Give someone a fish, you feed them for a day; sell them a fishing robot you feed them for two days and on the third day the river is filled with robots and there are no fish and on the fourth day the robot company opens a fish market.

All my childhood dreams are coming true:

Numbering systems would be better named for the highest single digit in them, not the lowest one NOT in them (nor "10", which is definitionally ambiguous). Binary would be 1ten, octal would be 7ten, decimal 9ten, hex ften, bases 36 and 62 would be zten and Zten.

An earnest robot to whom you can say "Improve the shower water pressure", without explaining or even knowing how, and it will magically build a whole new house in your (and your neighbor's) back yard with better showers, bluer walls, no kitchen and a slow gas leak.

The week looks promising.

Thursday 4/23 (tomorrow!) I will be on @kqedforum.bsky.social, talking about music and algorithms and what is or isn't real. Something like that. 9-10am PDT (12-1pm EDT), if you're in SF with a radio to tune, or on the web with an hour to listen. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Me, on stage, modeling an everynoise hoodie! Natalia Anderson, interviewing me in English English! Earnest, if varyingly satisfying, answers to reasonable questions! The video of my appearance at the recent m4music conference in Zurich is now online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7e...

Honest country songs. open.spotify.com/track/0vAZ6f...

If, like me, you only ever used TikTok with the sound off and then deleted it completely, you too could have only discovered the existence of Geese when the backlash started.

Has anybody ever been ordered to repay more than $166b of illegally acquired money? I know Trump likes superlatives, so I don't want him to miss out on this one if he deserves it.

Every once in a while I look in my spam folder and remember that we never actually solved spam at all.

If you put 1:15 of movie dialog before your song actually begins, I will listen to it 0-1 times.

...a transportations company working to build steerable cars.

I do not want my data life to require or involve scores of parallel coding agents generating unread and unreadable reams of code on my behalf, any more than I want my civic life to need or want scores of lawyers fountaining contracts and lawsuits. I want less complexity, not more.

I show up, trapped in a laptop screen, in this. www.instagram.com/reels/DXHcd4...

There are services that will magically move your music collection from one service to another. But we don't have to put up with secret magic and what if we didn't?

If you think "open source" makes software intelligible and malleable, go try to look up exactly how the SUM function works in OpenOffice.

"[new leader] vows to pursue those who ‘plundered’ [country], after election win" Saving this headline template for later.

A "Jump to Recipe" button for software.

Love Leeloo, love _The Divine Comedy_, would love an uplifting story about AI helping unlikely outsiders improve the world. But MemPalace is going to be a very sad story about what happens when you get AI to build something you don't know how to evaluate, and then claim its claims.

Boston street full of water? No problem.

At pickleball this morning I attempted one Bert (ball did not come back within range) and one ATP (smacked it into the net). I have not yet tried an Erne or had an opportunity to try an ATP defense.

The smallest possible increment of self-awareness would be enough to recognize that you should not feel satisfaction from firing people you hired yourself.

My music taste is not mono-aesthetic, but this is definitely among the aesthetics.

Hmm, what about a query that traverses music services?

If you liked Damon Krukowski's Why Sound Matters, I also recommend Lewis Hyde's The Gift. And also New Deal Fish Market, which is three blocks from where Courthouse Fish Market was, and has all the same qualities plus still exists.

I am slowly learning to forgive my own errors as readily and empathetically as I forgive those of others. That is my emotional theory of pickleball.

I recognize that the short lifespan of cheap USB cables is why I am online comparing USB cables in the first place, but even so, claiming "100-year durability" seems categorically excessive.

A new app you slopped in an hour is not a product. Either it sucks and you can't tell, or it doesn't suck but anybody else can make it for themselves in an hour.

Or not setting random spheres adrift in your text fields in the first place.

"slop cannons"

Boston: safe enough that you can sleep peacefully on a crowded subway car.

I didn't get into computers because I like pleading with forces that don't really care what I want.

Just saw a guy on a floor Zamboni cut off a floor-cleaning Dalek to get to a faint smudge first. I can't decide if I'm watching the near future or the barely lingering past. Either way, the Zurich airport stays very clean.

This *should* be a point too obvious to state, but just in case: the Pearl Harbor "joke" only occurs to Trump because he does not distinguish between allies and enemies, or indeed understand any other kind of personal or social relationship other than perceived dominance.

Unplanned trip bonus!

All of these museums Become reliquaries of A luxurious scarcity We have abundanted

Here's an interview I did for SRF (Swiss public radio), in anticipation of my appearance at m4music in Zurich this weekend. www.srf.ch/kultur/musik...

Very few good lines can fully survive having a superscript "28" at the end of them.

That's not what "Analysis" means.

So you realized you could spare 4000 people, and you didn't believe you or any of them could come up with new ideas 2/3rds as good as what you're already doing?

Pondering some advice I received when I was younger, and I admit I now think it is reasonable of the ferryman to ask you to at least fix a price before he gets you to the other side.

Cartography is not a subbranch of calligraphy.

Sad to not have rec.music.gaffa or ecto around to talk about the new Emily Bezar album.

Points to BoA fraud dept for calling me minutes after I attempted to buy something from a fake Aeropress site (with a third "s", I notice only in retrospect). Demerits to Google for allowing and promoting sponsored results from this fishing site.

It's OK if software waits for the human to hit Enter.

If you're in Zurich on March 20th, you could come see me talk about algorithms and music discovery and human creativity and machines and power. How many of the Swiss metal bands I personally like will I find excuses to mention? www.m4music.ch/events/en/20...

Restored streaming, via a 30th-anniversary Aikawa Nanase compilation, is a great excuse to play this again: open.spotify.com/track/21TM6m...