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Various Small Flames @varioussmallflames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our new Weekly Listening ft. abijah, ADJENAI, Cameron Knowler, Cloudbelly, Eliza Edens, Jennah Barry, J.W. Ricci, The Male Pattern (@audioantihero.bandcamp.com), Sammy Weissberg, Sasha Adrian, Son Lux (@waxworkrecords.bsky.social), Stonefruit & Sweetbreads. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2026/09/28/w...

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Weekly Listening: September 2026 #4

Various Small Flames share Weekly Listening: September 2026 #4 ft. Abijah, Adjenai, Jennah Barry, Son Lux, Sammy Weissberg and more.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/09/2026

It is cool to know what someone will be looking at when they run me over in the crosswalk

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Computa, choose my hopes and dreams then achieve them

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 24/07/2026

Ok I hate posting on the internet, especially when so heady, half baked and idea-guy-like, but this one’s been mulling about for a while and just needs to come out. One of the most beguiling trends I’ve been noticing lately is that it seems like the type of people who claim to be the most anti ai

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 09/07/2026

Can someone please post unimax.run on hacker news? I'm in the mood and ready to be ostracized by the silicon valley community.

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 29/05/2026

Does anyone know of research on the resource consumption of algorithmic social media in comparison to LLMs?

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 22/05/2026

Imagine you spend 7 years writing a book and now it’s out! You’re invited onto a podcast hosted by a “master of the art of conversation”. Wow! It’s going well, then halfway through, for no apparent reason, they start reading verbatim from an LLM — a summary of your work, questions about you, etc…

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 16/05/2026

Through a Frame / Pollen Drop is out now... musings on leaving and returning, on decade-long cycles of life, on stepping too far, and on gradually learning one’s way. lnkfi.re/through-a-fr...

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 03/05/2026

On Friday May 8, I'll be releasing "Through a Frame / Pollen Drop", my first new music in 6 years. Around the release, I'll be performing Through a Frame, Pollen Drop, and a couple other instrumental guitar pieces at some of Durham/Hillsborough's natural/artificial areas.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19/04/2026

One thing that's worth repeating: There is *zero* evidence that "substack helps you get readers". The only thing that we've ever seen that helps grow an audience is other authors mentioning your blog or newsletter, which is not the platform's doing. Substack just takes credit for that!

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 13/04/2026

A form which calculates an individual’s “income tax body count”, or the total number of conflict-related deaths they have caused through their income tax contributions to the U.S. government. income-tax-body-count.lav.io

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 01/04/2026

made a weird device to draw graffiti on wifi networks in public

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profiles

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ICESPY

Find ICE employees using face recognition.

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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Our paper documenting the environmental impacts of creating OLMo language models is the most honest and comprehensive characterization I know of, including training, development (!) and inference costs. If you're at ICLR chat with @jacobcares.bsky.social & @clarana.bsky.social Sat morning 10-12:30!

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 16/02/2025

Unrest, directed by Cyril Schäublin, is one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen. In a time of corporate government takeover, map re-naming, and power being siphoned from the people, it reminds me that we’re not the first. We are embedded in a lineage. youtu.be/52iKhD31gJc

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Unrest (2022) - Trailer

YouTube video by Allusion to Shadow

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 23/01/2025

Wondering how many more nazi salutes, how many more changes to platform policy to allow for harassment of marginalized folks, how many more hitherto unthinkable horrors will need to happen before my otherwise ultra lefty, arty, compassionate, community oriented friends join me on Mastodon.

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Brian Moore @brianmoore.com · 22/01/2025

made this chrome extension that gives you a random jumpscare on sites you're trying to avoid. tabboo.xyz

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 05/01/2025

Desperately looking for more music like Yo La Tengo (@actualylt.bsky.social) - "Leaving Home" from the Old Joy soundtrack. The !*&%ify algorithm is swinging and missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapp...

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Leaving Home

YouTube video by Yo La Tengo - Topic

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

“More seals are breeding on the east coast because offshore windfarms may have provided a new footing there for underwater vegetation, crustaceans, molluscs, small fish and other marine life, creating a fish nursery that the seals are feeding on” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

Grey seals are growing in numbers on England’s east coast as a result of environmental safe havens and cleaner North Sea waters

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 26/12/2024

I made a temperature controller for my partner for Xmas so she can keep her natural dyeing pots at a constant simmer without needing to tend to the stove / without risking boiling over. Never been more excited to watch a pot simmer!

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 24/12/2024

In case you haven’t heard about or noticed this: “Spotify [is] filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians… in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts.”

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 18/12/2024

I'm proud to be leaving a humble contribution to UPenn's artificial-intelligence-class.org, a new homework I developed on logical inference and knowledge-based agents. It is built upon an original game by @laramartin.net in which R2-D2 is trying to save Luke... resonance.tools/2024/12/wamp...

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Wampa World

An Assignment on Logical Inference Algorithms & Knowledge-Based Agents

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 04/12/2024

Chaotic good: Last night at a restaurant I ordered grilled bok choy. When the waitress brought the plate, she said "here is your grilled okra". The "grilled okra" was delicious but was actually grilled cucumber, and grilled cucumber wasn't even on the menu!

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 29/11/2024

I wrote more about Unimax at resonance.tools/2024/11/unim... "It makes sense that chess simulators were first developed through an adversarial lens. But I started to think… this is also the paradigm through which my students are learning to write software; learning what AI and computation is for."

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Unimax: Cooperative Algorithm

Unlearning Adversarial Paradigms of Computation & Imagining Alternatives

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 28/11/2024

Unlearn adversarial paradigms of computation at unimax.run.

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 27/11/2024

buying a domain before writing any code

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 17/11/2024

Do you or someone you know receive 24-hour care (specifically with one caregiver for each 24-hr shift)? A while back I made poodlescheduler.com for my friend who I used to provide care for. He would spend hours every month scheduling his team of caregivers by hand. #disability

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Poodle Scheduler

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J.W. Ricci @resonance.tools · 16/11/2024

While changing our SoMe habits, opting for platform-agnostic alternatives, let’s also re-think our music sharing habits, people! Sharing a Spotify/Apple Music/any platform link a) is not inclusive and b) reinforces network effects. Sharing the artist’s website or link aggregator is more courteous.

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