▶ The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon

 

 

▶ love this: old furniture brochures glitched out

 

 

▶ Steve Reich’s Clapping Music is now a free rhythm action game

 

 

▶ Smarter people are happier, right? This meta-analysis says no but so would common sense…

 

 

▶ RIP Dolly Parton.
But for me, her deeply human actions transcend her music!
I was utterly amazed to learn of her book gifting project, the Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – the contrast with the billionaire class who do nothing™ could not be more stark.

 

 

▶ F1 2026 Highlands Motorsport Park | Liam Lawson Onboard Lap

 

 

▶ nice collection of Korg Phase 8 vids at CDM – I will add to the genre one of these days…

 

 

▶ Phil Tippett | Legendary animator shutting his studio, selling off decades of art and memorabilia – auction gallery is here

 

 

▶ interesting kickstarter ending very soon:
MegCell Pulse: Your Guitar Can Play Itself
Build a 3D-printable robot that physically performs music on your own guitar.

 

 

 

 

accidental new genres?
#tasteless
#chilltonic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life goals!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

▶ Artist Talk: James Turrell with Michael Govan

 

 

▶ I found a small lifehack re FaeceBook
quick version: I changed my FB bookmark to take me directly to FB Marketplace, which doesn’t serve ads because it is a free marketplace. From there I can jump directly to my own personal account or to HISSandaROAR page, or to a FB Group (eg Darkroom, XPAN or NZ Astro etc) without ever being exposed to the FB Algorithm serving up ads.

longer version: As you may guess I absolutely loathe FaceBook & Meta & Mark Zuckerberg… But there are a very few things FB does that I need to retain access to. The most annoying aspect of this scenario is the ads – if I access FB via my iPhone FB app, every second or third post is an ad. I despise ads but I especially despise nowing every time an ad is served at me, Meta makes money…
Accessing FB via my desktop Mac using Chrome I use a plugin called FB Purity which blocks ads, but even it doesn’t work some of the time… But then I realised!! If you are never exposed to the FB algorithm, they cant serve ads at you!! For example, in Chrome my FB link took me to the top level of FB ie the algorithm… So I changed that bookmark to take me directly to FB Marketplace, which doesn’t serve ads because it is a free marketplace. From there I can jump directly to my own personal account or to HISSandaROAR page, or to a FB Group (eg Darkroom, XPAN or NZ Astro etc) without ever being exposed to FB Algorithm!! And somehow its changed how I think of FB – its not social media, its an ad market. Visit their algorithm, and you suffer their ads but bypass it going direct to marketplace and its just like visiting eBay or TradeMe… You get what you expect and not what FB algorithm chooses to serve you!

 

 

▶ IKEAs naming method To ensure consistent use of names

For naming sounds I have always aimed to start with most important obvious info and leave details until later in the name. I do not use UCS filenames as they prioritise metadata/machine reading over human reading, the classic is “Dog bark…” vs “MAMDog_bark….”

also this:

 

 

▶ uv birds
#notaband

 

 

▶ How to engineer dissent

 

 

▶ the kids are alright

 

 

▶ Wellington second-hand bookstore’s mysterious orders

 

 

▶ warning: insanely addictive and fun free sound making app
coded by Kristin Erickson aka Kevin Blechdom:

 

 

▶ Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse

 

 

▶ Japan live camera feeds

 

 

▶ insta follow: math.brick
‘does weird things with model trains’ doesn’t sound like a recommendation but it is!

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▶ Floating Points’ Sunflower Sound System

 

 

▶ mmmm Supersonic Trebuchet…

but also: Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

 

 

▶ youtube @FixOldCameras

 

 

▶ Cory Doctorow On Why AI Won’t Replace Workers, But Will Crash The Economy

 

 

▶ Mad Professor demonstrating his art of dub mixing. Excerpts, 1997
via Video Stock Archives – 1980s and 90s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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