"It’s pretty easy by now to use computers to generate music-like material that is not actually the expression of an individual human being. Music is a fundamental human experience."

Everyone in my life is tired of me talking about this movie.

"7,000 of them, all around the world... He could remotely control them, and look and listen through their live camera feeds... He could watch them map out each room of a house, generating a complete 2D floor plan. He could use any robot’s IP address to find its rough location."

One amazing way to keep Amelia’s fight against Batten Disease going is to vote for the BDSRA in the Project for Awesome 2026. Voting ends on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Just head to: projectforawesome.com/videos/proje...

If you’re a journalist or community organizer and haven’t shifted away from Google yet, this is a good reminder that it’s probably a good time to start! Set up that Proton mail account, explore Crypt Pad or Outline for docs. Take 1 small step towards privacy today techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

This is some cowardly shit form the IOC

Hell of a bundle over at itch.io raising money for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

This is the nerdiest solution to having too much music gear, and I love it. @jonwayne.bsky.social www.theverge.com/games/875519...

I know we're only five weeks deep, but my favorite record of 2026 so far.

When your OS says, "We're sorry, but we're not sure what the error is," it's hard to take it seriously.

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal. @passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j

We are warfighters, not woke, now get your asses in those theater seats and learn how to pick dresses for formal balls.

Unsurprisingly, the new Mandy, Indiana record is incredible. mandyindiana.bandcamp.com/album/urgh

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

A little back of the napkin math suggests that Bezos' personal fortune could keep WaPo running for hundreds of years while also making the paper completely free.

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

This is an absolute must watch. It's one of the smartest things about AI & music I've encountered.

Whenever NYC gets hit with a big snowstorm, I like the wander the oddly quiet streets after dark and listen to M83's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts.

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

sarah: i want to write a buying guide me: about what sarah: 😈

I'm teaching a free workshop in April where you'll make a simple cassette tape loop. It's gonna be a blast. More info: makerparkradio.nyc/soniqlabs/

No.

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

If someone did this to Noem she'd have cowered behind the podium. Ilhan was ready to fucking throw down with this piece of trash.

If you needed any more evidence that ICE isn't about immigration, that it's purely a tool of intimidation and control, well www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

Watching Jad Abumrad get nerdy about audio processing is a nice way to wind down. youtu.be/gIpK370SLgs?...

Maybe save a copy of this before they try to have it taken down.

And now, whatever the opposite of light reading is. Not everyday a Verge story brings you to tears. (Just wish I had waited until I was home and in private to read it, rather than crying in public.)

Some lighter reading for a change.

I talked to one of the r/MassiveCock posters who decided to bring anti-ICE conversations to the subreddit. "... Nothing in life should feel ‘normal’ when these sorts of things are happening in our country. Even porn and sex," he said. Gift link (obviously): tinyurl.com/mr3nua5k

Tech CEOs seem to believe there will never be consequences for palling around with the Trump regime

No reason. youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ?...

One of the more insane comments I've ever received was someone suggesting that ANY podcast could possibly be as popular as Super Mario.

Sorry there was no "You need to read / watch / listen. Bit of a chaotic weekend. Last week I recommended @nightvaleradio.bsky.social, so quick suggestion that if you enjoy that, but never checked out Alice Isn't Dead, you should. (new season starts April 13th) www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead

Creators and communities everywhere take a stand against ICE

Sadly, the answer to this is very straightforward: For all their rhetoric, the right doesn't actually believe in personal accountability, they believe in the will of a white christian ethnostate, and if they have to use literal gestapo tactics to get there so be it.

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

No. They do not "appear to" contradict it. They contradict it.

This list is likely to get much longer before things get any better.

Idk man if you’re a journalist working for a news outlet right now and you are echoing words like “protestor” or using the power of your organization to repeat the govt’s explanation as true I think you’re bad at your job and you should quit

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

MAGA and the Trump admin will no doubt comb through video of another ICE killing to find the one clip that they can use to justify shooting someone at point blank range. They’ll try to use video to sow doubt about what you see with your own eyes. Don’t fall for it. www.theverge.com/tech/858710/...

ICE also whisked away witnesses to a detention center and tried to bar local police from tending to the crime scene.

I don't suggest you watch the video, it's extremely disturbing and tough to watch. But: ICE has murdered yet another person. The video clearly shows them repeatedly punching a man, forcing him to the ground and then shooting him multiple times as he's down. www.theverge.com/news/867245/...

Just getting out ahead of this one: "Judging climate change by a cold storm is like judging a baseball season by a single inning.”