This is excellent, "I am an AI Hater" anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Bandcamp is pretty good for connecting with fans who want to support musicians. But if you want your tracks to reach people who actively dislike musicians, then you need to get your music on Spotify as well.

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about this moment in the history of King Crimson and it's transformative implications for our understanding of authorship. There's a straight line from here to me seeing my audience as co-creators of my work.

Most sports interviews on the radio remind me of asking a 10-year-old how school was. “It was good.” How did you feel when you won the prize? “Good. Yeah it was good.” Did you see your friends? “They were good. Yeah.”

Leaflet's Atmospheric Advent Almanac — Day 2 🗓️🍃 DIY Music Will Save Us, by @spiritworldcreate.bsky.social Testament to the power of local scenes and subcultures, music as connecting force and community foundation, making great use of @bandcamp.com embeds!

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

Black Friday is the Bandcamp Friday of the digital picture frame scene.

“Nobody should go hungry in Oxford this winter,” say Oxford Mutual Aid as they launch their seasonal crowdfunder. The community foodbank says it had 250 emergency parcel requests in November, “numbers not seen for the past three years”. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/nobody-sho...

tincan.kids – what if landline, but… internet? Obviously a silly idea, landlines are for modems.

a good way to get better at writing is to look at what AI does and don’t do that. facile ‘it’s not just X—it’s Y’ platitudes. absolute word-vomit prefaces like ‘here’s the kicker…’. artificial drama. fake epiphany. every fucking sentence being the same length and rhythm. very bored of all of this.

On my way to help sell books at Cory Doctorow’s talk. Steering clear of the truck stop vending machine just in case.

Oh no I have discovered @goodslides.bsky.social

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

I left Spotify after 9 years because of the CEO's autonomous weapons investment shit, but it's not really about Spotify individually at all. It's about trying to be better, and intentional, and asking yourself if you're making the world you want terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...

Best computer monitor brands for music production by genre 2025: Ambient - Dell Drum & Bass - HP Pop-punk - Apple Macintosh Modern classical - LG Dub techno - Huawei Jazz - Samsung Hard Rock - ASUS Post-dubstep - Lenovo Singer-Songwriter - Hisense

BREAKING: Likely next word machine generates likely next word

Was laid up with a fcuked back for a few days this week. No fun, but once I ran out of podcasts and sudoku I resorted to taking this classic machine apart.

Can't believe this is 15 years old now, but still one of the best things ever written about being a musician. "How To Make A Living Playing Music" by Danny Barnes: dannybarnes.com/blog/how-mak... I come back and read this a couple of times a year, just to check in and see how I'm doing :)

Karaoke but the microphone is one of those tiny fluffy tiktok mics, held daintily between first two fingers and thumb. Quiet songs only. Audience all have noise-cancelling headphones. Spatial Audio backing track.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”

Tag yourself if you got raptured

#define CPP_HASHTAG "#CPP" void tweetAboutCpp(std::string joke) { const char* cJoke = joke.c_str(); Serial.printf("%s lol amirite? %s", cJoke, CPP_HASHTAG); }

Thanks, Ben. ‘Duet’ is probably the best bit of songwriting on the album. Fun fact/clang: that’s Bernard Butler’s harmonium on the track. He loaned it to us.

Picked up a kid’s 3-string guitar yesterday and absent-mindedly played Ben and Jason’s “Duet”, which has been stuck in my head since I last listened to it a decade ago. “Ten Songs About You” is now back in rotation. Great album @jasonhazeley.bsky.social :) open.spotify.com/album/2rvzq6...

Pretty much the prefect video for our times. They insist their tech is about to reach the level of self-awareness but it still autocorrects were for we're.

Fiddling with Teensy USB descriptors and the Web Serial API to make the Beat Friend update flow as seamless as possible. Very much enjoying the nerdery, but also running out of time. 🤓😅

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

People used to say, “you sound like a broken record”. Nowadays they go “you sound like a TC Electronic Ditto looper pedal”

Wow. I’ve spent almost 40 years wondering where all the Dizzy fans were, and they’re all right here in this thread, a sleeper cell of middle aged nerds activated at long last.

Can’t tell if there are many synth people here on the old bluesky app, but I’m valiantly posting content just in case.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

If anyone ever says anything nice to you, record it and run it through a chorus effect so it sounds like a lot of people are saying nice things to you, which will feel more special.

Confirmed: Ablaton Live 10.4.2 has a flanger effect. For those of you keeping score at home, this means it is now three times more powerful than its nearest rival, Pro-Tool.

New long read for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. What’s really happened to private schools since the start of VAT on fees? Deep dive where I try to get to the heart of Britain’s love/hate relationship with these institutions 👇🏽

Enjoyed this one. malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

Keep thinking about this excerpt from Gödel, Escher, Bach about how it would be stupid to make an LLM-like AI do maths, because it would be slow, inefficient and inaccurate. This was written in 1979. NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE

Beat Friend build starts tomorrow! We’re starting to build the first batch of 100, which will ship between September and December. 😬😅🚀

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friend and I had drinks with her cousin and his 7yo kid in Marseille and he brought us to this pedestrian square that's basically lots of terraces with a playground in the middle so the adults can do lunch/drinks/dinner while keeping an eye on their playing kids and......why is this not everywhere

Vance is staying at Dean Manor, the home of Johnny Hornby, founder of lighting firm Luceco. The village has a rich tradition of hosting clowns, formerly being home to comedian Ronnie Barker. It was also David Cameron’s constituency home as MP for Witney. #fourcandles

In Sk8er Boi, the girl's friend's unfairly judge the sk8er boi for his clothes. But Lavigne judges the girl for practicing ballet, a more niche artform than pop music, and I think this is worse. If the sk8er boi had taken up ballet, to bridge the distance between them, it would be a happier song.

"Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us” pairs Palestinian voices with experimental compositions.

‘Rising to a crescendo.’ (The Crescendo Misunderstanding would also be my Robert Ludlum tribute thriller.)

You're not allowed to say "Happy Bandcamp Friday" to people anymore. You're supposed to tell them "Happy Online Music Sales Platform Friday" now, but I don't even bother. What's the point?