I watched 'Say Nothing' and now Adams's involvement is, to me, unquestionable - despite my knowing it's a dramatisation. The power of art eh?

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) [🎞️ musikmoments]

Alexander the Great drank himself to death because his boyfriend died and his soldiers wanted to go home

TLALOC no. 7. Leeds: Location Press, 1965

Lots of parallels between Trump asking Europe to bail him out on the Iran War and Fred Trump needing to run down to buy $3 million in chips at Trump’s Atlantic City casino to keep it from going into default and losing its gaming license.

I need some joy. We all need some joy. Have some joy. youtu.be/CNarl5eehq4

RIP to one of the greatest German philosophy posts of all time.

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Grasmere gingerbread can't be explained by normal rules of biscuitry. It's from a different class of materials - dense, snappy, piquant buttery, & crumb topping that is utterly pointless yet somehow essential. Also I have a theory about their secret recipe involving the graveyard behind the shop.

Today from the boss @capgrasman.bsky.social

Thinking about the funniest headline i’ve ever written and wondering when I’ll get to listen to Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno’s album Here Come the Warm Jets

Frangipane and Frangipane Adjacent Technologies

That's my evening sorted 🧡 Morning you lovely pocket of sanity xx www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Fleur Jaeggy often claimed that her typewriter, Hermes, wrote all of her books, which is of course a joke, a kind of quasi-mystical assertion. But if a contemporary writer said the same thing about his Airbook it would have an entirely different and depressing meaning.

this is terrible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

When it happens and there are worldwide celebrations - and I'm talking across every civilised community on the globe in every culture - perhaps only then will the penny truly drop as to how much damage has been done. How much loathing there is. How much sheer disdain.

Izumi Sukeyuki, Seated Puppy, Japan, 1838-1918. Boxwood. © Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art

Announcing the launch of The #PhilipJeck Foundation and Bandcamp Subscription: thephilipjeckfoundation.org/audio-subscr... All proceeds will go to The Philip Jeck Foundation, supporting aspiring artists who produce work rooted in the traditions of experimental and creative arts. #BandcampFriday

News from the UK: Gavin Newsom gives me the fucken creeps

Thinking of @capgrasman.bsky.social a lot at the moment. Few of us can have lived in a city under military bombardment. I hope he's safe.

Brian Eno once told me off from a roof for drilling into the back wall of his studio during a vocal take

www.threads.com/@yaramyahser.... In which a professor specialising in game theory predicts that the u.s will lose the war they just started and backs up his opinion with some credible scenarios.

This is a solid article on the extraordinary ANS Synthesizer - the only part it gets wrong is that the sole surviving example isn't a replica of the original but a redesign that was intended to go into production as an educational tool.

Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, sounds 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁, and captures the 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. I get it. He wasn't just your father — he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

It occurs to me that I could quite happily live the rest of my life without hearing a single thing about America ever again.

What genAI mostly interferes with is learning. That is my principal objection to it.

I do struggle to understand Shabana Mahmood: if this was what she came into politics to do, why was it the Labour Party that attracted her? Throughout most of the last 20 years, the Conservatives would've been a much more obvious fit. If it's not, why's she doing it so zealously?

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

“But what if we gave the One Ring better training?”

Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe. More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

I'm alive but just by dumb luck, i'm connected by sheer chance, will get diconnected soon probably, saw death 2 times in one day, it's hell now in this city, dont know if i will live another day. Don't know what type of person i'll be if i make it.

I once tried to apply lipstick on my cat's butthole and got scratched for my trouble. I explained it away vaguely to the wife. The fess is I had been trying to ascertain if its actual butthole was touching the surface it was sitting on. I still don't know if it does.

The answer is no

David Henry Souter

Time is speeding up. It just is.

🚨Google wants to kill Android freedom We've signed an Open Letter to urge #Google to keep #Android #free & #open! Otherwise Google’s Android is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules. Here's more info 👉 tuta.com/blog/google-... Read the full open letter here 👉 keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI: I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

This is pretty good and a welcome counterbalance to Adrian Chiles

probably the likes of @eryk.bsky.social can evaluate this better but I found it revealing as to why ChatGPT can write a PureData patch which kind of works but can't tell you how many 'r's there are in Strawberry, or count backward from 200 to 1 without fucking up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shus...

Full details of the final opinion poll in Gorton and Denton. Greens ahead and more likely to be the choice of tactical voter to keep out Reform. Share. Everywhere.

Pour hot caramel on a statue of a swan and call me when you understand algebra and the human heart.

I supervise undergrad & postgrad music research writing. At least one student per year looks at neurodivergances, sound, music & attention. 'Brown' noise comes up a lot. I've written a lot of words listening to this behemoth: a classic that's full of the right stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CM6...