Neil from BeatBalance

A screenshot of WhatsApp, with the Meta AI circle in the bottom left replaced by the baleful robotic eye of HAL 9000

A row of red ‘Mario’ branded Pringles cans, above which is a row of normal, non branded green Pringles cans

Luigi got done dirty AGAIN

Hullloooooooo! 👋

Morrison’s really need to decide to consistently categorise their aisles by either nationality of foodstuff or type. Is risotto rice ‘Italian’ or ‘rice’? (Rice) whereas pasta is ‘Italian’

Then the other grains are in an unlabeled section between ‘gravy mixes’ and ‘canned vegetables’ (of course)

Ah shame, not sure we can be out that late with a small baby but will be fantastic I’m sure!

Oooh. Are there any matinee performances?

A photo of a huge and beautiful 1930s art deco Wurlitzer cinema organ

A photo of a huge and beautiful 1930s art deco Wurlitzer cinema organ focusing on the keyboards and stops

A photo of a huge and beautiful 1930s art deco Wurlitzer cinema organ showing its decorative lights

For some reason my partner was a bit sceptical when I asked her to follow me down a dark corridor in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall so I could show her a gigantic and beautiful organ

Loving this Analogue Solutions Fusebox

The Boris Johnson emoji

the way it handles polyphony is super cool! 😍

The Way Out of Easy, by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet 4 track album

Been experimenting with this new recommendation algorithm called 'asking my friends about what they like' and let me tell you this record is a record that I do like a whole lot, meditative, human and just generally a vibe intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...

sweet

Listened to the Three Moves Ahead interview with the devs www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes... which was super interesting and also had some discussion of Gene Wolfe as inspiration (I'm reading Book of the New Sun atm). Can't wait to play it (in 2035 at this rate lol)

Caves of Qud?

Gone’ try my best to make it

Petitioning Unicode to make ‘emojus’ the singular form

After having listened to this about 15 times in the last week, strongly agree with @brianmck.bsky.social’s assessment here

It’s as far from the idea of music as a pre-packaged commodity produced in isolation as it is possible to get.

Super nice time at the Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra open session on Tuesday.

Just the purest expression of what’s most vital for me about music- being in a place together with people, weaving something together out of nothing. Magic.

I'm fully aware this is probably of limited practical interest to you :P

A really surprising amount of stuff can be achieved with the MIDI transformation plugins in Bitwig, they're really good. If you want a way to do this stuff in a DIN MIDI box you can just plug into stuff wo a computer (probably not I appreciate) Blokas MIDIHub is v cool as well tho more limited

The novel thing about the economics of streaming is not that artists are being paid a pittance while middlemen profit, it’s that transparent accounting and consequently fair compensation are absolutely technically possible with little effort but deliberately withheld

Or indeed that the record industry used to be not a place where hugely successful stars were often broke/living on small wages/sometimes never paid at all while the record sales money mysteriously disappeared

Rather than ‘an actually pretty small number of mostly white mostly men became extremely rich off selling records’

The thing about being ethical is it sort of requires you to consider your actions and their consequences. It can't really be outsourced for a small fee

ohhhhh yeahhh

My favourite feature of Google’s AI summaries is definitely how it will regularly hallucinate non-existent features of software I’m trying to use, or just now a completely fictitious WWDC talk

Absolute banger of a Pissarro quote in the background section there

The next stage after that will be to start looking at running proper experiments

In order to really start looking at those questions I think we've all asked ourselves... eg 'if I practise this for twice as long, how much better will that make me' / 'what is the ideal tempo for me to be practicing this at' / 'what time of day is best for me to practice' etc