Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
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- "Beauty in Dark Places",
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-
'Always_Look_on_the_Bright_Side': [
"Always Look on the Bright Side",
"By Eric Idle",
@@ -23,6 +17,12 @@ content = {
"A lament of love, pain and acceptance",
],
+ 'A_Thousand_Stars': [
+ "A Thousand Stars",
+ "By Siegfried Köhler, translated by Daniel Böttger",
+ "Beauty in Dark Places",
+ ],
+
'Baby_Genie': [
"Baby Genie",
"By Raymond Arnold",
@@ -196,12 +196,6 @@ content = {
"A lone survivor contemplates a failed revolution",
],
- 'Endless_Light': [
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- "By Raymond Arnold",
- "A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities",
- ],
-
'Endless_Light_Above': [
"Endless Light Above Me",
"By Raymond Arnold",
@@ -214,6 +208,12 @@ content = {
"The second part of a song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities",
],
+ 'Endless_Light': [
+ "Endless Lights",
+ "By Raymond Arnold",
+ "A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities",
+ ],
+
'Find_My_Tribe': [
"Find My Tribe",
"By Raymond Arnold",
@@ -261,18 +261,18 @@ content = {
"It takes so little to be happy",
],
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- ],
-
'Galaxy_Song_2014': [
"Galaxy Song 2014",
"by Monty Python",
"An updated version, with less astronomy and more biology",
],
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+ "Galaxy Song",
+ "By Monty Python",
+ "How big the universe is and how lucky we are to be a part of it",
+ ],
+
'Garden_Song': [
"Garden Song",
"By John Denver",
@@ -307,10 +307,10 @@ content = {
"An old song of sorrow, hope and compassion",
],
- 'Her_Mysteries': [
- "Her Mysteries",
- "By Allison Lonsdale",
- "A hymn to the Goddess for math and physics majors.",
+ 'Here_and_Now': [
+ "Here and Now",
+ "By Raymond Arnold",
+ "A celebration of now",
],
'Here_Comes_the_Sun': [
@@ -325,10 +325,10 @@ content = {
"Celebrate the fall of the deadly dragon we've feared",
],
- 'Here_and_Now': [
- "Here and Now",
- "By Raymond Arnold",
- "A celebration of now",
+ 'Her_Mysteries': [
+ "Her Mysteries",
+ "By Allison Lonsdale",
+ "A hymn to the Goddess for math and physics majors.",
],
'Heros_Song': [
@@ -379,12 +379,6 @@ content = {
"All the awesome things on this planet",
],
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- "A silly love song",
- ],
-
'Imagine': [
"Imagine",
"By John Lennon",
@@ -397,6 +391,12 @@ content = {
"A national anthem for SSC's Invisible republc",
],
+ 'I_Want_to_Hold_Your_Hand': [
+ "I Want To Hold Your Hand",
+ "By The Beatles",
+ "A silly love song",
+ ],
+
'Jewel_In_The_Night': [
"Jewel in the Night",
"By Chris Hadfield",
@@ -409,18 +409,18 @@ content = {
"A very generic celebratory song, silly and possibly for kids",
],
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- ],
-
'Landsailor': [
"Landsailor",
"By Vienna Teng",
"A salute to industrialization and its fruits",
],
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+ "La Vie Bohème",
+ "By Jonathan Larson (from RENT)",
+ "A celebration of reckless fun",
+ ],
+
'Lean_on_Me': [
"Lean on Me",
"By Bill Withers",
@@ -538,12 +538,6 @@ content = {
"By Daniel Kahn",
],
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"Old Devil Time",
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"One shots make the prisoners' dilemma much harder",
],
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- "Scarborough Fair",
- "Traditional",
- "A series of impossible challenges",
+ 'O_Tannenbaum': [
+ "O Tannenbaum",
+ "Traditional, with added verses by Silas Barta",
+ "A progressively less traditional ode to trees",
],
'Scarborough_Fair_Dark_Reprise': [
@@ -568,6 +562,12 @@ content = {
"A lament for the fallen",
],
+ 'Scarborough_Fair': [
+ "Scarborough Fair",
+ "Traditional",
+ "A series of impossible challenges",
+ ],
+
