Do you believe the concept of good & evil to be clear enough, resilient enough to create a dagger sharp enough to change? That we agree on enough to extinguish the divide? I would like to. It feels like a failure to have it slip from a certainty to a crapshoot. Hasn't always been this way.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

I've been exposing myself to a number of music discussion channels on yt. There aren't many 30+ people doing this (plz link a few that love electronic music, if you have any). I've concluded a few things. There's a trend among them - they all express this idea that texture and noise are the future.

At least Jet Pack suits are now a thing, since 2024 afaik - you can reserve a jetpack experience in the U.K. but it's $2500(usd). It would be cool if this idea spread so I could eventually jetpack out of this hellhole and relocate in the maple-forests of dear Canada. gravity.co/flight-exper...

Exploring tonight in this glowing #green cavern playing 'Into Black' - the upsampling the Snapdragon does turns everything into this painterly but still realtime impressionism that makes it all feel a little pre-rendered, if I saw this in 1996 my game-brain would pop. #VR #Steam

Watching Punch Drunk Love for Philip Seymour Hoffman. He played creepy extremely well. Considering a Full Paul Thomas Anderson binge, it's been a while since i've seen any of these.

What is the highest metacritic review score in your steam library? You can sort it this way - view all games then there's a 'sort by' filter. All these years later, and nothing seems to top HL2, Portal, Quake, Bioshock Infinite and 2 Elder Scrolls games. Have critics gotten harsher?

I need to read Ursula le Guin's Earthsea cycle again. “All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together.

My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

Drunken chimpanzee update: they love fermented figs and eat like 10 lbs. of fruit per day :o www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thrilled to hear that @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein will have at least 3 weeks in IMAX theaters, I can only hope that one of the 10 theaters showing it is here in Michigan. deadline.com/2025/09/imax...

Read this. And delete #Spotify.

I should have an emergency snuggie and fifth of lagavulin 16 year on the wall.

As a kid, I had years of boiling the tar between concrete on the street. I was amazed the sun and this glass did this. Then, I realized espionage, and started sticking twigs into the molten tar. I never thought about the price of blowing out tires. I just wanted no more cars on the street. 🤷

I wonder if humanity will ever be resilient enough to stop evil before it has a chance to destroy society, the oppressed and our shared humanity. I think about the Stanford prison experiment, and how it could scale to 7 billion humans, and I realize that's pretty much where most of us are.

Meanwhile, the FCC is about to consider scrapping the broadcast ownership rules that prevent a single company from owning every FM station in your town. Luckily we still have a chance to speak up.

MASHUP WEDNESDAY! on break next week so get it while it's hot REQUESTS OPEN datafruits.fm/chat 7pacific/10east to ????

Massive #gratitude to the 3 folks that bought my entire #discography last week. The help is keeping my lights on. Making music as #PhylumSinter is the only identity I can hold on to, condition is too unpredictable for other work. Next one before 2026. Stay tuned <3 #beats #idm #Detroit

Facebook is generally all over your junk to a frightening degree. I don't like using it. They probably break laws constantly. I remember answering this email from a class-action suit that sounded semi bogus... but today, victory! $35 bucks! and at the right time, too - Rent is due in 4 days.

(glittering particles) [strobing logo] running on pure CLOWNPOOP '25 (particles twinkle slowly into nothing) (bicycle horn, COPD cigar lung) hooray! (flippy zinger sound) [explosion.wav]

Don't fear or want death, but would love to know if there's any choice in the matter. Konami code would be cool, think i'll run out of choice before curiosity. How can you not enjoy things? Anhedonia is a hell beyond imaginatio.

And who are you and how can I try Here inside I like metal Don't you All I know is no one dies I'm still confusing love with need --Gary Numan 'Metal']/\/\/\/\/\/\||||

[[rolls up sleeves]] well, if slop's what my planet wants then slop's what my planet gets!!!! [[opens 90000 tabs, has cgpt hallucinate new bible, Earth smells like a fart]] oops [[dead]] FIN

Random call for #idm #breakcore #glitch #dsp blogs, accounts, uhh discords, zines? Do music zines exist in 2025?

There's a part of myself that insists that process doesn't matter. Only the result does. It gets more difficult every day. I don't even know what I risk losing by admitting that i'm a total process fiend. A turtleneck, beret and monocle, given life. I insist my best work, too is automagic.

Been working on mixes for a friend who has a nice studio loft above a bowling alley. She and the band recorded supposedly when the alley was closed, but I swear I hear machine noises in the mixes. Under loose NDA, i hope to isolate the machine sounds and call it Ghosts of Lane 21.

your moment of calm

love the layered drums on this high energy trip www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJ-...

Enjoyed 'Into Black' in #VR tonight. This is a very nice place to be.

Happy that we're back in a time that game makers will create demos, sometimes as previews. I've got a handful of them on my machine and it's lowered my (aggravating) use of Youtube and probably exposed me to things I would've skipped otherwise. moar game demos please

Is empathy a virtue or a liability? A virtue, it only becomes a liability if you are in a game of chicken with a single other human. As far as I can tell, anyhow. Then there's 'emotional contagion', which can feel virtuous (being moved by another's suffering), but it often cripples me.

Art by Tsuneo Sanda. Works from Omni magazine in the 1990s

52 seconds in <3 I listened to this song so much in the late 90s that I started writing stuff like it for the next couple years. I still notice that it leaves marks in my writing today, they remain (sometimes.) youtu.be/uk4FWIMxUDM?...

TIL the pipe organ goes back to the 3rd century, BC. #actualfact

if your name is less than 5 letters everybody on the planet has the obligation to shorten it to 3 letters and repeat it twice. and THAT is in the bible.

I think everybody has a friend growing up that makes fart noises with their elbow, armpit and/or back of the knees. I had one that did both knees like gatling buns, blapapapapaphbt!

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#TIL cannibalism isn't explicitly illegal anywhere in the US except Idaho.

I still call it #IDM even though i'd rather call it #Braindance (or almost anything else). This has had some mysteriously magnetic effect on the music I release.

When something appears "random" it probably just means we haven't figured it out yet, but I think there are things that will never truly be figured out. Was the universe created 13 billion years ago or was that just the last great rise up a grand sine wave of complexification?

game coverage could get more cynical, I could see myself watching a series called "games I regret purchasing", that features games that i've tried to enjoy under every circumstance yet still, my sail, she deflates. ⛵

I have too much blood again, my middle finger split open right at the tip, like my skeleton is trying to escape from the inside (i'd get out too if I could)

flashback[forward] deru.bandcamp.com/album/say-go...

i sent a kiss to the moon, and it called me a reprobate scrub

Went to buy a hose the shower (i still don't know why it tore in 5 places and am trying not to suspect the tap water), HW store had these giant animatronic beasts for halloween. They should come with a trade-in policy after the holiday so i can return and not store that madness. What are we doing?

Halo :: The Story Behind Depeche Mode’s Classic Album Violator igloomag.com/reviews/halo...

I think it should be standard to have speed controls on audio playback in android, chrome, iOS and everywhere else. A half speed playback changes everything

what happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immoveable blobject tho

What would the Boston Tea Party look like in 2025?