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Yann Novak

@yannnovak.com
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└ Queer Artist, Composer & Technologist └ Housefather at @dragonseyerecordings.com └ Preservationist at @substratum.digital └ Developer at @3n.design └ 💍 to @robert.takahashinovak.com 📍Los Angeles, CA 🏳️‍🌈 www.yannnovak.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h
openAIs next product is going to be a gun that shoots you in the head so your agent can live your life for you
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 14h
Was going to look for new clients today, but ACF decided to push an update last month that is totally incompatible with my style, so now I am going to go update the last 2 years of client site so they are back to the way I intended them to me. From looking to work to free work yay!
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19h
from what i can gather, tech CEOs greatest ambitions started at "cure all cancer" and is now to give everyone their own secretary
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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This book is about the administration of harassment complaints on campuses, our ideas about campus safety/security, sexual vulnerability and the institution. It's out of print so, with the publisher's permission, I am sharing a PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1S5vE...
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Doyle Campus Sex Campus Security.pdf
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 29/09/2026
I have felt weird about Apple Messages ever since iOS 27 came out and Apple Intelligence is turned on for some many people that don’t realize what they are opting in to and that they are opting in every one the talk to as well. Thinking about Meta having that data is so much worse!
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 26/09/2026
@reckless.bsky.social, I just go a nose bleed from his jump from the Spotify metaphor to the Swiss cheese metaphor. The musician (like myself) working in those holes in the cheese are the exact ones that the Spotify model fails the most.
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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen again: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia / 11th September 2026 15th: #Drone Tracklist Playing tracks by mHz, Yann Novak, our dear friend, the medic, Ellen Fullman, Timothy Fairless and more. @yannnovak.com | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/soun...
Poster titled "SOUNDS TOWARD A QUEER AMBITOPIA" presenting a curated playlist of experimental electronic tracks (e.g., mHz, Yann Novak, Ellen Fullman, Timothy Fairless) with event details 27 • 09.11.2026 • 18:00–19:00 CEST and a CAMP logo.
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s actually discouraging how much of the discourse gets diverted to “AI good or AI bad” when the obvious and more pressing issue is “AI *companies* are definitely bad”
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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mHz @millihertz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Out now via @room40.bsky.social: "Prime Frequencies" — a sonic exploration of prime numbers through sinewaves and algorithmic composition. Limited Edition CD + book of spectral artworks Includes interactive source code – playable in a browser or locally millihertz.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...
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Jennifer Karppinen @atlsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This episode alone makes my recent Verge sub renewal so worth it. @reckless.bsky.social gets to the heart of the issues, which is probably why Mark Zuckerberg declined to come on Decoder. www.theverge.com/podcast/9993...
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What Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer about Meta Glasses, Muse, and teen safety
It’s a big week for Meta, and for Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s what we think the CEO of Meta needs to answer about the company’s product strategy.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
tell me, what kind of pronouns should we use for Artificial/Superior Intelligence that Makes America Great Again?
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 21/09/2026
That one AI burrito going around a few weeks ago literally gave me Trypophobia. I went to a restaurant with AI images in the menu recently and had to cover them with my hand because they were making me feel so sick. I don’t think that is the outcome you want from images of food on your menu…
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
if lauren boebert isn’t too scared to eat pussy despite actively destroying lgbt rights then there’s really no excuse for the rest of you bisexual women
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liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know it's a cliche at this point to say but music bloggers were truly the canary in the coal mine for having their work ingested into ai systems that replaced them when echo nest used the whole music blogosphere to create data sets for streaming service rec systems. BuT iT's JuSt MuSiC
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026
‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is wild: scammers are hijacking real artists' official Spotify pages with AI slop to make $$$. We know this because we did it. We made AI music and put it on a real band's page. It was shockingly easy. There is a gaping hole in how music is digitally distributed www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2026
When the edible hits and you’re at the Taco Bell drive thru.
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Dragon's Eye Recordings @dragonseyerecordings.com · 15/09/2026
Help DER artist @vwijimusic.bsky.social finish her album: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/in-the-sha...
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In The Shadow of Forests: Help Me Finish My Album
Help me finish and release my debut album In The Shadow of Forests and create its cinematic music video Night Howler.
