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I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog.



Expedition Sasquatch Returns

Did you know I write a podcast? It’s a comedy podcast about Jack, a man who wants to find and kill bigfoot, and all the other cryptids he finds and kills instead. It has plasma guns, and ancient magicks, and mole people, and ro-men, and a racoon in the back of a Waffle House.

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Bandcamp Friday

It’s Bandcamp Friday! That means bandcamp is giving 100% of revenue to bands! I’m a big fan of DIY media, so I wanted to take a moment to recommend some of my favorite albums on bandcamp. This list is not comprehensive, these are just some things I’ve been jamming to latetly.

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Public Domain Day 2022

Happy New Year! January 1st is Public Domain day in the United States. All film, books, poetry, photos, and scores originally published in 1926 are now in the Public Domain in the US. Additionally, and significantly, this year marks the first time that any Audio Recordings have entered the public domain. You, and all Americans, now own more than 400,000 of these historic recordings. What does it all mean? And which works are in the public domain now?

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