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I live in #DurhamNC & I spend a lot of time thinking about #synthdiy / #eurorack -- my dayjob is in tech because I'm a walking stereotype.
I'm leftist, anti-fascist, pro-LGBTQIA+++, pro-BIPOC, anti-TERF/SWERF, bored with "free speech" arguments, and I believe all cops are bastards.
Currently living on a single-user instance running #Akkoma.
I'm leftist, anti-fascist, pro-LGBTQIA+++, pro-BIPOC, anti-TERF/SWERF, bored with "free speech" arguments, and I believe all cops are bastards.
Currently living on a single-user instance running #Akkoma.
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I knew who it was without doublechecking. A few years ago I was driving home from work on 147, and the smell of industrial solvents was so strong as I drove past Brenntag, I called 911. Fuckin scumbags.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/1u8hci9/were_suing_to_stop_water_contamination_in_durham/
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TIL The Guardian believes “punk” was “born” in October 1976. Mmmmkay.
RE: https://social.lol/@thetonearm/117419156860916524
RE: https://social.lol/@thetonearm/117419156860916524
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And while we're at it, Napalm Death, same festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyrX5BHh7UU
Napalm Death, live at Hellfest Open Air 2026 - ARTE Concert
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The Atlantic goes long — delightfully, pettily long — on Pete Hegseth’s shitty workout form.
RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116952226394041901
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It's amazing how Sinead O'Connor could transform an objectively terrible idea -- Roger Waters + The Band + The Hooters performing "Mother" -- into something beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rNEeGQJas
Sinéad O'Connor e Roger Waters - "Mother"
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Few movie scenes make me more uncomfortable (consistently, every time) than this one, from the documentary X: The Unheard Music
Here's one of my favorite songs OF ALL TIME and then, there it is, the ghoulish spectre, talent vampire Ray Manzarek, fist-pumping in the control room.
(Manzarek produced the first four X albums, some of my favorite records ever, so you'd think I'd feel more kindly towards him . . . but . . . The Doors. 'nuff said.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emY12SGdrIM
X - White Girl (Studio Version), L.A. Punk
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Shout out to the rich asshole owner of the Carolina Hurricanes for giving me one more reason to cite when ppl ask me why I’m not a Canes fan.
https://youtu.be/16dVEUL1EaM
Canes Cup Engraving Controversy, Larkin Adds Dallas to List, Celebrini Wins IIHF Award
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I keep thinking riffs on “this is the future Libertarians want” — people who would prefer not to shit themselves to death can simply individually replicate the apparatus of a functioning state?
RE: https://beige.party/@TheJen/116946737198019612
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What stage of capitalism is: I have to make my own vegetable irradiation chamber?

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Are you wondering whether your state has preemptively given in to the Robot Industrial Complex and classified those little delivery robots as “pedestrians”?
Here is your resource: https://www.pedbikeinfo.org/resources/resources_details.php?id=5314
Here is your resource: https://www.pedbikeinfo.org/resources/resources_details.php?id=5314
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The Clash eternally embarrassed about naming an album Sandinista!
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ortega-says-nicaragua-will-no-longer-hold-elections-2026-07-20/
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I just watched it and the only part I liked was the 2 seconds in which I thought Callum Turner was Josh O’Connor.
RE: https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1hz/-/a-iZlRYl4gSeGDpGUdG7nDfQ%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0
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'Neuromancer' Teaser Trailer Brings William Gibson's Novel to Life
https://gizmodo.com/neuromancer-teaser-trailer-apple-tv-show-william-gibson-sdcc-2026-2000790902?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into i09 @i09-Gizmodo
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Fuck literally every single person working in this administration.
“Gonzales was a private with the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany. She graduated last year from Hebron High School in Carrollton, near Dallas, school officials said.”
She died in Jordan. She was a literal teenager.
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Y’all this new Beth Orton album is already a lock for my 2026 top 10:
https://bethorton.bandcamp.com/album/the-ground-above-2
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This drink, from _beta cocktails_ by Kirk Estopinal and Maksym Pazuniak, is every bit as delicious and easy drinking as you’d expect it to be. Even if you don’t have raspberries (which I do not).
