@hotdogsladies.bsky.social (almost) 23 years ago!

I know that bluesky will be reflexively anti-AI on this one, but think of the number of times you've been playing a game you paid full price for and thought, "I wish someone could have my fun for me so I could get back to work"

Nick made a video playing his fave Aphex Twin tune. Need to do more of these. They’re fun. audio.computer/aphex-twins-...

I still have to verify some data and double check my sources but I’m starting to suspect that I really like synthesisers.

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

we need to teach the normies rss

“i’m always polite to chat gpt so it remembers me later 🤪” you are going to die from water-poison-related typhoid in the Great American Megadesert after a particularly nasty heat surge evaporates the rest of the drinkable rations. you will be buried in the sand.

There’s a reason you usually see 4’33 done with a piano. It doesn’t work on guitar. After 10 seconds the performer would start trying to check that their strings are still in tune before moving on to absentmindedly playing Wonderwall.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

This is excellent, "I am an AI Hater" anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Bandcamp is pretty good for connecting with fans who want to support musicians. But if you want your tracks to reach people who actively dislike musicians, then you need to get your music on Spotify as well.

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about this moment in the history of King Crimson and it's transformative implications for our understanding of authorship. There's a straight line from here to me seeing my audience as co-creators of my work.

Most sports interviews on the radio remind me of asking a 10-year-old how school was. “It was good.” How did you feel when you won the prize? “Good. Yeah it was good.” Did you see your friends? “They were good. Yeah.”

Leaflet's Atmospheric Advent Almanac — Day 2 🗓️🍃 DIY Music Will Save Us, by @spiritworldcreate.bsky.social Testament to the power of local scenes and subcultures, music as connecting force and community foundation, making great use of @bandcamp.com embeds!

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

Black Friday is the Bandcamp Friday of the digital picture frame scene.

“Nobody should go hungry in Oxford this winter,” say Oxford Mutual Aid as they launch their seasonal crowdfunder. The community foodbank says it had 250 emergency parcel requests in November, “numbers not seen for the past three years”. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/nobody-sho...

tincan.kids – what if landline, but… internet? Obviously a silly idea, landlines are for modems.

a good way to get better at writing is to look at what AI does and don’t do that. facile ‘it’s not just X—it’s Y’ platitudes. absolute word-vomit prefaces like ‘here’s the kicker…’. artificial drama. fake epiphany. every fucking sentence being the same length and rhythm. very bored of all of this.

On my way to help sell books at Cory Doctorow’s talk. Steering clear of the truck stop vending machine just in case.

Oh no I have discovered @goodslides.bsky.social

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

I left Spotify after 9 years because of the CEO's autonomous weapons investment shit, but it's not really about Spotify individually at all. It's about trying to be better, and intentional, and asking yourself if you're making the world you want terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...

Best computer monitor brands for music production by genre 2025: Ambient - Dell Drum & Bass - HP Pop-punk - Apple Macintosh Modern classical - LG Dub techno - Huawei Jazz - Samsung Hard Rock - ASUS Post-dubstep - Lenovo Singer-Songwriter - Hisense

BREAKING: Likely next word machine generates likely next word

Was laid up with a fcuked back for a few days this week. No fun, but once I ran out of podcasts and sudoku I resorted to taking this classic machine apart.

Can't believe this is 15 years old now, but still one of the best things ever written about being a musician. "How To Make A Living Playing Music" by Danny Barnes: dannybarnes.com/blog/how-mak... I come back and read this a couple of times a year, just to check in and see how I'm doing :)

Karaoke but the microphone is one of those tiny fluffy tiktok mics, held daintily between first two fingers and thumb. Quiet songs only. Audience all have noise-cancelling headphones. Spatial Audio backing track.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”

Tag yourself if you got raptured

#define CPP_HASHTAG "#CPP" void tweetAboutCpp(std::string joke) { const char* cJoke = joke.c_str(); Serial.printf("%s lol amirite? %s", cJoke, CPP_HASHTAG); }

Thanks, Ben. ‘Duet’ is probably the best bit of songwriting on the album. Fun fact/clang: that’s Bernard Butler’s harmonium on the track. He loaned it to us.

Picked up a kid’s 3-string guitar yesterday and absent-mindedly played Ben and Jason’s “Duet”, which has been stuck in my head since I last listened to it a decade ago. “Ten Songs About You” is now back in rotation. Great album @jasonhazeley.bsky.social :) open.spotify.com/album/2rvzq6...

Pretty much the prefect video for our times. They insist their tech is about to reach the level of self-awareness but it still autocorrects were for we're.

Fiddling with Teensy USB descriptors and the Web Serial API to make the Beat Friend update flow as seamless as possible. Very much enjoying the nerdery, but also running out of time. 🤓😅

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

People used to say, “you sound like a broken record”. Nowadays they go “you sound like a TC Electronic Ditto looper pedal”

Wow. I’ve spent almost 40 years wondering where all the Dizzy fans were, and they’re all right here in this thread, a sleeper cell of middle aged nerds activated at long last.

Can’t tell if there are many synth people here on the old bluesky app, but I’m valiantly posting content just in case.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

If anyone ever says anything nice to you, record it and run it through a chorus effect so it sounds like a lot of people are saying nice things to you, which will feel more special.

Confirmed: Ablaton Live 10.4.2 has a flanger effect. For those of you keeping score at home, this means it is now three times more powerful than its nearest rival, Pro-Tool.

New long read for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. What’s really happened to private schools since the start of VAT on fees? Deep dive where I try to get to the heart of Britain’s love/hate relationship with these institutions 👇🏽

Enjoyed this one. malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

Keep thinking about this excerpt from Gödel, Escher, Bach about how it would be stupid to make an LLM-like AI do maths, because it would be slow, inefficient and inaccurate. This was written in 1979. NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE