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Great paper, but I’m always surprised how network sci isn’t already more widely adopted in empirical bio models. There is a lot of potential in connecting existing ALife and computer graphics research. E.g our bio simulation is a probabilistic grammar as a multilayered graph: epcc.itch.io/idu

Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration

i guess it's not surprising, but apparently the word from ISMIR was that VCs wouldn't fund your project unless you were gathering data illegally, because of the assumption that otherwise you wouldn't be fast enough. makes me want to scream

true, but an LLM is not merely software. it is much harder to socialize the means of running a SOTA model, because they are bottlenecked by scarce resources: GPUs, ram. these themselves are then concentrated into smaller companies, and consumer market is eroding. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

spatial audio engineers be like "i know a place" and take you here

Brought to you by the same people who are afraid of the subway and measure their self worth by the cost of admission to a private club

This is so fucking wild, man. I never thought about how the shitty music was so fucking consistent between bars and restaurants

insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites. Well UH

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Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Thinking about this

Chonky pentominoes made from tracing paper printed tiling lines onto soft pine for cutting and marking internal corners for drilling. Bandsaw and saber saw to cut lines using 3/8" holes to make 90 degree turns. I feel like I know the subtleties of convexity in my body now.

I love the heat lamps on the L platforms. I love feeling like a gas station hot dog

this reminds me of how incredibly lucky that we are sentient space dust and get to experience other sentient space dust on our spinning rock

I wonder if the music ML folks around these parts would be interested in a big synthetic beats dataset that is 100% ethical (ie. generated with my project foundobjects.org). Probably I need to flesh it out a bit more

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

In order to maximize monetization it was designed to appeal to *everybody*, - which in creative terms meant *nobody*.

amazing

But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations. When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

"Ah yes, the invisible hand of market forces..." "No you fucking assholes, a literally hairy-knuckled meatspider is moving you around!"

Repost with the best Star trek character who isn't a member of the Federation

Antarctica had their 3rd warmest September on record, then their warmest October on record, and then had their warmest November on record. Overall is was easily the warmest Spring (Sep-Nov) on record. What could go wrong?!?

Good Morning, Bluesky! Today is #BandcampFriday But first coffee!

If I can’t find someone to pay me to do work involving knowing real things with my actual brain it’s over

*watching children use their teeth to tear open packages of ultraprocessed food* Ah…the beauty of evolution

I'd completely missed that @persevereimgbot.bsky.social was here - every picture is relayed as they are uploaded. My (exceptionally quiet) feed on Mastodon consists almost entirely of these images - and, in truth, it's vastly better for it. Looking forward to now having these on here too.

money tree croaked a while back. now it looks like one of those savaged baby erdtrees

Just realized tonight’s Anti-ICE community training is at the catholic church attached to the Jesuit college and, furthermore, it is done in the style of design that drives the American fash trads insane

For everyone who's been interested in hearing more about the "evil ambiance" album: you're in luck! I'm opening pre-orders for GROWING DREAD during #bandcampFriday tomorrow with one preview track. I've got 5 nearly ready to go and hope to make 1-2 more before the anticipated release date of 1/30/26

Astonishingly good comic.

horton holcombe hobbs jr named his son horton holcombe hobbs III and they were both obsessed with caves and crayfish and cave crayfish and cave ostracods and cave crayfish epibiontic cave ostracods

Here it is folks, I really, really, really need your help, especially with boosting/spreading the word, so this can "escape" out of containment. Please remember there is no algorithm boost here, so every repost counts Thank you www.paypal.com/pools/c/9kxV...

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It's now Winter in the Haiku Garden - if you'd like a respite from 'Bleaksky' racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden #garden #gameDev #indieDev #haiku

Hey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to “tunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to add value.

What if an entire society’s epistemology was based on gambling, participatory make-believe, dictatorial counter-knowledge, and extruded word slurry.

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teaching students through misspellings provocatively: inciting provocation provacatively: promoting bovine supremacy

This looks fun. Reinterpreting pop portraiture, sculpture, and generative art through tech, Beeple’s “Regular Animals” shines in Zero 10 at #ArtBaselMiamiBeach Catch it through Sunday, Dec 7, in the new space curated by Eli Schein—complete with robot dogs snapping photo souvenirs.

go ahead. name a rationalist with a *more positive footprint*. he at least produced the funny lizard and a broad consensus that everyone had lost their minds over yonder

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

The crucial heuristic is that all the bad ideas have been done already. The good ideas deserve to be done and done again, there the distinction does not matter

i think this is my favourite delivery of this joke