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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love bopping around doing chores to speaker-wrecking dancehall earworms with infectiously buoyant choruses about the soul-crushing challenge of feeding ourselves everyday no matter how ruff the world gets on infinite repeat ♾️ pot still haffi bubble yeah pot still haffi bubble ♾️

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Pot Still Haffi Bubble

YouTube video by Queen Ifrica - Topic

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

STOKED for the next episode of ID Music coming up on Marfa Public Radio this Sunday at 11p CT because I may have found a route from late '90s Japanese dream pop to ambient Sun Ra tributes by way of screwed & slopped Live Talking Heads, slowed & throwed wooden techno, and long-form Zulu guitar

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NGIWU SHWABADA, by Sibusile Xaba

12 track album

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS + INTER-DIMENSIONAL MUSIC: Zen Mind Sessions Three live-to-FLAC-from-the-yoga-mat mixes of blackened goth ambience, crasher crust kosmische, and other variations of psychedelic ritual meditation music for beginner minds. Plus language from Shunryu Suzuki.

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Inter-Dimensional Music: Zen Mind Sessions

Psychedelic ritual meditation music for beginner minds

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

that being said, what is the name for the phenomena where you use a free version of the app and it seems good enough to pay for but before you can pay for it the app bombards you with so many coercively intrusive ads that you decide to delete the app instead

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

logging on is a bad idea because granular details of US power's planet-wide experiments testing the "no absolutes in human suffering" hypothesis is not helpful as I gave up a long time ago to focus on problems closer at hand and I do not need to announce this on bsky every day or ever, really

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Inter-Dimensional Music doesn't seek sponsorships and Void Contemplation Tactics doesn't do ads or paywalls but I gotta hand it to Darn Tough socks for a BIFL warranty where I sent them six pairs of worn out 10-year-old merino wool hiking socks and they sent me a voucher for $130.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I guess it's useful to practice writing on here for a very small audience but my holy shit I cannot return to seeing 1000 examples of the worst people on earth saying the dumbest cruelest things even if it's coming second hand from funny or righteously angry people.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

one of the ways I coped with the intensity of Zen Chaplain Trauma One Summer Camp was listening almost exclusively to Ricardo Villalobos remixes – which are a whole other thing from his original tracks – and I'm still totally mesmerized by how good his long-form Nightmares on Wax sessions are

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Back To Nature - Ricardo Villalobos Remixes, by Nightmares On Wax

2 track album

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

fresh & free VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS: What Is This Life III: Blood & Tears More Zen chaplain tales from the emergency department and ICUs of a trauma one hospital, including an unwitting prequel essay I wrote in 2023 about cigarettes, corn dogs, and crying on the ambulance in Far West Texas.

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What Is This Life III: Blood & Tears

Crying on the ambulance as a prequel to clinical pastoral education

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

always the Rapture, never the Jubilee "...money is not ineffable, that paying one's debts is not the essence of morality, that all these things are human arrangements and that if democracy is to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way." David Graeber Debt

screenshot of text from the conclusion of David Graeber's DEBT that reads:

In this book I have largely avoided making concrete proposals, but let me end with one. It seems to me that we are long overdue for some kind of Biblical-style Jubilee: one that would affect both international debt and consumer debt. It would be salutary not j ust because it would relieve so much genuine human suffering, but also because it would be our way of reminding ourselves that money is not ineffable, that paying one's debts is not the essence of morality, that all these things are human arrangements and that if democracy is to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

P.P.S. a thirty minute Villalobos version of Tony Allen makes things feel better for thirty minutes but not in the car because the brass sounds like two seconds before you are the center of an insane motor vehicle pile up dekmantel.bandcamp.com/track/tony-a...

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Tony Allen - Asiko (In A Silent Mix) (Ricardo Villalobos Remix), by Dekmantel Records

from the album V/A - Dekmantel 10 Years - The Collection

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

P.S. I have not been around normal people for a long time and h f s LLMs are e v e r y w h e r e

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the flip side of having a job helping people in the midst of their own personal medical apocalypses as a way to feel minorly effective in a burning world is that if you look back over your shoulder at the burning world you begin transforming into a pillar of salt: logging off again now

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

one of the unexpectedly pleasant and soothing things about working in a hospital is there aren't any ads and other than the cafeteria and starbuck nobody is trying to sell anything aside from the hospital itself but they aren't selling so much as charging

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the only thing of value in the IRL Staples was all the helium tanks because it was actually an IRL Staples Party City hybrid store

