Alan Scherstuhl
@alansch.bsky.social
Editor/writer hanging in there, thinking abt books and jazz. PW, NYT, Sci-Am, elsewhere on occasion.
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good morning. we are celebrating thanksgiving all week on IHTOV, and i've got two good ones for you today.
first up, tracy miller writes beautifully about thanksgiving and a nina simone record and the spirituality of music ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-r...
first up, tracy miller writes beautifully about thanksgiving and a nina simone record and the spirituality of music ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-r...
The Record That Taught Me to Pray: How Nina Simone Became My Thanksgiving Religion
When I was a kid, Thanksgiving wasn’t about turkey or mashed potatoes. It wasn’t about the cranberry sauce or the football game on TV. Thanksgiving was about music. Every year, my aunt would pull out ...
ihavethatonvinyl.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
good morning. we are celebrating thanksgiving all week on IHTOV, and i've got two good ones for you today.
first up, tracy miller writes beautifully about thanksgiving and a nina simone record and the spirituality of music ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-r...
first up, tracy miller writes beautifully about thanksgiving and a nina simone record and the spirituality of music ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-r...
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Read to the end. It's not a typical Epstein essay.
"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Read to the end. It's not a typical Epstein essay.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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My man, Buddy Holly was right there! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Missouri Judge Who Wore Elvis Wig in Court Agrees to Resign
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My man, Buddy Holly was right there! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953)
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953)
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my favourite tape of a live performance ever
The B-52's - Give Me Back My Man - 11/7/1980 - Capitol Theatre (Official)
YouTube video by The B-52's
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
my favourite tape of a live performance ever
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"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
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Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
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The reason they have to keep making Wizard of Oz prequels is if they went *forward* then they'd have to let people know about Ozma, and Hollywood will not, absolutely will *not*, ever allow that to happen
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The reason they have to keep making Wizard of Oz prequels is if they went *forward* then they'd have to let people know about Ozma, and Hollywood will not, absolutely will *not*, ever allow that to happen
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8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
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On the one hand all of our healthcare is about to be ruined but on the other at least we can go to jail again over mildly palliative relaxers demonstrably less unhealthy and damaging to others than alcohol.
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On the one hand all of our healthcare is about to be ruined but on the other at least we can go to jail again over mildly palliative relaxers demonstrably less unhealthy and damaging to others than alcohol.
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if we’re talking Joyce please remember one of her greatest works of posting
Evergreen message from Joyce Carol Oates about Curtis Yarvin...
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
if we’re talking Joyce please remember one of her greatest works of posting
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Anyone who sees this and is preparing a year-end list, please consider MAMA KILLA, the incredible album Ava Mendoza, gabby fluke-mogul, and Carolina Pérez put out this year on our label. It'll tear your head off, but put it back gently afterward.
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
Mama Killa, by Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez
8 track album
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Anyone who sees this and is preparing a year-end list, please consider MAMA KILLA, the incredible album Ava Mendoza, gabby fluke-mogul, and Carolina Pérez put out this year on our label. It'll tear your head off, but put it back gently afterward.
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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A lot of Prestige Press types insist that Trump's candidacy did not appeal to racism, but Trump himself obviously thinks it did and is delivering for his constituents.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A lot of Prestige Press types insist that Trump's candidacy did not appeal to racism, but Trump himself obviously thinks it did and is delivering for his constituents.
Oh thank god, a good rejoinder will get us out of this
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Oh thank god, a good rejoinder will get us out of this
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so cool that you can watch T-Men, the best movie ever made, on YouTube
T Men (1947) Anthony Mann
YouTube video by Blache
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
so cool that you can watch T-Men, the best movie ever made, on YouTube
I worked at a K-Mart in high school when that already-failing company instituted its oven version of this ten-foot rule … and uh harried, busy big-box shoppers don’t really like being continually greeted by random employees.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I worked at a K-Mart in high school when that already-failing company instituted its oven version of this ten-foot rule … and uh harried, busy big-box shoppers don’t really like being continually greeted by random employees.
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
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thirty seconds in and I'm completely committed
Utterly pure Nyege Nyege label release
"Nakibembe are the last custodians of the embaíre, a colossal log xylophone sunk into the earth and played communally by eight musicians" - run that through a Japanese modern dub champion and here we are
nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/phanto...
"Nakibembe are the last custodians of the embaíre, a colossal log xylophone sunk into the earth and played communally by eight musicians" - run that through a Japanese modern dub champion and here we are
nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/phanto...
Phantom Keys, by Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida
4 track album
nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
thirty seconds in and I'm completely committed
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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
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