CIRCLE WITH A DOT

"Have a good day, Jim Day."

Oh we're SO back

#reds #baseball #openingday

WHAT THE FUCK NEUROSIS IS BACK????

AND AARON TURNER IS WITH THEM NOW?????

WHAT THE FUCK???????

An Undying Love For A Burning World, by Neurosis

An Undying Love For A Burning World by Neurosis, released 20 March 2026 1. We Are Torn Wide Open 2. Mirror Deep 3. First Red Rays 4. Blind 5. Seething and Scattered 6. Untethered 7. In the Waiting Hours 8. Last Light Physical Copies Available For Purchase here: US: https://neurotrecordings.merchtable.com/artists/neurosis EU: https://evilgreed.com/collections/neurosis “We are torn wide open” Evolution can be ugly and beautiful, painful and euphoric. An Undying Love For A Burning World is the first new release from Neurosis in a decade, and a potent statement of intent and rebirth - one that marks the first new steps of resolve and resilience. “We need this, perhaps more than ever, and we suspect we are not alone. The trials and tribulations in our personal lives and as a band, combined with simply trying to navigate the insanity of our society, with the stress, anxiety, and isolation that come with it can be excruciating. Add to that the existential confusion and sorrow of the climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction. It is enough to cause you to completely lose your mind if you can’t find release or catharsis. This strange emotionally charged music has always been our method of trying to survive this and this is what we've always been singing about. When you have spent a lifetime engaged with these energies and utilizing this form of expression to purge and purify, it feels detrimental to our well being to let it sit idle and neglected. This was now or never.” “We’ve forgotten how to live, so we suffer” An Undying Love For A Burning World is an epic album of colossal hypnotism - beautiful, fearsome and utterly compelling in a way that only Neurosis can be. Aaron Turner (Sumac, Isis) joins the band on vocals and guitar, a name whose legacy is intertwined with the band’s own and a true kindred spirit. “He came straight out of the gate contributing, writing and presenting ideas,” says the band. “His energy matches ours perfectly. It’s as if he was always meant to be there.” Aaron adds, “From the moment I first heard Neurosis over 30 years ago, I felt this was the music my heart and mind had been seeking but not yet heard. Now after many years travelling along various musical paths of my own, the singular sound and spirit embodied by Neurosis continues to speak to the depths of my being. It is an honor and a true pleasure to have been welcomed so warmly into a band that not only shaped my perspective on the limitless possibilities of music - but has lived and exemplified the necessity of upholding creative integrity and camaraderie above all else.” “We’ve forgotten how to struggle, so we suffer” Neurosis have never been afraid of change, and here they embrace endless regeneration, surrendering to the emotional exorcism through heaviness and distortion that their music incites. Just as the universe tends towards balance, Neurosis’cacophony of noise, rhythm and dissonance always resolves towards moments of beauty. The addition of Turner's powerful vocals and wildly creative and unhinged approach to guitar proves to be a vital force as Neurosis find themselves again at the mercy of evolution and expression. “We’ve forgotten we are wild, so we suffer” On every song in the band’s history, Neurosis shifts restlessly between tension and relief, invoking a feeling both feral and transcendent in listeners. The band describe their songwriting process as an inescapable impulse to create with each other - a need rather than a choice. Indeed, the band insist that their return is “not a reunion - we never broke up.” The album was recorded by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Sumac, and Great Falls) at Studio Litho in Seattle during three weekends this winter, and mixed in three days just six weeks before release at Evan's Antisleep Audio in Oakland. “We exist in isolation, so we suffer” Neurosis will play their first show in seven years on the traditional lands of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as part of Fire in the Mountains festival by special invitation of Firekeeper Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to reducing youth suicide in Indian Country. FITM, is a unique festival known for bringing epic music to epic landscapes with the intent of reconnecting and immersing oneself with the natural world, and strengthening our ancestral roots as human beings - an aim which aligns directly with Neurosis’ deep-rooted power. “I cannot think of a more appropriate environment for us to return to the stage,” comments Steve Von Till who also serves on the board of Firekeeper Alliance. “Last year’s Fire in the Mountains festival was the most profound music event I have ever been a part of. The weekend took on a healing, cathartic ceremonial nature that is difficult to put into words. Using emotionally heavy music to build community and collectively stare darkness in the eye is something we have always believed in, but using it to directly address the heartbreaking reality of suicide, grief, loss and trauma is taking it to another level.” “The dissonance is deafening.”

Neurosis (neurosis.bandcamp.com)

#METAL

> ... the Americanization of TikTok was never about protecting us from a foreign adversary. It was a tactical acquisition of digital infrastructure. Trump’s DHS is treating the Bill of Rights like a market inefficiency—a cost of doing business that can be mitigated through the right corporate partnership. In this case, it’s working hand in glove with the social media platform favored by America’s most politically active demographic cohort.

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE

In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

The New Republic (newrepublic.com)

#uspol #ice

Payer-timing apps were hacked (Bruce Schneier suspects by US/Israel) to send messages saying "help has arrived" just as the bombing started

Hard to imagine something more cruel, pointless, and evil than this

Hacked App Part of US/Israeli Propaganda Campaign Against Iran - Schneier on Security

Wired has the story: Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones. They came not from the government advising caution, but from an apparently hacked prayer-timing app called BadeSaba Calendar that has been downloaded more than 5 million times from the Google Play Store. The messages arrived in quick succession over a period of 30 minutes, starting with the phrase ‘Help has arrived’ at 9:52 am Tehran time, shortly after the first set of explosions. No party has claimed responsibility for the hacks...

Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com)

#uspol #iran

Don't worry, just a Congressman casually joking about the billionaire class threatening to assassinate him for exposing them as pedophile scumbags

JFC

The ‘Crazy’ Plot to Release the Epstein Files

How an unlikely duo of lawmakers partnered with victims to try to hold the powerful accountable

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

#uspol #epstein

> But I feel like a career in tech at this point is far from uncertain. In fact some things are more certain than uncertain. You would most likely be working for someone who doesn’t value you. You’d most likely be building something that is not improving the world.

How to grow strawberries

Feels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was...

(buttondown.com)

#tech #ai

> Iran's ballistic missiles cannot strike the United States and have no nuclear warheads to carry. Surrendering Iran's missile fleet has nothing to do with American security and everything to do with making the Iranians either surrender their deterrent capability or provide the U.S. a pretext to attack. ... This is not a negotiation about nuclear weapons capability. This is, and has been, an attempt to suborn or overthrow the Islamic Republic.

The Scent of Iranian Lavender

The U.S. and Israel are gearing up for war with Iran while the Pentagon demands an AI company drop its "safeguards." Hmm. But yes: abuse the Defense Production Act!

FOREVER WARS (www.forever-wars.com)

#uspol #iran #ai

> If everyone abandons all pretense at telling the truth all at once, well, the pressure’s off, isn’t it? It feels easier than ever before to sink into a warm bath of mediocrity. Acceptance of permanent decline is the only item on the menu. You might as well grab what you can before it all collapses.

Shoddy People

The redemption of disgrace.

(www.hamiltonnolan.com)

#uspol

> As reports of tech free Waldorf schools in Silicon Valley continue to make headlines, we can attest to how the upper-class raise children to be culturally distinct from the rest. The making of reading as luxury and the enclosure of public arts education is how new class hierarchies may be defined. This entrenchment must be fought with the fundamental and wholescale socialization of arts and culture.

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare

“A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

Literary Hub (lithub.com)