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Went to an IRL Staples yesterday and all IRL stores feel like they're five minutes away from closing and the only people there are using the store to return things to amazon and then you look around and the only thing USA built for the last 20 years is stores.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

After spending a month as a Zen chaplain at a trauma one hospital, I think it would be a cool idea if people were required to volunteer in the emergency department for a month before getting a driver's license, and after each speeding ticket.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Zen chaplaincy training update: I could not find a bandage for my paper cut in the Spiritual Care office at the trauma one hospital, and I am not looking forward to the roasting I may receive if I go to the one place where I know they have easily accessible bandages which is the Emergency Department

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Aq’ab’al @thesixthcourier.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I could watch Knicks-Spurs 82 times a year

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

FRESH Vøid Contemplation Tactics Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zen rituals of seeing and hearing. More language from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's THE SHAMANIC BONES OF ZEN. Plus fresh Inter-Dimensional Music to stream and DL. lurk | share | gratis

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What Is This Life? Only Don't Know.

Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zen rituals of seeing and hearing, plus fresh Inter-Dimensional Music

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

at some point auto-correct started to do a lot more intrusive edits, rather than corrections: I typed the letters e a and r to spell the word "ear" in the sentence "pressed his ear to the wall" what is the process by which "ear" is overridden in favor of "car"

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Conversation (1974) dir: Francis Ford Coppola

Big Boi, an absolute unit-class orange cat, presses his ear to the wall, as if eavesdropping on a conversation on the other side. Domestic surveillance acticity not unlike that which preoccupies the narrative of the aforementioned film.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It's good to do the right thing, it's right to fight the good fight, and it's bad to roll over and worse to support harm. That's the concept that "wat do u want dems to do they don't have the votes" people don't understand. "How you play is what you win," writes Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

there's always the possibility that I'll hate CPE training or flunk all the chaplain tests or get kicked out of a Zen school if I choose to join a school but it seems worth documenting in the moment if only because I finally feel as if I've found an answer to "everything is so bad what can I do"

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

happy when I'm proven wrong but whenever I return to chasing bootlegs I have to re-learn the hard way that 90% of allegedly legendary '70s Led Zep and Sabbath "tour compilations" are wishful thinking that either band had Dead caliber archivists and instead they provoke instant icepick headaches

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026

Saw someone respond to the idea of DC statehood with “so should every major city be its own state?” and yeah don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

the "chaplains are like spiritual paramedics" metaphor got me interested in this hospital CPE program and then yesterday after buying a grip of used Zen paperbacks I signed up for Powered Air Purifying Respirator training so I can visit patients in isolation rooms and it's less of a metaphor now

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

signs of life from one (1) us senator

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/05/2026

it's also true that if we were to tax billionaires, the point would not be to raise revenue. it would be to make having a billion dollars illegal

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It may be that the judges have now awarded a prize to an instance of Al plagiarism - [we don't yet know, and perhaps we never will know.] edit: we have removed the story in question until the author is able to prove their text is not AI-generated because we are actually serious people.

GRANTA

For more than ten years Granta has published the winners of the Commonwealth Prize on our website. Granta editors have no control over the selection of the Commonwealth Prize stories, and nor are they involved in choosing the jury. This year, there has been speculation that Jamir Nazir's winning story, 'The Serpent in the
Grove', may have been at least partially Al-generated. We showed Claude.ai the story and asked whether it was Al-generated. The response
was long, concluding that it was 'almost certainly not produced unaided by a human'.
It ended, however, on a cautious note: 'The strongest evidence against pure Al authorship is the small number of passages that don't fit the pattern - particularly the Zoongie morning-greeting and the agricultural paragraph about the acre. Those passages carry the kind of off-shape specificity that models still struggle to produce unprompted. If the story has a human
core, it is concentrated there, and the Al has been used to elaborate around it ...' The intention of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is to find writers from around the Commonwealth and bring them to global attention. It may be that the judges have now awarded a prize to an instance of Al plagiarism - we don't yet know, and perhaps we never will know. There is, however, a certain irony in the fact that beyond human hunches Al itself is the most efficient tool we have for revealing what is Al generated. But the Al-generated critique of these Commonwealth writers - more than one has been accused of basing their story on Al material - may conceivably itself reflect Al bias. Time will tell. The suggestion that writers have submitted material not authentically their own is a charge we take seriously, but until the Commonwealth
Foundation comes to a definite conclusion, we will keep these stories on our website.
Sigrid Rausing
Publisher of Granta
12 Addison Avenue, Holland Park, London W11 4QR
Tel + 44 (0)20 76051360 / Fax +44 (0)02 7605 1361
www.granta.com

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I showed my 2006 Subaru Outback eight hundred thousand eight hundred and thirteen point five miles of open road and they flashed me their 8008135.

