I don’t recognize the country that I grew up in. It’s being trashed. The norms we had have been tossed in an incinerator.
Andy Cummings was so talented and influential in Hawaiian music. Look at the very young Gabby Pahinui on this album cover

In Hawaii, all beaches and shorelines below the “upper reaches of the wash of the waves” are considered public property and open to the public, regardless of ownership. However, certain areas under direct control by the Federal Government are exceptions.
there she goes, Episode .
in 2004 I was still mostly in the Windows world, I worked for a radio station and the software was all Window. In 2005 I got a Dell Pocket DJ and ripped my massive CD collection . I have all of that music backed up. It’s interesting looking back at what music I bought through the years.
Everyone knows what Trump et al are doing, but no one seems to know how to stop it…without being inconvenienced.
IMHO. What most AI is mostly offering is not what people want, many people still don’t trust it. I think Apple has the right idea. Put it under the hood and make things we already use better. Others putting it front and center are pushing people away.
Wendell Lewis Willkie (February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for president. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940 election with about 55% of the popular vote

The song Heha Waipio has an interesting background. Written by Sam Li`a Kalainaina, Jr. in Waipio in 1904 for a friend who neighbors were making fun of about a house he was buiding. They said it was too fancy Here’s an interview with Sam where he tells the story. His handwritten lyrics attached

It is nice and cool, but damn it’s humid. Light and variable winds brings this from down near the equator.
They totally recreated the Alfred Alohikea sound from his 1930s compositions
