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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 13/10/2026

ACHD Air Quality Public Meeting The Allegheny County Health Dept is holding a public meeting about the hot strip mill. This is our chance to be heard! Thursday October 15, 2026. 5pm-7pm. Carnegie One Braddock, 419 Library street, Braddock PA 15104 Food + Childcare available from 4:30-7:30pm

ACHD Air Quality Public Meeting
The Allegheny County Health Dept is holding a public meeting about the hot strip mill expansion and will be answering our questions. This is our chance to be heard! Thursday October 15, 2026. 5pm-7pm. Carnegie One Braddock, 419 Library street, Braddock PA 15104
Food + Childcare available from 4:30-7:30pm

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 05/10/2026

dot and the kangaroo. i'm still not really sure i saw it and yet...

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎 @sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 16/09/2026

why does Duolingo think learning chess from an asshole is an effective tool

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 14/09/2026

This post can't be reiterated enough to haughty bsky posters and the thread is a classic "why do you hate waffles (because you posted that you love pancakes)/i am very smart" brain-dead knee-jerk poster slop

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saying "just buy an EV if you hate high gas prices" to poor people makes climate activists look out of touch. Those who are most impacted by high gas prices can't afford $20k+ on a vehicle and charger. I certainly can't, so let's keep that in mind before we shame people for not going electric.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 12/08/2026

Hi I made this Gamelan practice and transcription tool to help with rehearsals. Right now it is mostly focused around one instrument but it should be able to transcribe any tonal instrument in a gamelan ensemble as long as you can provide samples of every note ljferdinand.github.io/gamelan-practice/

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Gamelan Practice — self-calibrating

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 17/07/2026

I’m no UI expert but the IOS27 betas already make Liquid Glass feel a lot better. My phone feels new

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 23/06/2026

@nextlander.com "I know everything!!!!" in the Spock's Brain ep is this a stealth Heatvision and Jack reference?! Deep cut.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Brakrooms "Yeah, buddy!"

It's a picture of a liminal space like in the movie The Backrooms except Brak is there.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 26/05/2026

The Mando movie could have done with 99% less shots of the Huttmaxxer speaking directly at the camera

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026

I recall when a friend of mine back during the BLM movement told me that if people reject the cause then the logical conclusion is that No Lives Matter & I thought I understood what he meant philosophically but living through the explosion of global suffering since I see now that he meant materially

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 13/04/2026

Blessed be the man who raises up Clancy Brown Jesus

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This image REALLY WAS posted from Trump’s “Truth Social” account and, fortunately, the bible itself reminds everyone that when a “man of lawlessness” drunk on earthly power declares himself a god, he is defeated by the combined force of everyone who sticks with the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2, nerds.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 01/04/2026

I swear the granola at Madeleine’s is just crumbled up oatmeal cookies with some dried cherries thrown in and I applaud them for admitting this is all we really want from granola

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"The great artist must be pied-piper AND exterminator, simultaneously. His piping must be seductively lyrical; His knife must be fast and sharp." Check out John Fahey at his performing peak, live in 1974: doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8126126...

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Doom & Gloom From The Tomb

John Fahey - Amazingrace Coffeehouse, Evanston, Illinois, August 24, 1974 We checked out John Fahey's amazing "Performance As War" essay a few weeks back, and had our senses thoroughly scrambled by...

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 05/03/2026

@gruber.foo neo’s got to be a play for the large scale adoption of iPads, chromebooks and terrible low-end pcs in education. Any school that distributes iPads already has the mdm infrastructure to manage Neos, and the performance and manageability over similarly priced pcs has to be substantial.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 27/02/2026

downwind from the cancer factory stuck in the valley of the auto exhaust the mon cracks open and the sewage flows that pittsburgh funk

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 24/02/2026

Remembering when Beto was seen as a new dem fave and how weirdly terrified he was to talk about American oligarchy. I wonder if it will make a difference with Talarico.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/01/2026

This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 26/01/2026

They plowed one through street in my neighborhood but they’re not doing any cross streets, I guess, so if you live in a cross street you’re stuck behind an ice wall on either side

