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Did you know that Fenix has started pretending that he speaks with a British accent because people said RUBBERZ sounded like a song by The Smiths? At one point in the Channel 5 interview , AI music booster Timbaland calls him up to strike a deal and he responds with an I'm Br-ish innit accent like he's Ali G from the mirror universe. 🇬🇧 This shameless opportunist is unwittingly creating Brass…
There's a viral tiktok song called RUBBERZ that is clearly generated by some low-rent generative audio model , presumably via the prompt "drake + pina colada song", where the artist behind it gave the most obvious lipsync ever to prove that the song isn't AI. He then did an interview with Andrew Callaghan where he atonally butchered his own lyrics.
jakub dominé - synthesis There are supertasters, but are there superlisteners? Often when listening to music with people, I realize that I'm hear details in the music that don't consciously register to non-musicians: the subtle off-beat bassline.. the tasteful thickness of it.
freak heat waves - i can't tell can't read your mind or see what you hide it's out of my reach and sight simulate the taste and the smell i can't tell
I think about the miracle of libraries often. And I think something similar as I hear blips of Esther Perel tragically slinging furniture or clothes at me as I mash my +30s button: “oh my god, it fucking rules that we can skip ads.”
Klara and the Sun is a novel written through the compound eyes of a constitutionally ingenuous artificial intelligence. I inhaled it in a few days and have been pondering its questions on love, faith, contingency, and authenticity since. I recommend it! But this post is about an aspect of the story that its author, Kazuo Ishiguro, chose not to interrogate very deeply.
Jim Lill is a musician from Nashville who conducts audio equipment A/B benchmarks with unusually high rigour and posts them on YouTube. His most recent of these is on microphone preamps. people are. It's fair to say he's been getting a lot of feedback: 🔊 Criticism has converged on a handful of things:
Beyond its crux, the flippancy with which The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas ' narrator invents the city is the most distinctive aspect of the story to me. There's a reading where the suffering child is optional - only necessary if you can't buy the first two and a half pages - because the narrator is only negotiating with our suspension of disbelief, not telling us about a place that Really…
When I visited Kigali for 2 weeks in 2022, I observed a labour-capital ladder: At the bottom, the poorest workers could earn a living by carrying fuel to and fro on foot. Next, people with bicycles did the same thing faster. If you saved enough from cycling, you could buy a motorcycle and become a mototaxi driver, providing transport for the city's middle class. Taxi car drivers were on the next…
For all the cynical things I had to say about internet comments , I also cherish them. I love the bootleg concert guestbooks, the votive candle shrines underneath golden oldies. Or the 100x-distilled nostalgia underneath the minecraft OST as children begin to realize they are going to die: Or the thousand-person roast of RZA's terrible beat for the guitar center promo:
This post assumes a basic level of familiarity with the jujutsu version control system . If you haven't used jujutsu, you'll still get the gist of the idea, but I recommend reading Steve's Jujutsu tutorial after. When developing a large feature, writing Good Commits is hard.
Last night, I watched the Star Trek Voyager episode Critical Care. In it, the Doctor is abducted into a hospital that is undersupplied & understaffed. He immediately gets to work helping the sick and lambasting the inequity of the hospital's coverage. The rich and powerful get top quality care; the poor get beds to die on. It turns out the hospital's resources are allocated by a computer (the…
carolina eyck - how to play a scale on the theremin I'd never thought about how this was done. Almost every time I see a theremin played, it's for a reverb/delay-heavy freakout solo. Now I see that their sensitivity can be tuned! And you can either quantize them for easy scales or do it “fretless” for maximally expressive singing. Neat.
vera ellen - thaw calling my pop hit of the summer
arco A beautiful, tender film about love! I love Miyazaki & Moebius. Aesthetically: extremely for me.
What colour is the pepper on this skewer? I say yellow. My colleagues said green. I value open-mindedness, and in similar situations will defer to the group, but this felt like being persuaded to deny my own subjective experience: a tall order for words alone. I couldn't look at the pepper and say "green green green" and see it as any other colour.
Monstergarden’s Worldbuilding Monstergarden is a project by a concept artist enhandled Monlez He’s writing and illustrating a world of reinterpreted fantasy tropes, one vlog at a time. The project is part process, part showcase, part loretelling. He also crowdsources ideas during livestreams, an egregore of imagination, the most recent of which resulted in his take on gnomes: curiously intelligent…
I don't know why this feels like some sad or significant thing to say - it's one of the internet's oldest clichés - but, anyone else feeling like comment sections kinda sucky these days?
update 2026-05-8: hello hackernews - whoops, yes, i should have filtered out the noise specks. thanks to kevinsync for the reminder. this is not a power or bandwidth saving technique à la low tech magazine . it's principally aesthetic. handy if you're running a site with pictures but you want everything to maintain a consistent aesthetic and colour scheme. might be better to just process the…
These are all repeated ad-infinitum across the internet but I may as well republish my own no-nonsense repository.
I watched the TV show Plur1bus recently.
