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  Record of the day for 2026-09-17 Last 80s throwback: Peter Gabriel, So. https://music.apple.com/us/album/so/986800858

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  The fact that Toshiko Akiyoshi could never get a record deal for her big band in the U.S. even though it was one of the best large ensemble bands ever and she is probably an A-1 Music Genius is just more proof that the record business is mostly run by dipshits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko_Akiyoshi

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  @gabrielesvelto@mas.to the generic and context free way that "AI" is used even by technical people who should know better is infinitely irritating. these days "AI" is LLMs but just before that it was those deep learning neural nets and before that it was something even dumber.

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  Record of the day for 2026-04-22 Rachmaninoff: Symphony 1. Slatkin, St. Lous Symphony. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9539899--rachmaninov-symphony-no-1-prince-rostislav https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7959088--rachmaninoff-symphonies-nos-1-3

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  Record of the day for 2026-04-23 Sibelius Symphony 1: Maazel, PSO https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8084687--sibelius-symphonies-nos-1-7 Also Ormandy: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8078409--eugene-ormandy-conducts-sibelius Also Vanska, which is only in streaming: https://music.apple.com/us/album/sibelius-symphonies-nos-1-and-4/1727126796

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  Record of the day for 2026-04-24 Probably the peak Symphony Number 1... Mahler symphony 1. Honeck, PSO https://www.discogs.com/release/7056470-Mahler-Manfred-Honeck-Pittsburgh-Symphony-Orchestra-Symphony-No-1-Titan But this one is hard to get. So get the Bernstein. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7942590--mahler-symphony-no-1-in-d-major-titan

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  Maybe the weirdest thing about claude code and such is how an engine that just can understand flat text and has some good search heuristics is a much stronger tool for so many code manipulation tasks than all the static analysis and other tools with much more "rigorous" foundations that have been build over the past 50 years. "Code is just text" has a history of winning over smarter tool representations since Unix and emacs killed all the structure editors. It...

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  Symphony #1 fest continues! Record of the day for 2026-04-27 Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique (also a Symphony no. 1). Bernstein. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7928042--berlioz-symphonie-fantastique

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  Record of the day for 2026-04-28 Malcolm Arnold, Symphony 1. Hickox: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7922776--arnold-symphonies-nos-1-2 Handley: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8338968--arnold-symphonies-nos-1-5

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  Record of the day for 2026-04-29 Nielsen: Symphony 1. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7923524--nielsen-symphonies-nos-1-6

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  Record of the day for 2026-04-30 Florence Price, Symphony 1. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9252023--florence-price-symphonies-nos-1-3 Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8520012--florence-beatrice-price-symphonies-nos-1-4

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  Record of the day for 2026-05-01 A double Symphony 1 to finish off the festival. Amy Beach: Gaelic Symphony, Barber: Symphony 1. Neeme Jarvi, Detroit. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7945709--barber-overture-to-the-school-for-scandal-op-5-etc

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  Wut. (37F in Pittsburgh right now)

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  Here is what I want an """AI""" agent for: run around my computer and figure out how to turn off all the fucking activity badges.

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  Record of the day for 2026-05-04 Bill Evans: Portait in Jazz. One of the classic records with LaFaro. https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8540709--portrait-in-jazz https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/portrait-in-jazz-keepnews-collection-bill-evans-trio/0088807230678?qref=bsk I like this version because the alternates are at the end and don't mess up the album's sequence. Strangely missing from Apple Music

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  Record of the day for 2026-05-05 More classic Bill Evans: Explorations https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8500793--explorations-original-jazz-classics-remasters

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  If a recipe for "4 servings" of stir fried greens has multiple tablespoons of soy sauce in it put it down and never use a recipe by that food writer ever again.

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  Record of the day for 2026-05-06 More classic Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8680853--waltz-for-debby

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  Record of the day for 2026-05-07 Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard. https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8477416--sunday-at-the-village-vanguard

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  Record of the day for 2026-05-08 David Murray Big Band https://www.discogs.com/release/1307488-David-Murray-Big-Band-Conducted-By-Lawrence-Butch-Morris https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/david-murray-big-band-david-murray-big-band/g9bvvdjmsn1ua https://music.apple.com/us/album/david-murray-big-band/295592523