'Scarborough_Fair_Triumphant_Reprise': [
"Scarborough Fair Triumphant Reprise",
"By Tricky Talks (?)",
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"Music and Dreams aren't solutions, but they are starting points",
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"Song Of The Artesian Water",
"By Banjo Paterson and Anna Tchetchekine",
@@ -655,6 +649,12 @@ content = {
"By Zoe Mulford & Windborne, with edits by the Solstice team",
],
+ 'Son_of_Man': [
+ "Son of Man",
+ "By Phil Collins",
+ "Growing up",
+ ],
+
'Sons_of_Martha': [
"Sons Of Martha",
"By Rudyard Kipling (lyrics) and Daniel Speyer (music)",
@@ -766,6 +766,12 @@ content = {
"There is no one to protect you from yourself",
],
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+ "There Will Come Soft Rain",
+ "By Sara Teasdale (Lyrics) and Jonathon Adams (music)",
+ "The world without us",
+ ],
+
'The_Singularity_Song': [
"The Singularity Song",
"By Heather Anne Campbell and David Barton Harris",
@@ -826,30 +832,24 @@ content = {
"A lighthearted take on the development of nuclear weapons",
],
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- "There Will Come Soft Rain",
- "By Sara Teasdale (Lyrics) and Jonathon Adams (music)",
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"This Too Shall Pass",
"By Danny Schmidt",
"Good or bad: it all goes fast",
],
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- "By Cat Faber",
- "Truth is found in the world",
- ],
-
'Time_is_Up': [
"Time Is Up",
"By Poppy",
"A newly awakened AI contemplates the end of humanity.",
],
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+ "Time Wrote the Rocks",
+ "By Cat Faber",
+ "Truth is found in the world",
+ ],
+
'Tit_for_Tat': [
"Tit For Tat",
"By Ben Newman",
@@ -1004,14 +1004,14 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'A_Bottomless_Pit': [
- "A Bottomless Pit of Suffering",
+ 'A_Bottomless_Pit_Bay_Edition': [
+ "A Bottomless Pit of Suffering (Bay Edition)",
"By Raymond Arnold",
"[speech]",
],
- 'A_Bottomless_Pit_Bay_Edition': [
- "A Bottomless Pit of Suffering (Bay Edition)",
+ 'A_Bottomless_Pit': [
+ "A Bottomless Pit of Suffering",
"By Raymond Arnold",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1104,9 +1104,9 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'COVID_We_Lost': [
- "COVID: We Lost",
- "by Rivka Fleischman",
+ 'Call_and_Response_Defiance_Abridged': [
+ "Call and Response: Defiance",
+ "By Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1116,12 +1116,6 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
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'Can_The_Chain_Still_Hold_You': [
"Can The Chain Still Hold You?",
"By Luke Muehlhauser",
@@ -1144,15 +1138,21 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'COVID_We_Lost': [
+ "COVID: We Lost",
+ "by Rivka Fleischman",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Cycles_Of_Scurvy': [
"Cycles of Scurvy",
"by Philo, Anton Howes, Idlewords and SMTM, edited together by Daniel Speyer",
"[speech]",
],
- 'DC_Solstice_in_2022': [
- "Solstice in 2022 (DC)",
- "by Maia Werbos",
+ 'd6_activity': [
+ "d6 Activity",
+ "By Cy Carson",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1168,6 +1168,12 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'DC_Solstice_in_2022': [
+ "Solstice in 2022 (DC)",
+ "by Maia Werbos",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Demiurges_Older_Brother': [
"The Demiurge's Older Brother",
"By Scott Alexander",
@@ -1186,18 +1192,18 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
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- "By Dylan Thomas",
- "[speech]",
- ],
-
'Does_Somebody_Have_To': [
"Does Somebody Have To, and Will Somebody Else",
"By Skyler Crossman",
"[speech]",
],
+ 'Do_Not_Go_Gentle': [
+ "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night",
+ "By Dylan Thomas",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Dont_Shoot_The_Messenger': [
"Don't Shoot the Messenger",
