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Everything that happened on the blog last week with a couple extras.

New format, new design. Let me know what you think.

Music features this week:

googly eyes (Los Angeles) is a new identity for a seasoned singer and producer. She has a bunch of slightly offbeat pop music that I can't get enough of

Kynsy (Dublin) has been putting out music for a few years, but her recent indie power-pop reinvention is a killer new sound

untitled (halo) (Los Angeles) is a little enigmatic and mysterious, and their breakbeat-backed indie sound is fresh and addictive

Debdepan (Cork) only has four songs available, but their moody indie sound and their live performance are compelling

Singles:

Blog faves Featurette and Heavenly Blue (Toronto), Theo Moss (LA), plus new artists His Death Was Red (Toronto), Sophia Warren, GLICH3, Elias Rønnenfelt, Clutter and Opal Mag

Hear it all on the Apple Music and Spotify playlists

Because of this post, I started digging into my Goodreads data to see if there was anything I could learn from it. It was a fun thing, ongoing next week. Part one is about me figuring out how LLMs can help, part two is what the graphs reveal, and part three is refuting the graphs using anecdotes and ~vibes~.

More importantly, I linked to Ted Chiang’s recent article about AI, and Lincoln Michel’s addendum to it. It’s incredible reading that will likely change the way you think about LLMs.

Shame by Annie Ernaux is another delicate and devastating memoir. Annie Ernaux is a master of excavating trauma

10:04 by Ben Lerner is almost excellent, sometimes eye-rollingly precious. I didn't like this book but there's a lot of it that's brilliant

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is one of the most difficult and rewarding nonfiction books I've ever read.

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