Ian White
@ianwhitemusic.bsky.social
I like music & mountains, Boston sports, physical media, bookstores & libraries, live music, the Oxford Comma, travels & explorations, bikes, burritos, beaches, and movies.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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(breathes slowly. Tries to stay calm. Fails.)
WE ARE ALL DRIVING STATION WAGONS THEY'RE JUST CALLED "COMPACT SUVS" TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS!
[pants]
WE ARE ALL DRIVING STATION WAGONS THEY'RE JUST CALLED "COMPACT SUVS" TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS!
[pants]
There have been multiple attempts to sell a modern station wagon to Americans, the problem is that almost nobody actually bought them
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
(breathes slowly. Tries to stay calm. Fails.)
WE ARE ALL DRIVING STATION WAGONS THEY'RE JUST CALLED "COMPACT SUVS" TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS!
[pants]
WE ARE ALL DRIVING STATION WAGONS THEY'RE JUST CALLED "COMPACT SUVS" TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS!
[pants]
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I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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House Republicans to Jack Smith last week: We have some tough questions for you.
Jack Smith to House Republicans this week: I’m not trapped in here with you; you’re trapped in here with me. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Jack Smith to House Republicans this week: I’m not trapped in here with you; you’re trapped in here with me. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Jack Smith ready to respond to GOP questions, but he wants the public to see his answers
Last week, Republican lawmakers tried to go on the offensive against the former special counsel. This week, he turned the tables and called their bluff.
www.msnbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
House Republicans to Jack Smith last week: We have some tough questions for you.
Jack Smith to House Republicans this week: I’m not trapped in here with you; you’re trapped in here with me. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Jack Smith to House Republicans this week: I’m not trapped in here with you; you’re trapped in here with me. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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1. Reagan’s speech is real
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1. Reagan’s speech is real
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
October 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
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@maxrn.bsky.social thinks the most "bone-headed" of all the rules for online journalism was that it should be free. When he & his co-founders started @hellgatenyc.com, a local NYC news site, they decided to do so as a reader-funded, worker-owned publication.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
The Future of Local News Is Making People Pay For It
You can leave journalism altogether or you can take the longest way...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
@maxrn.bsky.social thinks the most "bone-headed" of all the rules for online journalism was that it should be free. When he & his co-founders started @hellgatenyc.com, a local NYC news site, they decided to do so as a reader-funded, worker-owned publication.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
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October 18, 2025
October 18, 2025
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
October 18, 2025
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A few months ago, a friend visited me in Utrecht. As we biked around to do daily errands, she kept saying, "This is like a dream. This is like a dream."
I do believe all cities the world over to soon come to their senses, limit car movement, and build a dream of safe, abundant streets for people.
I do believe all cities the world over to soon come to their senses, limit car movement, and build a dream of safe, abundant streets for people.
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A few months ago, a friend visited me in Utrecht. As we biked around to do daily errands, she kept saying, "This is like a dream. This is like a dream."
I do believe all cities the world over to soon come to their senses, limit car movement, and build a dream of safe, abundant streets for people.
I do believe all cities the world over to soon come to their senses, limit car movement, and build a dream of safe, abundant streets for people.
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Stephen Miller is a fascist and we need to stop the fascists. The fact that he wants to stop people from calling him a fascist--political speech that has been said about people in every administration of this country for decades--is proof that he is a fascist.
Stephen Miller: "They say they are trying to kill the fascists & stop the fascists. It's deliberate. President Trump is saying that we as a nation are not going to tolerate it anymore & the joint terrorism task force at the FBI is going to find these terrorists & we're going to put them behind bars"
October 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Stephen Miller is a fascist and we need to stop the fascists. The fact that he wants to stop people from calling him a fascist--political speech that has been said about people in every administration of this country for decades--is proof that he is a fascist.
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President Trump’s new order to “counter political violence” is really a mandate to police speech. Protected advocacy becomes “radicalization.” Criticism becomes “justifying violence.”
This is an attack on the First Amendment, not on political violence, argues @walterolson.bsky.social:
This is an attack on the First Amendment, not on political violence, argues @walterolson.bsky.social:
President Trump Plans To Investigate and "Disrupt" Opposition Speech
A new executive order signals the White House’s intent to use law enforcement to investigate and disrupt networks and organizations Donald Trump and allies consider responsible for encouraging political...
www.cato.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
President Trump’s new order to “counter political violence” is really a mandate to police speech. Protected advocacy becomes “radicalization.” Criticism becomes “justifying violence.”
This is an attack on the First Amendment, not on political violence, argues @walterolson.bsky.social:
This is an attack on the First Amendment, not on political violence, argues @walterolson.bsky.social:
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Everyone hating me? That's illegal
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Everyone hating me? That's illegal
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Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship
Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship
Brendan Carr’s contempt for the First Amendment is going strong.
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship
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This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...
Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
www.theverge.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
They say that like it’s a bad thing
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
They say that like it’s a bad thing
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this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "Mr President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
Here’s something I sang at open mic a little while back
August 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Here’s something I sang at open mic a little while back
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.