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...if the way out is blocked, one must either turn back or remain on the threshold until such time as the way is clear: 'Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed.' #adorno | #osborne

Paik once told a story about buying books in Japan: he succeeded in buying all the most important Japanese philosophical works on the subject of time, in order to study them in the original, only to discover on his return to New York that he didn't have time to read them. [An alchemical symbol for Fire (a triangle with its tip pointing up) with rays of light drawn as lines issuing from each line's bisector.]

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Paik once told a story about buying books in Japan: he succeeded in buying all the most important Japanese philosophical works on the subject of time, in order to study them in the original, only to discover on his return to New York that he didn't have time to read them.

YouTube video by Einstein Forum Peter Galison: AI Has No Judgment

The always worthwhile, Peter Galison:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRat...

Player issues:
icecast.bidstonobservatory.org:8443/domes

Domes FM Lendl's Anxiety Emoji 5 Aug 20h00 (London Time).

domes.bidstonobservatory.org

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

I'VE TAKEN A CONTROVERSIAL NEW PILL THAT ACCELERATES mY BRAIN. SO YOURE SMART NOW? I'M STUPID FASTER.

LLMs explained

Uploaded here...
foibles & warts all in.
www.mixcloud.com/lendl/250802...

Emancipatory politics always destroys the appearance of a 'natural order', reveals what is presented as necessary & inevitable to be mere contingency, as it makes what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable. (A modified Mark Fisher quote.)

5-hour DJ set
Passos Manuel
Porto
2 August

On some level, I understand why some people are asking ChatGPT all sorts of inane questions, but I don't think they understand how doing so robs them of developing the skills of critical thinking and problem-solving, and how good it feels to figure something out.

You probably tried this:

There is a "decoding cache settings" area in preferences... you cna set min, max & "cleanup".

Maybe that helps?

Any Ableton peeps, can you help with this?

So genuine & generous. 🤓

doi.org/10.1080/0969... [Behind Paywall]

The Sea Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2025)

R.I.P. Charlie Blake, your infinite erudition, constant curiousity & unrelenting generosity was a model for all of us.

One of his last edited collections, with an introduction written with Helen Palmer, "The Sea a literary-philosophical immersion"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘It can bring you to tears’: is this the world’s most beautiful sounding nightclub? Transformed from a second world war bunker into Germany’s buzziest dance venue, the acoustics at Open Ground in Wuppertal are raved about by DJs such as Floating Points – and may even be good for your...

High-fidelity hyper-mongers still be at work...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Israel is a terrorist organization.

Just heard it.
So good.

Problem here is the low €s everywhere (broke country)...
Livraria Trama & Rosebud

(I'll ask them.)

Hope Porto becomes a stop for ya. 🤓

if you're a bookshop/university/festival/whatever & would like to invite me to speak/read/be on a panel about my book, please get in touch...

icymi re @bandcamp.com

jacobin.com/2023/12/band...

Not only did Renee Gladman write original stories & worldbuilding for a new roleplaying game, she also received a "Best Writing" nomination her first time ever working on a TTRPG! Check out The Details of Our Escape, and consider voting for it in the ENnie Awards! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/

FEMS: FEMINIST EXTREME MUSIC & SOUND ROUNDTABLE - ONLINE EVENT KEYNOTE: Professor Jack Halberstam (Queer Masculinity, The Queer Art of Failure, and GaGa Feminism)

fyi www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fems-femin...

If you're copying links from Firefox, recent versions include 'Copy Clean Link' on the context menu which automagically removes all this tracking gubbins for you. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enh...

Keep me in the loop, always love to read ya.

Ditto, on hoping you're well.

(In low-key mode, & good.)

If Portugal's in the plans,
we'll cross to continue an infinite dialogue.
🤓

Transformations in Shifting Models: Reorienting with DeepDream We propose a framework for sonic creativity via computational methods and artificial intelligence research. We extend Norman Sieroka’s theory of sound from a 3-fold to a 4-fold hierarchy so that sound...

Much of this would have to be rewritten given computational developments over the last 9 years, but its gist seems active still.

www.jcms.org.uk/article/id/5...

"Anthroposchematism" was a word we used to throw around as a quick cmprßn of the reduction of transcental structuration to "human phenomenologies".

LLM "inner worlds" is a nice way to positively frame that critique.

Companies (& Institutions) explicitly named in the UN report (A/HRC/59/23):
Technical University of Munich
University of Edinburgh
Ben Gurion University
6/6

Source:
www.un.org/unispal/docu...