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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I want to talk about music generated with LLMs and related technology, but I don't know exactly how. The bad part is pretty bad and depressing, involving (IMO) theft-by-loophole of artist's work. (That is, even if the trained work were ALL work for hire, ideally that wouldn't grant rights to […]

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

[video of the lid in question, in place and in operation] In case you want an aftermarket titanium lid for your popcorn maker, reengineered to reduce the % of unpopped kernels and generally to be less annoying, which also happens to be inscribed with the opening […] [Original post on jeremy.org]

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

In case you want an aftermarket titanium lid for your popcorn maker, reengineered to reduce the % of unpopped kernels and generally to be less annoying, which also happens to be inscribed with the opening passage of Borges' _La Biblioteca de Babel_ , I know where you can get one.

video of the lid in question, in place, machine in operation

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Before I moved to Melbourne, I looked around the net to see if I could find anything interesting going on with shakuhachi. I discovered that there was one guy--David Brown--who was making beautiful wooden ones, and not only that, he also taught aikido. Based on […] [Original post on jeremy.org]

David Brown and Jeremy, at David's house, talking

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I have been working on some knuckle rollers, to be made via metal printing. Here's the latest, the Ouroboros. #knuckleroller

rotating metal object, a self-interpenetrating metal spiral with a form reminiscent of a small bone

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Gosh, do you think we can have some kind of law, I don't know, that forces US presidents to take quarterly cognitive functioning tests, with results made public by law? No, no particular reason. Yes, I know we're not going to get that and I understand why. I just have these fantasies sometimes.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

This is my most inappropriately shelved book, in with some of the vegetarian cookbooks. What's yours?

a bookshelf with a bunch of vegetarian cookbooks and one that isn't. (it's called _History of the Donner Party_)

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

#pluslife friends... this result came back negative, but to me it looks like testing the same person in a day or so might turn positive, so caution is warranted. what do you think?

image of a pluslife test result showing the normal control line and one of the test lines starting to rise

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

i may have accidentally designed a new musical instrument that is sorta kinda like a less-ephemeral shamisen. send help not really but ugh.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

#LostMedia I just discovered that my favourite play, Friends (友達) by Kōbō Abe, was made into a Swedish film in 1988. I would love to find a copy and would greatly appreciate any pointers! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_(1988…

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Friends (1988 film) - Wikipedia

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Just throwing it out there because I don't qualify for membership, but wouldn't it be great if there were an all-#trans band that recorded a (heartland-rock style) cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" ?

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

I just discovered that my favourite play, Kōbō Abe's _Friends_ , was made into a film in 1988. I'd like to tell you what the play is about but it's kind of impossible to do without spoilers. But I can say that what appeals to me most about Abe's fiction is the transformation of a world from […]

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

I wrote this sonata for my partner on her birthday. Needs some polish but I'm pretty happy with it at this point (and I think she has listened to it about 50 times so far).

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

In the tradition of my people, here's a new website that asks and answers an important question of the times. I like to think that this one advances the field a bit because of the innovative "preview" button. hasithappenedyet.org

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Has It Happened Yet?

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

we need a new word for fascist snowflake. i think it could be "reichsflake."

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

gotta start somewhere… (this is me typing on my custom keyboard layout.)

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

Are there examples of passing a law that says you can't pass any laws about something for ten years where that worked? Like. Can you even do that? I'm not talking about Constitutions, which are generally what we call the documents that are the "laws about how the laws may works" but rather just […]

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

Recent updates to the Pluslife webapp (praise to the virus.sucks crew!) allow the specification of a webhook to receive realtime test data. I've implemented a simple system to show graphs of in-progress and completed tests that can be run behind a more general webserver. It's a big […]

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Candidate for funniest aliexpress product ever. It's a ... yoga logo! www.aliexpress.com/item/10050095782…

An assortment of pins reading "chai" in Hebrew.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

yes i did generate a netlist for kicad, and then parse the imported pcb file to modify the switch positions according to the openscad model. why do you ask? #keyboards #halfStupidHobbies

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Second print. Case is nice and sturdy now but PCB still doesn't fit.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