"By Sarah Constantin, adapted for speech by Daniel Speyer",
@@ -1350,14 +1356,14 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'Holding_On_And_Letting_Go': [
- "Holding On and Letting Go",
+ 'Holding_On_And_Letting_Go_2': [
+ "Meditation: Holding On and Letting Go",
"by Rivka Fleischman",
"[speech]",
],
- 'Holding_On_And_Letting_Go_2': [
- "Meditation: Holding On and Letting Go",
+ 'Holding_On_And_Letting_Go': [
+ "Holding On and Letting Go",
"by Rivka Fleischman",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1379,20 +1385,32 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'Howl': [
+ "Howl",
+ "By Allen Ginsberg",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
+ 'How_to_Be_Happy': [
+ "How to Be Happy",
+ "Based on an essay by Luke Muehlhauser",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'How_We_Remember_and_What': [
"How We Remember and What",
"By Sideria and Taymon Beal",
"[speech]",
],
- 'How_We_Will_Be_Measured': [
- "How We Will Be Measured",
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+ "How We Will Be Measured (abridged)",
"By Nate Soares",
"[speech]",
],
- 'How_We_Will_Be_Measured_Abridged': [
- "How We Will Be Measured (abridged)",
+ 'How_We_Will_Be_Measured': [
+ "How We Will Be Measured",
"By Nate Soares",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1403,20 +1421,9 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
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- 'Howl': [
- "Howl",
- "By Allen Ginsberg",
- "[speech]",
- ],
-
- 'ISS_Time_Lapse': [
- "International Space Station Time Lapse Video",
+ 'Icebreaker_Replication_Crisis': [
+ "Icebreaker: Replication Crisis",
+ "Instructions:",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1438,18 +1445,6 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'I_Pencil': [
- "I, Pencil",
- "By Leonard E. Read",
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- 'Icebreaker_Replication_Crisis': [
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- "Instructions:",
- "[speech]",
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-
'Improvised_Skit': [
"Improvised Skit",
"[speech]",
@@ -1515,25 +1510,25 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'Intro_To_Night_Section': [
- "Intro: Night Section",
+ 'Introduction_Bay_2022': [
+ "Introduction (Bay 2022)",
"[speech]",
],
- 'Intro_to_Demon_Sultan_Azathoth': [
- "Intro to Demon Sultan Azathoth ",
- "By Jim Babcock ",
+ 'Introduction_Bay_2023': [
+ "Introduction (Bay 2023)",
+ "By Anna Tchetchetkine",
"[speech]",
],
- 'Introduction_Bay_2022': [
- "Introduction (Bay 2022)",
+ 'Intro_to_Demon_Sultan_Azathoth': [
+ "Intro to Demon Sultan Azathoth ",
+ "By Jim Babcock ",
"[speech]",
],
- 'Introduction_Bay_2023': [
- "Introduction (Bay 2023)",
- "By Anna Tchetchetkine",
+ 'Intro_To_Night_Section': [
+ "Intro: Night Section",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1555,6 +1550,17 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'I_Pencil': [
+ "I, Pencil",
+ "By Leonard E. Read",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
+ 'ISS_Time_Lapse': [
+ "International Space Station Time Lapse Video",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'It_Is_A_Common_Misperception': [
"It Is A Common Misperception",
"by Eliezer Yudkosky",
@@ -1654,6 +1660,12 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'Matt_Speech_2025': [
+ "Matt's 2025 speech at Montreal's solstice",
+ "By Matt",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Meditation_on_the_future': [
"Meditation on the Future",
"By Raymond Arnold and Nate Soares",
@@ -1672,18 +1684,18 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'Meditations_on_Moloch': [
- "Meditations on Moloch",
- "By Scott Alexander",
- "[speech]",
- ],
-
'Meditations_on_Moloch_Abridged': [
"Meditations on Moloch (Abridged)",
"By Scott Alexander (abridged by Daniel Speyer)",
"[speech]",
],
+ 'Meditations_on_Moloch': [
