Learn more about The Sirens' Call, order a copy, and submit your proof of purchase to gain access to a virtual event between author Chris Hayes and Andrew Marantz.
The Sounds of Emergency in Amberspire — Gamers with Glasses
Amberspire rejects the stereotypical sounds of climate emergency in favor of gentler aesthetics: no sirens here. While we deal with the impact of each new catastrophe, Amberspire asks us to listen to the quieter sounds of things falling apart and our attempts to hold them together. I have never been
The sound of the trees
Early in the morning, before dawn has even fully broken over Berlin, a concert of a very special kind begins under Susie Ibarra’s window. The blackbird begins with a short melodic solo ending on a trill, its song accompanied by the rustling of the horse chestnut leaves on the branches outside Ibarra’s window. For the artist, this is much more than just an acoustic welcome to the day – it is a dialogue with nature and a chance to immerse herself in a musical realm full of rhythms and sounds.
Tone Control: Davey Wreden
Episode 20. Creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide.
Where the Birds Sing Bass — Oakland Public Library
Where the Birds Sing Bass — Lockett, Reginald — Poetry. "WHERE THE BIRDS SING BASS may be the best book of poetry in 1995. The voice is hip, urban, observant, and nostalgic. Reginald Lockett brings the world home, and in the process tells us about folks who don't make the news" -Ishmael Reed.
The Whispering Earring (Scott Alexander)
Cleaner, easier-to-reference repo of Scott Alexander’s The Whispering Earring (that’s the Schelling title, real title below). Original from livejournal is ba...
Chicken and Eggs
I’ve been reading Questlove’s Mo’ Meta Blues, and it’s an incredible education. The book is helping me appreciate an era of music that inspired the era that inspires me — the music that drove the R…
Kicking the @realdonaldtrump Beehive
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Tales From Off-Peak City - Theme, by Cosmo D
Busy Simulator
Pretend you're busy by playing a bunch of app notification sounds. Made by Brian Moore.
How Steely Dan Composes A Song
Reddit - Cautionary Tales
AI
Eternal September
LLMs are not like manufacturing machines - Ross Wintle
If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how the fuck do you even know whats going on?
Neural Networks Are Already Clean
Resilience, Risk, and Transformation
Faster Fourier Transforms
cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk
Reddit API controversy
Removing sexually explicit content from r/all
"Bluesky Elder" (by Bee 🐝) — Semble
How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth
A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness
Weekly Scroll: Eternal September
Remember Remember Eternal September
Was their any substantial backlash to the internet when it first started becoming popular? I can imagine that going from a comparatively disconnected world to one where instantaneous global connection 24/7 were commonplace was a rather massive (and not always positive) shift in many ways.