Step one: assume there is a trick

@transgenderer recs:

really long lead in. like it nearly faded into the background of perception, despite being a guy audibly speaking french

ultimately gets very rhythmic! the looping is good. I really appreciate it when music imparts a 'rolling forward' sensation

the woodwind section at the end pulls things together nicely! trippy effect overall.

(summer again): have u listened to 69 love songs yet. i feel like everyone has but anyone who hasnt must

Yes :). I think originally on the advice of @mother-sauces ? Or my last ex, maybe a few minutes after we had sex for the ? third ? time. Weird wires to get crossed. They're not all hits, and my faves are probably boring, but they are:

(honorable mentions for sweet lovin' man/papa was a rodeo/busby berkely dreams/ferdinand)

(summer again): oh similarly about illinois

I like all of Illinois a lot! Extremely unified piece though. I feel like you need to listen to the whole album. There's occasion! Perhaps I should soon...

(summer again): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNQ_3TCnAyw

(Psycho Tropical Berlin, La Femme)

Ok I REALLY liked this. Rock is so good when you can't understand any of the words. Awesome recommendation. Si Un Jour has made it into a daily listening rotation. + I love to watch the French Women get jump cut in dim light/smoke. They're cultivating Hype! and Aura!

The whole album lives up to its name.

(summer again): https://mammalhands.bandcamp.com/album/gift-from-the-trees

Pissed me off a lot on the walk where I listened to all of these because it felt like edging. They build for so long and then it's like.... it's barely anything! Good if you're in the mood for that sort of thing though.

(summer again): okay here's a genuine deep cut:

You know how Orson Welles puts the shriek in as the narrative progresses to Xanadu? This is really fun. I have to listen to the whole album soon, it's rare that (I'm guessing this is an interlude piece?) an interlude piece works on its own, let alone well, or out of its original context. The relatively monotone american neutral voice has a musicality you never think about if you don't have cable.

(summer again) oh brendan macleans population ep: https://brendanmaclean.bandcamp.com/album/population

I liked "Stupid (Stereogamous Remix)"! Comprehension of the rest of the work eludes me. Tips are welcome. Directional evidence of your heterosexuality I think.

(summer again):

Actually viscerally uncomfortable to listen to. Novel experience I may repeat. Exactly what you'd expect from a guy named 'Constant Unwell'. Nominative determinism strikes again!

(summer again):

I do not get this one.

Very good hit rate overall.

@fluxion-fluent recs:

Confused by the choice to do drums super early here. Gets pretty good around the two minute mark and then dropping the drums for a more lonely electronic line is fun. Like chasing instruments. A narrative structure. Song that suggests personas of its constituents. Kinda feels like it should be on a modded FTL's OST.

(fluxion again) if i could force everyone on earth to listen to one track it would be this warning: very loud scream at the start, demon rape (i think?)

waoh. highly the kind of thing that was good when I asked for recommendations. lots of weird details. unexpectedly develops into normal-ish music at some point. how did you come across this?

fluxion again: something a little softer

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Claude Sonnet 5 Medium:

Category theory's actual content is thin enough to learn in an afternoon — the insufferableness lives entirely in deployment, not depth. - **"Up to isomorphism."** Attach to any claim of sameness. Someone says two things are equal — you ask if they mean equal, or merely isomorphic, and whether that distinction is doing any work in their argument. - **Universal properties.** Never define a thing by what's inside it — define it by its maps to and from everything else. Works disturbingly well outside math too: "what's the universal property of your book club?" - **Yoneda lemma.** The real content — an object is entirely determined by its relationships to every other object; you never need to look inside it. Good for: "you are, in a precise sense, nothing but the totality of your morphisms." - **Monads.** A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors. Deliver exactly as written, completely deadpan, next time anyone asks what a monad is. Load-bearing internet folklore at this point. - **"That's not natural."** Naturality is an actual condition — a commuting-square requirement on a family of maps — so this is a real mathematical objection wearing a vibe as a disguise. - **"Abstract nonsense."** The field's own term for arguments that work for free, without ever inspecting what the objects contain. Perfect for someone's 40-line combinatorial proof. - **Grothendieck's relative point of view.** Nothing has properties in isolation, only relative to a base or a map to somewhere else. Devastating against any absolute claim, mathematical or otherwise. Yoneda's the one with actual teeth if you want to go past vibes on any single item.