+ "Meditations on Moloch",
+ "By Scott Alexander",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Meselson_and_Bioweapons': [
"Meselson and Bioweapons",
"By Kelsey Piper",
@@ -1748,21 +1760,15 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'Not_Today': [
- "Not Today",
- "By G.R.R. Martin",
- "[speech]",
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-
'Nothing_Is_Mere': [
"Nothing is Mere",
"By John Keats and Richard Feynman",
"[speech]",
],
- 'On_Wanting_Things': [
- "On Wanting Things",
- "By Anna Tchetchetkine",
+ 'Not_Today': [
+ "Not Today",
+ "By G.R.R. Martin",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -1784,6 +1790,12 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'On_Wanting_Things': [
+ "On Wanting Things",
+ "By Anna Tchetchetkine",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Opening_Speech_Boston2016': [
"Boston 2016 Opening Speech",
"By Jim Babcock",
@@ -1857,12 +1869,6 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'RMS_Carpathia': [
- "RMS Carpathia",
- "By My Lord She's A Cactus",
- "[speech]",
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-
'Radical_Acceptance_Practice': [
"Radical Acceptance Practice",
"By Ozymandias (Adapted by others)",
@@ -1892,6 +1898,12 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'RMS_Carpathia': [
+ "RMS Carpathia",
+ "By My Lord She's A Cactus",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Road_to_Wisdom': [
"The Road to Wisdom",
"By Piet Hein",
@@ -2056,12 +2068,6 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'The_Goddess_of_Everything_Else': [
- "The Goddess of Everything Else",
- "By Scott Alexander",
- "[speech]",
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-
'The_Goddess_of_Everything_Else_Abridged': [
"The Goddess of Everything Else (Abridged)",
"By Scott Alexander",
@@ -2074,6 +2080,12 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'The_Goddess_of_Everything_Else': [
+ "The Goddess of Everything Else",
+ "By Scott Alexander",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'The_Inevitable_Speech_About_Crypto': [
"The Inevitable Speech About Crypto",
"By Scott Alexander",
@@ -2110,6 +2122,12 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'There_Will_Always_Be_Darkness': [
+ "There Will Always Be Darkness",
+ "My Little Poney: Friendship Is Magic",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'The_Scientific_Frontier': [
"The Scientific Frontier / Truth and Beauty",
"By Chelsea Voss",
@@ -2140,12 +2158,6 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'There_Will_Always_Be_Darkness': [
- "There Will Always Be Darkness",
- "My Little Poney: Friendship Is Magic",
- "[speech]",
- ],
-
'This_Is_a_Dawn': [
"This Is a Dawn",
"By Nate Soares",
@@ -2250,12 +2262,6 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'We_Are_Gathered': [
- "We Are Gathered",
- "by Daniel Speyer",
- "[speech]",
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-
'We_Are_Gathered_2019': [
"We Are Gathered 2019",
"by Daniel Speyer",
@@ -2268,21 +2274,15 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'We_Are_Here': [
- "We Are Here",
- "By Daniel Speyer",
- "[speech]",
- ],
-
- 'We_Still_Suffer': [
- "We Still Suffer",
- "By Matt Elder",
+ 'We_Are_Gathered': [
+ "We Are Gathered",
+ "by Daniel Speyer",
"[speech]",
],
- 'We_will_not_die_of_this': [
- "We will not die of this!",
- "By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg",
+ 'We_Are_Here': [
+ "We Are Here",
+ "By Daniel Speyer",
"[speech]",
],
@@ -2304,6 +2304,18 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
+ 'We_Still_Suffer': [
+ "We Still Suffer",
+ "By Matt Elder",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
+ 'We_will_not_die_of_this': [
+ "We will not die of this!",
+ "By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'What_Does_It_Mean_To_Be_Forever_Young': [
"What Does It Mean To Be Forever Young?",
"By Daniel Speyer",
@@ -2322,18 +2334,18 @@ content = {
