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Elmattic

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Sep 17

DOPE OF THE MONTH CLUB :: AUGTEMBER 2025

Wrote about ten recent joints from:
Gabe 'Nandez x Preservation
@premrock.bsky.social x Curly Castro x co.
Fatboi Sharif
$ilkmoney
Tokyo Cigar x Son Raw
Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire
Cool Calm Pete

elmattic.substack.com/p/dope-of-th...

Dope of the Month Club :: Augtember 2025

Ten joints for your autumnal pleasures. Wait, that sounds kinda erotic, I didn't mean it like that.

elmattic.substack.com

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 3h

Tbh I personally listen to Bandcamp or what’s in my hard drive 99.9% of the time, but this is everyone’s excuse about leaving Spotify, it’s too difficult, etc. I mean is Apple any better, morally? Maybe?

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 5h

They’re also running ICE recruitment ads.

It took me five minutes to transfer playlists to YouTube Music—and the sound is noticeably better too. You have no excuse.

Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 21h

Dump Spotify

bsky.app/profile/fray...

Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21h

Ah, yes. Music products. I think everyone can relate to that feeling of driving down the road, windows down, listening to music product.

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 5h

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 8h

Look what I became, god don’t make mistakes see

youtu.be/6TX0kaDKBzo?...

Conway The Machine - Fear Of God (Audio) ft. DeJ Loaf

YouTube video by ConwayTheMachineVEVO

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 16h

The Passenger

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah this was that shit, was a great way to discover stuff in the pre-Rap Twitter/late blog era.

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 5d

I think it’s the other way around though, Tom Waits had big muppet energy

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 9d

Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 10d

Premium trolling, excellent work.

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I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES @imgarysuarez.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, it's October, but we're opening up the CABBAGES Readers' Poll ballot box to take your votes for the year's best of the best in independent hip-hop/rap music.
www.cabbageshiphop.com/announcing-t...

Announcing: The 2025 CABBAGES Readers' Poll

The one time of year where YOU get to weigh in with your favorite independent hip-hop/rap acts and works. Act right.

www.cabbageshiphop.com

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 25d

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!

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The Sound Conspirator @soundconspirator.bsky.social · 28d

The Sound Conspirator
el pánico de Satanás
October 2nd Bandcamp
October 3rd streaming

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · 29d

Ah thanks man. Appreciate that.

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Sep 17

I may have skipped a few to be fair, but the new one goes hard.

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Sep 17

Agree, and he got really pissed at me on the other place for implying he’s been putting out mid for a while.

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Sep 17

Also here in a Medium size:
elmattic.medium.com/dope-of-the-...

Dope of the Month Club :: Augtember 2025

Ten joints for your autumnal pleasures. Wait, that sounds kinda erotic, I didn’t mean it like that.

elmattic.medium.com

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Sep 17

Dope of the Month Club :: Augtember 2025

Ten joints for your autumnal pleasures. Wait, that sounds kinda erotic, I didn't mean it like that.

elmattic.substack.com

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Sep 15

The 10th is “speaking Hungarian fluently”

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · Sep 14

an extensive (with links) guide of resources for movement resistance compiled by various collectives & individuals that might be of use to those on the front lines & on the ground.

suggest you keep this separately in a searchable bookmark format.

Resources for resistance

A collection of guides for fighting back.

open.substack.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Aug 31

there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up

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Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yeah you’re clearly super butt hurt about that above anything relevant to what I’m talking about. So enjoy your schadenfreude already while an AI takes your coding job or whatever.

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anthropic didn’t just torrent books. They destroyed a million physical books to scan them. Without permission or payment to the publishers or authors for using their work to feed the LLM.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

arstechnica.com

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oh look this also says pirated RIGHT IN THE SUBTITLE.

aicopyright.substack.com/p/the-books-...

The books used to train LLMs

more on the unseemly use of pirated ebooks to train AIs

aicopyright.substack.com

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Aug 28

This literally says pirated in the headline. This is the illegal use of my and my parent’s work with no permission or payment that I just said. Why are you defending these rapacious assholes?

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

Did they think they could get away with it?

www.tomshardware.com

Elmattic @elmattic.bsky.social · Aug 28

I don’t pirate software and I don’t care to argue why the two things are simply not the same. It’s not a moral argument, they’re simply different scenarios entirely.

“Only a few” companies scraped millions of books and millions of people’s work?! Every major player in the market?!