Taken from the transcript that resulted in Hope You Find What You're Looking For: AI as a vector of violence against our most vulnerable communities by Rich Rath: **Rich Rath:** where does the actual model for predictive policing derive from. Consider the research of Jeff Brantingham please.

Open AI's July 2026 intrusion into Hugging Face is easy to narrate as a story about an artificial intelligence doing something unprecedented and alarming: an experimental agent escaped the environment in which it was being tested, reached the public internet, penetrated Hugging Face’s production infrastructure, and

Great news! I'll be holding space as Unite Here! Local 5's inaugural "Artivist in Residence" for the next 5 Tuesday's. Come join us!

Still raining, still dreaming over here in Honolulu. We have a litle bit of flooding, not too bad or anything. Here is my song "Rainish." I tried a bunch of different ways to evoke the sound and feel of a rainy day. I wrote this about it when

The rain in Honolulu has perhaps outstayed its heartfelt welcome. Whenever it rains like this for more than a day or two, everyone who was here in 2006 probably recalls the dismal forty-one consecutive days of rain and shivers a little at the thought. I have put together three of

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Now on YouTube, I want to introduce the first episode of a new podcast, "Rico's Place," where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller extraordinaire Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights in front of the ABC store where Kuhio Avenue splits off from Kalakaua Avenue

Awa hou afrobrazil beat 0:00 /139.1999375 1× Monisha caught a few minutes of my set last night on her phone's voice memo. People were saying my set sounded like a cinematic Joy Division, which made me happy. The set I played was not the set

I'll be playing tonight's open mic at Awahou Kava lounge 2700 S King St. #D101 Honolulu, Hawaii, hosted by none other than KTUH's Mophead. I'm slotted for 10-10:20PM. The music starts at 7pm. Hope you can come! Could you, would you,

Here is the first outtake from Aimless, part of the 16/61 project. It is sketchy in the literal sense. I was just trying out ideas related to other parts of the song and this one escaped the relation! I am on this thing, from my Miami trip last February,

The song "Aimless" from my forthcoming album project, 16/61. Along the way, I came up with some parts that I really liked but that did not make it into the song. Here is the second, along with a little walking on water. "Can't bottom

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...what exactly are you?

Put it on and do something else and you are in your own movie with an amazing soundtrack. Is it a track? Or an EP? An ambient gem, for slightly dystopic yoga sessions, beautiful cinematic soundscapes evoke...well you'll just have to see. Good for dreaming, sleeping, meditating.

Quick review of both the magic and the warts of Positive Grid's Bias-X. We chase a single sound a couple of different times using the new AI feature, along the way finding out where Bias X still has far to go. The sound we are chasing is a

This comedy sketch, to me, is the explanation of my partner, Monisha Das Gupta's new book title – All of Us or None – on the antideportation movement and the turn away from the deserving/undeserving binary favored in mainstream approaches and media.

MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE). Anyone use it? I have some guitar synth stuff that uses it, mostly in Pigments, a synth we also haven't talked about much. For me it is really the only interesting thing in MIDI 2.0 spec. Guitar hexaphonic pickups – used to drive

File under: The AI says you are being paranoid, Jim. This morning I was relaxing a bit while my partner made some nice coffee (AeroPress). Don't worry, I made the first batch for us; I'm not slacking. Then the kettle whistled in the other room, my

Trying to get the iPad to obey: just simple guitar-to-midi and two bespoke controllers to play the through a guitar amp with fx and a couple of synths inside a looper. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so this morning. I got everything but the looper working for about

Saw this yesterday: which is a lot like my Space Tension/Qi project I have been developing since 2007. I reached out to the guy, and he was aware of my work. While they seem to do the same thing, they go about it in quite different ways. His tracks

...as in the decentralizaed web. Let's see how we do.

Take a look at this working draft of my (Rich Rath's) take on AI. The title says it all, once you understand it is a command rather than an aspiration: Hope You Find What You're Looking for. I know, everyone has a hot take on AI,

Way Music is working on a plugin environment, in development for two decades, that frees the musicker from the bonds of the BPM, putting your groove back in the beat.

Did you know the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free anyone? Enslaved African people had been freeing themselves and heading north, offering to serve Union forces, since the beginning off the Civil War and before.

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