"[speech]",
],
- 'What_Resembles_The_Grave_But_Isnt': [
- "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't",
- "By Anne Boyer",
- "[speech]",
- ],
-
'What_is_Solstice_2024': [
"What is Solstice? (2024)",
"by Daniel Speyer",
"[speech]",
],
+ 'What_Resembles_The_Grave_But_Isnt': [
+ "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't",
+ "By Anne Boyer",
+ "[speech]",
+ ],
+
'Whats_Left_To_Save': [
"What's Left to Save",
"by Maia Werbos",
@@ -2405,12 +2417,6 @@ content = {
"by Tilia Bell",
"[speech]",
],
-
- 'd6_activity': [
- "d6 Activity",
- "By Cy Carson",
- "[speech]",
- ],
};
for (let k in content) {
let v = content[k];
@@ -2419,8 +2425,8 @@ for (let k in content) {
sections = [
- "A Little Darker",
"Afterwards",
+ "A Little Darker",
"Autumn",
"Beforehand",
"Bonfire",
@@ -2444,8 +2450,8 @@ sections = [
"Hope",
"Intermission",
"Into Darkness",
- "Light Renewed",
"Light",
+ "Light Renewed",
"Morning",
"Night",
"Preparation",
@@ -2457,7 +2463,7 @@ sections = [
];
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+ "Austin_2022", "Austin_2023", "Bay_2014", "Bay_2015", "Bay_2016", "Bay_2018", "Bay_2019", "Bay_2022", "Bay_2023", "Bay_Outdoor_2016", "Boston_2013", "Boston_2015", "Boston_2016", "Boston_2017", "Boston_2018", "Boston_2019", "Boston_2022", "Boston_2023", "Boston_2024", "Childrens_Version", "Frankfurt_2017", "Frankfurt_2018", "Frankfurt_2019", "Miami_2022", "Miami_2022_options", "Montreal_2024", "Montreal_2025", "North_America_2020", "NYC_2011", "NYC_2015", "NYC_2016", "NYC_2017", "NYC_2018", "NYC_2019", "NYC_2021", "NYC_2022", "NYC_2023", "NYC_2024", "NYC_2025", "Portland_2022", "Seattle_2017", "Small_DC_2020", "Washington_DC_2015", "Washington_DC_2019", "Washington_DC_2021", "Washington_DC_2022", "Washington_DC_2023",
];
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'Bitter_Wind_March': 'Bitter_Wind_March-soundcloud.mp3',
'Bold_Orion': 'Bold_Orion_DC_2022.mp3',
- 'Brighter_Than_Today': 'Brighter_than_Today_DC_2022.mp3',
+ 'Brighter_Than_Today': 'Brighter_Than_Today-soundcloud.mp3',
'Bring_the_Light_Reprise': 'gen/Bring_the_Light_Reprise-from-midi.mp3',
'Chasing_Patterns': 'gen/Chasing_Patterns-from-midi.mp3',
'Contract_Drafting_Em': 'gen/Contract_Drafting_Em-from-midi.mp3',
- 'Endless_Light': 'endless_lights_nyc2019.mp3',
+ 'Endless_Light': 'Endless_Light-soundcloud.mp3',
'Find_My_Tribe': 'gen/Find_My_Tribe-transcript-from_midi.mp3',
'Gather_Round': 'Gather_Round-soundcloud.mp3',
'Gonna_Be_A_Cyborg': 'Gonna_Be_A_Cyborg.mp3',
- 'Here_and_Now': 'here_and_now_nyc2019.mp3',
- 'Holding_Up_The_Sky': 'gen/Holding_Up_The_Sky-from-midi.mp3',
+ 'Here_and_Now': 'Here_and_Now-soundcloud.mp3',
+ 'Holding_Up_The_Sky': 'Holding-Up-The-Sky-crude-live-recording.m4a',
'Howl_Abridged': 'gen/Howl_Abbridged-from-midi.mp3',
'Hymn_to_the_Breaking_Strain': 'Hymn-Breaking-Strain-2020.mp3',
- 'I_Have_Seen_the_Tops_of_Clouds': 'gen/I_Have_Seen_the_Tops_of_Clouds-from-midi.mp3',
+ 'I_Have_Seen_the_Tops_of_Clouds': 'Tops_Of_Clouds_Alternate_recording.m4a',
'Invisible_Republic_Anthem': 'gen/Invisible_Republic-from-midi.mp3',
- 'La_Vie_Boheme': 'gen/La_Vie_Boheme-from-midi.mp3',
'Landsailor': 'gen/Landsailor-from_midi.mp3',
+ 'La_Vie_Boheme': 'gen/La_Vie_Boheme-from-midi.mp3',
'Let_There_Be_Love': 'let_there_be_love_nyc2019.mp3',
'Little_Echo': 'gen/Little_Echo-from-midi.mp3',
'Lucifer': 'boston-2023-lucifer.mp3',
'Necronomicon': 'Necronomicon_DC_2022.mp3',
'Next_Right_Thing': 'boston-2023-the-next-right-thing.mp3',
- 'O_Tannenbaum': 'gen/O_Tannenbaum-from-midi.mp3',
'One_Shot': 'gen/One_Shot-from-midi.mp3',
+ 'O_Tannenbaum': 'gen/O_Tannenbaum-from-midi.mp3',
'Seikilos_Epitaph': 'Seikilos_Epitaph_DC_2024.mp3',
'Song_of_the_Artesian_Water': 'Song_of_the_Artesian_Water_v2.m4a',
'Sons_of_Martha': 'gen/Sons_of_Martha-from-midi.mp3',
'Sound_of_Silence': 'Sound-of-Silence-2020.mp3',
- 'That_Problem_Solved': 'gen/That_Problem_Solved-from-midi.mp3',
