Here's the latest episode of Better Offline. I walk you through why it’s so harmful that the media keeps taking OpenAI at its word - and I respond to the most common critiques from AI boosters. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

YOU MUST BE INTIMATE WITH A TOKEN FEW

One of my favorite artists of the moment .. do check out his Bandcamp as well to support ..

Coming soon -- #ritualtechnology book -

very much enjoying this fabulous, lucid and intelligent work. thank you @timsaccenti.bsky.social for the recommend.

Woo-hoo! Author's copies of my 33 1/3 book on @disasteradio.bsky.social Eyeliner's vaporwave masterpiece BUY NOW have arrived - only 2 months till launch Thank you 🙏@bloomsburymus.bsky.social

Heaven's Magic - Watch Out For 666 [USA, Synthpop/Christian Cult Propaganda] (1990) https://redd.it/6izv2v https://youtu.be/jmHNnCDvKf4

Stills from our Setta Studio video installation at Sundance 2025

New Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith album "Gush" coming soon .. love making these images with her✨

A magnificent piece by @davidwengrow.bsky.social, co-author of The Dawn of Everything, on how a very great many historical humans did not live in empires - or possibly even under much rulership at all. aeon.co/essays/an-ar...

Posting this interview I did with J.G.Ballard in late summer 1978: future projections www.jgballard.ca/media/1978_r...

Almost forgot! Here's my piece about Ike Yard for Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/features/ike... And the short doc I made about how they influenced Madonna www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMa...

Evergreen PSA: if an artist of any stripe makes something you like, let them know. They will never not be grateful.

The album is superb.

On the human condition www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Archaeologies and Organologies: Toward an Alternative History of Early Synthetic Video and Image Processing Practices, 1939–1969 By Chris Jan King @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/leon/article...

"Never has a group of studios gained so much control over the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of movies by making movies no one cares about or remembers." This piece is fantastic! @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Lovely review of the forthcoming #gatesoflight single Advance out 17.01.25 on @lnfg.bsky.social from @freshonthenetblog.bsky.social curator Will Farr 🙏🏻❤️ Delighted to feature on Will’s Eclectic Mix: willfarrmusic.com/artists/gates-… Artwork by Setta Studio ( @timsaccenti.bsky.social + Dina Chang)

If people stopped following me on here maybe I’d post more.

Ace Hotel minibar changing me $666 for a 2am emergency dose of The Substance.

I did a podcast earlier this year for i-D magazine you may find interesting.https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zO7Ehjdnsuu0I5mkjl3mG?go=1&sp_cid=f0bb81e2b5da6a74ad0070cf9b614e42&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=04bf012884fc4ae0

This is a good read from our friend Dave Haslam. Give it a read, well worth your while if your a musician or music fan.

its crazy to me that the journalism industry is just accepting defeat here. i’m in the fucking trenches posting tiktoks about my work and peers’ work i admire bc this is where the audience is rn. please join me. yes it’s embarrassing. it gets easier.

A bazillion times yes If you make something - ANYTHING - cool, it doesn't stop being cool a week/month/year/decade later Keep shouting about it, you earned it, and other people like hearing about cool stuff!

Disappointed to realize the "Quiet Posers" tab is really "Quiet Posters"

Remember Robin leaving a message on my answering machine saying he wanted to publish Trainspotting. Mate was up the house saying ‘it’s just one of the boys putting on a noncey voice. Ignore it or every cunt will rip the piss out of you.’ The Mrs and I went to Spain on holiday.

Sometimes I think I have too much gear for my visual art practice.. then I look at my modular synth friends ..

Really enjoying this new song by Deb Googe from MBV: dagoogie.bandcamp.com/track/dumb

Aphex Twin AKA Richard D. james CHEETAH MS800 Synth photographed by Tim Saccenti. Photographed for the SYRO release on Warp Records, this was the main device used to create the album.

Autechre - BBC Residence 1 If you missed it .. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I finally got back to the LibAV* in AVFoundation work I was doing. We have smooth playback! This is a test MKV file playing back HEVC in AVFoundation using macOS 15 Media Extensions, vending compressed sample buffers to VideoToolbox’s native decoder!

oh, autechre! BBC6 music residency tonight!

Seeing many of the "I love your Art and the want to buy a print" email scams again lately .. be wary ! A variation on this scam reddotblog.com/anatomy-of-a...

The new edition of 'Marshland' contains a dedication to the late Andrew Weatherall and a link to his 'Marshland' mix. If you can't be arsed to buy the book you can listen to it here: www.mixcloud.com/Hackneymarsh...

Did I ever mention I persuaded a fancy hotel to pay for me to have a rambling discussion with a physicist and the late Andrew Weatherall about dub? Interrupted by a rowdy Róisín Murphy at that.

Sorry so last minute but anyone want a pair of great seats to Interstellar in 70mm IMAX at 1030 in nyc? Got too much work & wife’s got a dog anatomy final tomorrow. People are paying hundreds for them but I’ll do face value.

A nice long read here, Kode9 & Robin Mackay interviewed for clot magazine on audio essays and concepts of time: clotmag.com/oped/audio-e...

This is a fantastic and excoriating takedown of Casey Newton's half-baked propaganda for the generative AI crowd. Follow @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social

New Fennesz just dropped

UnitedHealthcare vigilante is hot takes coming

OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (co-edited w/ Lillian-Yvonne Bertram) is out from @mitpress.bsky.social & Counterpath! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981... It’s been awesome to encounter texts & many author/programmers over the years. Glad to share this joy via this book!

Think we could have sold a couple of thousand of the popular mix with Regis, one of our favourite selectors.

Stress reduction music for the weekend for you - over 8 hours of unreleased music from Vangelis, originally composed to accompany training videos for student surgeons in microneurosurgery work, in 1998 youtu.be/d_pHch6ceDc?...

So wheresyoured.at is 50 subscribers away from 46,000, and that puts me within the impossible goal of 50,000. Please help me in my quest to hold the people who have made the computer worse accountable

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