Mix by DJ STUXNET Intertext · Digital Listen & Download Tracklist cd LOST_DIR && ./DISAPPEAR (59:24) Notes I have grown tired of the struggle And I've grown tired of making plans I think I'll quit to the valley Regain my strength and start again Credits STUXNET is Tyler Etters.
Linus Torvalds : I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have…
This is a eulogy for a future that never was. I fell in love a few times. None of the relationships worked out. I got married once. I'm still working on getting un-married over a year later. I used to have a couple bands. We would play shows and go on adventures and such. I don't talk to any of them anymore. I used to think that the point of it all was... I don't even know anymore what I used to…
Erik Davis : It's a challenging time for writers, not just economically, but motivationally. I've been writing about media, music, theory, drugs, spirituality, and technoculture for forty years now. I don't know what it means to do this anymore. If the NYT did a profile of me, they could call it "The Existential Dread of a Substack Writer." I was gifted with a great anthropological radar, an…
John Gruber : Anthropic is best seen as a religious organization. Their employees are true believers in a cause, and on a mission. Perhaps every successful company has a religious aspect at its core — like, maybe, Apple's is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft's is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google's is market share with high regard for technical…
Ela Bambust : PATREON ESSAY — Irrelevant. I could tell you it’s about the technofascist empire of America polluting Cuba with its blue jeans and pop music during the cold war, Harry Dubois Does Atomic Blonde. I could tell you it’s exactly the same as Disco Elysium. I could tell you it’s nothing like Disco Elysium. It doesn’t matter.
Myles Badger : Every egregore works like this: when enough people invest enough effort in a shared symbolic system, that system will start to take on a life of its own and develop an internal logic that no single contributor can fully control. It will also begin to exert a pull beyond the efforts of those contributors, who may begin to find themselves defending and advocating for the system…
Mix by DJ STUXNET Intertext · Digital Listen & Download Tracklist Hearts in Valencia, Chapter 3 (59:44) Notes We can't live forever But our love will never die Will you hold me in your heart? Be the light when it gets dark? We can't live forever Credits STUXNET is Tyler Etters.