+ 'That_Problem_Solved': 'That_Problem_Solved-first-two-verses.mp3',
'Thats_Coordination': 'Thats_Coordination_DC_2024.mp3',
'The_Fallen_Star': 'The_Fallen_Star.m4a',
- 'Time_Wrote_the_Rocks': 'time_wrote_the_rocks_nyc2019.mp3',
+ 'Time_Wrote_the_Rocks': 'Time_Wrote_the_Rocks-soundcloud.mp3',
'Toast_to_the_Fallen': 'gen/Toast_to_the_Fallen-from-midi.mp3',
'Uplift': 'Uplift-2020.mp3',
'Voicing_of_Fear': 'voicing_of_fear_nyc2019.mp3',
diff --git a/speeches/Matt_Speech_2025.md b/speeches/Matt_Speech_2025.md
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+# Matt's 2025 speech at Montreal's solstice
+## By Matt
+
+[[canonical post]](https://mll.bio/verse#solstice-2025)
+
+Here's how things sit: that plasma-fusing sphere
+out there's gone far enough atwilt that I
+could almost quit psychotically, to spend
+my final wealth alighting to the south.
+
+Down there I'd squat in languid gluttony
+"to help my health" no doubt, and so it could
+help, but not the way to saw and nail my mind
+its ship of naught, of ethereal wood.
+
+Now here's a fact: I'll stare into a bulb
+like some damn lizard if it means I'll get
+to hold my bit together one day more.
+For making light, we honour wizards here.
+
+And not just them, but their marketing teams,
+all charm and tact, like used boat salesmen vie
+to foist you lemons. From the horse's mouth
+the unreserved flies, aloft above the truth.
+
+But this bulb is good. More day is good! You know,
+I should remember some products are good.
+I overbuy this fear of sales. You see:
+my dreams were lies until I rose, less woke.
+
+For in my past, if you accept the lore,
+there was an age I could not help but cringe,
+sad, often thinking: I'd be better broke.
+What silly masts! Pointless rope! Bitter ends.
+
+And as if nature weren't enough a test
+to see how fast to shit my soul could bend,
+or how much cope I'd hoist against myself—
+our world’s relentless with its bitter trends.
+
+Am I complaining? What's the point? I know
+I've turned a page, and what was once a chore
+becomes a joy. So what's this fear? These words?
+Don't I think I'll be earning what's before
+me? I react, but still's my sail unset,
+as though a toy, another toy, and I
+the boy were cast in amber, playing yet—
+with no-one up to catch the wind…
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+
+
+
+ Matt's 2025 speech at Montreal's solstice
+
+
+
+
+
Here’s how things sit: that plasma-fusing sphere
+out there’s gone far enough atwilt that I
+could almost quit psychotically, to spend
+my final wealth alighting to the south.
+
Down there I’d squat in languid gluttony
+“to help my health” no doubt, and so it could
+help, but not the way to saw and nail my mind
+its ship of naught, of ethereal wood.
+
Now here’s a fact: I’ll stare into a bulb
+like some damn lizard if it means I’ll get
+to hold my bit together one day more.
+For making light, we honour wizards here.
+
And not just them, but their marketing teams,
+all charm and tact, like used boat salesmen vie
+to foist you lemons. From the horse’s mouth
+the unreserved flies, aloft above the truth.
+
But this bulb is good. More day is good! You know,
+I should remember some products are good.
+I overbuy this fear of sales. You see:
+my dreams were lies until I rose, less woke.
+
For in my past, if you accept the lore,
+there was an age I could not help but cringe,
+sad, often thinking: I’d be better broke.
+What silly masts! Pointless rope! Bitter ends.
+
And as if nature weren’t enough a test
+to see how fast to shit my soul could bend,
+or how much cope I’d hoist against myself—
+our world’s relentless with its bitter trends.
+
Am I complaining? What’s the point? I know
+I’ve turned a page, and what was once a chore
+becomes a joy. So what’s this fear? These words?
+Don’t I think I’ll be earning what’s before
+me? I react, but still’s my sail unset,
+as though a toy, another toy, and I
+the boy were cast in amber, playing yet—
+with no-one up to catch the wind…