Putting this out again because I’m looking at facing a disconnection notice. Opening Ko-fi due to my work hours taking a hit this past month and my bills are all super late because of it. Any and all RTs/Support appreciated because I’m desperate. ko-fi.com/machdent

Up there with the famous Eartha Kitt „compromise? For a man? Ahahahhahahhah! Stupid!“ interview.

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

The sublime Grace Jones is 78 today and won’t be tolerating any of your nonsense.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban... bit of fun

Again, the best time to leave Substack was yesterday. The second-best time to leave Substack is now. Friends don't let friends hang out with Nazis and TERFs

Got the new Heaven 17 Atmos discs in on Thursday and have given them a listen over the weekend. They sound absolutely bloody incredible, and the lyrics are sadly just as relevant as always.

I would be producing musicals.

"Kilimanjaro" by The Teardrop Explodes has been a longtime favourite album and is possibly the most atmospherically strange record ever made without slipping into Jandek-like atonality.

Dreamgirls

🌹GREETINGS, COMMONERS!🌹 Happy to announce my return as the English voice of Ronove Romiere in Season 4 of WELCOME TO DEMON SCHOOL! IRUMA-KUN! You can hear me in Ep 2, now available on Crunchyroll! Massive props to @bangzoomstudios.com, Mami Okada, & @jalenkcassell.bsky.social for all the fun!

It's OK not to like something. It's also OK to admit you're not the target demographic for a show without begrudging others their enjoyment. We have 31 flavours of ice cream for a reason.

As much as my limited storage appreciates having 12 episodes on a single blu-ray (or 50+ on an SD-Blu), my sense of progress prefers having to switch discs every 4-5 episodes so it feels like I'm actually getting through something.

OK, I have one more because I have Shinesman on in the background: It's better when dubs let script writers play things a bit fast and loose on some aspects, and let the cast have fun with it. Folks will remember a good dub with strong writing and acting more than they will something hyper-literal.

The British Library has started transferring material from the KLF Kollection for listening and... there may already be some new alt mixes in there!

There's some excellent material in here, including one of the best Game Theory recordings I've ever heard.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

now that's more like it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Bavarian pretzels are overrated. It's all about the Laugenstange or Laugenbrötchen.

sure a zine making workshop might stop AI, but have you considered a how to burn down the datacenters workshop

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/10227 『レトロ自販機マスコット2』再販。取り出し口は開閉可能！ "Retro Vending Machine Mascot 2" is back in stock! The dispensing slot can be opened and closed! #ガチャポン #gachapon

Begging folks in salaried editorial positions within a multibillion dollar industry to actually learn about how their industry works, and how certain historically attached products impacted the livelihoods of writers that came before them.

And of course, I remember what I meant to post for Weeb Wednesday on Thursday night...

Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli

Well damn, Artemis sent proof that the Arkonides aren't waiting on the moon after all. That's humanity screwed, then...

Thinking for yourself got monetized and enshittified like everything else.

We were excited to chat with Kara Dennison. She has credits at Crunchyroll, Discotek, Sekai Project, and others. She has written several short stories for anthologies and has written some stand-alone fiction and non-fiction. @rubycosmos.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJx...

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

What can I say? Straight people make no sense to me.

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

Recently, due to repeated threats from the far-right, one of the bravest people I will ever meet decided to leave Germany. If people like that have decided that the price of staying is too great, then just imagine how much danger German democracy is in. Just imagine it.

Can confirm. It's nice to have things, but I rarely have the mental energy to engage and enjoy.

I earn over £90k a year and have thousands each month in disposable income. I've discovered that wanting things made me happier than the means to have them.

LGBTQIA+ activists stage “die-in” at NHS England HQ to protest new restrictions to trans healthcare

For the record, I will do your book cover illo for $200. I love drawing book covers.

I tell this story regularly, but my first winter break from uni, I flew home with a carryon containing two pairs of pliers, wire cutters, and an ungodly amount of 12 gauge steel wire as I was knitting chain mail. Had to explain, but was let through. Flying from DC.

The TSA should be abolished along with ICE.

LifeSavers Holes (1990-1992): Bite-sized hard candies, marketed as the punched-out "holes" from LifeSavers, a la donut holes. Sold in nifty plastic containers that could dispense the candy like Tic Tacs. Check this 🧵for more info!

Mach could use some financial help right now, friends! If you enjoy the work he does with Discotek's toku releases, or his Vintage Henshin YT channel, consider tossing a few dollars his way! ko-fi.com/machdent/goa...

@stpguy3.bsky.social Thoughts on this offering? Mother‘s Mash, Covent Garden

Right now, this is only available for this weekend and opens on Ncuti in a pink dress and boots. I implore you to watch (I will be) 🙂‍↕️

*sigh* Heads up for travelers to Japan, as well as immigrant residents like me. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... 300,000 yen for permanent residence, up from 10,000 yen.

Support the smut-makers before the monsters in charge make it illegal.. Then, break the law and continue to support us in secret. Being a rebel makes you cool. 😎

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

"NOW, WE FIGHT BACK!" A new OPERATION: DONOTHON is going dowqn this weekend, from March 13th to 15th on twitch.tv/MachValan! I'm battling to help keep the lights on and take care some of some other financial woes! Check the goals in the thread! [🧵]

I did a two-part interview with Iulia Faciu for her Otaku Academia website. Here's part 2, about The Anime Encyclopedia and #TheMangaBible There's other good stuff on there too! www.sakuraculture.org/post/anime-i...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland positions itself as anti-elite; an alternative to Germany’s 'old' parties. But a strong culture of nepotism and cronyism has recently been exposed, potentially jeopardising the party’s chances as Germany enters a critical election period. Read more here:

I’ve lived in Berlin close to ten years. Left ten years ago, but visit very regularly for work. Feels like the country is sleepwalking into it. Used to be that AFD was the devil, now it seems that no one cares. Somehow I associate it with Gaza. It broke people brains over there.

When we were studying the rise of fascism, one thing that the history books never quite captured was the extent of the cowardice.

It's just gone 18:00 and I'm ready to go to bed. What the hell - am I in my mid-40s or my mid-90s?