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 14/09/2026
People reading my husbands book with @room40.bsky.social, always cool to see! @robert.takahashinovak.com
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Football is the gayest sport that's not full contact dick sucking AND EVEN THEN
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 12/09/2026
Now streaming on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/soun...
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Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia / 11th September 2026 by CAMP
LA-based composer Yann Novak imagines sonic worlds beyond the utopian/dystopian binary—through queer and queered sounds. || @yannnovak || www.yannnovak.com || https://instagram.com/yannnovak || https:...
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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
6-7pm: Sounds Toward a Queer Ambitopia LA-based composer Yann Novak imagines sonic worlds beyond the utopian/dystopian binary—through queer and queered sounds. @yannnovak.com | www.yannnovak.com #Ambient #Drone #Experimental #Pop #Queer *⏰️CEST
Promotional poster for a playlist/radio program titled "Sounds Toward a Queer Ambitopia," with a dotted white title, a vertical tracklist of experimental/ambient artists (names shown), and event date 09.11.2026, 18:00–19:00 CEST on a black-to-magenta gradient.
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 11/09/2026
A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, this month I feature a number of tracks from my upcoming release 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮, surrounded by tracks off upcoming releases I am really excited about! 📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp
Flyer with a black background with a yellow  streak across the top and a pink line across the center. White text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; Playlist; mHz — Sextuplets; Yann Novak — Metric of Caution [live]; Yann Novak — Zones of Privacy (Ian Wellman Remix); Yann Novak — Context Collapse (Geneva Skeen [psychopompos] Remix); our dear friend, the medic — like warm lamps did the apples glow against the breezy shade; Ellen Fullman — Dream Branch - Intimate Glint; Timothy Fairless — Friction (No 4 AM Phone Call from Tokyo); Rhins  — Spectrum Collectors; (K)NoW_NAME — Sewage. Episode 27, 09.11.2026, 18:00-19:00 CET, CAMP (logo).
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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Friday! listen.camp 4-5pm: Nya Ljud @rikardfvs.bsky.social 5-6pm: durations @ianvine.com 6-7pm: Sounds Toward a Queer Ambitopia @yannnovak.com 7-9pm: OBLADADA SONIKO @johnjnicol.bsky.social Show notes: www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio *⏰️CEST
Promotional collage for experimental ambient/noise music showing mirrored antique telephone receivers, circuit boards, and two mirrored figures playing panpipes, overlaid with repeated "nya ljud" text and the genre label "Experimental; Ambience; Noise."Faint grid of small line charts on a dark background, each panel showing different zigzag or diagonal trend lines over axes, suggesting multiple data comparisons.SOUNDS TOWARD A QUEER AMBITOPIA — poster header with a playlist of experimental tracks (including Yann Novak and Ellen Fullman), plus event details 27 · 09.11.2026 · 18:00–19:00 CEST and a CAMP logo.Large pale mushroom with a hollow, rounded hole in its conical cap rising from green grass, framed like an album cover with white text at the bottom reading "Obladada Soniko 61 SPACKAPSULOJ".
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026
the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 07/09/2026
Maybe I have ADHD? This is how I spent my entire stay-at-home vacation.
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 07/09/2026
Machine speed is a con and we don't have to buy it.
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Unsafe At Any Speed
Are LLMs saving us time? If so, time for what?
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/09/2026
make bad art
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 04/09/2026
Bandcamp Friday Rec: I have a new album of remixes and live tracks coming out soon and its available to pre-order now.
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helleano)))r @listeninggarden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
keep your eyes here & on your bandcamp email deluge tomorrow - my new record is releasing on bandcamp friday, and i'm quite excited to bring you in to this new little sanctuary 💗
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 03/09/2026
Thankfully ChatGPT is back up so I'm now able to form an opinion on this news. Was scary not knowing what to think about anything for a second.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 31/08/2026
join the DSA
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Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
the general range of my emotions
This much I know
Kim Cattrall: 'I don't want to be in a situation for even an hourina garten saying “I just love having a good time.
And I don't see any reason why I shouldn't.”
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 28/08/2026
My critique of the album is still better: "the best music to listen to while reading Appleseed on a plane". But its also very deserving of the Album of the Year title too! Congrats @room40.bsky.social !
