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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

When two artists paint the same view: Rue de la Chausée à Argenteuil, painted on the same day in 1872 by Claude Monet & Alfred Sisley, friends and founding figures of French Impressionism, who set up their easels side by side en plein air. Private Collection | Musée d’Orsay

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Part II: An attempt to work through the "conjectural paradigm" of AI rhetorics and their associated value panics - and the need to replace Sherlock's magnifying glass with Adorno's splinter in the eye. tgpbennett.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/s...

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Software / Hard Value

Hypomnemata: “a material record of things read, heard, or thought […] a kind of accumulated treasure for subsequent rereading and meditation […] a regular and deliberate practice of the disparate […

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My favourite pop culture “takedown“ is Pat Metheny’s essay on Kenny G. It‘s so good because despite his clear contempt, Metheny is focused entirely on Kenny G’s technical abilities and artistic choices as an artist and never, ever insults his fans ontherecord.co/2020/05/30/p...

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Pat Metheny Has a Few Thoughts about Kenny G

More of the Music of Pat Metheny Question: Pat, could you tell us your opinion about Kenny G – it appears you were quoted as being less than enthusiastic about him and his music. I would say …

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I'm reading Habermas' STPS for the first time and I'm here for all the incoming intellectual biographies in memoriam. But before that, the first thing I'm going back to re-read is Wendy Willems on the coffee house and the colonial underpinnings of the public sphere. academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

As computers get more scarier all the time, I think about this video a lot. Seemed outlandish ten years ago. Looks prescient now. 🫤 youtu.be/G9FGgwCQ22w?...

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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4

YouTube video by Don't Hug Me .I'm Scared

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This part of OpenAI's statement stood out to me: Safeguards "can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade." Memory and context windows make the product less safe, a point we made in this story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

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Paolo Alessandro 🏳️‍🌈 @paoloalessandro.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I love this sheep density map.

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Absolutely mad piece about a random man who has more imagination about what record companies can do with their archive than the record companies do www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Record labels forgot these songs existed. One man rescued them

Thousands of songs are still unavailable on streaming services. Rob Johnson wants to change that.

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