracks of the year, heavier on jazz, classical, and electronic: screenofdistance.com/2025/12/17/b...
Best of 2025: Spaces
I started splitting playlists a few years ago, both to keep them from getting too unwieldy and to keep longer 15-20 minute tracks from discouraging people who were in it for more bite-sized materia…
screenofdistance.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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callie.bsky.social
Just write new fucking stories, make up new fucking characters, Jesus fucking Christ. Nobody in the fucking world wants to run on this god damn fucking media hamster wheel.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 7d
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory

he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
A selection of my favorite visual art exhibits from 2025: screenofdistance.com/2025/12/15/b...
Best of 2025: Visual Art
Incredibly strong slate of Visual Art exhibits this year, 70 shows across six cities. Less New York presence because I only made one trip this year and because it was celebrating my birthday less t…
screenofdistance.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
My favorite theater, opera, and dance performances of 2025: screenofdistance.com/2025/12/12/b...
Best of 2025: Theater/Opera/Dance
This was a closer-to-home year for me in terms of “performance art.” My only New York trip was for my birthday, so more about friends, and I didn’t get to any theater (have no fea…
screenofdistance.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
My first 2025 Playlist of some favorite songs (mostly non-classical/jazz, those will follow in the next installment).

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Best of 2025 – Songs
There was an enormous amount of music I loved this year. As usual, I divided this into songs – usually have lyrics, generally concise – and spaces – usually instrumental or minima…
screenofdistance.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
RIP to one of the greatest singers I was ever lucky enough to see. So glad @fonzette.bsky.social and I went out to see them in Indianapolis last summer with Nicole Atkins.
Nicole Atkins and Raul Malo singing, black and white
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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fonzette.bsky.social
"As Anne said, "This is what all protest music should sound like: a party that also makes you want to smash shit.""

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Best of 2025: Live Music
In a world that felt even more on fire than usual – by which I mostly mean the fire was closer to me personally – I found a lot to be grateful for: my friends, my partner, my family, my…
screenofdistance.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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sarahweinman.com
This, on Hannah Arendt and the perils of making her an icon rather than wrestling with what she thought and wrote, is very good.
Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
rsanford614.bsky.social
My favorite records of 2025. More detail will come in my annual playlists in a week or two: screenofdistance.com/2025/12/01/b...
Best of 2025 – Recorded Music
Not a great deal brand new to me cracked my top 20 this year, but so many artists I love put out some of the best work of their career I can’t complain – this was a hard year to whittle…
screenofdistance.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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jessefuchs.bsky.social
that’s it. that’s the dynamic that was on the tip of my tongue
bbolander.bsky.social Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · Nov 21
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
Had a great conversation with choreographer Doug Varone about a program he and his troupe bring to the Wex this Friday that spans work almost 40 years old and world premieres. My article for @colsunderground.bsky.social:

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Dance Preview: Doug Varone and Dancers Celebrate 40 Years With Program Including World Premiere and Student Collaborations - Columbus Underground
"It feels like it's a work of resistance, & it feels incredibly potent for me at this particular point in time" -Doug Varone & Dancers Nov 21
columbusunderground.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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marissarmoss.bsky.social
Wrote about Todd Snider, East Nashville and how the more things change, the more they change.

www.dontrocktheinbox.com/something-go...
Something good comes along, then it’s gone: Farewell, Todd Snider.
When I moved to East Nashville in 2012, legend had it that if you wanted to find Todd Snider, all you had to do was go to Drifter’s BBQ in Five Points, and he’d be there at the bar. Nashville always h...
www.dontrocktheinbox.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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ameliaispunk.bsky.social
Todd Snider, your songwriting and stories are forever burned into my psyche. Whether it was the good times in my life or the bad, you were always there. The songs and stories will forever bring me a smile and a tear. Wherever you are, I hope you find that peace and know you are loved. ☮️♥️🏴
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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terebifunhouse.bsky.social
Throwback Thursday: ten years ago Let's Anime looked at the anime fandom scene of 1985 with this article, illustrated with actual 1985 high school yearbook photos starring, among other aliens, idol singers, and students, a future Academy Award winning actress! letsanime.blogspot.com/2015/10/clas...
Class Of '85
Japanese animation, anime, cartoons, manga, 1960-1990, Tezuka, Miyazaki, Ishinomori, Matsumoto, Yamato, Gatchaman, Star Blazers, Captain Harlock
letsanime.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
rsanford614.bsky.social
Had a terrific conversation with Marion Ramirez and Ojeya Cruz Banks about their dance piece Mareas/Tides playing @wexarts.bsky.social Wednesday and wrote it up as a piece for @colsunderground.bsky.social: columbusunderground.com/dance-previe...
Dance Preview: 'Mareas/Tides' Brings Love for the Ocean to the Stage in Fascinating Dance Performance - Columbus Underground
Explore the push and pull of the moon and the ocean on Wednesday, Nov 5th during Mareas/Tides, an immersive dance performance at the Wex.
columbusunderground.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
Thanks to the phrase somehow congealing in a conversation with @jtreppel.bsky.social, we have concluded that Mental Herpes would be the perfect band name for a terrible funk rock act in 1993, presumably opening for the Limbomaniacs or something.
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
Completely accurate.
rahawahaile.bsky.social Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · Oct 22
Aaron’s long essay on the People’s Park mural and Telegraph Ave in Berkeley + @reveleth.com’s recent reporting on the quest to save Esther’s Orbit Room’s iconic West Oakland facade make for one hell of a double feature on what gets remembered and why in the East Bay.
October 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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matthewterrill.bsky.social
I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.
"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living." Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time. But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous. " had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most." In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog. "In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth." Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing." However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up? "Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes. "If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better - it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes. Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down. More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
Because it's playing on the restaurant background - all deference to Dinah Washington - whoever tried to ameliorate the original cocaine reference with a repetition of champagne when champagne was THE LAST COUPLET feels doddering, like you're visiting your grandfather who's not entirely there.
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
"I can't say what I think should happen to thieves like this.”

@404media.co asked me what I thought about this shit.

www.404media.co/ai-generated...
“I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of ‘A.I.’ dog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances,” writer Luke O’Neill, who wrote an obituary for Horton, told me in an email. “This predatory slop is understandably upsetting to his family and friends and fans and an affront to his specific life and to life itself. Especially days after his death. All week people have been eulogizing Kaleb as one of the best, although sadly not widely read enough, writers of his generation, and some piece of shit pressed a button and took 30 seconds or whatever it is to set up a tollbooth to divert the many people just learning about him away from his real and vital work. And for what? To make maybe a few dollars? By tricking people? I can't say what I think should happen to thieves like this.”
October 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Please report this fucking AI slop. Goddamnit. www.amazon.com/KALEB-HORTON...
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
rsanford614.bsky.social
If listening to "If Loving You Is Wrong" on the dual CD jukebox with @fonzette.bsky.social while ice literally falls off my bottle of beer at Alex's Tavern is wrong... I love you, Memphis.
September 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
Fascinating must-read thread. And yes, donate to support Paulina Borsook, who tried to warn everyone.
gilduran.com Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Sep 24
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
September 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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dkompare.bsky.social
“Minimalism’s iron grip on reality is not honest or articulate. It’s a manifestation of a world that is actually out of control. The iPhone screams chaos at us, but it looks clean and perfect. It’s the ideal delivery device for madness.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era | Dave Schilling
The barely there iPhone Air is in line with trends in tech, design and art – unsullied by thought, risk or humor
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM