maggie savarino
@magimura.bsky.social
pen, paper, paint // gen x cliché //
chronic researcher //
chronic researcher //
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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Non-fiction:
"Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop Music" by Danyel Smith
"Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" by Maureen Mahon
Fiction:
"Some Sing, Some Cry" by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza
"The Final Revival of Opal & Nev" by Dawnie Walton
"Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop Music" by Danyel Smith
"Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" by Maureen Mahon
Fiction:
"Some Sing, Some Cry" by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza
"The Final Revival of Opal & Nev" by Dawnie Walton
What are your all-time favorite books about music?
Explore our picks for the 50 Must-Read Music Books here: album.ink/MusicBooks
Explore our picks for the 50 Must-Read Music Books here: album.ink/MusicBooks
ALBUMISM PRESENTS: 50 Must-Read Music Books
In need of some good reading material to complement your record collection? Check out our staff’s list of 50 music-themed books that deserve room on your shelves.
album.ink
July 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Non-fiction:
"Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop Music" by Danyel Smith
"Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" by Maureen Mahon
Fiction:
"Some Sing, Some Cry" by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza
"The Final Revival of Opal & Nev" by Dawnie Walton
"Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop Music" by Danyel Smith
"Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" by Maureen Mahon
Fiction:
"Some Sing, Some Cry" by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza
"The Final Revival of Opal & Nev" by Dawnie Walton
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When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
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Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
AI Is A Money Trap
In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...
www.wheresyoured.at
August 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
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I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp
Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.
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China added 464 GW of solar in the last 12 months. The US? Just 50 GW. But here’s the kicker: China’s growth +62% alone (+178 GW vs same time last year) was over 3× the entire U.S. solar build in that time. The gap isn’t closing—it’s going supernova.☀️⚡🇨🇳 #EnergyTransition #SolarPower #Disruption #LFP
July 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
China added 464 GW of solar in the last 12 months. The US? Just 50 GW. But here’s the kicker: China’s growth +62% alone (+178 GW vs same time last year) was over 3× the entire U.S. solar build in that time. The gap isn’t closing—it’s going supernova.☀️⚡🇨🇳 #EnergyTransition #SolarPower #Disruption #LFP
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If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways
July 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways
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Tomorrow's front page 📰
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
July 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
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I analyzed which notable figures from the art world donated to Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaigns for the Democratic primary after Cuomo announced a third-party run yesterday: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
July 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I analyzed which notable figures from the art world donated to Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaigns for the Democratic primary after Cuomo announced a third-party run yesterday: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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netanyahu has deliberately intervened in american elections more than once *on behalf of the republicans, explicitly*, if you’re a dem showing up in a photo op with him, you’re a fucking chump, and you should be a primary target, fuck you
part of the reason i am not a “primary everyone” person is because we can easily make target lists to pool effort and resources, and “posed for pictures with netanyahu in 2025” is an excellent, targeted list
know who's not here? oregon or massachusetts senators. wanna know who the next leaders of the senate should be? same answer.
July 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
netanyahu has deliberately intervened in american elections more than once *on behalf of the republicans, explicitly*, if you’re a dem showing up in a photo op with him, you’re a fucking chump, and you should be a primary target, fuck you
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Daily reminder that you don't need a Left Joe Rogan. Zohran wiped the floor with an establishment Dem in a race where he was being called a Muslim Socialist and absolutely no Rogan of the Left would have ever supported him. The kind of people who would fund a Left Rogan are rich Gillibrand Dems
July 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
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Very cool that several people who used to yell at me in DMs for being too mean to Facebook are now running some sort of extralegal posse informally deputized by the actual United States Army.
Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs to commission into Army reserve, form 'Detachment 201' - Breaking Defense
“There’s an urgency to change and transform the Army and these guys [are] going to help,” said Col Dave Butler.
breakingdefense.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Very cool that several people who used to yell at me in DMs for being too mean to Facebook are now running some sort of extralegal posse informally deputized by the actual United States Army.
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Fell behind on Andor, so am catching up. Watched Episode 9 this evening.
You know. The wild one where they arrest a Senator after manufacturing a fake crisis that required the military to put down protestors.
So unrealistic.
You know. The wild one where they arrest a Senator after manufacturing a fake crisis that required the military to put down protestors.
So unrealistic.
June 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Fell behind on Andor, so am catching up. Watched Episode 9 this evening.
You know. The wild one where they arrest a Senator after manufacturing a fake crisis that required the military to put down protestors.
So unrealistic.
You know. The wild one where they arrest a Senator after manufacturing a fake crisis that required the military to put down protestors.
So unrealistic.
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Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize
June 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize
I'M SORRY WTF NOW?????
Banks are aiming to issue cryptocurrency.
Lawmakers just put a line in the GENIUS Act saying when a bank issuing crypto goes bankrupt, crypto investors get paid before regular depositors.
In other words: your savings account becomes crypto’s bailout fund.
www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
Lawmakers just put a line in the GENIUS Act saying when a bank issuing crypto goes bankrupt, crypto investors get paid before regular depositors.
In other words: your savings account becomes crypto’s bailout fund.
www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
June 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I'M SORRY WTF NOW?????
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4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday
May 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday
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1) the right convinces liberals to adopt more right wing policy.
2) those choices lead to predictable harm and political collapse.
3) rather than taking responsibility or turning left, they blame the left… accusing them of being purists or extremists “hurting the cause.”
4) repeat
2) those choices lead to predictable harm and political collapse.
3) rather than taking responsibility or turning left, they blame the left… accusing them of being purists or extremists “hurting the cause.”
4) repeat
May 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
1) the right convinces liberals to adopt more right wing policy.
2) those choices lead to predictable harm and political collapse.
3) rather than taking responsibility or turning left, they blame the left… accusing them of being purists or extremists “hurting the cause.”
4) repeat
2) those choices lead to predictable harm and political collapse.
3) rather than taking responsibility or turning left, they blame the left… accusing them of being purists or extremists “hurting the cause.”
4) repeat
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one hour of nottoway plantation fire ASMR for your listening pleasure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrAw...
ASMR Nottoway Plantation Fire - 1 Hour
YouTube video by Korrupt Komedy
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
one hour of nottoway plantation fire ASMR for your listening pleasure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrAw...