Chandan Narayan

this was a real thing and the department of licensing blamed new technology so i’m pretty sure that means they got sold an ai service

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

is there anything in the Epstein files about how Big Algorithm needs to force a new band in costumes into our lives every six months?

I think “long john” is doing some work here

I'm looking forward to the birth of Enoch Powell Vance

RIP to Éliane Radigue (1932-2026)

thank you for taking my ears to places beyond...
places of suspended time...

a huge influence.

TIL Mike Lee’s middle name is ALF’s last name

Team MultiTierPressureCooker, rice and dal in one go

That's ironic given that Ohala, whose work inspired (I think) the whole LabPhon enterprise, used to teach "Phonetics and Phonology", which was just articulatory and acoustic phonetics (with a bit of morphology of sea mammal flippers)

Ready for the enterprise software boomerang where universities go back to hosting their own email and file sharing in a closet full of Debian servers

What I was doing 34 years ago tonight

YouTube video by LouReedDiscography Lou Reed ~ Underneath the Bottle

I wonder if LR ever met Paul Simon. I feel Blue Mask and Graceland are really similar. Both responses to middle age, maybe it's Fernando Saunders's bass tone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x663...

Happy Family Day, fellow Canadians! (except Nova Scotians, Prince Edward Islanders, and Manitobans)

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

It was a wonderful time when you just look under the passenger seat and go, “I really don’t need this Tom waits cd” and bam, $5

Bebop looking mfers

Bundy

Margot Robbie as Sec. Hillary Clinton

Why Kids Are Starting to Sound Like Their Grandparents

Like my grandmother always said, “bruh that’s lowkey fire”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

This happened to us a couple of times last year and the kind folks at hakim at cedarbrae were able to stuff the old lenses into el cheapo frames

so good. next-level shit right there

TIL "bawitdaba" was recorded in the same studio as DonCab2.
save this for if youre ever on jeopardy! @mitchberghini.bsky.social

Great spoonerism just now by former mtv vj, Allison stewart: epioid opidemic

Nice tiffin carrier

I used to see green day monthly at Gilman st way back when and idolized Montana/Rice. Fucking bizarre as hell watching them on tv from Toronto on a stage a mile from where I went to high school

lol have you heard how they say pasta or taco or drama or bagel? It’s insane!

Ask the Ages - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_the...

place where trees stand in the water 10", by NINA (Cogburn/Jones/Tonne) 0 track album

10" by Chris Cogburn (percussion from Mexico), Bonnie Jones (electronics from RI), Liz Tonne (voice from Boston)

ninacogburnjonestonne.bandcamp.com/album/place-...

Ask the Sages, by Western Ghats 6 track album

Western Ghats: Marshall Trammell (percussion from Kansas City) and Me (on veena)

westernghats.bandcamp.com/album/ask-th...

Live at the Western Front, by Tetuzi Akiyama & Jeffrey Allport 0 track album

12" from Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar assassin from Japan) and Jeffrey Allport (snare and beer from Saskatchewan)

tetuziakiyamajeffreyallport.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...