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A lot of people on Mastodon are there because they believe decentralized and open-source techologies are essential tools for resisting coercive power.

An honest answer is “all kinds,” but that’s also an annoying answer because then you are stuck wondering “So is this guy a music fan or is he just undiscerning?”

hannah frances - nested in tangles hannah deserves all the approbation she desires. such inventive, dense, lush & playful songwriting!

There's nothing new to say in any of these "Americans Can't Read" pieces, yet still I read them with morbid fascination.

Did you know that Fenix has started pretending that he speaks with a British accent because people said RUBBERZ sounded like a song by The Smiths?

There's a viral tiktok song called RUBBERZ that is clearly generated by some low-rent generative audio model, presumably via the prompt "drake + pina colada song", where the artist behind it gave the most obvious lipsync ever to prove that the song isn't…

jakub dominé - synthesis There are supertasters, but are there superlisteners?

freak heat waves - i can't tell can't read your mind or see what you hide it's out of my reach and sight simulate the taste and the smell i can't tell trust me you don't need to even try got it all up your sleeve in disguise replicate the taste and the sm…

I think about the miracle of libraries often.

Klara and the Sun is a novel written through the compound eyes of a constitutionally ingenuous artificial intelligence.

Beyond its crux, the flippancy with which The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' narrator invents the city is the most distinctive aspect of the story to me.

Jim Lill is a musician from Nashville who conducts audio equipment A/B benchmarks with unusually high rigour and posts them on YouTube.

When I visited Kigali for 2 weeks in 2022, I observed a labour-capital ladder: At the bottom, the poorest workers could earn a living by carrying fuel to and fro on foot.

For all the cynical things I had to say about internet comments, I also cherish them.

This post assumes a basic level of familiarity with the jujutsu version control system.

Last night, I watched the Star Trek Voyager episode Critical Care.

vera ellen - thaw calling my pop hit of the summer

carolina eyck - how to play a scale on the theremin I'd never thought about how this was done.

arco A beautiful, tender film about love!

What colour is the pepper on this skewer?

Monstergarden’s Worldbuilding Monstergarden is a project by a concept artist enhandled Monlez He’s writing and illustrating a world of reinterpreted fantasy tropes, one vlog at a time.

I don't know why this feels like some sad or significant thing to say - it's one of the internet's oldest clichés - but, anyone else feeling like comment sections kinda sucky these days?

update 2026-05-8: hello hackernews - whoops, yes, i should have filtered out the noise specks. thanks to kevinsync for the reminder. this is not a power or bandwidth saving technique à la low tech magazine. it's principally aesthetic. handy if you're runn…

These are all repeated ad-infinitum across the internet but I may as well republish my own no-nonsense repository. the three gods There are three gods: A, B, and C.

I watched the TV show Plur1bus recently.

I checked out Twitter for the first time in ages to see if anyone had been finding anything in the Epstein files Which, holy shit.

Another More Perfect Union critique, I guess This time, a video on government-run grocery stores.

One thing I've noticed in the last few months of intentionally monitoring it - the headlines on the homepage of Fox News are always focused on specific people and characters.

Paul Bloom writes Scarcity generates pleasure, anxiety, and purpose.

sarah belle reid - unwound

Part of my family’s canon is Spooner or Later, by Paul Jennings, Ted Greenwood, and Terry Denton.

AKAI MPD18 footwork - KΣITO so clean

picto - ulrika spacek off their upcoming album, EXPO. i usually find it reductive and debasing to equate one band's music to another's, but sometimes a song triggers a pattern-matching reflex in me like a hammer to the knee. here it was the drum beat, the…

I turned my adblocker off youtube for a minute to see what it was like to have recommendations appear again.

This movie should have been called Hisstopia because of how bad and about snakes it is.

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One of my friends just sent me a voice note making a couple of points: Visual generative AI is getting really good This is starting to do weird things on our video and image-based social media networks Influencers are nervously wondering if their industry…

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No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli.

There's a good version on Standard Ebooks.

A friend just asked me this.

I first saw this on Hakushi Hasegawa's website1 and after a little digging around in the source, saw that it was implemented with a shader and three.js But I had a hunch that it might be possible with CSS blending modes.

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boris - flood 3 i love boris. when this track descends into sludgey perdition, they play a cool rhythmic trick. the guitar phrase is 14 beats long, but the drums play a 16 beat phrase and they cycle around, out of phase, until they unite again in unison.…

peter middleton & james spinney - notes on blindness john hull, blind at fourty-five, crests through the dark waves of grief to a love of rain. his notes on denial are very resonant to me in this moment.

Two years ago, a colleague asked me "concretely, what's a way in which you think AI is going to change the world?"

this isn't merriam-webster, but i reckon it's when you're motivated by something other than what you should be. say you come out of the cinema with your friends and you start raving about how many of the shots were inspired by some french new wave guy. ma…

More Perfect Union released a video on automated truck drivers (which are now on the roads in Texas.)

When people say "the problem is education" they tend to mean "I want everyone to have the same beliefs as me, but persuading adults is too hard."

Laura C by Big Supermarket is a song about Tomb Raider.