Luke Ferdinand
@lukeferdinand.com
I play music in Pittsburgh. I do tech in libraries
As someone who has largely skipped a few generations of games that focus on shooting things, arc raiders is completely inscrutable to me
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
As someone who has largely skipped a few generations of games that focus on shooting things, arc raiders is completely inscrutable to me
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34% of tracks being uploaded to Deezer are now fully generative AI. This can’t be unique to Deezer, the only difference is they share their data musically.com/2025/11/12/5...
50,000 AI-music tracks are now uploaded to Deezer every day
Deezer says that roughly 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, accounting for 34% of all music delivered to it.
musically.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
34% of tracks being uploaded to Deezer are now fully generative AI. This can’t be unique to Deezer, the only difference is they share their data musically.com/2025/11/12/5...
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Denoisers are usually seen as very clinical editing tools but I like the way they work on pads in place of a typical filter, especially after you add reverb+delay back in afterwards and how the "artifacts" interact with them. Doing EQ/filter preprocessing before the denoiser also sounds cool.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Denoisers are usually seen as very clinical editing tools but I like the way they work on pads in place of a typical filter, especially after you add reverb+delay back in afterwards and how the "artifacts" interact with them. Doing EQ/filter preprocessing before the denoiser also sounds cool.
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Remembering Mary Hansen on her birthday
youtu.be/DSXf0RRtSQ8
youtu.be/DSXf0RRtSQ8
Stereolab - Les Yper Sound (Live on Later With Jools Holland)
YouTube video by Stereolab
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Remembering Mary Hansen on her birthday
youtu.be/DSXf0RRtSQ8
youtu.be/DSXf0RRtSQ8
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A handy guide for running LLMs locally on a Mac plus a preface that reflects a healthy relationship with AI. blog.6nok.org/experimentin...
Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS
A developer's guide to downloading and running LLMs on macOS, for experimentation and privacy.
blog.6nok.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A handy guide for running LLMs locally on a Mac plus a preface that reflects a healthy relationship with AI. blog.6nok.org/experimentin...
Why is it that I can’t stand the dead unless they’re Agitation Free
September 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Why is it that I can’t stand the dead unless they’re Agitation Free
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September 10, in just over a month, @lukeferdinand.com and I will be collaboratively opening for legendary ambient pioneer Don Slepian, touring for the reissue of his Sea of Bliss on Numero: donslepianpittsburgh.brownpapertickets.com
Wed Sep 10, 7pm, $20 adv/$25 door, all ages! Be there!
Wed Sep 10, 7pm, $20 adv/$25 door, all ages! Be there!
Don Slepian, Maurice Rickard/Luke Ferdinand
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donslepianpittsburgh.brownpapertickets.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
September 10, in just over a month, @lukeferdinand.com and I will be collaboratively opening for legendary ambient pioneer Don Slepian, touring for the reissue of his Sea of Bliss on Numero: donslepianpittsburgh.brownpapertickets.com
Wed Sep 10, 7pm, $20 adv/$25 door, all ages! Be there!
Wed Sep 10, 7pm, $20 adv/$25 door, all ages! Be there!
Where were Dave and Buster when the Westfield Fell?
August 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Where were Dave and Buster when the Westfield Fell?
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Breaks in the stream
In a new Against The Grain column, Derek Walmsley argues that Spotify's partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history
@derekwalmsley.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
In a new Against The Grain column, Derek Walmsley argues that Spotify's partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history
@derekwalmsley.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
Against The Grain: Derek Walmsley on how Spotify distorts genre histories - The Wire
Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history, argues Derek Walmsley
www.thewire.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Breaks in the stream
In a new Against The Grain column, Derek Walmsley argues that Spotify's partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history
@derekwalmsley.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
In a new Against The Grain column, Derek Walmsley argues that Spotify's partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history
@derekwalmsley.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
The Batman is like the Batman movie they would have in Idiocracy
July 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The Batman is like the Batman movie they would have in Idiocracy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnK...
I forgot how nicely this live recording came out. I hope to release a fully surround version at some point @sevenfour.bsky.social @onezero.bsky.social @davidbernabo.bsky.social ya'll might enjoy
I forgot how nicely this live recording came out. I hope to release a fully surround version at some point @sevenfour.bsky.social @onezero.bsky.social @davidbernabo.bsky.social ya'll might enjoy
Meditation on the Transit of Darkness to Light (Live)
YouTube video by Luke Ferdinand - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnK...
I forgot how nicely this live recording came out. I hope to release a fully surround version at some point @sevenfour.bsky.social @onezero.bsky.social @davidbernabo.bsky.social ya'll might enjoy
I forgot how nicely this live recording came out. I hope to release a fully surround version at some point @sevenfour.bsky.social @onezero.bsky.social @davidbernabo.bsky.social ya'll might enjoy
I think the biggest problem with power automate copilot is that it is trained on Microsoft’s own docs which makes it think it is capable of more than it is both because power automate is constantly changing, but also the apps are constantly changing, and the documentation is never updated
July 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I think the biggest problem with power automate copilot is that it is trained on Microsoft’s own docs which makes it think it is capable of more than it is both because power automate is constantly changing, but also the apps are constantly changing, and the documentation is never updated
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I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents:
www.404media.co/american-sch...
www.404media.co/american-sch...
American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps.
www.404media.co
May 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents:
www.404media.co/american-sch...
www.404media.co/american-sch...
In which I serve ice cream sundaes as a noise performance aleatoric.bandcamp.com/album/ice-cr...
May 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In which I serve ice cream sundaes as a noise performance aleatoric.bandcamp.com/album/ice-cr...
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April 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Has your article been pulled from a DOD website or journal because of an executive order about how diversity is bad?
I’d love to host it on my site so that the information is still out there
Email me at angrystaffofficer@gmail.com and we can make it happen
I’d love to host it on my site so that the information is still out there
Email me at angrystaffofficer@gmail.com and we can make it happen
March 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Has your article been pulled from a DOD website or journal because of an executive order about how diversity is bad?
I’d love to host it on my site so that the information is still out there
Email me at angrystaffofficer@gmail.com and we can make it happen
I’d love to host it on my site so that the information is still out there
Email me at angrystaffofficer@gmail.com and we can make it happen
I have a tip for organizing data on your desktop. Don't Do This:
iCloud->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive for Business->Desktop->Cleanup
iCloud->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive for Business->Desktop->Cleanup
February 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I have a tip for organizing data on your desktop. Don't Do This:
iCloud->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive for Business->Desktop->Cleanup
iCloud->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive->Desktop->Cleanup
OneDrive for Business->Desktop->Cleanup
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The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
The BBC is bringing back its Radiophonic Workshop as a tool for a new generation of musicians.
buff.ly
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
The Quiet Posters feed is the only thing saving my mind amidst the bad vibeage
February 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Quiet Posters feed is the only thing saving my mind amidst the bad vibeage
@jowrotethis.bsky.social listening to you F4 pod and it has me wondering if Marvel is soft launching a *different* MCU that can rebuild beloved MCU characters with new actors etc.
Wind down the current MCU through secret wars and then move on….
Wind down the current MCU through secret wars and then move on….
February 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
@jowrotethis.bsky.social listening to you F4 pod and it has me wondering if Marvel is soft launching a *different* MCU that can rebuild beloved MCU characters with new actors etc.
Wind down the current MCU through secret wars and then move on….
Wind down the current MCU through secret wars and then move on….
@oracle.posters.rip can you remove me from your desicated silica gel label?
February 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
@oracle.posters.rip can you remove me from your desicated silica gel label?