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Sometimes it’d be nice to go back. Before the internet poisoned our politics and stranded us in silos built by black box algorithms. Now more than ever, Adorno’s dictum rings true: we’re given “the freedom to choose what is always the same.”

So I decided to build an altar for the holy format of the MP3.

Renting music from Spotify is stupid and iTunes has become a sluggish beast. Other music players don’t work how I want. I craved a dead-simple widget that:

I asked some friends if they’d like to help me build this. They wished me luck. “To hell with them,” I told C. “I’ll build it anyway and destroy Spotify and Apple.” C smiled and said spite was an interesting reason to make something.

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This fragmented head of a colossal boy from two thousand years ago captures today’s psychic shred and shear better than anything I’ve seen.

Notes on surviving the 21st century and a mixtape delivered 'round midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month.