First test prints. Case fit together but far too thin, and needs a fit adjustment before it'll fit the PCB.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Thanks, it's good to be back! It turns out that solo implementing an ActivityPub server and web UI as a part-time side project was maaaaybe not the smartest thing I have ever done, but... that die has been cast.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

did i mention that @ceejbot@toot.cat is in fucking trouble?

a CAD drawing of a corne-like keyboard pcb and plate

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

damn you, @ceejbot@toot.cat, damn you.

a corne split keyboard, with blank ceramic keys, two tiny displays, and some knobs or whatever.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

a little bit ago i started trying to catch up on stuff here. one of the first things i came across was @ceejbot@toot.cat talking about building a #corne keyboard kit. huh, i haven't heard of that before, i wonder what that is. now, as i wait for my first corne keyboard to arrive, i have spent […]

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

I watched Inception today for the first time since it came out. I'd forgotten that it featured (at least) two items designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh! One of them was this lamp, which I may have spent some time today modeling in OpenSCAD in preparation for making one for the house.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

Turning this thing on again, tap tap tap. Hi! I broke my UI but I think it's fixed-ish again now.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2024

any of y'all know how to get #orcaslicer to NOT generate support that doesn't touch the build plate when it's inside a support enforcer block? been banging my head against this (which is a #shakuhachi of course)

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2024

I'm looking at some #pluslife results that aren't like any I've seen before. It read as negative but the scarily red item #6 is exhibiting new-to-me motion that seems like it might be concerning. Look familiar to anyone? (I also have the .json data if that might be useful.) #virussucks

Screen shot of the virus.sucks PlusLife app showing a negative result but a red line higher than (I) expected

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2024

Guess what? Only when my #activitypub server started receiving higher volumes of Notes did I notice that the .conversation field is often null. Why is this a problem? Because this is when I implemented threaded views which use the conversation values as a selection criterion. So, now I know […]

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2024

Chard harvest. This was probably about 2/3 of the total quantity. Note: I'm not the garderner, just the gardener's partner :) #gardening #melbourne

Photo of me looking self-satisfied, holding a large armful of chard.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2024

Why are there no Portishead Beat Saber maps???

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2024

I'm looking for an online seller to sell (and send) me some Taiwanese-made soy sauce here in Melbourne. Does anyone know of someone who does that? (I've already checked the actual physical shops that are nearby; I need some place online.) #taiwan

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2024

For the record, I would like to point out that (a) it was a Van Dyke, not two days of beard, and (b) it was a skirt, not a dress. #apple

Back cover of Gil Amelio's book _On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple Computer_

One section reads:

ON THE DRESS CODE AT APPLE:

"My own eye-opener about clothing style came a little later when I encountered a
young Apple engineer who was wearing two days of beard, and a dress. Though I made it a point not to comment, the story flashed through the company that I had asked, 'Is this a dress-down day?' and had been told, 'No, he's dressed up.' At least the Apple sense of humor was intact.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2024

...And that's how I noticed that "edit post" still isn't working. 😬

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2024

What is hyperbole? It's a rhetorical device that everyone, everwhere, uses all the time.

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2024

Lost Tuxedomoon album cover. <https://mastodon.social/users/sasj/statuses/113035659129806591>

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2024

This is a casual-ish screen recording of the in-progress UI state of oolong, my #ActivityPub / #Mastodon server+client. I started with the traditional four columns but recently switched to a more dynamic style where the utility/controls column and the timeline column are the only constants. As […]

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eVOTErra @evoterra.podvibes.co.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2024

Repost because no alt text: #uspol

Trump and Nixon shaking hands at a formal event.

Text overlay reads: “A picture of the most corrupt President in U.S. history… and Richard Nixon.”

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 21/08/2024

The MNT Pocket Reform is now available in our own shop! This is what I have been helping build for a large part of this year and its really exciting to see it get out there into the world! shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-… #MNT #PocketReform #OSHW #OpenHardware

A photo of a cute pink laptop on a beige background

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2024

A mesmerizing #dance by Li Kehua [www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGDiqB4eZg ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGDiqB4eZg</p> <p>)

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Jeremy Bornstein @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2024

#mcsweeneys doing important work <https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056>

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