15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

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The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.

“There’s a joy in comprehension, that moment of understanding something new. AI robs them of that.” This is really, really good.

will never forget when @abeba.bsky.social made an offhand comment in a q&a session after her talk that (paraphrasing) ‘tech bros love sci fi but can’t read’

'By integrating gen AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but..outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to...capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit'

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Released last year, a relaxing ambient one with sounds of wildlife throughout auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...

Picked this one up a few weeks back, really really nice ambient tunes, drifting and progressing pitp.bandcamp.com/album/heilun

#LFC Messaging my son, should have put money on it!

Savage gig, brilliant

Lothlórien - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper I wish I had time to get back to my Tolkien series, these are so much fun. 💙 Prints on saIe for a bit longer! 💙

While we're having a break over the summer, here's an intermission episode. It's a Lento first! It's a super long episode of soundscapes from various locations across the stunning Quantocks in Somerset recorded in October. Episode 278 - Lento Long - Quantocks collection bit.ly/LenLongQuan

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

If you'd ever planned to buy us a coffee, now would be a good time. ko-fi.com/radiolento

I picked this one up last week - great stuff

The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.  We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is. Be warned.

Guys, this quite magnificent bill is happening in The Cobblestone two weeks from today. This will be really, really, really good & in the perfect venue. Genuinely one for future elderly anecdotes about shows you saw, unless you're elderly already, which is ok Tickets: billetto.ie/e/alasdair-r...

Whimsical electronica from 2001 - contains audio (swiped from @cookdandbombd.bsky.social) from a panel show where they're discussing the time Chris Morris burst helium balloons in the studio of his radio show, with hilarious results... thelastsound.bandcamp.com/track/helium...

Rewilding isn't only about saving nature, but re-filling the world with beauty and loveliness. We just need to allow it happen.

An ancient yew with spiralled barleystick ribbing stands at the centre of Muckross Franciscan Abbey's 15th century cloistered walkway. What passage of human history and change this incredible tree must have 'witnessed'.

When I was a kid I watched ‘Cosmos’ every week when it aired. I loved that show and it sparked a lifelong interest in astronomy & aliens. I wept when he died, which is not something I’d ever done for a famous person, & haven’t since. He said this in ‘The Demon Haunted World’, in 1995 Just, wow.

Just got a physical copy of the no-longer-latest edition of The GOO, with some nice words in @talldanhegarty.bsky.social 's regular column, regarding the Rainbow Xplode album. @poorcreaturemusic.bsky.social on the cover 🤘

I fully endorse all billionaires to engage in “vibe physics” where they build their own submersible/spaceship/lava boat with AI and then go on adventures

'For many fans their supreme moment is She’s The One - another sublime example of spiralling hypnotist disk mind-bending. As with a lot of their songs, soulful admissions of fear, failure and heartache are hidden amidst nonsense lyrics' The Three E.P.’s by #TheBetaBand buff.ly/i6AE24C

When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.

The world's loosest shackles 🏠

Beautiful tribute video from LFC. Full love to whoever made it as it was hard enough to watch never mind put together ❤️

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New Stoat album out today. Launch tonight at (venue change) Jacob's Inn, near Busaras. Still weird after all these years. We need that. stoat.bandcamp.com/album/i-cont...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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These people are the enemy.

Unfortunately housing theory of everything is correct and you can't unsee it once you see it: worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ho...

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Wow, insanity, brilliant #LFC #YNWA

At the start of the season this is what you dream of #YNWA 🏆

Now is a perfect time to get over and vote for the LEGO Ideas Anfield! It has 2858 votes, needs 10,000 to get made. Let's get it to 5k today! Why not! #LFC Champions! 🏆 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

This is really important - the GENIUS Act is, foreseeably, going to fill the whole American financial system with exposures to incredibly run-prone liability structures. slate.com/technology/2...

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On what every single day is like now.

Delighted to share details of the forthcoming TV adaptation of Leonard and Hungry Paul for BBC and RTE. Have visited the set – a wonderful cast and crew. Thanks to Subotica, BBC, RTE and everyone involved. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/05/leon...

EU citizens, please take 30 seconds to sign the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapy (torture against LGBTQ+ people). Only 1 day left to meet the criteria of 1 million signatures. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public

people often ask me; "Foone, you're an amateur physical media historian, when is it spelled disc, and when is it disk?" Well it's simple: Discs grow down from the ceiling, and disks grow up from the floor.

This is a monster of a double bill. Also it's a Friday night so don't make me remind you of your legal obligations re: having to go. Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents Alasdair Roberts (Drag City) Harry Gorski-Brown Friday 15th August The Cobblestone Tickets €22 Doors 8pm billetto.ie/e/alasdair-r...