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.

I just watched someone be confused why they couldn't add their SSH key to GitHub.

so they UPLOADED THEIR PRIVATE KEY TO CHATGPT TO ASK WHY IT DIDN'T WORK

Title: The AI industry's existential race for profits

Shownotes:

Today, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it.

My guest today is Hayden Field, who’s our senior AI reporter her

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If you're American and have noticed that a lot of British people on Mastodon are posting celebratory comments about the anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's death, you might be surprised and perhaps confused.

All I can say is that—hopefully soon—you'll understand.

Happy TACO Tuesday!

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"A formal mathematical proof from MIT and a preregistered empirical study in Science from Stanford arrived within a month of each other, and together they make the same unsettling argument: the danger of AI chatbots is not what they get wrong. It is how enthusiastically they agree with everything we get wrong. Not a chatbot that lies to you, but a mirror that reflects your beliefs back at you, slightly amplified, every single time."

https://c3.unu.edu/blog/the-echo-chamber-in-your-pocket

What I'm listening to today: "sininärhitarina"

Via @leona this is a slightly mysterious* DOS tracker tune with a wildly unique vibe, starting with a rhythm made of DC offset error clicks, falling into the most Super Nintendo bassline and then bursting out into full breakbeats. The cheesy and transcendent all mashed up

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=168403

* Based on the Finnish title and filename "floppi-!joo.xm" I believe to probably be written by Floppi (previously in this thread) and probably in the 90s

Why is Danielle Smith talking about quack COVID cures and anti-Christian discrimination at a conspiracy event? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @[email protected] ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

ahhhh the spectacle of Trump going on national tv to say that the US destroyed all Iranian air defense and the literal next day Iran shoots down an American jet, truly a beautiful moment in the decline of empire

This is a very cool figure, particularly the top row. In the long run, the climate problem is mostly about carbon dioxide.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5ofoghdcbtjqiujqpvja4uh/post/3mieyegruoz2h

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

For custom feeds, what’s the mechanism? Just pointing to / including specific RSS? Manual curation? Dynamic curation?

What I'm listening to today: "An Microtonal Jam (31 TET)", The Creepy Silence

Anarchic audio soup. In western music notes are assigned to 12 equally spaced points along the octave. What if it were 31? According to this guy, you unlock a bunch of new and forbidden scales, like the "C subminor", which he uses to make 90s style acid techno stuffed with ideas so strange I can't tell what's 31-TET and what's just odd decisions (⚠️ loud beep at 1:10). Baffling but never boring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A82-k5cOCSA

Förlåt men nu säger jag Det Mest Förbjudna Om du blir *så* jävla mycket bättre på det du gör av att ”använda AI” Så kanske du helt enkelt inte är sådär exceptionellt bra på det du gör Och om andra inte upplever samma ”förbättring” så kanske de helt enkelt bara är bättre än vad du är

Today we're also introducing surf.social to let anyone surf the whole social web including over 130K feeds that bring together people, podcasts, YouTube channels, newsletters, blogs and images for whatever you're into.

It seems pretty messed up that one has to pay to read ISO standards. 🤷‍♀️