I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

istg my mental health improved after installing this

What a day! My new album, White Sands is out now on de la Catessen Records in digital formats. Vinyl preorders are available and will ship out in August. I’m enormously proud of this record and I got to launch it aboard the historic Ketch ship as part of the New Found Sound festival last night.

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” — Albert Einstein

White Sands! Soon.

I’m old enough to remember when he thought covid was real enough to try to send CPAP machines and pretend they could be ventilators

I’ve made a new album called White Sands which I’m really proud of. The mastering is being finalised by Kenneth Mitchell and it’s coming out in a couple of months on Luke Altmann’s wonderful De La Catessen Records imprint. Preorders will be available from May 7th. delacatessen.bandcamp.com

Welp. The internet had a nice run. Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out. "...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Whatever you do,

I still remember this one and giggle occasionally

Very flat whites this morning, presumably.

HOLY SHIT

In April 1991, Gopher system was created at the University of Minnesota as a text-based system that used the hierarchical menu structure for navigation. #InternetHistory

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

I do fancy a fried breakfast, but I'm not sure about these mushrooms :)

Good obscure garage sale finds this morning.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Inspiration comes from all realms.

for fuck’s sake

Yes. Unless you host your own local LLM/SLM, then otherwise stop now. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Greenland’s glaciers are losing ice at an unprecedented pace 🇬🇱 The bad news: vast quantities of freshwater entering the North Atlantic could disrupt major ocean currents - changing ocean ecosystems and European climate. The good news: this GIANT collaboration is getting to the bottom of it, fast ⬇

This holds up as one of the strangest video clips I’ve seen in the last 30 years. It’s an example of how this well-worn medium can still be rendered into genuinely surprising, bizarre and oddly beautiful outcomes. Great album too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP8S...

No February update on the blog this month. Instead, I’ll roll that month together with March in a couple of weeks time. In the interim, a few things: gardening, the new essay and a whole lotta book reading.

A hot and dry summer period is on the wane, so the autumn/winter plantings are in (kale, chard, cauliflower, beetroot, parsley.) Spinach to follow in the coming fortnight. Also a new native saltbush up front as well. #australiangarden

Some common sense good news. #biodiversity www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Writing: back on it. I had started working on another essay recently, but put it aside after I attended a Yanis Varousfakis talk which provided enough impetus to return to a draft from last year. open.substack.com/pub/joyinrui...

Great conversation on River Listening at Womadelaide Planet Talks with Leah Barclay, Dan Hikuroa, Grant Rigney. Chaired by Environmental Defenders CEO, Jo Shulman.

Escapades.

Two editions: 23-ish years apart. Favourite film, favourite soundtrack.

By Adelaide standards, that is bonkers.

"Radigue pursued an exciting musical life, moving from electroacoustic feedback to electronic music (with the help of her inseparable ARP 2500) and finally reinventing herself through fruitful collaborations with numerous instrumentalists.” R.I.P. Éliane Radigue buff.ly/ShlQoU5

Fruiting ruby saltbush: 🟢 -> 🟡 -> ❤️

Smash the fash.

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds

Full blown Dali clouds.

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Two nice things: 1) the native Ruby Saltbush I planted last year is going gangbusters during a very hot and dry Adelaide summer + it’s about to fruit. 2) these six figs from our neighbours overhanging tree.

A Xmas present from my mum which I’ve now got the (head)space to dive into.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Oh goodness, I needed that. The right kind of chaos the world need now.

Latent smell of smoke from the Deep Creek bushfire. Smoke haze over Rapid Bay in the distance, from here in Little Gorge Beach. Earlier I drove as far south as Delamere. Roads are open, but I took the hint to not go further. The cabin smelt of smoke almost immediately as I passed the general store.

The current out of control bushfire in the south of the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula has already burned through parts of Deep Creek, homes and businesses. Then there’s the native flora and fauna. This has not been an easy SA summer. It is hot, dry and windy w/ no rain in sight anytime soon.