Reminds me of Thompson's 1984 Turing award lecture. It's held up pretty well.

That (new music sux) isn't my experience, though it shares something with it: Most new music that makes it to your local Clear Channel rebroadcast station is an insult; every time WAP plays an angel goes into the woodchipper. But if you're willing to dig a bit, you can find stuff that's a lot more interesting and musically challenging than, say, 80's hair bands or 70's disco or ... Mitski is putting out some interesting material (try Washing Machine Heart for a starter), PJ Harvey is still challenging audiences with new material. Or try Four Fists ("Joe Strummr"), or Rodney Crowell ("Redneck Hillbillies"), or Mountain Man ... don't know where your tastes lie.
Somebody on this thread has already cited Sturgeon's law, so yeah, there's that.
Check out the original substack article that caused the foofra. It's an interesting extended piece on the intersection of music and business.

Might be just me, but this sort of pressure seems to be accelerating in the past year ... Apple with their CSAM nark, England with their fade-to-black pedo, and Cambodia ("just because we said so"). Not saying it's a conspiracy; most likely just an increasingly valuable target (*more* people, spending *more* time on their personal devices). Western efforts seem to be either anti-pedo or anti-terrorist pretty uniformly, the better to incite fear in the easily frightened.

Not to be a Gloomy Gus, but Cohen's "Everybody Knows" was my 2021 'earworm of the year', and nothing in 2022 so far has made me expect that to change ...

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

It begins

"What one man can do, another can do."
-- Charles Morse

Bored with screwing over the American taxpayer, Intuit branches out to boning their new employees. Shocking twist, really.

"You have created a new world among the three of you. I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and may each of you fry in hell forever. Arrest rescinded."

Fixing a design flaw in engineering - $10
Fixing a design flaw in manufacturing - $100
Fixing a design flaw at the customer's site - $1000

Fixing your reputation with that customer from step 3: more expensive still.

Nonsense, universities are terrifically disruptive, just like Uber!
Uber -> University
Driver -> Adjunct
TaxiDriver -> Professor
Rider -> Student

Everybody but Uber/University gets screwed.
Disruptive!!! (also: Profit!!)

Shiny Happy People Holding Hands.

The lyrics for the song were written as a satirical translation of the Chinese government's propaganda used after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.

Ex-Houstonian here, just a side note that a wine fridge is an excellent place to keep the critical chocolate supply in this sort of climate as well ... would be for the drugs, too, but condensation is a problem when you open a 50(10C) degree bottle in a warm humid environment.

"the information disclosed does meet the criteria for whistleblower status as described by ... Florida statutes,

Buried the lede here? Florida has statutes!