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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 13h

Rebranding toward "superintelligence" doubles down on a misnomer. (Yes, I am “the enemy.”) Other alternative, dissident names for this tech, anyone?

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 13h

DJT is right: "Artificial intelligence" poorly describes the varied, flawed products sold under the label. They hallucinate (hardly intelligent) and depend entirely on human-authored corpora (hardly artificial).

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In 1997, Robert Hood’s “Puppet Show” emerged from post-industrial Detroit, suspended between factory-floor repetition and dial-up telemetry. It anticipates our algorithmic condition where information patterns pull the social strings. #electronicmusic #roberthood #detroittechno #minimaltechno

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Puppet Show

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC): https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original". Founding member of the legendary group

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Blue Angels screamed overhead, yet Alta Plaza Park felt oddly serene despite the crowds of plane watchers. Across the skyline, sharp late-afternoon light twisted around the curves of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption.

The San Francisco skyline as seen from Alta Plaza Park, featuring uniquely shaped shadows on the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption.

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“The only time he remembers seeing a Black person at the [de Young] museum was in the bookstore. ‘I didn’t see any representations of me anywhere in that environment.’” Need to see this essential survey at MoAD from one of the Bay Area’s most transformational figures. #contemporarypainting

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He should make a quick phone call to Don Jr. and make this very point.

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This clang-clang-clanger resolutely does not purr. It warbles, screeches, and squelches—gleefully unmoored, relishing its own hyperactive giddiness: insouciant chaos, as perplexing as it is exhilarating. @biancaoblivion.bsky.social @umru.dj #electronicmusic #deconstructedclub #hyperpop

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Purr

Monthly @clubaerobics NTS show @clubaerobicsradio Wednesday 7-8pm PST contact: djbiancaoblivion @ gmail.com MGMT: Oscar @ jlartists.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🎧🔌 Fatima Hajji’s "I'm Feeling" turns the room into an unshielded Tesla coil. Weaponized sirens and relentless low-end built to crush warehouse floors make my bedroom feel volatile. Ferociously precise peak-time. @fatimahajji.bsky.social #peaktime #techno #hardtechno #electronicmusic #mutaterecords

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I'm Feeling (Original Mix)

OUT NOW via @mutate-records mutate.cc/ImFeeling

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“described [the gloves] as ‘low optics’—police language for a weapon that causes harm but doesn’t leave marks, making it harder for victims to sue or for public outrage to stem from visible harm.” Insidious and terrifying.

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

MAGA was never populist. Exploiting a deadly, ecocidal war to gouge the public on dirty energy enriches and entrenches elites while imperiling our collective survival. Dismissing populist anger won’t grow the left. We have to show how MAGA misdirects it.

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

P.C. Smith on Grace Graupe-Pillard’s engagement with photojournalism, abstraction, and political trauma: “[T]he paintings retain only slight suggestions of the scenes from which they were generated, but these clues are often violent… rooted in our visual memory.” #contemporarypainting #freepalestine

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎧🌴 In “Bouyon Truth Riddim,” Guadeloupean producer Shazdown Mmw uploads Eastern Caribbean cadence into the contemporary electronic ether. Creole polyrhythm clarified: relentlessly kinetic, surgically syncopated, powered by sub-bass velocity. #bouyon #caribbeanclubmusic #clubmusic #electronicmusic

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Road Fever: New Generation Carnival Riddims from St. Lucia and Dominica, by Various Artists

26 track album

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎧🌸 Vitality, fearlessness, bloom: like its namesake, “Blood Lily” shatters containment—without relying on belligerent drops. Quizzical and uncanny, the track squiggles, spirals, and meanders through queer textures and eccentric melodies. #electronicmusic #experimentalclub #olofdreijer #hessleaudio

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Olof Dreijer · Blood Lily

Listen to Olof Dreijer · Blood Lily by AURX #np on #SoundCloud

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone’s trapped in the BART gates again? That Waymo’s stuck? A Cybertruck swerved around it? The schoolchildren had to jump out of the way? Lurie just privatized what? How much is my rent increase? I accepted San Francisco’s EULA without reading it? Mixed feelings about this town. #BayArea

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎧🪐🗑️ "Espacio Basura" (Space Junk) Too many satellites in orbit, too many microplastics in the blood, too many knickknacks at Target. Surplus is the structural condition—remixing the scrap into danceable grooves is the aesthetic imperative. #clubmusic #electronicmusic #experimentalclub

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Espacio Basura (Part 1), by radd

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎧🔄 Rather than a paradigm shift, continuity itself is agency, not inertia. Small modulations accumulate; the sediment of the past is reworked. Incremental evolution, not inevitability. Provocations from Bonobo’s “Cycles.” #electronicmusic #ambient #downtempoelectronica

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Cycles

'Distance in Static', out now on Ninja Tune: https://bonobo.lnk.to/disSo Follow Bonobo - Spotify: https://found.ee/bonobo-sp Apple Music: https://found.ee/bonobo-am Amazon Music: https://found.ee/bo

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎧📉🌱 “Decay + Collapse” should entail ominous sirens and explosive drops. Not here. Blooming melodic arcs and luminous cover art subvert familiar destructive tropes, reframing structural failure as hopeful possibility. Eerily, poetically apropos. #electronicmusic #ambient

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Decay + Collapse

Amsterdam based DJs, events company and record label. Submit your demo: demo@dekmantel.com

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎧😶‍🌫️🪞Reflective, yes. Soothing without sedating. Meandering, exploring—without losing all structure. Easy yet purposeful. Keeping me going gently, and steadying—on this warm, overcast, drowsy, post-job-interview afternoon. @atrevid000.net #electronicmusic #breakbeat

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Reflection

Listen to Reflection by Atrevido #np on #SoundCloud

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎧🧠🔦 Liam Mour’s “Brain Damage,” or mental illumination? Too much AI, pre-interview nerves, first coffee at noon. Needed these subtle (microhouse?) synths today. Like a gentler, sound version of bright light therapy… even though it’s sunny out. #electronicmusic #IDM

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Brain Damage - Single by Liam Mour on Apple Music

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Creative community is vitally sustaining—hoping to connect over studio trouble, friction, and discovery. My abstract artistic language visualizes a search for the queer convergence of biological, geological, and digital systems. Overview of my output 2016–2025. (2026 example in my 1st post.)

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pairing this with the latest from @grrlmusic.bsky.social on high repeat: grrlmusic.bandcamp.com/album/beetle... 🔌 Supercharged.

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Beetle, by GRRL

24 track album

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎧⛽️ “DO YOU KNOW GOLD PANDA?” I thought I did—ambient, atmospheric—until digging into “Ton Up.” The whole record is 140 bpm relentlessness, especially the propulsive closer. Keeping me fueled up—generating studio ideas. #clubmusic goldpanda.bandcamp.com/album/ton-up...

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TON UP, by Gold Panda

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Daniel Paul Thomas (He/They) @quantized-gesture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi, I’m Daniel. Left Meta last year, took some time away, and now finding my way back to the online art world(s). Not sure where art ends and writing, tech, politics, or everyday life begins. Looking for creative and critical exchanges that don’t fit neatly into an algorithmic feed.

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