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Minor point but I think the subtle anthropomorphization of "we s h o w e d clawed dot ai the story" rather than "we entered the story text into an LLM" is embarrassing and sinister and even worse coming from a literary publication.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 20/05/2026

They fucking asked an AI if the story was AI and then just pasted part of its reply as their official statement? Guys, first of all, AI can’t tell you if something is AI, and the chatbot giving you a response to a query is not even remotely like an entity producing a deliberate, stable, statement

Screenshot of a letter with Granta letterhead:

For more than ten years Granta has published the winners of the Commonwealth Prize on our website. Granta editors have no control over the selection of the Commonwealth Prize stories, and nor are they involved in choosing the jury. This year, there has been speculation that Jamir Nazir's winning story, 'The Serpent in the Grove', may have been at least partially AI-generated.

We showed Claude.ai the story and asked whether it was Al-generated. The response was long, concluding that it was 'almost certainly not produced unaided by a human'. It ended, however, on a cautious note:

'The strongest evidence against pure AI authorship is the small number of passages that don't fit the pattern - particularly the Zoongie morning-greeting and the agricultural paragraph about the acre. Those passages carry the kind of off-shape specificity that models still struggle to produce unprompted. If the story has a human core, it is concentrated there, and the AI has been used to elaborate around it.

The intention of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is to find writers from around the Commonwealth and bring them to global attention. It may be that the judges have now awarded a prize to an instance of AI plagiarism - we don't yet know, and perhaps we never will know. There is, however, a certain irony in the fact that beyond human hunches Al itself is the most efficient tool we have for revealing what is AI generated. But the AI-generated critique of these Commonwealth writers - more than one has been accused of basing their story on Al material - may conceivably itself reflect Al bias. Time will tell. The suggestion that writers have submitted material not authentically their own is a charge we take seriously, but until the Commonwealth Foundation comes to a definite conclusion, we will keep these stories on our website

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

lol "did AI write this article" ha ha yes

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"there is simply no way we can stop the incorporation of unstable technology that doesn't work and everyone hates into every aspect of our lives" vs "lol what if we, the government, sued our own selves for two billion dollars and used it to buy treats for the Pelosi Desk Pooper lol heck yeh ynot"

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It is a crisis of imagination when centrists say things like "AI is not going away we must learn to live with it" while insanely corrupt right wing cretins dream up and execute the most incredibly blatant fraud schemes in modern history and all the centrists can do is say "hey you can't do that."

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 20/05/2026

I think a lot of our doomier politics are informed by having to sit idly by and watch a bunch of selfish shitheads reject the entire idea of society and loot the public coffers during and immediately after the COVID pandemic

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It's heartwarming that when commencement speakers make threatening speeches about the inevitability of everything turning to AI-slop that the crowd sounds like the most smug and least physically intimidating heel in the history of wrestling has taken the stage.

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musicrepublic.bsky.social @musicrepublic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This terrific 1974 album by the great Dhrupad rudra veena master Z.M. Dagar, featuring his deep, slow, spiritual musings, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2026/05/indi... #Indian music #Dhrupad #Dagar

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INDIA – Zia Mohiuddin Dagar – Rudra Veena Recital – His Master's Voice – ECSD 2736

INDIA – INDE Zia Mohiuddin Dagar – Rudra Veena Recital – His Master's Voice – ECSD 2736, 1974 (LP) Born in Rajasthan, where his father Ziau...

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Badlands is The Mandalorian of the Aliens/Predator expanded universe in the absolute best possible way

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

As I wrote years ago in my most famous essay since "Uncle Skullfucker's Band"... “Elon Musk likes crypto and you don’t even like meditation apps so you don't have to understand it to be against it." ...so it goes with LSD, NFT, EA, AI and UBI. Or at least we're not talking about the same thing!

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Hope is Part of the Problem

How Zen, EMS, and Debt helped me understand NFTs

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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I am not an economist + I think UBI is good so please don't yell at me? This video is interesting because it's a response to the question: "Is it a good idea to fund UBI ... WITH AI DIVIDENDS?" Giving control over UBI to the same people who control your health insurance. Which seems bad. So "no."

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Is UBI the answer to AI?

This is my grab a coffee and take a moment to learn moment of the day.

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