Human-in-the-Loop: pissing about with my phone's generative fill while listening to the new Parts & Labour & waiting for my family to wake up. As your eye settles on the original photo at the centre, the sky itself becomes a hard-edged line between real and mirage, three frames in one looping gif.

Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

Eson the Searcher

algae trails

FINALLY not a 3.5mm stereo matrix mixer, but certainly not nothing Looks pretty rad.

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Happy Parts & Labor Day to all who celebrate.

I keep wishing that Chris Sievey was alive to see this.

For @bandcamp.com, I wrote about one of my favorite bands from the 2000s—Parts & Labor—and their surprise return with a mammoth double album of laser-guided noise rock (out tomorrow!). Get the scoop straight from the band and some words about their catalog from me. daily.bandcamp.com/features/par...

Cracking instrument - the new Music Thing Modular Goldfinger passive six channel matrix mixer, plainspoken instructions printed on the device itself - elegant, useful, beautiful and cheap as chips.

Twenty-five years old this Friday gone. Peak shoegaze.

GHANA ❤️🤘🇬🇭 NP | NOKONICE - Gafacci

Rewatched X-Men 97 Season 1 this week. Everyone expected nostalgic fan service. No one expected it to go this hard into the Great Replacement conspiracy, genocide fatigue, AI bootstrapping, permission system targeting, algorithmic management, media manipulation, and online radicalisation.

Irregular crop with impossible angles > generative fill feedback > generative eraser deletes original image. No source for that light, angles are off, nothing in the shot is real, tech is cursed, process is haunted by the ghosts of trillions of images - all that and there is still no art here.

Hearing "slain with a sword to the spine" in RZA's voice.

"Computer, reroute warped core voters to defector drift."

hey it me

Returned to this masterpiece this week. I have never come across an album that needed to be split across two CDs more than Summertime '06. That's a deliberate Unknown Pleasures reference on the cover.

Guitarists have all the fun. This is one of those ideas that I'm amazed I haven't seen before.

Opposition to a universal basic income on the grounds that it "removes meaning in life" is a failure to understand what it means to be human. UBI restores meaning to millions who've had it stripped away. It guarantees full opportunity to participate in society.

Poet-Artists of the French Avant-Garde: 1946-1979 - outstanding exhibition currently at Henry Sotheran Ltd curated by Frederic Acquaviva.

Looks like it's happening, possibly as soon as August. The leakers are supposedly reliable, they reckon it'll be serialised in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Bleach fan for more than 20 years, with an obsessive's portfolio of unanswered questions. This next arc, more than the last, might actually answer them.

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

This image reminds me that Frank Sidebottom was only an outsider outlier at the surface level, he was really an instinctively felt and rigorously channelled expression of an essential English archetype. While he's not pictured, his essence fills the frame. He was made for platforms such as this.

Mary Redcliffe going full-throttle glorious apeshit last night

My nine year-old seems to be getting into the Manics, a solid band for a kid to get into. "Let's see how much of the 20th Century we can squeeze into a band until the whole thing collapses." Did the brave thing and put on Forever Delayed, the greatest hits collection. Risk of mid to late period!

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got I'm still, I'm still investing in rocks Used to call them minerals but they are rocks No matter what their size I know where they came from (bigger rocks)

Quasars, continental drift, atomic clocks, the curvature of the earth, global supply chains, the stock market, electronic warfare, Russian espionage. This was way more interesting than I expected!

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you haven't been to the Straits Parade Co-Op in a while, the freezers nearest the Post Office sound fantastic.

And it was morning / And I found myself mourning for a childhood / That I thought had disappeared / I looked out the window And I saw a magpie in the rainbow / The rain had gone / I'm not alone, I turned to the mirror / I saw you, the child, that once loved

'My Brother is Only Seventeen' - David Hockney, 1962 A Hockney that I liked quite a bit, photographed at the Barbican's Postwar Modern exhibition.

Give Doctor Who to Grant Morrison. He's wanted to get more into TV, he has the CV, he's a leftfield non-safe choice that'll refresh it, and he'll give it a good kick up the arse, betraying it in the right ways, honouring it in others, while mitigating some of the recent poor choices.

Another terrific recent @paglen.studio interview. This time covering recent advances in neurological studies predicting the brain's response to image media - which could lead to GAI materials designed to trigger those responses. Essential viewing. @novaramedia.com

Yeah but that’s just how everyone in Glasgow does it

The reason people keep discoursing about bisexuals bringing their straight boyfriend to pride is this guy spawns in if you do :( In the phase 2 of the fight you have to explain the difference between bi- and pansexuality and he has a HUGE sword

Get yr afternoon on: hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/the-fa...

Extraordinary solo snare drum album. This is thousand yard stare levels of unblinking concentrated precision, total commitment to drone. If you didn't know what it was it would sound effortless. NP | TWEE - Etienne Nillesen

YouTube served me up this James Dean Bradfield interview for some reason (pedals? Looking for Eddie Van Halen clips?) and it's just really great - smart, funny, humble, no cynicism, no shame, no disowning Whitesnake, geeking out about Slash and Alex Lifeson. Excellent.

Well done Amnesty - this is exactly the right framing. For artists, creative copyright is important - but it's downstream from human rights. Amnesty has hit on the right lever. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Every preview gets me more excited. This seems to be a band that's aged disgracefully, nothing so far that indicates this record is anything other than joyous relentlessness.

My sister-in-law and I have collaboratively coined the term "bazooka" for two Berocca in a pint glass.