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Mine In Mono

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’Til All Are One

One of my childhood favorites returns to the big screen.

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I’m Coming Out

Bill Gates is coming out of a period of semi-seclusion to raise the alarm bells about generative A.I. Karen Weise covers the story for The NYT. One of the main concerns that Gates has is the potential for massive job losses. He proposed a new tax on A.I. use, known as a “token tax,” to...

Six Flags White House

Kevin D. Williamson writes for The Dispatch about the spectacle of setting up a UFC match on the White House lawn. It does not matter whether you live in a trailer park or a brick ranch house or something more grand and getting grander, it is all the same: Tornado bait is tornado bait. When...

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Star Wars The Product

What Star Wars owes to its fans and commercial interests.

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Phil Collins invents gated reverb.

Saturday's song is a cover of an early Coldplay track by Hoops.

It's certainly not bug-free, but the ATmosphere integration in WordPress is a lot more straightforward right out of the gate than the ActivityPub implementation.

Heart Still Beats

I’ve been on a post-punk x new wave kind of kick the last several days, after I learned Black Marble (who I blogged about last year) are going to be playing nearby in September. The algorithm overlords recommended Castlebeat to me after the end of a listening sesh of Black Marble's Bigger Than Life. I...

NoiseSaturday Night Video

Trying out some headphones I've been keeping an eye on.

Tapes Of Yesteryear

Niko Stratis writes about the comfort of physical media and older technology. Let us suffer no worries or troubles, we have salvation in our walkmen and their analogue batteries. Never mind the truth of these eras, the 90s and the days before and after are years often cast in imperfect light as moments in time...

I tend to avoid podcasts in the style of Joe Rogan, those that begin with a 15-minute long ad block selling mushroom supplements followed by hours of meandering conversation between two people who may or may not be under the influence. Who in the world has the time?Infinite Regress

The Intelligence Is Still Artificial

The opinions on AI that you find on the internet tend to fall in the extremes of the other side. Either AI is the downfall of humanity or its savior. My thoughts on the subject, as on many others, ride in the middle of the road. In my professional life, AI has been a great...