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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Attention, like crude oil, is treated like a scarce natural resource that must be extracted, processed, and refined."
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When Culture Becomes “Content”
Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetized attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale?
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Courant Zéro ► Solari courant-zero.bandcamp.com/album/solari
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Solari, by Courant Zéro
8 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My old poet pal John Hughes just posted this, from Donna Stonecipher's great collection The Ruins of Nostalgia. It reminded me of how Starbucks took over a lot of independent cafés in Dublin, or put them out of business. I alway laugh at the notion that capitalism gives you choice.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Howlround ► This House Burned Still thefogsignals.bandcamp.com/album/this-h...
thefogsignals.bandcamp.com
This House Burned Still, by Howlround
2 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New features at Ice Floe Press Dis/enchantment/Anomie/ Spectacle autumn series. Welcome Paul Woodford's @visbardd.bsky.social Dept. of Visual Paradox... an incisive theoretical hybrid: essay/vision/image structures. Powerful work of this moment #hybrid #essay #visual icefloepress.net/2026/09/07/d...
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Department of Visual Paradox and Pataphysical Research: Circular No. 73Γ
Weather #1 & Weather #2 Note: The Department refuses to determine which of these images is the original and which is its weathered history.  Current evidence suggests that each is produced by p…
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oscar Later ► The Moon Belongs to You oscarlaterrr.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
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The Moon Belongs to You EP, by Oscar Later
6 track album
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donna enticknap @auuop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Built myself a friend
Hand holding a Polaroid photo of hands holding a big cardboard Pluto infront of a big gold frame, held up in front of a big cardboard Pluto and a big gold frame.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Aleatory Music Systems @aleatorymusic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
AMS will feature in Radiophrenia Shorts 36A with Up/Down. 📅 09/09/2026 ⏰ 10:00–10:30pm 📻 87.9 Glasgow + online worldwide Radiophrenia is a 16-day radio art marathon celebrating experimental sound, transmission art, live performance and new commissions, broadcasting until 20 September. Tune in! 📡
📻 Aleatory Music Systems (AMS) on Radiophrenia 2026

I am delighted to announce that Aleatory Music Systems (AMS) will be part of Radiophrenia’s 16-day radio art marathon, broadcasting sound and transmission art from Glasgow and around the world.

🎧 AMS – Up/Down
📅 [09/ 09/ 2026]
⏰ 10:00–10:30pm
📻 87.9FM in Glasgow + online worldwide

AMS appears in Radiophrenia Shorts 36A, alongside work by Jonty Harrison and Ollie Hawker.

Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station and platform for experimental sound, transmission art, live performance, commissions and works from an international open call. Broadcasting continuously until 20 September, it can be heard on 87.9FM in Glasgow and via its online stream, with broadcasts also relayed internationally.

Listen in and catch Up/Down on the airwaves. 📡

#AleatoryMusicSystems #AMS #Radiophrenia #RadioArt #SoundArt #TransmissionArt #ExperimentalMusic #Glasgow #UpDown
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Carmen Villain ► Memoria carmenvillain.bandcamp.com/album/memoria
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Memoria, by Carmen Villain
7 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:
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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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Kyle Bobby Dunn @kylebobbydunn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The purity of the tones and half-empty texture of the music have a strange effect on the dissonant harmony, though- rather than coalescing into a sour chord, the notes seem to hang next to each other in gentle disagreement." - @pitchfork.com kylebobbydunn.bandcamp.com/album/an-end...
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An Endless Verge Of Tears, by kyle bobby dunn
1 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 31/07/2026
Jean-Michel Jarre has written a book, Machines: A History of Electronic Music, which explores the history of electronic music via the machines that artists use to make the music @thamesandhudson.bsky.social buff.ly/4Ix87vb
Colour photograph of Jean-Michel Jarre.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lusine ► Melting Days lusine.bandcamp.com/album/meltin...
lusine.bandcamp.com
Melting Days, by Lusine
10 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#calder #believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New tiny zine, GERM, the B&W edition.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Stephen O'Malley ► Avaeken stephenomalley.bandcamp.com/album/avaeken
stephenomalley.bandcamp.com
Avaeken, by Stephen O'Malley
2 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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m.schoener @ms-hoener.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sub Dub • Soundcheck
originalsubdub.bandcamp.com
Soundcheck, by Sub Dub
from the album Dawa Zangpo EP 1995
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse notes: Solar eclipse in Leo & Aquarius 12th August Lunar eclipse in Pisces 28th August
Open notebook with 2 shiny foil shapes cut from a crisp packet pasted over entire facing pages. Handwritten notes on the bottom line
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bon Odori ► Kimyō bonodori.bandcamp.com/album/kimyo
bonodori.bandcamp.com
Kimyo, by Bon Odori
8 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
the @bostonreview.bsky.social asked me, What Was the Internet? One thing it was (is!) is a space for literary experimentation that bypassed offline gatekeepers, now under threat. featuring 3am Magazine @minorlits.bsky.social @tobiasvryan.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy ► Nebular marthaskyemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/nebular
marthaskyemurphy.bandcamp.com
Nebular, by Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy
5 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 30/07/2026
Great article about Brion Gysin's Cut-Ups by the esteemed Iain Sinclair in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Tomoyoshi Date + Stijn Hüwels ► Tatemono laaps-records.com/album/tatemono
laaps-records.com
Tatemono, by Tomoyoshi Date + Stijn Hüwels
5 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
📷 Minolta X-700 🎞️ Kodak Tri-X 400 #believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #blackandwhite #grainisgood #monochrome #minolta #kodaktrix
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Tricky ► Different When It's Silent tricky.bandcamp.com/album/differ...
tricky.bandcamp.com
Different When It's Silent, by Tricky // False Idols
14 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mmfilm #grainisgood
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Keiji Haino & Steve Noble ► Cafe OTO coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/cafe-o...
coldspring.bandcamp.com
Cafe OTO (CSR370CD), by Keiji Haino & Steve Noble
4 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
📷 Minolta X-700 🎞️ Kodak T-Max 400 #believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #blackandwhite #grainisgood #monochrome #minolta #kodaktmax
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Alexander Noice ► Perpetually and Forever orendarecords.bandcamp.com/album/perpet...
orendarecords.bandcamp.com
Perpetually and Forever, by Alexander Noice
11 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
📷 Kyocera Samurai X3.0 🎞️ Ilford XP2 Super 400 #believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #blackandwhite #grainisgood #monochrome #kyocera #yashica #ilfordxp2super
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/07/2026
A book seller told 404 Media that, normally, on a good week, he’d sell about 20 books. Since April, he has regularly sold hundreds of books a week. While the seller didn’t have clear evidence that the purchases were being made by AI companies, the purchases made him suspect that they were.
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Bot1500 ► The Black Sea bot1500.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
bot1500.bandcamp.com
The Black Sea, by Bot1500
8 track album
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Kate Bixler @ksbixler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📷 Minolta X-700 🎞️ Kodak Tri-X 400 #believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #blackandwhite #monochrome #grainisgood #minolta #kodaktrix
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“‘Because of you I will remember this minute. We’re friends in this minute and from this minute on. It’s how it is. Because you can’t change the past.’ I don’t know if he’s ever thought of that single minute because of me, but I have always thought of him.” -Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai, 1990)
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