Andrew C. Smith

less doomscrolling more roomscrolling

the sage prophet of discogs reissue labels speaks

shout out to Leo Seligo, who attended a @caseyanderson.bsky.social soldering workshop at @anindexof.bsky.social as a middle schooler with his mom and now is apparently transferring tapes of cage and la monte young

the la monte interview has 25 plays and is very likely the only available recording

La Monte Young Interview - July 10, 1984 Transfigured New York presents conversations with iconic, genre-bending artists who shaped the sounds of experimental movements like no wave, avant-jazz, and electronic music. As an undergrad in the 1

unbelievable trove of interviews by Brooke Wentz that I found on linkedin of all places, from a former intern who transferred and cleaned up the cassette recordings. here's an interview with La Monte Young in 1984.

soundcloud.com/transfigured...

A photo of a very small mouse inside a green translucent trap

we caught a mouse so we named it gpt5-mini and released it into the wild*

*the chatgpt office a couple blocks from my house

blueb’s cluebs

“PhD Level Expert” is the best way of describing someone who can’t tell you how many rs are in strawberry

For the friends of The Lab here, this is the project that my predecessor Dena Beard has been developing at EMPAC in NY! Great lineup.

Brown just agreed to declare Trans people do not exist on their campus forevermore

A "coming soon" screen for Microsoft 365 Copilot with a bunch of text boxes that look warped and pixellated in crazy ways saying things like "generate a powerpoint presentation from the contents of this document" (the product doesn't exist yet)

out of curiosity I attempted to try out microsoft 365 copilot chat and I don't think I've ever encountered a more "graphic design is my passion" wait screen from a 3 trillion dollar company

been using the flexeril prescribed years ago for a back muscle spasm off and on once a year or so since and it’s never failed me yet

10/10 no notes, good juice, many worthy entries into @thelouvreof.bsky.social

YouTube video by dancewalhalla The Best Show on WFMU :: Bad Company-ing Supercut

If you have yet to hear tom scharpling “bad company” someone let me introduce you to the best show youtu.be/EcJ0EdH8To8?...

The OJ Simpson trial, with my whole 3rd grade class, for over a week straight

$31 billion endowment as I read the balance sheet? Curious where $25B is from? But yes I agree 100% on principle. Though in this context it’s not like a progressive and well thought-through tax policy.

I'm trying to figure out the math but I didn't go to MIT

Total 2024 OpEx was $4.3B. Their net return on investments in 2024 was ~$2.2B (wow), and 8% tax on that would be $174M. That's 4% of OpEx, not 10%. Am I missing something?

2024 Treasurer's Report: facultygovernance.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

yes we did it we found the Oops All Bugs of python libraries

I cannot wait to use it

tbh I feel like art history and mathematics are maybe the two most essential things to preserve for our future AI overlords

What’s the German word for the feeling of having just dropped a fish head behind the refrigerator

Not sure if it’s the healthiest way to avoid checking my emails for an afternoon but it’s definitely the most effective

Yeah! Batch 4 now after a decade long hiatus. All-grain northwest style IPA.

A very medieval image of hops being harvested on a package of hops

The design on this dose of hops goes hard

what philistine has a singular home “bookshelf”

Screenshot of email from Bloomberg: Does hearing the names Little Caesars, Dunkin’, Jersey Mike’s or Wingstop make you a little hungry? How about Bain Capital? Well soon that last one just might, as the Wall Street standby is said to have raised about $1 billion in term loans to buy Sizzling Platter, a restaurant franchisee that operates locations of the above brand names. Image is of a Dunkin' in a sunny suburban location with a fairly recently planned deciduous tree and a drive thru.

america runs on private equity

Congratulations to “cool micky mouse combined with shirtless sephiroth”

someone needs to invite that guy to the lab so we can make fun of him in person

cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

Legendary day for haters

Mike Bloomberg alone spent more money on Andrew Cuomo’s campaign than @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social raised and spent *in total.* Mutually supportive principled leaders w a dedicated base of people who care can beat back the billionaires & machine pols. People power FTW www.nyccfb.info/VSApps/WebFo...