Easy Does It
1 oz Plymouth Gin
1/2 oz Aperol
1/4 oz Campari
1 oz grapefruit juice
1/2 oz simple syrup (1:1)
3 raspberries
Shakes and strain over a rock. Garnish with 3 raspberries on a skewer.
Source: Toby Maloney
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Side note: the last Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was a total drag, and I think I’m done with it for good. Learning that they could have booked this movie but didn’t just seals the deal.
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@c_reider@sonomu.club My reading of it was like "Bandcamp consistently outperforms our legacy marketplace, so fuckit" but yes, who knows?
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On the one hand: Literally every day something occurs to remind me how grateful I am that I didn't wind up with a career in Academia.
OTOH: I've lost track of whose money is being spent by OpenAI on compute, but one thing I know is that it's not *their* money.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117237491740898173
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"While Buckmaster and Alpöge were finalizing their own results, they learned that “information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI.” When they contacted OpenAI, they were told that OpenAI had already achieved a full proof of the central problem. But when they asked follow-up questions about when OpenAI had begun its research into the problem and how much human input was involved, the answers became more evasive.
“It emerged that an entire team had been working on the problem,” Buckmaster said, “and that an insane amount of compute had been used…. Eventually, it was agreed that [the first prompt] had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had reached OpenAI.”
If true, that would suggest the OpenAI team had become convinced that Buckmaster and Alpöge’s approach was the right one, and decided to use its material advantage in computing resources to reach a formal proof first."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #OpenAI #Astra #GPT #Math #Mathematics
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The entire rest of the known universe, for the past 40 years: "You use 'save as' when you want to save your current file under a new name or in a new location, thereby creating a copy of the file rather than overwriting the original."
Apple:
Apple:
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@c_reider@sonomu.club I don't pretend to understand the whole Songtradr ecosystem, but the thing they say they're sunsetting is Songtradr Marketplace, and they seem to be telling everyone to migrate to Bandcamp for direct sales (and to MassiveMusic, which they also own, for licensing).
Was Songtradr Marketplace also direct sales, or was it more like a distro? No idea. But the direction to join Bandcamp is repeated in multiple places in the FAQ, so . . .
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Are there any #Carolina #Hurricanes fans who can explain why all the upcoming games are listed as “No Reserved Parking” on ParkWhiz? I don’t remember this being the case last fall around this time, but I don’t go to that many games.
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Me, pointing at the screen at 0:16: “there’s the tubular bells!”
https://youtu.be/JEquvyaBCLI
- YouTube
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At no point in the past 30 years of my career in the technology industry has any boss ever said "gee Ross, the latest technological advances have made you 5x more productive, would you like to cut back to working 8 hours a week for the same pay?" and I have very much noticed the absence of that discussion.
RE: https://toot.lgbt/@ellesaurus/116411870322011906
RE: https://toot.lgbt/@ellesaurus/116411870322011906
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Statistically speaking, no matter which short illness killed Lindsey Graham, odds are overwhelmingly good that RFK Jr made it worse.
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New end table at our house. I won all the stuffies from the claw machine at Village Lanes (RIP).
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This is a cool project, but even cooler is how much detail the guy goes into in his writeup, about all his ideas and how he used trial-and-error a lot to get to a working final product.
It is SO important to have this kind of visible documentation of how many of us figure this kind of stuff out. It hopefully sends the message that all you really need is some persistence and patience and a willingness to try stuff.
RE: https://toot.community/@mick_collins/116796331637400251
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@sam@social.coop the archives of Tape Op magazine are still an absolute goldmine for this topic. How I learned 50% of what I know. The other 50% came from just trying shit.
https://tapeop.com/
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YESSSSSSS new Wednesday set on KEXP!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZTeelebpPI
Wednesday - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
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YouTube served me one of this guy’s videos literally yesterday and I had no idea of the tragic backstory til just now.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/one-mans-quest-to-fix-every-deadly-guardrail
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Billy Bragg is a Boomer but he's been honorary Gen-X for the past 40 years or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wUi4bJUh-Y
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key - Wilco, Billy Bragg and Natalie Merchant - Solid Sound 2026
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Good article, worth reading. Don’t let this tragically funny, apparently sincere opening sentence put you off: “Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent.”
RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116886597410249619
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"We cannot choose to become idiots": The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/

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@jason0x21@triangletoot.party @shovemedia@triangletoot.party No clue. Seems profoundly unlikely. What do you need? I have a wide assortment of random stuff (and we also have a ton of random parts at Splat Space that were all donated by someone).
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Ashley Padilla was on Poehler this week, and recommended the 3rd-generation survival reality show Extracted. Which is like Alone, except the people trying to survive have zero skills, and their access to supplies depends entirely on their idiot family members outwitting each other in basic game theory challenges.
We watched three episodes tonight and y’all my brain is SO EMPTY right now. Just absolute blissful thoughtless stillness.
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13-year-old me would NOT have been able to process this AT ALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyQxqxoRgzs
Singing all of Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres by Rush in a bathroom in Missouri
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I can’t believe I watched Audition last night and then picked Hereditary tonight and DID NOT REMEMBER the little thing they had in common until it was happening.
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My spouse is *very* happy that Alex Ovechkin will be back for one more year. I have mixed feelings — the whole chase for the Gretzky record was a huge distraction, and now this year is gonna make Fleury’s farewell tour look like an office birthday party.
OTOH, I think the trades and UFA signings are gonna make the 26-27 Caps an interesting (and fun) team to watch. So: we’ll see. I still wouldn’t bet on them to make it past the 2nd round of the playoffs, tho. #NHL #Hockey
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@donaldball@triangletoot.party I was scrolling back through everyone I follow on here yesterday, trying to remember someone's handle because lord knows searching for things is just impossible, and it was like the graveyard of people who tried out Fedi for a minute when Twitter imploded, and then decamped for Threads or Bsky or whatever.
In some cases it was the jank, and in some cases it was just never acheiving the critical mass of everyone in the same place at the same time that we had on Twitter, and in some cases [they claim] it was because someone on Fedi told them to use CWs.
I'm keeping one eye on Bsky because some American news breaks faster & is discussed differently over there than here. And in some cases that's useful. But in other cases, it's tedious AF.
So yeah, I like it here. People tend to be more thoughtful. Maybe because the character limit is longer? :)
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Had it been sucked into an engine, the experience would have been somewhat spicier.
RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/new-york-bat3un55z/-/a-eZlSzaWbTDadHoZEOgWT-w%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0
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Drone Strikes JetBlue Flight Landing at Kennedy Airport, Pilot Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/nyregion/drone-jetblue-kennedy-airport.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into New York @new-york-newyorktimes
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Been looking at Bluesky via Tapestry (it’s great, you can’t actually post, which is useful in this scenario). I intentionally don’t follow many people over there, but even with that, the snotty dunk-centric discourse shows through. Like, apparently the Europeans are all arguing with the Americans about whether air conditioning is evil.
The flavor over there is a little more along the lines of what everyone here was afraid would happen when Mastodon added QTs. (Which hasn’t really come to pass here.)
I don’t have to go into detail about the ways in which some Fedi people are tiresome, because I am posting this on Fedi. Y’all know.
My conclusion from this very limited experiment is that both Fedi and Bsky have tedious asshats, and it’s largely down to picking which kind you will tolerate having RT’ed into your timeline by people whom you had hoped would be more discerning.
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You don't have to buy new music on #BandcampFriday -- today, for example, I bought a few classic Antietam albums: https://antietamnyc.bandcamp.com/
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First single from the upcoming Jake Xerxes Fussell album, and of course it's lovely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qnfuqEX0QE
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Rock Island Line (Official Audio)
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Faetooth - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
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I have my issues with the Bull City reddit, but they came through with flying colors on this one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/1usbk7z/sneak_preview_red_phone_booth_durham/
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I’m by no means a #Rangers fan (although honestly, it seems like the purges of the past season-and-a-half have gotten rid of most of the douchebags), but Igor is an *outstanding* goalie, and it is legit awful to see him taken out for the season in such a freak accident. Especially after he just got a goalie goal! I hope he heals quickly & well.
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Zero seconds after seeing these photos (of an album I think I haven’t heard in 30+ years), I said, loudly, “I love my baby cause she does good sculpture, yeah”
This is what a good 90% of my brain cells are tied up with.
RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116955685384189569
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Can't Stand the Rezillos is the debut studio album by Edinburgh-based punk band the Rezillos, released on this day in 1978.
#punk #punks #punkrock #Rezillos #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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