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Alex Reed

@salexanderreed.bsky.social

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author of Assimilate + books on TMBG + Laurie Anderson professor @ Ithaca College / NYU / U. Florida / William & Mary singer of the band Seeming ex-ThouShaltNot aesthete and ethicist of the gothic makes awful jokes https://linktr.ee/salexanderreed

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 15h

This Tom Johnson album is hot!

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks! Hat = 0, Kick = 1, Snare = 2, and from there the catalogue is just counting eight slots in base 3, with slot 5 always set to 2.

Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 18h

Done!

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 18h

I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms!

In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here:

salexanderreed.com/backbeats

Backbeats — 1458 Possible Rhythms — ⠀

salexanderreed.com

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Seeming @seeming.bsky.social · 6d

THE WORLD
album cover by Dragan Bibin
out Dec. 5 on Artoffact Records
pre-order it NOW at Bandcamp

Teaser single "Zebra Tramples Horse Trainer" is out TONIGHT.

seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 5d

I am so sorry. Poor thing. You are taking really good care of her. It's the best thing we can do. <3

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 6d

Ahh, give it a few hours. I'm gonna let the label turn on that function. Too many fingers in the pie.

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 6d

CDs can be ordered from the Bandcamp page!

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Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social · 18d

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have.

I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13d

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

Can We Spot It?
(Question: How can we identify native American fascists at work? )
An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes. Hitler made demagogic appeals to all groups and swore: "Neither I nor anybody in the National Socialist Party advocates proceeding by anything but Constitutional methods." Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern. It would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-American-ism." Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive.
They know that they must hand out a line that "sells." Huey Long is said to have remarked that if fascism came to America, it would be on a program of "Ameri-canism."
Fascists in America may differ slightly from fascists in other countries, but there are a number of attitudes and practices that they have in common. Following are three. Every person who has one of them is not necessarily a fascist. But he is

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 12d

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention

Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 18d

Tonight at 9 in #Ithaca I’m playing Naked Noise 12 (which involves—to be clear—no nakedness). I’ll be one of 18 musicians performing a two-hour improvisation. Psychedelic, immersive, ritualistic.

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 22d

The poster doesn't even mention James Earl Jones

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 22d

With Robert Redford having passed, I beg you all to watch Sneakers (1992), one of the most prescient movies in recent decades, and certainly the best hacker film ever made.

Also it's very funny.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 25d

It’s up on Instagram at seemingmusic.

Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 27d

YEP.

Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 27d

Don't let anyone relitigate the possibility of a better world. It is not up for debate. Don't let them drag your technicolor heart into their monochrome hell of greed and resentment.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · Sep 6

I think it was catapulted to permanent meme status

Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · Sep 6

It became a meme via Arrested Development (the TV show, not the band)

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Schu-Tang is Forever

Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · Sep 3

I was in Canadian library last night checking out a book about Utah Saints' 1992 debut album. Then my friend Siouxsie said something like, "Hey, you're invited to watch a weird horror movie in the conference room."

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · Aug 29

my band's new single
heavy sad synthpop
b-side is a banger in Spanish

seeming.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

Tomorrow Place, by Seeming

3 track album

seeming.bandcamp.com

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · Aug 29

my band's new single
heavy sad synthpop
b-side is a banger in Spanish

seeming.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

Tomorrow Place, by Seeming

3 track album

seeming.bandcamp.com

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