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Sound is typically an afterthought because it’s misunderstood. It’s one of the most powerful tools in storytelling. It’s never too early to think about it. Make room at the table for your sound collaborators in pre production.

👇from Oscar winning sound designer, Randy Thom

YouTube video by Arnoud Traa Four years of Ukraine war - Four Organs play the Ukrainian Anthem asynchronously at Russian Embassy.

Artist Teun Castelein has been hiring a street organ every year to play the Ukrainian anthem in front of the Russian embassy, and kept going over the years.
He set up a crowdfund.
Backers will get a a vinyl record with these gloriously discordant sounds i recorded.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLUU...

Prachtig!

An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.

16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

We have two dominant visions for digital tech: one from major corporations that maximizes profit at any cost, and another based on cyberlibertarian ideals that assumes you must code to participate in society.

We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.

Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day.

I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep

labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?"

The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.

Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always

Somethings missing in his history lesson: Colombus started the whole stolen ground business, after Leif Erikson set foot first. The Dutch started New Amsterdam and sold/traded it with the Brits to become New York.
But way before that: people were arriving and mixing it up 14000 years ago.

Wa Hedde Geprompt

Als grap bedoeld maar serieus geworden, een carnavalsnummer gemaakt.

open.spotify.com/track/5JinJf...

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

@franktheunissen.bsky.social ik ben arnoud traa en geluidsontwerper/nature recordist. Ik heb een vraag mbt de wolven die je zo mooi in beeld heb gebracht. Hoe zou ik je kunnen bereiken?

Ah that sounds like more than just a timer app :) I wish i could be more helpful but i just keep a to do list. And not as busy as you are, me thinks.

The alarm clock on your phone?

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused.

So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

@georgevlad.bsky.social

It was! We were ‘unlucky’ with soft weather (too warm for this month), but got some great material. Learned a lot from George Pete and Sten. If you ever have a chance to join George some place, i highly recommend!

Spent the week in Romania on Field Recording Expedition led by George Vlad with Pete Smith / Sten Kloot. We recorded beautiful ambiences and animals ( #wolves and #bizon!) in ultra quiet forest and on ice lakes. Here’s a quick impression in some photo’s. #fieldrecording #bucovina #winter

Haha, that should be fine just drive!

Did you manage to get it home?

Phantom tinnitus! The bane of our existence as sound editors

Ah sorry was looking on smartphone screen, but should have zoomed in!

You are zoomed on to the max on a selection. This is a bug :)

Boycot het Trump-WK in de VS Nu deelnemen aan een sportevenement alsof er niets aan de hand is, legitimeert Trumps expansieve politiek. Laat ons land en onze voetballers aan de goede kant van de geschiedenis staan. Hou onze jonge...

Voetbal is geen politiek. Daarom vind ik deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? Sharing is caring!
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

Imagine if all music inventions were treated the way AI is. “The bassoon is an inevitable part of music now. We have to learn to live with it. You must find ways of incorporating bassoon into all music you create because the line between human and bassoon will soon become erased.”

Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch draaiboek in de hand, zegt hoofdredacteur @robwijnberg.bsky.social. Wie dat overdreven vindt, is óf gevaarlijk ongeïnformeerd, óf gevaarlijk naïef.

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Opinie: ‘Terughoudende reactie op Iran laat zien hoe diep links en islamisme verweven zijn’ Het valt promovendus Ehsan Jami op hoe terughoudend linkse groeperingen in het Westen reageren op de opstand in Iran. In dit opiniestuk legt hij uit waar dat, volgens hem, vandaan komt.

Fsame kind of “where is the response from the Left” here in the Netherlands in the shape of an op-ed. Dutch newspaper so translation is necessary. www.parool.nl/columns-opin...

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t It’s still easy to get Grok to edit photographs of real people into sexualized poses, despite X’s updated restrictions.

X is claiming it’s restricted the ability to generate explicit deepfakes with Grok, and plenty of media outlets are parroting it without checking.

But it’s still easy to get Grok to generate the very same “undressing” photos causing this scandal in the first place.

Elon Musk’s X must be banned Regulators need to stop cowering before the richest man in the world

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.

It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

Way to go Hilton!!!!

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago