No way is this movie going to feature anything as cool as a shark ninja.

First build - Bastl Kastle 2 FX Wizard with support from Václav Mach and Dave Challis. Needn't have worried that the FX Wizard would sound too rote and obvious like most multi-effects, it's as full-on ridiculous as my two Wave Bards.

I still think it's useful to distinguish between those who are individually racist, and those who unwittingly enable and promote the structural harm of institutional racism. We haven't done enough to land that idea - "It's less about you as a person, it's more about this terrible thing."

Solid, I've done similar analysis of Facebook based on posting at the time of the summer riots last year. Increasingly strikes me that what's missing is an analysis of how people experience Facebook - what they're shown/not shown in terms of posts, reels and ads and how they engage.

The Haptic show at the Cube on Monday 6th October will be the first show under the banner of my label, Every Contact Leaves a Trace. I'm making a free publication for everyone who attends. These are visualisations of fracture graphs traced via UAV-photogrammetry of the Lilstock limestone pavement.

Stewart Lee: "I was talking to a bloke from the band US Maple at Camber Sands, and he wasn’t aware of what Pontins was and assumed it was an internment centre for young offenders. I had to explain that it was a British working class holiday destination. He was really freaked out by that."

The Haptic show at the Cube on Monday 6th October will be the first show under the banner of my label, Every Contact Leaves a Trace. I'm making a free publication for everyone who attends. These are visualisations of fracture graphs traced via UAV-photogrammetry of the Lilstock limestone pavement.

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health? Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

If the antichrist is just whatever yucks your yum, then it's someone overzealous with their hi hat programming, impressed by Christopher Nolan, and/or credulous about the capability of field recording to say something interesting about place. Also: regulate tech.

I think we also need to consider the fragmentation and technological mediation of social relations, disenfranchisement and hopelessness, and the accessibility of weaponry. The granular components of shifting ideologies feels like a second order concern.

🌎 Changing US landscapes Satellite data show human-driven land changes like logging and farming are declining, while wild disturbances such as fire and storms are rising fast across the USA. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

In two weeks today - Haptic play their first Bristol show, celebrating their 20th anniversary, at the Cube - with Kathy Hinde and An unnecessarily justified with.

Honoured that my piece - Music Speech Crowd Noise Wind Nature - is used as a reference in Alberto Ricca's excellent recent paper for Siesmograf. "current codecs... present a sound reconstructed on the basis of their reference corpuses... a social, efficiency-driven homogenization of the soundscape"

Spider-Man and his Amazing Dead Ends www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/2548221...

Bravo Warp for releasing this lunacy. warprecords.bandcamp.com/track/combat...

Just came up on FB memories... Me, to 11yo daughter: "You know what I mean, stop playing Silly Buggers." 7yo daughter: "Can I play?" Me: "It's not that kind of game." 11yo daughter: "Stop gatekeeping Silly Buggers, Daddy."

"People living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before... People’s stories about their history are almost always wrong. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think that’s a good thing and a humbling thing to be made aware of.”

Indescribably badass

Honoured that my piece - Music Speech Crowd Noise Wind Nature - is used as a reference in Alberto Ricca's excellent recent paper for Siesmograf. "current codecs... present a sound reconstructed on the basis of their reference corpuses... a social, efficiency-driven homogenization of the soundscape"

KILL THE WABBIT KILL THE WABBIT KILL THE WABBIT

Chatted to an associate professor of theology this week about how I'm not an atheist because the term defines itself against theism, awarding theism an undeserved primacy. Many things can just be a default, if you start adopting terms to define yourself against things there's no end to it.

This was extremely My Thing in my early teens

Haptic, Kathy Hinde and An unnecessarily justified with are playing at The Cube on Monday 6th October. It'll be an anniversary show for both Haptic and my little label, Every Contact Leaves a Trace.

He also played on the bill at Nyege Nyege Fest.

NP | Magnetic Loops IV - Savvas Metaxas

First time in Durham. Turns out it's lush.

NP | BODY LAPSE - RIAN TREANOR & CARA TOLMIE Can't think of Rian Treanor without getting the opening theme to Overman King Gainer stuck in my head. I can't be the only one.

Rainbow hugs the horizon, train to Durham

Fascinating insight into the granularity of algorithmic recommendation. Think about how much has to be inferred about the content of unstructured media and the ideology of your network in order for the math to be this precise.

“Bailey comes over like a cross between Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine and a harsh-but-fair science teacher, who illuminates the Genesis myths of improvised music without being remotely patronising.”

Watched The Order last night. Solid but formulaic true crime thriller - but with the always useful message that if white supremacists lay out a convenient step-by-step manual of what they intend to do (in this case the Turner Diaries) you should absolutely take it at face value.

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

Thinking about that dream where I got caught eating Morton Feldman's head in a secret popup restaurant that served famous heads. The cop agreed to let me off if I taught him dating etiquette. I gave him the mnemonic "mr fries is met with fies", meaning "don't order chips", and my debt was paid

Tragic, rage-inducing accounts from Russian sex workers bearing the brunt of violence and abuse from men broken on the wheel of Putin's aggression against Ukraine.

Florian Hecker and Marcin Pietruszewski are two leading figures in the field of extreme computer music. They've teamed up here to push each other to wild new heights! The two hour duration risks dulling the senses, but they play it smart, there's a real sense of progress from slow shifts in focus.

Spent ages looking for a Charlie Sheen "gnarly gnarlingtons" gif that I could post as a reaction to this brilliant, brilliant record.

NP | NORMIFICATION - FLORIAN HECKER & MARCIN PIETRUSZEWSKI

Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie Body Lapse Rian Treanor threads Glaswegian performance artist Cara Tolmie's supple vocal improvisations thru a network of dizzy pulses, sweaty basslines, computerised riffs and airlock'd donks. Next level deliration, obvs. boomkat.com/products/bod...

show us the last four albums you listened to

Obsessed with an image from the harassment and bullying workplace e-learning, because it looks like she's shouting at herself. Then a Facebook friend hit me up with the whole series, and holy shit.

Relentless thunder in Bristol, can't remember it being such a constant as opposed to just occasional peals. Three storms across four days, more forecast to follow. Not normal.

@robertcurgenven.bsky.social has just put out this ridiculously good bundle purchase - AGENESIS, Beyond Enclosures and Climata - for less than fifty euros. Peerless music from one of the best to ever do it. robertcurgenven.bandcamp.com/album/agenesis

Absolutely guarantee that this is better than whatever you're doing on this rainy Sunday. NP | LIFE LOVER - KAHO MATSUI kahomatsui.bandcamp.com/album/life-l...

Hackney Flowers - Stephen Gill

Whenever I revisit the final two Low albums I reach 'Poor Sucker' and 'Hey' and they're somehow capable of elevating the domestic into the cosmic in a way that feels utterly raw and primal and it hits me straight in the gut and the heart and the skull and I can't deal with it.

Absolutely incensed. @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social @developers.google.com has removed the feature that allows me to make photos like this - user defined custom crops - and replaced it with a bullshit AI autocrop feature that doesn't know its arse from its fucking elbow. Add features, don't remove.