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And are short enough to walk around without getting clotheslined by the cable!

Well with a proverbial lawnmower at the top of the org chart, how many sets of weed-whackers, pruning shears, leafblowers, and RoundUp dispensers are below it?!

I hadn't heard much Sungazer, though I'm familiar with Adam Neely. Have you heard Knower? Not purely jazz, but superduper tight riffs and the vocals of Genevieve Artadi are ridiculous and catchy, and drummer Louis Cole is outstanding. Sometimes Snarky Puppy is just too damn tight and well-oiled for me to truly appreciate (same with Vulfpeck) but they have some wonderful songs and impressive group interplay.

TBH most of the best jazz/jazz-influenced/-adjacent music coming out in recent years has fully absorbed the "gridification" this thread bemoans, and plays with the tension in the continuum between lockstep and loosey-goosey. TBH what makes ?uestlove unique/influential as a drummer is not his chops or expressiveness, but his ability to sound exactly like a programmed/sampled Dilla beat, and then go on to more human-sounding grooves. Sorry I can't find the link but there are videos of master drummer Nate Smith, whose sense of time is so machine-y tight that he can make a metronome sound like it's off time. Yussef Dayes is another fantastic drummer whose groups have interesting sounds and genuine interplay. Anything involving drummer Chris "Daddy" Dave is worth a listen, too.

I'm impressed with the composition and chops of guitarists Julian Lage and Molly Miller, both of whom know all the fancy theory but prioritize communicating with their fellow musicians and the audience. Not newcomers but guitarists John Scofield, Bill Frisell, and Pat Metheny continually re-invent themselves every few years and have fantastic compositions that aren't just jam vehicles. Everything I've heard from Charlie Hunter since coming out in the '90s, same thing.

TBH I am less impressed by the majority of the latest generation of jazz horn players, can't really say why. Not strictly jazz, but Alabaster dePlume builds on the tradition of "spirit jazz" a la Alice Coltrane or Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra in terms of making sure that everyone in the room, onstage or off, has a real human experience together.

> expected some horrific contraption to get better in hot-dog eating contests or something like that.

KSAAS - Kobayashi Shake As A Service (TM)

Haha I thought of the same book as soon as I saw this HN topic!

I work in nonprofit mental health and am a Kaiser patient, and I know multiple clinicians who left our org to work at Kaiser. KP has never really cracked the nut of appropriate mental health care. For years they decided it was cheaper to pay the fines for their violations of "Timely Access" laws (requiring that newly referred clients actually schedule/complete first visit within a certain number of days) than to properly staff mental health. I know they also push a lot of people into group mental health encounters, which are unsatisfying and not the right answer if you need to discuss private matters with just a clinician.

I'm not surprised that they're now farming out triage to the robots, or that specialists now have burgeoning wait lists and are leaving KP in frustration. No clear answer other than "try something new besides all the stuff that isn't working".

Hear hear! I am a nonprofit tech professional, and a monthly call with ~40 similar folks yesterday started with a discussion of Dolly's passing. At first I thought it was just about loving her music and/or personality, but it was also the fact that several folks, at different nonprofits with varied missions, had received significant funding from the many foundations Dolly had set up over the years.

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Hope their hotness isn't measured in SCOville Heat Units, beware the copyright trolls!

Was going to say something similar, and my real issue with Gibson is that after reading several of his books - he's a fantastic stylist but, I don't really know what he stands for, compared to someone like PKD, Stanislaw Lem, Octavia Butler, or Kurt Vonnegut.

And any day now - we will actually wake up to realize we are living in Kim Stanley Robinson's Anthropocene climate future from The Ministry of the Future, New York 2140, or the "Science in the Capital" trilogy.

FWIW - I put in an album I produced on Spotify. Rather than just returning results for that album, it returned some not related to the album by another artist with the same name. It's not worth pursuing based on the number of streams I have, just - this is exactly what I suspected would happen before running search, and it did. So it makes me skeptical of the accuracy in general. But I'm definitely in favor of this.

I'm happy to say I'm in the circle of jer...Um...So do I, one of the best home purchases I've ever made!

Not just vintage devices - MIDI controllers I've bought in the last 10 years from Ableton (Push 2) and Keith McMillen have that wretched rubber that starts sticky, gets goopier, and attracts every mote of dust & hair from the surrounding air. Disgusting and makes them harder to sell 2nd hand IMO.

I was hoping the linked article would provide meaningful solutions, "storing in open air or a bag with holes" - that's what I already do - and "don't clean it, that just makes it worse" are pretty useless coming from 'experts'...

Time to bring back 32 bit OS, that way you only need 4GB RAM per computer!

Haha, I have an empty Talenti jar and two La Fermiere cups in my room for trinket storage! FWIW my La Fermieres have interiors with same color glaze as exterior.