Okay, shit, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention some of the best Indigenous hip hop artists out there:

• SNRK (Snotty Nose Rez Kids)
• Mob Bounce
• Frank Waln
• Drezus
• SouFy
• Shibastik
• David Strickland
• Xiuhtezcatl (@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com this is a young fella, for sure)
• Tsoh Tso
• Tré Orona
• Nataanii Means
• Supaman
• Yellowsky

Not exhaustive, just exhausted.

I might remember more later.

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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @dodecahedron@fwoof.space hip hop records I enjoyed immensely in recent months, in no particular order:

• DOOMED!, Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal
• The Monsters They Made Us, Normann Sann
• Cry Baby, Vince Staples
• Sow & So, Nappy Nina & Swarvy
• FENIAN, KNEECAP
• Dads At The End Of The World, Sole & Televangel
• VOICE OF THE REVOLUTION, The Neighborhood Kids
• Miami Lice: Season Four, Lice (Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman)
• Brilliance of a Falling Moon, Dälek
• RELAY RELAY!!, P.O.S x Dwynell Roland x YATA

I can't say that all of these ☝️ artists are young or that they would all call what they do conscious hip hop—OME describes his music as art rap—but all are recent(ish) albums that may be what you're looking for or might lead you to it.

@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com I saw in the comments that you found and enjoyed Sa-Roc (who is, indeed, awesome). The seasoned emcee makes an appearance on VOICE OF THE REVOLUTION, and it's so good to hear her supporting the kids.

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Bonobo never lets me down 🫶

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A few minutes ago, maybe ten minutes ago now as I type this into littleFedi, I decided to turn off the television box.

Immediately I felt relief.

I still feel relief.

I was overwhelmed with all the 25th anniversary coverage.

Even using watching Canadian CBC news channel as some kind of proxy or filter to lessen the "overwhelmingness", it became overwhelming.

Exercising self-agency, I am giving myself permission to give myself permission to decide whatever I watched on TV already is enough for me, for today, to remember this day, 25 years ago.

25 years ago today, I was updating my Postnuke CMS powered blog/website, and as 9 a.m. rolled around, I randomly decided to turn on the TV and have on as background the Buffalo, NY, ABC Channel ( whose signal all Torontonians typically have access to via antennae or cable ), which would be airing Live with Regis and Cathy Lee.

I stopped updating my website, and kept watching the TV news. For hours.

Today, right now, I have stopped watching the TV News, and will return to updating web stuff.

But later, not right now.

I have nothing profound to offer.

...I keep forgetting, I wrote an entire book about/relating to all this the following year, 2002.

It hasn't been online for years. Maybe I work on putting it back online ? Maybe begin that later today.

H.

Cyanocitta stelleri like to cut off bunches of Sambucus racemosa to eat the berries in private. Not all of them are great at picking ripe bunches 😅

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"Your life will be divided into two sections: before and after you heard this choir sing, says music maker Jacob Collier. Listen along as the youth choir MAS Vocal gives a stunning performance of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," with a special arrangement by Collier. (Recorded at TED2026 on April 15, 2026)"

Wow, just WOW - those harmonies!

“Bridge Over Troubled Water” — Like You’ve Never Heard It Before | MAS Vocal | TED

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=LmszJQzuAcc

(https://youtu.be/LmszJQzuAcc)

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I "Ghosted Myself" .

Information wants to be free. Information is priceless.

Somewhere between those two, cognitive dissonance becomes de-prioritized and ends up as public notebooking via online blog or social blog posts.

I stopped blogging in great detail about my unique, new-to-the-world, Labyrinth designs and its underlying Islamic Geometry math used to create them.

I simply posted the "After" photos of my Labyrinths made in Public Spaces like parks and weekend festivals, keeping the "how to" "Before" and "During" photos to myself, not sharing them online at all.

Without even noticing it, I have almost stopped posting any photos of my works anywhere.

Why?

AI Scraping of my Labyrinth and public artwork blogs.

Two plus years ago, the page views on years' old posts began to go up, from dozens to THOUSANDS per post.

Deciphering the referral traffic, and it was almost completely bots visiting my old posts.

Do I want AI Companies selling my self-taught skills as their own?

I don't know what these companies are doing with my Information.

I stopped Instagramming [sic], Mastodoning, and blogging my Labyrinth stuff.

Online, it "looks" like I haven't made any new Labyrinths in years,

Yet, In the real world, it's been a most productive time in terms of new public art created around Toronto since before the Pandemic.

I think all the way back to why I previously shut down or removed a number of personal websites.

One of those reasons was the comments from spam people/automated.

I find still feel that way now, but it is the AI scraping, in lieu of the comment spam of yesteryear.

I wonder how many other people have also "Ghosted" Themselves?

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@himysyed I don't think CEOs should be making more than the laborers who do the company's actual work.

Seven times more than the lowest paid worker in the same company is more reasonable than what we have going on here in the USA, for sure, but it's still inappropriate. (Also, that issue of TIME was published in 1988. I'd bet things have gotten worse in Japan since then.) No one person in the company does so much more work than any other person in the company that they should be compensated so disproportionately.

CEOs, like politicians, should be made to live off the base wage / minimum wage. If they find that it's difficult or impossible to live (i.e., it's a struggle to pay for nutritious food, safe shelter, and quality healthcare) on that base wage, they increase the base wage. Simple.

No "chief executive" is any more indispensable than any other employee of the company. No one should be getting filthy rich while some of us (employees, citizens) struggle to live in poverty.

So that's my pledge to any company who wants to hire me as CEO:

I'll do the work of "chief executive" (namely: delegate effectively and advocate for and support our employees to the very best of my abilities) for the low cost of simply not having to stress about how I'm going to pay for food or rent or my next motherfucking visit to the doctor.

(Forgive the language 🙏 I'm mad, but not at you.)

@pluvialgeist During my teenage years, Time magazine published an issue with the cover page saying "Super Japan" as I recall.

In one of the issue's Japan focused articles, this one fact immediately caught my attention :

By tradition if not law, the Highest paid worker in any Japanese Company could only earn as much as Seven times, 7X, the lowest paid worker in that same company.

The article cited a factory floor janitor/caretaker and the General Manager's take-home pay.

I recall the article ended by contrasting that Japanese wage range with how much U.S. CEOs were paid compared to their company's workers being paid minimum wage.

![image]Time Magazine Cover Page from July 4 1988, Super Japan is superimposed upon backdrop of Japanese Flag rising sun. Also superimposed is the question Can an economic giant become a global power? (https://i.etsystatic.com/19687807/r/il/75981d/4664971837/il_1140xN.4664971837_sglr.jpg)