Launching an app called Welp that just directs users to the nearest Sweetgreen or Panera
Ryan
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Chicago by way of St. Louis and Tacoma. Chiefly Dead and Phish for music; running the rest of the time. Attorney by trade. Let's get this show on the road.
Chicago heads: Medeski, Nels Cline, Stanton Moore and Skerik are playing Garcia’s in March. The announcement flew under my radar so posting just in case others missed it.
On a mostly separate note, the last time I saw Skerik and Moore was at the Crystal Ballroom in 2002 with Chris Wood and Marco Benevento (clearest memory was a *slamming* Sabotage cover). I was catching the Slip’s PNW run and they were opening for Moore et al that night. I went to Slipbase tonight to check the setlists for those shows and saw they were missing even the venue for one of the run’s PDX shows. Anyone know how I can reach an admin? There’s no contact info on the site.
In more other news, did you guys know sugarmegs is still live?! It is! (Yes I was trying to fund recordings of that Slip run. No luck, alas).
At Burnham Harbor with my family with the Goose soundcheck from Northerly washing over us. Wife said “this guy sounds just like Sting” and damn I never realized but that is bang-on
Anyone in Chicago interested in going to Cold Waves fest at Metro on 9/27? Clipping is headlining. Just caught them in Madison last night and ready for more.
Can anyone who was at Built to Spill / YLT last night in Chicago identify Built to Spill’s second to last song? It had a beat I couldn’t count to save my life and got extra sludgy toward the end? The folks around me didn’t know either ….
Longreads"Call it vigilante justice or guerrilla tactics, but there’s a sense of stalwart duty as the lab attempts to dismantle generative AI."
Kelley Engelbrecht for Chicago Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-great-ai-art-heist/
#Longreads #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Art #Artists #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Theft #MachineLearning
I can’t get this out of my head. It shouldn’t be taken seriously.
There’s a part of the US Bankruptcy Code that provides for involuntary bankruptcies. At a high level, three creditors holding liquidated, non-contingent unsecured claims exceeding $10,000 can put a company into bankruptcy. Even a big one.
It would be disruptive but not fatal. It would probably also cause the publicly-traded stock to crash, which would be a problem for a founder of the company with significant margin debt.
The stock might not have a chance to crash. It’s not weird in pubco bankruptcies for the court to suspend trading to avoid an inadvertent change in control that would jeopardize valuable NOL carryforwards. Even so, I suspect (though I don’t know) that a suspension of trading of stock collateral would trigger a default under the related credit agreements.
Anyway, wild to think about. Just three creditors.
Oh! And the box is number 4690 of 8500 lol.
I have VHS copies of the Dead’s Ticket to New Years (1987), Downhill from Here (Alpine 89), and a box that includes those two plus Dead Ahead and the Grateful Dead Movie. VHS of Phish’s (I mean, Mike’s really, right?) Tracking.
Does anyone want these or know someone who does? Headed for the bin if not.