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Zoe Brownstone: Pride & Premises Live at The Bill Murray FULL SPECIAL - YouTube I don’t remember where I heard about this, but it’s good!

Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev I am sure this super niche, but I enjoyed this rabbit hole.

Don’t die lil thing The current moment is so incredibly extractive, it has converted every ounce of human care, kindness and creativity into a “model,” which we then burn as much fossil fuel as possible to convert into a subscription service.

Decomputing as Resistance We can lift directly from those tendencies in the form of Illich’s work on tools for conviviality.

A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online Illich poses convivial tools as directly opposed to this industrialized, radically-monopolized set of social systems.

on permanence: album art as aesthetic object When I was in Pittsburgh last weekend I bought several beautiful books, one of them being a book length essay by Laura Lopez Paniagua called Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions.

You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company — This day’s portion We should resist the urge to data-fy and commodify our personal websites.

The Age of the Double Sell-Out The 20th century taboo against selling out was, at its heart, a communal norm to reward young artists who focused on craft and punish those who appropriated art and subculture for empty profiteering.

I wrote this back in 2023 and never posted it.

The vibrato circuit for the Saffari was originally based on this one from Transistor Electronic Organs for the Amateur: I couldn’t get it to work (maybe my substitute transistors weren’t close enought to the original?)

Yesterday the PCBs arrived for the prototype of my analog transistor organ monosynth and I built it.

“What’s the synth you’re working on?”

I’ve been playing with the PT2399 (every DIY guitar pedal maker’s favourite lo-fi delay chip) for a couple of years now, and I still find myself confused by the filters and pinouts.

I made a Simon Says toy with Clem over a couple of weekends.

Beanie Tapes was featured on Bandcamp’s November Tape Label Report.