Yes. We need a moratorium on data center construction.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Listen to some Éliane Radigue today. This is my favorite piece of hers. RIP legend www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfz_...

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

I'm a huge fan of the programming at the Academy Museum. Not only are tickets cheap, but most of the time they bring out whoever they can that is relevant to the particular film. In this case, it was a short panel between an actual astrophysicist (and WOC) and Jodie Foster herself. Great night.

A song that is as sadly as relevant as ever youtu.be/MCvYUaQXnE8?...

Using any personal pronoun whatsoever when you talk about an LLM is such a huge yuck for me. My line of tolerance on AI is further than many of my peers, but that’s an instant DQ from me.

Working on a theory GenX white guys can only age into one of four distinct looks. And for whatever reason, each is represented by our biggest rap-rock icons young Santa (Fred Durst) ren faire comedian (Jonathan Davis) racist chihuahua (Kid Rock) CEO of weed (Zack DeLaRocha)

Definitely needed to turn on always sprinting in Doom The Dark Ages. Now my hand isn’t cramped.

A good example of letting Music Mouse handle the notes to compose by evolving the electronic orchestration m.youtube.com/shorts/Y4d0t...

This is a perfect dog performance. Chase the dolly cam, stop when the operator understands what he’s doing and stops, then go after the skiers when they pass him by, then sniff everyone’s butts after they’ve passed the finish line. A+. No notes. Good job Nazgûl.

So my unexpected take of the month is actually that Doom: The Dark Ages is the best of the 3 games in the "reboot series." In retrospect, I really respect that each of these games tries different bold new directions, even if I hated & did not finish Eternal. Each one is a well-considered game loop.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Happy Lunar New Year y’all ☽ 🐍 📷 Here are film photos took at the Lantern Festival in LA. Shot (mostly) with an Olympus XA. More pics here: blog.britneywinthrope.com/2025/01/29/l... (Reposting because I still like how these turned out)

Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project

juneau did that over anything

Here’s @jp2e.bsky.social pointing out the obvious: Ring’s still partnered with Axon, which is still partnered with ICE www.theverge.com/report/87932...

I finally began the process of updating my mobo & CPU, a task at the bottom of my upgrade priorities for a reason. But, fucking Microsoft forced me to do it, so I splurged and it begins. This is the 4th version of a computer I 1st built in 2016. M.2, 4070, 11th gen i9, SSD, 64GB DDR4, pretty decent.

We're at 56% of our goal with about two weeks left to go in the fundraising window. It's a tough time for journalists out there, and anything you can do to support those of us who've been laid off land a little more softly is deeply appreciated.

Have been meaning to break the seal on watching some Tarkovsky for a while. My uncultured American Millennial brain was so pacified by the totally unhurried, sometimes almost completely silent shots that last for minutes. It's like modest budget mid-century Soviet Interstellar. Fascinating film.

polaroid double exposure experiments, summer 2024 #analogfilmfeed #35mm @nicksuda.com

if you have a ring camera you are a child, terrified of the silhouette of a jacket hanging on a chair. you are lower than a worm to me. you have sold your soul to a devil that has offered you nothing in return

I hit 100,000 miles on my car today! I drove it off the lot in August 2015 with only 6 on it. This is only my 2nd car after a ‘96 Camry formal rental that I got from my grandpa in 2005. I’m proud to have taken care of this thing long enough to hit this milestone. Hoping I can get to another decade.

Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.

I picked this bad boy up at the MOCA gift shop last weekend. Looking forward to it, it's very short. I could use some quicker reads that are no less thought-provoking. #PaulineOliveros #QuantumListening #LaurieAnderson

I really want to see an interactive dataviz overlaying the Epstein emails and the Panama Papers.

I spoke with @ianhamilton.net on getting fired from UploadVR, and the potential AI bot author that catalyzed a fundamental disagreement. He claims as editor in chief that he would’ve not had any say or oversight over disclosed AI bots rewriting press releases. More: voicesofvr.com/1709-ian-ham...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Conet Project at home if you want. 💖

Here’s a story I’ve been working on for a few weeks. Over 50 Supernatural fans reached out to share how a VR fitness game changed their lives — and they had choice words about how Mark Zuckerberg and Meta killed the one thing that brought them together. (Gift link) tinyurl.com/4yaftn2s

I realize that so many people in the music industry die every year that they can’t put them all on during the Grammy telecast, but I felt like they could have given 10-15 seconds to honor Dave Ball, Perry Bamonte, Mike Peters, and Mani during the show. Ah well - we still remember.

Bad Bunny's reaction to Album of the Year

Bon Iver says he is wearing a whistle at the Grammys to honour the peaceful observers in Minneapolis

If you’ve got a music blog, podcast, do reviews on ig/tiktok, whateverrr, please hmu if you’re interested in covering my new release. I don’t have a publicist, press team, or content farm – I live and die by word-of-mouth, so any support is hugely meaningful ❤️ nullsleep.bandcamp.com/album/boundary

Smartphone sensor data sent as OSC to computer over local network, read by Lua script, controls params for Reaper feedback loop. #gameaudio www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9W...

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

I’m sorry but Trump calling Phillip Glass “one of the all-time boring composers in the history of music” has got me doubled over. I can’t help it. It makes me laugh every time I say it.

Meantime, another anniversary, in this case of a sweetly goofy fillip of a song that Depeche have long left behind them. But! This is probably the most crucial single they ever released and why we're all fans of them through today (surely). Why? Sit right back and enjoy a short thread... (1/x)

Trump campaign sending an email flippantly joking about donating to prove you’re not an “illegal alien” vs Mothership Strategies sending a fundraising text “from Ilhan Omar” directly capitalizing on yesterday’s botched attack Both very cool and ethical and normal

Jean-Michel Jarre library music recorded in 1972 at GRM. transversales.bandcamp.com/album/desert...

Avatar 3 is the definition of a 2/5 movie. They completely fucked up sticking the landing on this one. 2 won me over which I was really not expecting, and this one still has like a normal-length movie inside of it that focuses on new story developments, but literally ⅔ of it is warmed-over pablum.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This is your reminder that literally ALL of the Democratic fundraiser texts that you receive are coordinated by one consultancy, Mothership Strategies, that collects ~98.4% of the money you send them for themselves. With full endorsement of the Dem party. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Casino culture

Good week for West Coast train heads. 1st the launch date of SEA's 2 Line connection to the Eastside, the most anticipated public transit project in WA history, and now Angelenos get a green light for connecting the Valley and the Westside, LA Metro's biggest project ever. laist.com/brief/transp...

Great piece on CNN about this new LA paper I'm quite excited about, the LA Local. Non-profit, deeply community-oriented reporting helmed by top brass from the pre-enshittified LA Times. Worth adding to your rotation if you're an Angeleno. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCVG...

Eliane Radigue's music is a series of wonderful demonstrations that you can get emotional from what basically sounds like an evil boiler room groaning.

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw