The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/

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thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus

/pol/ seems like an effective laboratory of acceptionalism; a place to test which hateful motivators can escape containment and get picked up and accepted by the normies. tbf, that's all social media to some degree; it's just that the shittiest of 4chan is using it to take over the world.

"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

When Ian McKellen next appears as Magneto in Avengers: Doomsday the writers can pull on that Coronation Street multiversal thread, if they so choose.

I have advocated internally via Teams that Dress to Impress is controlled via carefully designed upper, lower and outer constraints.

Binged it last night and loved it, very slow, melancholy comedy with a single Atlanta Season 3-style interlude, and now Coronation Street is canon in Marvel.

There's a work event with the global team next week, dress code: "dress to impress."

selfie with cooling towers

Hey hotel, thanks for the Sheeran mag, it's going in the fridge, next time kick me in the balls, it'll be less of an insult.

"everyone is talking about machine learning but no one is talking about machine yearning" used to be a joke, but now they are playing it straight

It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow - but I'm at a conference, so she can have her Minichord early. These are great little devices, fraction of the cost of an Omnichord, very hackable, fun Steven Universe soundtrack generators.

Is it just me, or does that new Korg acoustic synthesis thing just sound a bit bollocks?

"we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through"

Cataloguing my albums that feature no-input field recording: recordings made in the field but not of the field, or framed as the field but not made in the field. Largely talking to myself, in more ways than one, but will commit to the bit, because I'm enjoying it, which is the only important thing.

Terrific start for new record releases in 2026. Beautifully recorded, slyly mischievous, subtly musical. NP | Paris Public Spaces 2 - Eric La Casa + Seijiro Murayama

Need to bootstrap a coherent youth movement? Why not vertically integrate via the Jenny Everywhere of Racism and facilitate a digital facade for an infinite hydra of Russian influence bots?

This is a fun project for R&D - it extracts a knowledge graph from your footprint on GitHub, HackerNews, Zotero and HuggingFace, allowing you to keep track of emergent themes and connected knowledge.

Great writing about Björk's 'Human Behaviour', which I heard on late night MTV and raved about to my friends at school the next day, only for them to respond that I was a nutter when they finally heard it six months later. See also 'Ponderosa', 'Sly'. Late night MTV was a real gift in the early 90s.

Jubilee Swimming Pool, Knowle

Bob Cobbing. Beethoven Today, 1970

A conversation about nicknames reminded me of one of my finest troll moments.

On COLDSTREAM EMPIRE it's just massive slabs of digital silence in the tracks themselves. sethcooke.bandcamp.com/album/coldst...

Quality even-handed article. By the end he's making a classic who-owns-the-means argument. The bit about copyright being downstream from biometrics, PII and special category data is still missing though.

Take 18 minutes out of your day to watch Mark Carney's Davos speech.

Woah. Blake's 7 remake in the works. Didn't have that on the cards. Hopefully they'll take what worked and Expand it.

Like fleeing Jeffrey Dahmer's house and running past three verified safe houses to the house of Ted Bundy, above whose front door is sprayed 'I am also a serial killer, and you are my type. lol'

My nine year-old's brutal backhanded compliment: "Daddy, that's actually good. People might actually want to listen to that."

May she enjoy the curvature of the earth as her star rises forever. Let's make sure that Musk never forgets this pioneer - his Starlink network is utterly dependent upon her.

Great progress on the federated, decentralised capabilities of Bluesky. The easier this becomes, the less likely that a central intervention can access and interfere with all data for all users. Hopefully the future looks more like Mastodon only with funnier memes. docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

Incredible to see the difference between 2014 and today in terms of how much critical attention my work receives. That's fine, I've changed direction, I'm not entitled to anyone indulging my interests. A more scene-engaged person might tell me whether there's dwindling reviews across the board...

Now consider this for training datasets that contain audio, image and video media, reproducing learned faces, voices, movement - biometric data. Processing copyright material is a downstream legal argument from processing personally identifiable information. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I only listen to Burial in January

Excellent thread from @eliothiggins.bsky.social on the dangers of creating content for socials as opposed to carefully crafting evidence.

FX Wizard in the streets, Alchemist in the sheets #bastl

"Following Piece" HUD & beams on reverse fingerpaint 2026

"Following Piece" HUD & beams on reverse fingerpaint 2026

"Nigel Farage has been paid by a cryptocurrency adviser to US President Donald Trump, who worked with Paul Manafort – Trump’s former campaign chair, jailed for financial crimes after investigations into his Kremlin-aligned influence operations – to lobby the president on Bitcoin policy."

Jack Kirby was a badass human being.

So many good books here, and on sale now!!

If you're still on the fence about watching The Expanse, this is a thoughtful advert for one of the truly great TV shows of the last decade. Contains spoilers for Season One. The Expanse isn't perfect, but it is unique, smart and ambitious, which is always more rewarding than bland surface sheen.

Well done Stevenage. This almost feels like the future.

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only!

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors

Russia has been doing this for decades, but you rarely see it mentioned. Immigration hatred is a powerful Russian weapon, but instead of dealing honestly with it, here in the UK our major political parties have tried to profit politically from it and instead have helped Russia destroy us.