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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 17h

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AI Slop Wed, Oct 14 at 1 PM ET Daniel Solove chats with Jessica Silbey (BU Law) and Woodrow Hartzog (BU Law) about their thought-provoking article, AI

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I keep asking why efficiency is more important than any other quality, and no one seems to be able to provide a substantive answer, other than in the service of $SOMETHING_ELSE which they either failed to articulate, or actively avoid saying out loud.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I generally like chickpeas, and I like pasta, so I tried pasta made from chickpeas. This was a grossly errant choice. Chickpea pasta is the bathroom tile grout of the culinary world, and whoever conceived of it should be beaned in the face with a bucket of frozen farfalle at high velocity.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SmallBlack is one of my favorite contemporary synthpop groups. Ever since "No Stranger" , they've put out a catalog of luxuriously melancholic pop and chill/new-wave style production, clearly inspired by groups like The Blue Nile and OMD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdox...

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Small Black - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Actually Youtube... "If I could find the same content on an FTP with a flat html frontend, I’d weep with joy compared to the negation of actual utility YT currently provides." zeruch.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/a...

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Actually Youtube…

…no one wonders what it gives us, because all past behavior points to the same things: the product gets cancelled outright (unlikely, but Alphabet/Google do have a track record) the product g…

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble x The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation live. Truly weird but beautifully cinematic music (given the members mostly composed for film, it kind of makes sense though, even if the band names don't because almost every member is Dutch) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGf1...

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The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble x The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Berlin Reunion [Full Show]

YouTube video by The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No one cares. Very much a too little too late scenario, and Tillis is now on his hopeless redemption PR tour, hopefully to no avail.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” - Edward R Murrow

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From 2012, a #drawing using Pentel brush pens, of German model and fellow DevArt denizen, Miss Souls. #art #illustration

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been a fan of Angolan MC/singer Pongo for some time, but I had no idea one of her tunes had been remixed by Anoraak (a French musician/DJ who often blends new wave and electro-disco into fresh sounds) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUU...

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PONGO - Quero Mais (Anoraak Remix)

YouTube video by PONGO

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A great soundboard grade live recording of #LivingColour in 2003; few bands to this day are peers to them live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZ_...

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Living Colour - Jazz Festival CH-Willisau 2003

YouTube video by comilfo

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#art: a mixed media illustration of #jazz bassist Charlie #Mingus. This was a preliminary iteration of what I ultimately published and sold as a print for a while:

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#art - a #drawing of former poet laureate of San Jose, Mighty Mike McGee. From a few years back, done with a parallel pen.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nearly a decade on, Helen is the best musical export I've heard from Romania; fun well produced electro-pop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enmp...

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Helen - Under | Official Video

YouTube video by Helen

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026

This is huge news, especially for all the "Bluesky isn't really decentralized" folks. Having the PLC Org as wholly independent is a big, important step forward. And great to see that Filippo is part of it...

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just keep a 1080p copy on my media server (I haven't had cable for decades, and don't have any streaming services).

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And Press Your Luck is prediction markets with a heaping dose of delusional manipulation

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This really is more accurate than not. Blue sky is far from perfect, but the quality of the discourse is by and large better than pretty much everything except Mastodon, but it has better scaling at this point. That may change, but so far it's moderation and it's subsequent "bubble" is holding well.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't know about broadsheets, but I'm at the point where I'm seriously going to start offering local bands Incredibly cheap illustration work, either original or licensing my existing body of work, just so that I don't have to see perfectly good music venues polluted with incredibly bad art.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Late night #mural work is a nice way to start the weekend, especially when it's something that you had stalled on for a year and a half. #art

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Outside of Skinny Puppy and Concrete Vehicles, I don't really think of Canada when I listen to post-punk (let alone industrial), but here's a nice history-spanning mix of Maple music contributions to the genre: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN5i...

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Canadian Post-Punk, Industrial and Synth Wave Mix 【 THE NTS GUIDE TO… 】

YouTube video by NTS

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#BlocParty is returning, and while I don't find "Clark Kent" their best, it certainly keeps in line with what folks who like UK indie/post-punk inflected pop. It's very safe, which is not what I expect from them. but I need to hear the whole album first I suppose... www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0rb...

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Bloc Party - Clark Kent (Visualiser) (Official)

YouTube video by BlocPartyVEVO

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Because insufferable histrionic posturing is the default for ideological scolds. It's how they self-actualize.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#sketchbook September 2026. A parallel pen #drawing of Jerry Cantrell (most famous for being in Alice in Chains). #art

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That really is the root of a lot of critics of Mamdani. He's actually just doing the job competently. He's not perfect, he's not superhuman, just focused and competent, and not casually swayed by amoral opportunism. That's it. That is readily available all over the place, if people elected it.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not gonna lie, it's not her best, but Chaka Khan is still putting out albums and they are all still listenable (remember the earworm "Sugar" she put out a few years ago?) but this collaboration with Lenny Kravitz is a good tune, just not what I expect from her: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL1O...

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Chaka Khan & Lenny Kravitz - Bring the Party (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Chaka Khan

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ministry has often taken current events and run them through a low-budget, high fidelity hellscape of mockery and rage, fueled by courageous levels of drugs and noise. Their latest, "Singularity" keeps the formula intact, with an AI video that's more ironic than ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZczR...

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Ministry - Singularity (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Cleopatra Records

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Things I learned today: there is a soundtrack to a Francis Ford Coppola film that features #TomWaits and #CrystalGayle. Whatta combo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngDL...

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Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle - One From The Heart (1982) [FULL ALBUM]

YouTube video by 400 Películas

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, that's different. A #DeLorean with aspirations of fluxiness. Spotted between Santa Clara and San Benito Counties. #backtothefuture is still a dull film for me, but this was hilarious to spot.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Humans are better at imagining risk than calculating it. We overweight rare, dramatic risks and underweight ordinary ones. That’s why we fear plane crashes more than falls or car accidents. AI is similar, governments and scammers use it to harm people today, but an imagined Skynet is scarier.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rage Against the Tartine Poutine Enemy Simple Mince

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was feeling fancy, but not Motley Le Creuset fancy.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm calling Sho Kosugi to come secretly move all your furniture while you sleep.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/09/2026

"Many of us, rather than regarding voting as one more bit of annoying work that has to be done to keep our governments on track, regard voting as a singular opportunity to express ourselves." (from July 2024) www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

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Elections Are Purely Practical

Don’t be vain about your vote.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026

Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#sketchbook September 2026. The pianist. Cretacolor graphite pencil, pen + ink. #art #drawing

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Helms Alee live at The Bottom of the Hill in SF (one of its best live venues). #livemusic

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Based on his comment, probably random radio signals through his foil hat.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The incandescent rage I have every time I need ANOTHER app to use ANOTHER random ticketing system that won't simply send .pdf tickets to email, just so they can have app telemetry info...is searing. I literally have to use the app, then intentionally remove all permissions/uninstall. #darkpattern

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Travel is the best opportunity for me to learn regional variance in cuisines (because they always exist, even in the tiniest of nations) and I've rarely been disappointed in the task of exploring reasons to eat.

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#art: "the flaws that make you dear to me" (1 & 2) "started from mixed media (almost entirely acrylic paint, acrylic ink, and various markers) on wood panel...re-stacked into a dozen layers, where further and final (digital) compositing happened. Details here: zeruch.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/a...

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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#art, in this case a portrait #drawing of Mr. Gallego, delivered to him down in japantown in DTSJ.

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