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 17/12/2025

I wonder if there are any class action lawyers interested in looking into Uber and Walmart’s exploitive and illegal tactics as they abuse drivers

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎 @sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

(sagely) there are three genres. Music that is "fun," music that is "boring," and music that is regrettably neither of those things.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 25/11/2025

Real talk: I’m trying g to play dispatch but I keep falling asleep and missing choices

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 14/11/2025

As someone who has largely skipped a few generations of games that focus on shooting things, arc raiders is completely inscrutable to me

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

34% of tracks being uploaded to Deezer are now fully generative AI. This can’t be unique to Deezer, the only difference is they share their data musically.com/2025/11/12/5...

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50,000 AI-music tracks are now uploaded to Deezer every day

Deezer says that roughly 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, accounting for 34% of all music delivered to it.

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Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Denoisers are usually seen as very clinical editing tools but I like the way they work on pads in place of a typical filter, especially after you add reverb+delay back in afterwards and how the "artifacts" interact with them. Doing EQ/filter preprocessing before the denoiser also sounds cool.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A handy guide for running LLMs locally on a Mac plus a preface that reflects a healthy relationship with AI. blog.6nok.org/experimentin...

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Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS

A developer's guide to downloading and running LLMs on macOS, for experimentation and privacy.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 02/09/2025

Why is it that I can’t stand the dead unless they’re Agitation Free

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onezero @onezero.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

September 10, in just over a month, @lukeferdinand.com and I will be collaboratively opening for legendary ambient pioneer Don Slepian, touring for the reissue of his Sea of Bliss on Numero: donslepianpittsburgh.brownpapertickets.com Wed Sep 10, 7pm, $20 adv/$25 door, all ages! Be there!

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Don Slepian, Maurice Rickard/Luke Ferdinand

Brown Paper Tickets - The first and only fair trade ticketing company!

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 04/08/2025

Where were Dave and Buster when the Westfield Fell?

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Breaks in the stream In a new Against The Grain column, Derek Walmsley argues that Spotify's partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history @derekwalmsley.bsky.social www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

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Against The Grain: Derek Walmsley on how Spotify distorts genre histories - The Wire

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history, argues Derek Walmsley

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 11/07/2025

The Batman is like the Batman movie they would have in Idiocracy

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 02/07/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnK... I forgot how nicely this live recording came out. I hope to release a fully surround version at some point @sevenfour.bsky.social @onezero.bsky.social @davidbernabo.bsky.social ya'll might enjoy

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Meditation on the Transit of Darkness to Light (Live)

YouTube video by Luke Ferdinand - Topic

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 02/07/2025

I think the biggest problem with power automate copilot is that it is trained on Microsoft’s own docs which makes it think it is capable of more than it is both because power automate is constantly changing, but also the apps are constantly changing, and the documentation is never updated

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents: www.404media.co/american-sch...

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American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show

Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps.

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 13/05/2025

In which I serve ice cream sundaes as a noise performance aleatoric.bandcamp.com/album/ice-cr...

Picture of Luke Ferdinand serving ice cream using tools that are connected to a noise generation instrument. An image of a skeleton holding an ice cream cone is projected onto the background

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🚨🚨🚨🚨 bsky.app/profile/obso...

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Has your article been pulled from a DOD website or journal because of an executive order about how diversity is bad? I’d love to host it on my site so that the information is still out there Email me at angrystaffofficer@gmail.com and we can make it happen

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 24/02/2025

I have a tip for organizing data on your desktop. Don't Do This: iCloud->Desktop->Cleanup OneDrive->Desktop->Cleanup OneDrive for Business->Desktop->Cleanup

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 19/02/2025

The Quiet Posters feed is the only thing saving my mind amidst the bad vibeage

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Luke Ferdinand @lukeferdinand.com · 12/02/2025

@jowrotethis.bsky.social listening to you F4 pod and it has me wondering if Marvel is soft launching a *different* MCU that can rebuild beloved MCU characters with new actors etc. Wind down the current MCU through secret wars and then move on….

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