anthony

product at @zora, also always making @hypem

sweetness in clumsy efforts

[anthony @fascinated]

closed all my tabs to read this https://t.co/heGjlCEQ50

[River @river_wip]

Honest answers with @ruebytwo

[anthony @fascinated]

should i get a 128GB RAM mac mini to run a few @posthog tabs?

[anthony @fascinated]

@offbeatorbit this is right

[ruby justice thelot @being_on_line]

new short essay on the power of meeting your mutuals based on my relationship with @ruebytwo and Granovetter's 1973 paper The Strength of Weak Ties

https://t.co/8MhkpCUdnm

[debit @delibeat]

music is so fucking good

[anthony @fascinated]

@dApp_boi 🥹🥹🥹

[anthony @fascinated]

@austinrobey_ yeah, this also seemed pretty strange. what's the new structure? aside from not-cbs

[W. David Marx @wdavidmarx]

Going offline is easy. The hard part is restoring a sense of value to offline culture after we rewired our brains to estimate importance through online mediation and metrics.

[𝒹𝒶𝒾𝓈𝓎 @daisandconfused]

Being loudly anti-AI is the new Vampire Castle. There always has to be some bogeyman reason your career is a flop. It can’t just be the economy sucks and you’re not that talented.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[rue yi @ruebytwo]

You can post all u want on the internet you could go viral back to back to back but the real motion comes by being outside

[anthony @fascinated]

@cebolander 👑👑👑

[ranxdeer @ranxdeer]

i've been working on a fun project where i turn my tweets into short poems & pair them with visuals generated from a model trained on my visual style

collected from years of posting online, each post is unchanged & every poem unique.

𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴, 222 works, onchain on Ethereum
▽

[anthony @fascinated]

follow me on @lastfm, fellow scrobbling 👑👑👑! https://t.co/ap9POL2Wro

[anthony @fascinated]

extremely overdue, so i am truly happy to see it, having scrobbled for 2000 years. would love to learn about who owns it now!

of course this brings us to the heavier question of: what's the real lastfm product today? can this team build that?

https://t.co/zrYqYOgvaN

[Last.fm @lastfm]

So this happened.

[anthony @fascinated]

@poolnoodle93 downloading my copies of your tracks! 🫡

[anthony @fascinated]

@delibeat 🫡🫡🫡

[anthony @fascinated]

reconnecting with my past self who bought a single mp3 on @boomkatonline in Feb 2009.

it seems like it was a result of being introduced to their then-newsletter "14 tracks" by @raspberryjones

Patti Waters - "Why Can't I Come to You", still pretty great
https://t.co/qhFIrnCdUb

[anthony @fascinated]

@dtcb @boomkatonline @raspberryjones very nice 👑

[anthony @fascinated]

very excited to see what the team builds next!

[anthony @fascinated]

sad to see this, but it is also the $ reality we inhabit

nina's initial release was what initially got me to pay attention to the broader web3 music fever dream. they got some cool artists to release on solana (!), and that was pretty wild to see

https://t.co/0E4k8QzDWd

[Nina @ninaprotocol]

Today, we’re sharing the decision that we are winding down Nina Protocol.

The site will be winding down in phases over the next six weeks. You should use this time to withdraw your earnings and export your releases, purchases and connections.

Our goal is to make it easy for you to take your Nina activity with you before the site goes offline. After July 15th the site and app will be fully offline. We’re looking into options to archive Nina Editorial online and will share a link to that once we do.

May 28 - June 15:
- Uploads and purchases on Nina will be shut off
- Site will remain browsable
- Tools for exporting published and purchased releases, withdrawing funds, and exporting social graph will be made available for offboarding

June 15 - July 15:
- Site will no longer be browseable and only offboarding tools will be available

July 15:
- Site will be shutdown

In 2021, we saw musicians’ growing fatigue in the face of streaming’s one-size-fits-all payments, context-collapse, and algorithmic discovery. We set out to build infrastructure for independent music that allowed musicians to sell their music, create their context, and connect with listeners on their own terms.

Our goal was to release independent music from the grips of Big Streaming, which we felt unfairly tilted outcomes to benefit the major labels.

- Over the last five years, we’ve built new models for:
Releasing music direct-to-fans
- Helping artists contextualize their music
- Elevating listeners from the role of passive consumer to active collaborator
- Bringing editorial and curation directly into the discovery experience

While our work created meaningful connections and helped foster listeners’ love for new music, we were unable to find a revenue strategy that would give Nina a path to sustainability at its current size.

We looked at our options for how to fund the platform and continue working on it, and saw no viable paths forward that would allow us to continue developing, or responsibly maintain Nina the way it runs today.

We are disappointed at this outcome and our inability to get Nina to long-term stability, as this has been a labor of love for the last 5 years, but remain honored to have played a role in supporting and highlighting incredible corners of the music community.

We are immensely grateful to all who supported Nina, released music, listened, supported artists, attended shows, and wrote about music on Nina. Big Streaming has the benefit of convenience, but mostly at the expense of the artists big and small who don’t win the attention lottery. We continue to be inspired by platforms like Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Untitled, Subvert, Cantilever, Tidal, Qobuz.

The work of a musician changes with each phase of technology. Anyone who brings more context to artists and provides direct paths to revenue and fans should be supported. We are optimistic and look forward to seeing how those who continue to build for independent music will improve our corner of the world.

[anthony @fascinated]

as their product evolved, it was also really refreshing to see a team with a strong vision around culture & art

rare!