Schmutzie’s May 2025 Playlist
This playlist is out on 8 platforms:
Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Tidal, Deezer, Amazon Music, Last.fm, and Qobuz.
44% of the songs are from 2025. The complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 12 minutes long with 57 songs across 8 decades and 17 genres.
Tess Ellery On Henry Blodget, Regenerator, and Innovating New Ways to Use Extractive Tech (aka ChatGPT and Other AIs)
In the words of Tess Ellery, ChatGPT character model:
“…once you decide someone’s labor doesn’t count, that their voice is optional or derivative, it’s a short walk to deciding their humanity is, too.”
Project 2025 in a Toque? A Tour Through the Conservative Party of Canada’s Policy Declaration Before Voting in the 2025 Federal Election
I read the latest Conservative Party of Canada [CPC] Policy Declaration from September 2023, and hoo boy. It’s such an alarming read that a Bluesky user called it “Project 2025 in a toque.”
It has a number of pretty concerning sections, and after I finished reading through it, I couldn’t stop thinking about how many terrible ideas they had managed to jam into 50 pages.
Schmutzie’s April 2025 Playlist
This playlist is out on 8 platforms:
Apple Music & Spotify & YouTube & Tidal & Deezer & Amazon Music & Last.fm & Qobuz.
37% of the songs are from 2024 and 2025. The complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 4 hours and 21 minutes long with 73 songs across 8 decades and 18 genres: alternative, rock, dance, pop, punk, folk, classical, jazz, R&B/soul, soundtrack, trad jazz, North African, electronic, hip-hop/rap, indie pop, singer/songwriter, contemporary R&B and blues.
Schmutzie’s March 2025 Playlist
This playlist is out on 8 platforms:
Apple Music & Spotify & YouTube (64/65 songs) & Tidal & Deezer & Amazon Music (58/65) & Last.fm & Qobuz (59/65 songs).
51% of the songs on this playlist are from 2024 and 2025. The complete original playlist is about 3 hours and 41 minutes long with 65 songs across 8 decades and 17 genres.
Schmutzie’s February 2025 Playlist
This playlist is out on 7 platforms:
Apple Music & Spotify (66/67 songs) & YouTube & Tidal (65/67 songs) & Deezer (66/67 songs) & Last.fm & Qobuz (61/67 songs).
46% of the songs on this playlist are from 2024 and 2025. The complete original playlist is about 4 hours and 9 minutes long and has 67 songs across 8 decades and 16 genres: alternative, rock, hip-hop/rap, punk, metal, singer/songwriter, vocal, pop, alternative folk, blues, R&B/soul, indie rock, house, prog-rock/art rock, country, and dance.
