What I'm listening to today: "The Phantom (It's In There)", Renegade Soundwave

1989 track with an incredible sound, early 80s Newcleus feeling hip hop but running just a bit hot, like all the instruments are deep fried, and fit atop a techno song structure. I feel like I've heard a couple dozen tracks like this but never one that goes this *hard*. This feels like some kind of lost evolutionary link between 80s rap and what Warp Records would be starting two years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5fU4aO4WI

@abraxas3d Yet on the algorithm driven networks, even nobodies can "go viral" and somehow become "influencers". Without any algorithm, Fediverse is much harder to go viral and build any sort of audience. Which means late joiners are just kinda stuck as a permanent underclass.

Reken maar dat dat een heerlijk zacht bed wordt in het nest. 😂

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116397605266279416

It's a bit of a trope to say "this is an important talk" when somebody tackles an sombre topic, but this is in genuinely an important talk on the acceleration of dehumanisation enabled by "AI" and how we can resist it, all wrapped in a decent overview of the discourse so far, from a leading expert in the field

What I'm listening to today: "Modular Commune Festival Beijing 2025 (Vol.22)", 王大治DZ and 李静儿JING

Performance for two synth battlestations and human voice (I think that's a SOMA PIPE?!). 普通话歌词. Feels to me like standing on a pier under half-clouded skies, noise whipping by like wind.

Production is less pure electronic than I expected, more like if you took a 90s Depeche Mode song and stretched it like silly putty until it was 15 minutes long and full of playful asides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUalkydeIGE

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True story: 100% *successful* autonomous completion of non-trivial coding tasks by "AI agents" isn't a thing. It doesn't exist. It's not even close to existing.

Treat any such claims like you would treat claims of people teleporting to the office.