Kevin Kortum

🪿 Will Geese Redeem Noisy, Lawless Rock and Roll?

In the months since Geese released its third studio album, “Getting Killed,” the band has been rhapsodically heralded as the redeemer of a certain kind of noisy, lawless rock and roll.

Spoiler alert: Getting Killed is making my top ten albums of the year. Easily. I wasn’t a huge fan of their last album, but singer Cameron Winter released his debut solo album, Heavy Metal, which made my top ten last year, and they’ve done a great job of combining the sounds and styles to make something that’s absolutely wonderful.

🎵 Pay per stream is a messy metric

music

Birchtree

So I’ll ask again, would you rather have had your music listened to by more people and you earned more money, or would you like to have had fewer people listen and make less money?

I’m sorry, but this is nonsense. The whole point of the conversation is to move people off of Spotify and to other places. If more people move to other streamers, those streamers will start paying the artists more… So if an artist had a choice of where they’d prefer people listen to their music, they’d choose the one that pays

🖼️ There’s beauty in the question — Mohammed Sami

art

YouTube

Sami is a favorite to win the Turner Award for 2025, featuring the best in new developments in contemporary art in Britain. Getting to see Sami in his element, talking about his art, was wondrous. There is power and reckoning in the simplicity.

🧑‍💻 Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World?

tech

pketh

When that happens, companies (especially the VC-backed kind) now need to contrive new and increasingly stick-like reasons for customers to pay again. From made-for-marketing ‘features’ that suck to use IRL, to breaking compatibility with older versions, to spamming you with marketing notifications and embedded ads. Their relationship with customers goes from symbiotic to parasitic.

Pirijan, the creator of Kinopio, is always incredibly thoughtful with his approach to building and his writing—this is no exception. Longtime readers will know my distaste for where the economy is going with “venture predation,” and the growth-at-all-costs approach in the tech and financial

🎉 5 literary magazines for sci-fi and fantasy readers

zines

Winter is Coming

Anyone can start a literary journal, but it takes dedication and care for one to prosper and grow into something with potential. Foofaraw Press is an independent zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations. Though there is an argument to be made that all of the magazines on this list are “independent,” Foofaraw Press stands out for their accessibility to emerging authors.

My litmag, Foofaraw, was featured alongside Clarkesworld, Uncanny, and two others in this list, which is truly an honor.

💣 Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?

politics

The Economist

Many of the new lawyers installed in senior posts over recent months “don’t care what the right answer is”, bemoans the former senior JAG. “They spend all their time trying to figure out what the administration wants and then reverse engineer how to get to it.”

I called it out a while ago, but at a minimum, Trump is guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, and now I think it’s pretty clear he and Hegseth are guilty of international war crimes as well. Since Trump is such a great “businessman man,” he should be familiar with

🪿 Will Geese Redeem Noisy, Lawless Rock and Roll?

🎵 Pay per stream is a messy metric

🖼️ There’s beauty in the question — Mohammed Sami

🧑‍💻 Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World?

🎉 5 literary magazines for sci-fi and fantasy readers

💣 Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?

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