I checked out Twitter for the first time in ages to see if anyone had been finding anything in the Epstein files
Another More Perfect Union critique, I guess This time, a video on government-run grocery stores. I feel like if you're arguing in favour of government-run groceries, you should probably spend more than 15 seconds on the municipal case studies (that all failed!) instead of talking about military commissaries. This part was interesting: So maybe you take all this to mean that it's true: the secret…
One thing I've noticed in the last few months of intentionally monitoring it - the headlines on the homepage of Fox News are always focused on specific people and characters. They're obsessed with AOC/Mamdani/Sanders and anyone else they can paint as a Radical Leftist. There's never a story that's framed in the Vox/Atlantic way: “here's what's going on with this abstract problem”, let alone…
Paul Bloom writes Scarcity generates pleasure, anxiety, and purpose. But a world that is post-scarcity in the sense that there is more than enough material resources for everyone will still have another form of scarcity—people’s respect, admiration, attention, desire, and love. The bad news about a post-scarcity utopia is that we will still be unhappy much of the time. The good news is that our…
sarah belle reid - unwound
Part of my family’s canon is Spooner or Later , by Paul Jennings, Ted Greenwood, and Terry Denton. A spoonerism is a kind of wordplay where you can swap the starting sounds of words in a phrase to make another valid phrase.
AKAI MPD18 footwork - KΣITO so clean
picto - ulrika spacek off their upcoming album, EXPO.
I turned my adblocker off youtube for a minute to see what it was like to have recommendations appear again. Manbait everywhere. Arm wrestling muscle beach in grandpa latex. NBA highlights but they get increasingly ____. So many prank videos. I'm sure the videos are entertaining and they take a lot of time and effort to make and they've brought a lot of joy to the world. But the gestalt is so…
This movie should have been called Hisstopia because of how bad and about snakes it is. I remember liking the first one as an effective buddy cop conspiracy with a lot of worldbuilding. This one's a complete rehash, but the main character's emotional progress has been inexplicably reset 🐇 which makes it feel somehow both painful and pointless to see her treat her best friend like shit for another…
One of my friends just sent me a voice note making a couple of points:
nude covered by machines in not quite getting there, you go somewhere else
youtube link Chorus Shorty a lil' baddie (She a lil' baddie) Shorty my lil' boo thing (Boo thing) And shorty got the fatty Shorty be catching mood swings Every time I fuck without a rubber I nutted on the covers
No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’.
There's a good version on Standard Ebooks . Greg Wagland's rendition is also great. 👂 For thirty years, I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views—amen, so be it.
A friend just asked me this. Might as well write it down. I stopped eating meat when I was 17 because my girlfriend at the time was vegetarian, and I knew that it was one of the remaining ways I could significantly lower my carbon footprint.
I first saw this on Hakushi Hasegawa's website 1 and after a little digging around in the source, saw that it was implemented with a shader and three.js But I had a hunch that it might be possible with CSS blending modes. Not because I fully understood them, but just because it seemed like the sort of thing they're made for.
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boris - flood 3 i love boris.
peter middleton & james spinney - notes on blindness john hull, blind at fourty-five, crests through the dark waves of grief to a love of rain. his notes on denial are very resonant to me in this moment.
Two years ago, a colleague asked me "concretely, what's a way in which you think AI is going to change the world?" I said: the way we relate to and use software. We will stop writing or installing it. 1 We'll instead have an AIs that dynamically write our programs for us. Two years later, I'm feeling even more confident about this. Claude Code and Codex are the worst they'll ever be, and they're…
this isn't merriam-webster, but i reckon it's when you're motivated by something other than what you should be. say you come out of the cinema with your friends and you start raving about how many of the shots were inspired by some french new wave guy. maybe you're authentically stoked about the cinematography (the pretense), but maybe you mostly just want to sound smart about movies because of…
More Perfect Union released a video on automated truck drivers (which are now on the roads in Texas.) They argue: The "driver shortage" framing is industry spin on the fact that employers are deliberately underpaying workers to increase churn and keep the average pay grade low. Automation will lead to further degradation of the trucking career that has allowed many men to earn a decent wage and…
When people say "the problem is education" they tend to mean "I want everyone to have the same beliefs as me, but persuading adults is too hard." I think it's naive to assume that agreeing on a national curriculum is any easier, but assuming that you could, it's even more naive to assume that students would internalize the lessons you want them to. For example: in high school, I didn't understand…
Laura C by Big Supermarket is a song about Tomb Raider. I love it. Part of the reason why, is that I cannot reliably hear the downbeat in the right place. There is a clear "right" way to hear it that my mind can snap into if I try, but most of the time I hear it spasmodic style.
talking heads - drugs And all I see is little dots
belgian ISP Telenet remade a music video straight from the top of my childhood. it's cool/inspiring/funny to see how things have changed.
i saw superman yesterday. the plot is that lex luthor is up to no good. (there will be uncensored spoilers throughout the rest of this thing.) the film has a lot of funny movie logic, but basically does what it needs to do. i liked how perfunctorily the monsters of the week were treated, the excessive number of times superman stops what he's doing to stop something from falling on someone 1 , and…
i'm talking that toy block, developing sense of agency shit. i challenge you to roll three sixes for no reason.