Hacktivist is one, but there a lot more on https://www.ongoinghistoryofprotestsongs.com/2025/06/08/30-b...
Are you joking? Some mainstream artists got their start on YouTube. Many indie artists perform there and have followings, and that is just one potential site to share your work. Sure, to become a household name you gotta grow from there and it is a tough road, but the ability to put out your music is crazy stronger today than in days of yore. I think you have an overly high bar set for what it means to "get popular"
Here are two classics I like, plus a bonus track:
"Coat of Many Colors" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYAdKXzGtcY
"This Land" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRnHx3yVuf4
"Stop and Bust a Move": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNSSkOOTBk
Today - they are mostly designed, sponsored and organized and about hating/suppressing the enemy side, virtue signaling, not achieving good and genuine self expression.
And those rare that are authentic (like current Iran revolution) are carefully and deliberately muted.
Such intentions can’t produce any great art for obvious reasons.
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/10/this-shts-been-too-l...
To a degree, this has always been true. Even in the days when protest music got mainstream attention, most of the music wasn't of that sort. I do think it's much worse now, though.
However, there is a lot more protest music being made than you may think. You just have to look past the big names and -- even better -- go see small artists performing live.
I see Billy Bragg had something to share on FB about recent events as do many older artists.
Maybe you saw what happened at Glastonbury this year with Kneecap and Bob Vylan.
Personally I enjoy Idles, I went to see them last year and they had good energy and try to be politically active while spreading "the love".
One of my all time favourite bands New Model Army are still going and releasing music. I don't think they ever made it big after effectively being cancelled before it was popular releasing the single 51st State of America.
https://old.reddit.com/r/numetal/comments/17cmyyw/numetal_ar...
Beyond that would be "wordcel" ("clefcel"?) "not-chad" etc?
Hank Sr. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHId2tg6dU
Hank Jr. - MAGA (at least he done sung "cold cold ground", bless his heart)
Hank iii - trying to sit between two chairs? (props the assjack on the fence?)
I still want to get some shape rotating done this week, so I'll put off descending into Hank Jr. et. al. for another few days. Thanks; "mighty white" of you!
Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
E: maybe I've seen down so much Hank/Hegel looks like up
Cold cold ground was tragedy[0], but these lyrics are farce.
reaction[1]? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__HPfmvaWRw
literally wrapping himself in the flag[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFnLqJx-uU
(but that last vid doesn't have so many views; maybe it was even too MAGA for MAGA?)
then again, in light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644795 maybe it'd be more effective to address the concerns of the centre right and centre left, than to bother with trolling the far right?
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzi-FcFEao8
[1] they've got their Everdeen character, but real archers use thumb draws, and shoot out of gallop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTaYvMmNYU
[2] maybe the US just needs a better men's World Cup squad, so they can get all the flag-waving out of their systems via sport instead of politics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604554
(U of M, Liaoning(!!))
>even for swing states, the best evidence is that small states do not benefit from the bias
So.. swing within the swing?
(FUN to imagine members of an "evil-sibling" of "Mossad" embedding, even featuring in Rock the Country tho :)
(Two) Texans going their own way?
(Is that a tinge of Tassie (accent) from her partner?)
(Can imagine these 2 going to RtC btw)
Not sure RtC is well-coded for those who wear "Curious George" ball caps*, but they might well be as welcoming as they advertise. I'd envision these 2 more likely at a Willy [Nelson] show?
For PH, wherever he may be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M6JCd2IXD0 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/po2IzHkTdgo
* I've got to see more of that T-shirt collection; somehow I doubt tattooed Elsa and Anna (but do they have tramp stamps?) were licensed images...
(how does "low" vs "high" compare with "lying flat"?)
Any other gems?
-The church revisits their Ordnung every six months or so to see if it needs updating
-The more conservative the affiliation, for instance, the more likely the teenagers are to smoke, drink, listen to music, and even engage in the traditional practice of bed courtship or “bundling”
(Lying flat is strategic ambiguity?
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-abroad/swiss-at-heart-not...
Hello Linebargerists!!) )
GoogAI says that "REPL interactions can be viewed as traces in a monoid trace algebra, where the quantale helps characterise the behaviour of timed processes over time"
Skimming over its citation, it seems that they may have confused "REPL" with "Replication"?
Could the pun in "Trace" be enjoyed?
How would you strengthen this divination?
(Chengyu via Hiroyuki Nishimura: Pause roofing switch nails)
L
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A5%BD%E7%94%B7%E4%B8%8D%E5%...
To what extent was Frank Herbert's choice of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_mouse#:~:text=Paul%20...
Over the objectionable JEERboa an exhibition of foresight ?
https://www.twz.com/sea/navys-top-admiral-concerned-about-st...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667195
(Mitigated by Self-awareness indoctrination?)
>There's a lot of internal jokes about US servicemembers being uniformed criminals.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/signs-emerge-of-u-s-navy-a...
>Robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul
https://www.threads.com/@theheatherashley/post/DTWMcYVkuxi/o...
Compare w https://archive.ph/fcCjr
>“Nobody convinced me, I convinced myself,”
I Ching is off the table then :)?
Monitor the pizza
https://old.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/1n6vvf6/comment/...
https://old.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/1n6vvf6/what_is_...
So wife is Anabaptist XD ?
https://lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com/area/monument...
See the charts here, esp p18 fig 2 (anecdata >> polls, again?) https://sci-hub.ee/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
L2 https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1fF411H7BU
@PH!! (Note that firefox) 虎の威を藉る狐
@aeb!! https://m.sohu.com/a/475175790_162758/?pvid=000115_3w_a
Btw (@radpanda) Help me to tell HOA from HOA in practice? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817579
>workers in this line were persons who either did not wish to join the Army or whom the Army did not wish to have join it.
Vs
A slight or even a substantial increase in economic welfare in the Asian states seems to the author to favor a sharp increase in Communist strength.
to be reconsidered in light of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin_Peng#:~:text=Deng%20repli...
https://archive.ph/2026.01.19-043151/https://www.threads.com...
(Should I be bothered to source the supposedly Falange quote?)
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/religious-intolerance_s...
* Vatican II's (slightly delayed) answer to questions posed by anabaptists in the XVI.
> esp p18 fig 2
I stand corrected! I guess on the tolerating cognitive dissonance scale we are on the low side...
Lynyrd Skynyrd were trolled by Neil Young in 1970: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjLcFQjq5G8
Fucking hell la HN!!
-takes PG's "unintentional moderates"/Nietzsche's cold-shower to a whole new [tragi-comic] level?
-the unexpected dvote from PH or his loyalists felt like I'd unintentionally self-trolled myself
(There might be an upvote that I haven't accounted for..)
Upcoming fencing chengyu?
U: re: my best take on why the hypothetical JHC (compare w Hillel/Mahatma) wasn't on the spectrum-- however he might have been "enby" like PH says
just one of a torrent of mud here, tho this particular take could point us to the hidden gold?
https://archive.ph/2026.01.17-044156/https://www.lesswrong.c...
(Whole new can of worms on actual vs stated goals of rationalists tho I think we don't have to venture in that direction (yet) :)
U2:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586940
U3: To what extent is the Swiss Inner Party, if it exists, NOT a team of rationalists? (I haven't tried answering my own Q yet, but it might be MUCH easier for me ;)
U4: at the risk of too many knobs [that you might have trouble merging], troll the centre-left and centre-right AT THE SAME TIME.
You know the famous "sweat saves blood, but brains save all" of that famous fennec
(Sorry Thucydides!!)
it's not the best source of trollings but I couldn't resist :)
U3: looks pretty rationalist to me so far. (otoh our proles recently voted for a 13th old age pension without first demanding an accounting of from where it would be paid) I especially like how the referendum process allows decoupling recognition of problems from attempts at their solution. Certainly being a small country (pace Tito?) helps avoid the temptation of monumentalism. see also https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvsimages/Cultural_Map_202...
IKEA: IK was Kamprad, who is EA? (aha, not who but what: Elmtaryd Agunnaryd) Unix pipelines treat everything as a monoid of bytes; what if we could deal with (loopable) quantales of bytes instead?
U: First win, then score
(Ah yes dunno why I went for "Texan", not that I am even half-good at desouping the 2)
I was just thinking a few hours ago, that baby seems to be squalling for "quantales". Have you ever asked an LLM about it? I have (in relation to what I've been thinking hard about).. Did you find the answer useful? it's good I don't remember what it said, because it seems to be too adult (in name, if not concept), & I don't feel like I've ever made such a kid of myself.
I did algolia what you've written about it so far (2 hrs ago?). Hows the Kleene implementation? It should actually be immediately useful to me!! (And... You win!!)
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense, too, and for a thousand years or two mathematics was more or less stagnating, because nobody was around to make such childish steps . . .
--Letter to R. Brown
PS: Ah but the whole point might be that rationalism don't need no inner party? (And, in CH, such decoupling falls out of a hat, there's no need for further "design work" on the process (in principle?)-- Thus.. is it really the kind of decoupling i thought I was talking about? It seems to be! But I can't ELI5! (Sincere question))
U: chart is flattering^W enlightening, quite. yep I saw that vid ~ march? last year
The sea is still rising around the imp; that kernel has yet to be rubbed away... Will work harder on it, when I'm not yakking on HN :)
I did try a couple of LLMs but although they were useful in figuring out how to organise a writeup, they were just glazing when it came to developing the theory. A friend's recommendation of a topology book has actually been far more directly useful.
If we view the "inner party" as being Russell's farmer (instead of his chicken, to whom "more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful"), then, although the capital accrues via Matthew Effect, at least all residents can count on food, shelter, health care, and decent access to education. Our proles would be the cross-border workers, who sleep in a different country (and count on their unemployment stats during recessions) — and possibly EU people here on the freedom of movement agreement? (I know little about this agreement; it came about after I got here)
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