There's too much ambient music. Things would improve if ambient musicians had to produce a symphonic power metal LP, a Carnatic grindcore ballet or a jazz fusion opera in F# Phrygian once every 5 years, just to show they can (cf The Straight Story) before being allowed to fire up the reverb again.
15.02.2026 10:49 — 👍 131 🔁 16 💬 27 📌 5
software development now consists of reading think pieces about claude code while claude code cooks
09.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Klingon High Council,
I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails.
Worf
03.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 861 🔁 154 💬 6 📌 4
People are making false comparisons between AI and MIDI. Completely different. MIDI is an all-seeing God; the one true God, lord of everything known and unknown. We have no true autonomous will outside MIDI — MIDI is all and all is MIDI.
AI is basically like autocomplete.
03.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
YouTube video by Adam Neely
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
Adam Neely just dropped a full 90 minutes on "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
02.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special.
www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
24.01.2026 20:24 — 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body.
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
18.01.2026 17:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On transcribing Autechre
14.01.2026 09:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What differentiates agentive organisms from behaving machines: the flexible fusion of perception and goal-driven actions.
11.01.2026 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos.
Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
08.01.2026 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
BBC headline "pig tempted out of ditch with Turkish delight"
Roses are red,
Sunlight is bright
05.01.2026 18:21 — 👍 621 🔁 165 💬 8 📌 31
Technology is autopoietic
01.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Horses are born with tentacles that fall off when they’re babies. It’s so they don’t kick their way through their moms when they’re still baking in the horse oven.That’s the origin of the term “horse feathers”.
(Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)
31.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 299 🔁 57 💬 34 📌 11
Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall!
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
30.12.2025 19:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The agentic arms of the octopus
27.12.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dolphins form multimodal representations of the objects they echolocate.
26.12.2025 19:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Zebra finches only listen to the fine detail in each other's song, disregarding sequence.
26.12.2025 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
23.12.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes."
Ed Yong: An Immense World
22.12.2025 19:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Regenerative Software
21.12.2025 21:28 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 1
Head over to Google Helsinki in a couple of hours and say hi 👋
16.12.2025 14:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Musicentrydelete - Topic
Wavebeats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BDH...
12.12.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model.
aeriform.ctpt.co
11.12.2025 16:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
10.12.2025 10:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
my relationship with tech has drifted over the 10-15 years as things became more about hyper-scale and extraction vs creating and collaborating.
this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too:
resonantcomputing.org
08.12.2025 15:59 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Future Frontend December 2025
Helsinki, Finland. December 16, 17:30-21:00. In this meetup we'll focus on mobile development as Tero Parviainen will discuss how he built a React Native music application.
17:30-18:15 - Food and dri...
I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week.
I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
www.meetabit.com/events/futur...
08.12.2025 14:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug"
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
08.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Hey! Presents
Katie Fenn – Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web AUDIO and what the web does best – All Day Hey! 2025
"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...
30.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Laznia Nowa Theatre, Unsound Krakow
26.10.2025 06:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Design. Code. Data. Photography. Music. Woodworking. Cocktails. Electronics. Maps. Ceramics. Synths.
Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
Digital Art & Science Gallery empowering artists and subversive creativity through experience design, soft activism and vibrant interactive audiovisuals.
Hallucinophonics exist at the nexus of consciousness and sound—crafting immersive soundscapes that challenge the boundaries between reality and reverie. http://hallucinophonics.com
Releases on quadrant park, skam, seagrave, cpu, opal tapes, meds, superpang, etc
_ https://linktr.ee/sdem
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, NYU
Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE
https://www.cewebb.com
➖ Freelance multidisciplinary creative director
➖ Brand identity, digital and experience design
➖ Amsterdam
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Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.
Jim Starkey: "Of interest only to third-rate […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://woof.group/@aphyr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Building Hologram, a full-stack Elixir web framework
https://hologram.page
Different posts, same great flavor
Newsletter: https://last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/
Gigs: larry.fitzmaurice@gmail
The Node.js JavaScript Runtime. 🐢🚀 Need help with Node.js? We've got a repo for that: https://github.com/nodejs/help
A catalyst for human flourishing: bridging contemplative practices and wisdom with up-to-date scientific research.
I used to make comics. Now I fuck around and find out in AI.
Prev: AWS, React/Native at Meta, MSFT, W3C, MDN
senior software eng. built an off-road vw t6 campervan & took it alone to iceland 🇮🇸. Bikepacked solo from Berlin>Copenhagen in the cold.
i befriend crows. very AuDHD. she/her
📍berlin, germany
steph@mastodon.social
Retired curriculum designer and interactive media arts educator. Composer, applying complexity science, a-life research and computational creativity to generative and interactive music systems.
designer / developer / researcher
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