New posts from jordanlee.life
Market - Cleanliness 2: Gorgeous Technologies (2026 Western Vinyl)
I absolutely love Nate Mendelsohn’s new record. I did a rare back to back listen to catch the bonkers, constantly unraveling pop production and spiralling, stream of consciousness lyrics. The whole album is definitely worth a spin.
Messenger by Mary Oliver
_My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all the ingredients are here,
which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever._
~ “Messenger” by Mary Oliver, from Thirst
This Mary Oliver poem was in today’s Prisons, Prose & Protest newsletter. I hope we too can learn the ways of “mostly standing still and learning to be astonished”
Mike Pepi on Software Binaries
I liked this short article from tech writer Mike Pepi which offers a critical perspective on organizing societies around software where the intangible and ambiguous seems to give way to the efficient and definiable.
My hope is to find ways for these two ideologies to co-exist. To have trains that run on time AND have well funded community spaces for communal expression. For art to exist in interesting contexts shared and reviewed by real people instead of converted into a huge bundle of machine-readable metadata to be consumed and regurgitated by LLM’s or algorithmic feeds between targeted ads.
Is there a way for cloud-based software to intersect with the deeply human experiences without a sort of corruption from the limitations of binary code, network effect exponential growth, and penetrating surveillance? My gut is this is less of a technological issue and more about defining what is deeply important to our souls and protecting it
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Ever New (At Hotel2Tango 2026)
I already loved the peaceful arpeggiating synths of the original version of Ever New, but now 40 years later, this new choral version recorded in the midst of a dementia diagnosis takes on new weight and feels like a true gift to the listener.
