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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/04/2025

Here's the latest episode of Better Offline. I walk you through why it’s so harmful that the media keeps taking OpenAI at its word - and I respond to the most common critiques from AI boosters. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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The BS Bubble

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 04/30/2025 · 31m

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

YOU MUST BE INTIMATE WITH A TOKEN FEW

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

One of my favorite artists of the moment .. do check out his Bandcamp as well to support ..

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

very much enjoying this fabulous, lucid and intelligent work. thank you @timsaccenti.bsky.social for the recommend.

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Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Woo-hoo! Author's copies of my 33 1/3 book on @disasteradio.bsky.social Eyeliner's vaporwave masterpiece BUY NOW have arrived - only 2 months till launch Thank you 🙏@bloomsburymus.bsky.social

Copies of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" from the 33 1/3 Oceania series on a *real* marble chessboard.

See: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Stills from our Setta Studio video installation at Sundance 2025

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

New Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith album "Gush" coming soon .. love making these images with her✨

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Drew Shiel @arcanehobo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A magnificent piece by @davidwengrow.bsky.social, co-author of The Dawn of Everything, on how a very great many historical humans did not live in empires - or possibly even under much rulership at all. aeon.co/essays/an-ar...

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An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays

A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms

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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Posting this interview I did with J.G.Ballard in late summer 1978: future projections www.jgballard.ca/media/1978_r...

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1978 Search & Destroy JG Ballard interview by Jon Savage

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Almost forgot! Here's my piece about Ike Yard for Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/features/ike... And the short doc I made about how they influenced Madonna www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMa...

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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Evergreen PSA: if an artist of any stripe makes something you like, let them know. They will never not be grateful.

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Louise Quinn @abcquinn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Lovely review of the forthcoming #gatesoflight single Advance out 17.01.25 on @lnfg.bsky.social from @freshonthenetblog.bsky.social curator Will Farr 🙏🏻❤️ Delighted to feature on Will’s Eclectic Mix: willfarrmusic.com/artists/gates-… Artwork by Setta Studio ( @timsaccenti.bsky.social + Dina Chang)

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Robert Beatty @edsunspot.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If people stopped following me on here maybe I’d post more.

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Ace Hotel minibar changing me $666 for a 2am emergency dose of The Substance.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I did a podcast earlier this year for i-D magazine you may find interesting.https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zO7Ehjdnsuu0I5mkjl3mG?go=1&sp_cid=f0bb81e2b5da6a74ad0070cf9b614e42&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=04bf012884fc4ae0

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S3 E2: Cosey Fanni Tutti

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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is a good read from our friend Dave Haslam. Give it a read, well worth your while if your a musician or music fan.

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Passionate but penniless

The creatives in the ‘creative industries’ aren’t getting paid.

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

its crazy to me that the journalism industry is just accepting defeat here. i’m in the fucking trenches posting tiktoks about my work and peers’ work i admire bc this is where the audience is rn. please join me. yes it’s embarrassing. it gets easier.

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 13/12/2024

A bazillion times yes If you make something - ANYTHING - cool, it doesn't stop being cool a week/month/year/decade later Keep shouting about it, you earned it, and other people like hearing about cool stuff!

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Disappointed to realize the "Quiet Posers" tab is really "Quiet Posters"

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Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Remember Robin leaving a message on my answering machine saying he wanted to publish Trainspotting. Mate was up the house saying ‘it’s just one of the boys putting on a noncey voice. Ignore it or every cunt will rip the piss out of you.’ The Mrs and I went to Spain on holiday.

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Sometimes I think I have too much gear for my visual art practice.. then I look at my modular synth friends ..

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Realm of Dusk @realm-of-dusk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Really enjoying this new song by Deb Googe from MBV: dagoogie.bandcamp.com/track/dumb

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Dumb, by da Googie + Cara Tivey

from the album The Golden Thread

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Aphex Twin AKA Richard D. james CHEETAH MS800 Synth photographed by Tim Saccenti. Photographed for the SYRO release on Warp Records, this was the main device used to create the album.

Aphex twin CHEETAH / SYRO synth photographed by Tim Saccenti

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Anton Marini @vade.info · 10/12/2024

I finally got back to the LibAV* in AVFoundation work I was doing. We have smooth playback! This is a test MKV file playing back HEVC in AVFoundation using macOS 15 Media Extensions, vending compressed sample buffers to VideoToolbox’s native decoder!

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spaces how Vmd™ @vmdtm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

oh, autechre! BBC6 music residency tonight!

autechre bbc6 music residency poster via warp records

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Seeing many of the "I love your Art and the want to buy a print" email scams again lately .. be wary ! A variation on this scam reddotblog.com/anatomy-of-a...

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Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The new edition of 'Marshland' contains a dedication to the late Andrew Weatherall and a link to his 'Marshland' mix. If you can't be arsed to buy the book you can listen to it here: www.mixcloud.com/Hackneymarsh...

The cover of Marshland by Gareth E Rees.

Andrew Weatherall in a beret and very comfortable looking jacket.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Sorry so last minute but anyone want a pair of great seats to Interstellar in 70mm IMAX at 1030 in nyc? Got too much work & wife’s got a dog anatomy final tomorrow. People are paying hundreds for them but I’ll do face value.

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Hyperdub @hyperdub.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A nice long read here, Kode9 & Robin Mackay interviewed for clot magazine on audio essays and concepts of time: clotmag.com/oped/audio-e...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/12/2024

This is a fantastic and excoriating takedown of Casey Newton's half-baked propaganda for the generative AI crowd. Follow @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social

Thus far, it seems like Newton’s insistence on AI being “real” comes at the cost of anything resembling a material analysis. Does Newton’s framework offer any insight into why so many people are using generative AI products, into what workplaces are rolling them out and why, into what firms are utilizing them and why? No. Does it offer any insight into what the aforementioned quarter-trillion dollars is being spent on and why? No. Does his focus on whether critics believe AI is “real” or “fake” tell us anything about its resource intensity, technical limitations, potential applications, or harmful impacts? No. Thus far, we are just being sold something indistinguishable from corporate copy.

So where does this leave us? The real/fake and sucks/dangerous framework is at best useless: it overlooks financials, harms, impacts, political economy, and technical detail in favor of press releases and product launches. It bundles any technology that is compute heavy into “AI” as part of a bid to defend generative AI. It misrepresents the views of the sole critic named in its camp (Gary Marcus). If you are interested in phony comfort, this is the framework to use—not one that is skeptical of artificial intelligence.

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William Fields @williamfields.com · 06/12/2024

New Fennesz just dropped

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

UnitedHealthcare vigilante is hot takes coming

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Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (co-edited w/ Lillian-Yvonne Bertram) is out from @mitpress.bsky.social & Counterpath! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981... It’s been awesome to encounter texts & many author/programmers over the years. Glad to share this joy via this book!

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An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created lon...

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 30/11/2024

Stress reduction music for the weekend for you - over 8 hours of unreleased music from Vangelis, originally composed to accompany training videos for student surgeons in microneurosurgery work, in 1998 youtu.be/d_pHch6ceDc?...

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V A N G E L I S / T H E - T E G O S - T A P E S / 1 9 9 8

YouTube video by Prog Rock Dock

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/11/2024

So wheresyoured.at is 50 subscribers away from 46,000, and that puts me within the impossible goal of 50,000. Please help me in my quest to hold the people who have made the computer worse accountable

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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

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Tim Saccenti @timsaccenti.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Add me to your "Post-Rave Ocular-Assault-Squad" pack

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Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

TG are now here @throbbing-gristle.bsky.social Follow for updates⚡️⚡️

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