The new Static Dress reminds me of what I always wanted Finch to release as a follow-up to What it Is to Burn. (And a mix of a bunch of other bands from that era too.)
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As May comes to a close I’m thinking about life changing like the seasons. And changes are afoot.
May brought multiple great concerts and some great times with family and friends. It opened with The Academy Is… and ended with Yellowcard and New Found Glory.
You can’t ask for a better introduction to summer.
May 2026
The weather is starting to turn just a little bit. The music is starting to turn right along with it. Bring on those perfect pop-punk vibes.
It was a fun month that included a bowling outing with my sister to an old nostalgic haunt, getting the pool table felt fixed and refreshed, and some great beer and time with Hannah.
Can’t ask for much more. We’re healthy and happy.
April 2026
The People Do Not Yearn for Automation
Nilay Patel, writing at the Verge:
[S]oftware brain has ruled the business world for a long time. AI has just made it easier than ever for more people to make more software than ever before — for every kind of business to automate big chunks of itself with software. It’s everywhere: the absolute cutting edge of advertising and marketing is automation with AI. It’s not being a creative.
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them.
Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for automation. I’m a full-on smart home sicko; the lights and shades and climate controls of my house are automated in dozens of ways. But huge companies like Apple, Google and Amazon have struggled for over a decade now to make regular people care about smart home automation at all. And they just don’t.
A thought provoking article that I quite enjoyed.
Weird week. Apparently a lot of comfort food.
The Stats: 46 artists, 76 albums, 728 tracks (861 scrobbles)