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 26/08/2026
This is my first post after migrating to northsky.social! It took a long time to get the invite, but the migration could not have been easier! Thanks for all your hard work @transrights.northsky.social, it was super smooth and its very exciting to see different PDS popping up and collaborating!
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djoyce @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
if you are a gay icon STAY INSIDE!!! it’s DANGEROUS OUT HERE!!!!!
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 23/08/2026
I am self-hosting my own CardDAV for reasons… its limitations make me dream of a federated address book. Imagine if you could host and share your own contact card and even set permissions for it. So the people that you share it with can’t share it with others, or with external apps unless you ok it.
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 21/08/2026
I just saw the AI burrito image, and saw people talking about a phobia in the comments, so I did a search for it... forgetting I was on the image search tab, and have now confirmed from the results that I too have that phobia.
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Dragon's Eye Recordings @dragonseyerecordings.com · 21/08/2026
Built from field recordings gathered far from his home, @timothyfairless.bsky.social' album 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 draws together sounds captured deep inside a Swiss mountain, among the crowds of Tokyo's Asakusa district, and in quiet corners of London. 📌 PRE-ORDER → timothyfairless.bandcamp.com/album/friction
An album cover with a white background and text centered at the top that reads “Timothy Fairless, Friction, de6089.”  The center has photograph of an owl starting to take flight, the image has been digitally processed to look inverted and then colorized in pinks, oranges, and yellows, with the branch its taking off from looking like psychedelic worms, it almost looks like a heat-map, but the colors to not correspond to heat. The bottom feature the triangular Dragon's Eye Recordings logo. A photo of Timothy Fairless, he is sitting at a wooden table with white legs and is wearing a teal jumper. He has his head on the table an one hand grasping the table lightly and is looking directly at the camera. The backdrop is bright pink.
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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Friends my new album w/ Eugene Thacker is out today. Very happy that I'm seeing its release. Can't thank Jordan, @thebookofeliw.bsky.social, Devin, @codydefalco.bsky.social enough. Go ahead & listen! siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...
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Songs for Sad Poets Vol. III, by Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker
3 track album
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 21/08/2026
I wrote a little follow up to my last piece, this time imagining a world without search traffic as a collective action problem. I imagine a first step to solving this problem is one where we just start linking to and thus supporting the artists & creative people we love www.3n.design/journal/disc...
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Discovery at Human Scale
Are you as exhausted by AI discourse as I am? Good, bad, boom, gloom, blah blah blah. I’m so tired of it—but I also feel like I have to pay attention, because it’s infesting so many parts of my professional life whether I like it or not. One of the places I’ve paid closest attention […]
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 20/08/2026
Whatever email client allows people to 'Like' emails needs to go to hell. Getting emails from a client that say "like John Doe reacted to your message" in huge bold type is such a waste of time and contributes nothing. (I think its Microsoft?)
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BGR @bgrcom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Prime Video's The Peripheral, is based on William Gibson's cyberpunk novel of the same name, which was sadly canceled due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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Amazon's Cyberpunk Series Based On A William Gibson Novel Deserved A Second Season - BGR
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Headline from WSJ, screenshotted, saying "Chinese Censorship Is Leaking Into Answers from American AI: ChatGPT, Claud and Gemini unwittingly respond like China's censored chatbots when asked some sensitive questions" Headline from the Washington Post, that says: "Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight: from writing speeches to sorting constituent mail, AI is spreading through Congress faster than the rules governing its use"
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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 13/08/2026
With all the dumb talk of 'Bluesky dying' I thought it was a good time to repost this little bit of writing I did about Descaling, it does not line up exactly, but my god, not everything has to scale to the lowest common denominator, and some thing shouldn't! www.3n.design/journal/an-a...
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An Argument for Descaling
For the last few years I’ve been quietly dreading Google Zero, the term coined by Nilay Patel 1 for the day Google stops sending traffic to websites at all. As someone who makes his living building websites, and who has his own to worry about, it felt like watching a slow-motion collapse I couldn’t do […]
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's none of my business whether the website I post on is growing, shrinking, staying the same. I am yelling at the sky and whoever wants to gawk at me is welcome
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