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US small caps are up 0.5% y/y, worse than cash and bonds and that includes dividends $IJR

dafuq is going on in here (been following for a while, pretty fun)

Live Nation's Q3 financials are out. Interesting that one of their key results is "record stadium show count, up 60% globally"

software is eating the world yo 🤙

It's so weird that we move on from debacles like Crowdstrike or us-east-1 as if they never happened. Surely these should prompt deeper reflection than we've seen.

More BTIG: “.. we saw a similar set-up into the ’99-‘00 peak. As $NDX saw its final high in March '00, 60% of the Consumer Staples sector was making a 52-wk low. Utilities and Healthcare were also extremely weak.” 👀

BTIG: “.. S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Wednesday, yet 33% of its components are down 20% or more from their 52-wk high, and 24% are within 10% of a 52-wk low .. “.. Divergences continue to mount .. last Thursday, 9% of the SPX hit a 52-wk low ..”

In the trenches of information delivery via traditional websites: some good news! 1. We finally grew past the huge traffic loss caused by AI/LLM chatbots to record our best month ever (UBs) 2. # of referrals from chatbots. read as: ppl asking ChatGPT "what gigs are on?" 3. It's all ChatGPT

New campaign spearheaded by Music Australia. I find the tone a bit weird. Did they actually test this with real Gen Zs? I can't see them going for the message. They want to be inspired, not scolded.

This piece doesn't do a lot to discredit Ed's general arguments, just his tone and approach (which I agree is massively offputting), alongside some of his philosophy and - yeah, his PR clients. I do wish we had better figureheads for the AI naysayer role - the guy really gets on my nerves.

Grog's rule of privatisation: "The day you decide to allow the private sector deliver a public service is also the day you should set the future date for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system."

It was not always so

The thing I think I'm really wrestling with is how can a "content" company be so shit at making content about themselves

Tim Burrowes explores what's going on with Vinyl Group (owners of The Brag, The Music Network, Tone Deaf, and AU/NZ licensees of the RollingStone and Variety names) They've just announced their new "AutomAIt" program for generating "10x the amount of content" Inspiring stuff.

OpenAI just sent me their first-ever email comms trying to re-engage users with ChatGPT. I feel like that's an interesting development — but could be any number of reasons.

phenomenal take. read this.

Did not know how much I needed new Gary Larson cartoons. A small good thing, just for the joy of the craft.

I've finally hit the dreaded midway inflection point of SXSW where the free drinks are no longer currency of value

"early figures supplied by SXSW Sydney show 11 per cent of this year’s ticket holders are from overseas, and 21 per cent of domestic ticket holders are from outside of NSW" good investment of $12m of taxpayer dollars from Destination NSW!

If Garbage can't really afford to tour any more, and are warning that smaller bands REALLY can't... Where is the music industry gonna go?

remember when X was going to be where all job marketplace activity took place?

Christ these two

A tragedy: under plutocratic ownership media bias shifts from economic to political and traditional objectives fade. But, yes.

Steal our code! Start your own guide! Instructions here: github.com/sydneymusic-...

Just learned that @sydneymusic.net has been forked to create gig guides in Saigon and Hanoi. How fucking cool is this!! noisesaigon.com noisehanoi.com

Really worried that an AI crash will trigger an immediate selloff that gets transferred into crypto (which is also conveniently completely reliant on GPUs) to consume the compute power that has already been provisioned or committed to. Effectively this becomes a trojan horse for crypto ...

Sydney band Parades (2008-2012) have just put their entire back catalogue on @bandcamp.com Go (re)discover — one of my favourite acts from an incredible era in Sydney. The members went on to perform in bands and projects like Party Dozen, ARSE, Scarpin, Au.Ra, Jonathan Boulet, Light Giant ...

You'd better believe my kid got stickers!! Listen to Flouia at www.abc.net.au/triplejunear...

Thank you to Pat Bowden for producing this amazing document of a fraction of Sydney's live music scene. a gorgeous zine featuring (mostly) film photography of a range of spaces and artists. You can contact Pat about getting a copy of this zine on his Instagram at www.instagram.com/patographics

Reckon @gruber.foo is right on this. We badly need self-owned publishing of video content. Something like Ghost, with a variety of adapters that publish to different CDNs. And then we need to figure out how to bring RSS back. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

My kid is playing their first gigs in Sydney! After years of working on music in their bedroom, busking at the Busselton jetty, playing every open mic and school event they can — they finally get to play live in the city where they saw their first shows. Listen: www.abc.net.au/triplejunear...

honestly it feels like there's kind of an economic rapture taking place right now unfortunately we are the left behinds :/

Super fun gig guide segment on ABC Radio Sydney's Saturday Breakfast with @domknight.bsky.social this morning! Played tracks by: • Folk Bitch Trio • Maddy Jane • Genesis Owusu • Sarah Belkner • Blain Cunneen • Ian Moss Heaps of great Aussie music to discover! Listen here @ 3hrs 30mins 43secs

Ollie is a great human, has a very thoughtful approach to these complex topics and has deep experience in the intersection of computing and creativity. Highly recommend if you're looking for a forum that will tackle these subjects head-on.

Forthcoming album from BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Nerdie [of 1300, Xiao Xiao, koreancrashout] is not mucking around

Yesterday @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social and I were invited to speak to the students at Oxford Creative Academy, sharing our insights from running Sydney's most comprehensive gig guide. Was a phenomenal discussion! Slides available on request. Love doing these talks, hit us up if you're interested.

East coast (VIC, NSW, QLD) waste disposal company BINGO Industries have consolidated their environmental reporting data and published it as a public portal. You can look at various measures related to quality of air / water / noise / etc Interesting bingoindustries-public.esdat.net/locations

Had a really great time speaking to students at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music yesterday. Phenomenal discussions, lots of candid insights from the room and a lot of great ideas and solutions explored. Slides available on request!

Yeah they said this about DATs and I believe Albini’s quote was “it is almost criminally irresponsible to do final mastering to DAT,” and he was right

If this were in fact possible it would torpedo the entire AI industry, for which hundreds of USD$billions of apparently endless datacenter hyperscaling has been required to get the tech to where it is today And $10m for copyright? For what? What would that achieve? The fuck are you people on about?

DJing at the Oxford Art Factory 18th birthday with @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social this weekend. Should be a rager. Come thru! RSVP here: moshtix.com.au/v2/event/%E2...

Is there a gig guide in your part of the country? So far we've found 19 community-run gig guides across Australia. Explore here: everycorner.au ✨

Please, we’re so close.

America’s in a “sex recession”, adults having sex weekly dropped from 55% in 1990 to 37% now. Key culprits are smartphones and the pandemic. Social time has tanked too, young adults went from 13 hours a week with friends to just 6.5 by 2019. The loneliness epidemic keeps manifesting in new ways.

Good piece

"The most accurate model was the reasoning-enabled Cogito model with 70 billion parameters, reaching 84.9% accuracy. The model produced three times more CO2 emissions than similar sized models that generated concise answers" "Reasoning" models are just brute-forcing info like Bitcoin mining

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If you need to give your evening a kick along: POLTERGEIST 9000 — “Higher Frequencies” Newcastle yob-electro-clash-punk swimming in the soup of a frankly astounding scene. Newie is on one. It's so cool. Playing this Saturday in the CBD at Chuck Trailer's with mumfighter for free

Hot tip: more and more light leaking through the cracks on American business cable channels. I've taken to watching CNBC late at night. The in-studio interview last night with OpenAI's CFO (who was previously CEO of Nextdoor for 6 years) was deeply strange and quite entertaining.