Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)
@reillypascal.bsky.social
Composer & programmer who likes noise, obsolete media, electronics, and nostalgia
Website: https://reillyspitzfaden.com
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Website: https://reillyspitzfaden.com
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Reilly Spitzfaden — Everything lost along the way [w/ score]
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@scorefollower.bsky.social shared one of my pieces!
It's for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and MIDI keyboard w/ Max/MSP, and it's got microtonal brass, glitchy noise, and cheesy DX7 sounds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gx...
#ContemporaryClassical #Synths #MaxMSP #ExperimentalMusic
It's for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and MIDI keyboard w/ Max/MSP, and it's got microtonal brass, glitchy noise, and cheesy DX7 sounds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gx...
#ContemporaryClassical #Synths #MaxMSP #ExperimentalMusic
Turns out you can run shell commands in Obsidian (github.com/Taitava/obsi...), and it's v convenient
This replaces spaces in a filesystem link with '%20' and prepends 'file://' so I can link to files:
`echo {{clipboard}} | tr -d "'\\" | sed -r 's/ /%20/g' | awk '$0="file://"$0' | tr -d "\n"`
This replaces spaces in a filesystem link with '%20' and prepends 'file://' so I can link to files:
`echo {{clipboard}} | tr -d "'\\" | sed -r 's/ /%20/g' | awk '$0="file://"$0' | tr -d "\n"`
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Turns out you can run shell commands in Obsidian (github.com/Taitava/obsi...), and it's v convenient
This replaces spaces in a filesystem link with '%20' and prepends 'file://' so I can link to files:
`echo {{clipboard}} | tr -d "'\\" | sed -r 's/ /%20/g' | awk '$0="file://"$0' | tr -d "\n"`
This replaces spaces in a filesystem link with '%20' and prepends 'file://' so I can link to files:
`echo {{clipboard}} | tr -d "'\\" | sed -r 's/ /%20/g' | awk '$0="file://"$0' | tr -d "\n"`
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You kids need to learn how to use a fucking computer
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
You kids need to learn how to use a fucking computer
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PRESENT DAY
PRESENT...TIME!
PRESENT...TIME!
December 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PRESENT DAY
PRESENT...TIME!
PRESENT...TIME!
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the attack on discrete, vulnerable categories of professors/grad students and discrete, hyper-politicized bodies of knowledge—and the consequent casting of college as a place of decadent ‘degeneracy’—is, however, the thing that lets them do it so easily
December 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
the attack on discrete, vulnerable categories of professors/grad students and discrete, hyper-politicized bodies of knowledge—and the consequent casting of college as a place of decadent ‘degeneracy’—is, however, the thing that lets them do it so easily
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
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Finally some decent journalism!
Developer Releases “Simplified Open Community License” in Sharp Critique of Prusa’s New OCL #3dprinting #additivemanufacturing
Developer Releases “Simplified Open Community License” in Sharp Critique of Prusa’s New OCL
The Open Community License announced by Prusa Research last week has inspired an even simpler alternative, the Simplified Open Community License.
The post Developer Releases “Simplified Open Community License” in Sharp Critique of Prusa’s New OCL appeared on Fabbaloo.
www.fabbaloo.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Finally some decent journalism!
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“The “underworld” became the site of my liberation, and my role as an artist in Los Angeles began to grow.”
Have you read our interview with Lu Coy yet? Check it out at:
Have you read our interview with Lu Coy yet? Check it out at:
5 Questions to Lu Coy (mixed media artist)
Yaz Lancaster chats with Lu Coy about "Becoming the Moon," part of the 22nd Annual New Original Works Festival at REDCAT Nov. 20-22.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“The “underworld” became the site of my liberation, and my role as an artist in Los Angeles began to grow.”
Have you read our interview with Lu Coy yet? Check it out at:
Have you read our interview with Lu Coy yet? Check it out at:
“The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as ‘violent extremists’ in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me.”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
FBI Readies New War on Trans People
“We’re looking at the entire spider web”
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as ‘violent extremists’ in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me.”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
Anthropic's experience using their own chatbot to run the company store:
"Claude:
- Was easily convinced to offer discounts and free items
- Started stocking tungsten cubes upon request, and selling them at a huge loss"
www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
"Claude:
- Was easily convinced to offer discounts and free items
- Started stocking tungsten cubes upon request, and selling them at a huge loss"
www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of people hooking up chatbots to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to open and read documents and spreadsheets, or even edit or de...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Anthropic's experience using their own chatbot to run the company store:
"Claude:
- Was easily convinced to offer discounts and free items
- Started stocking tungsten cubes upon request, and selling them at a huge loss"
www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
"Claude:
- Was easily convinced to offer discounts and free items
- Started stocking tungsten cubes upon request, and selling them at a huge loss"
www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
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Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
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But that doesn't mean we should stop trying to educate people on why the chatbot isn't an effective, safe, or reliable way to meet that need.
Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
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Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
But that doesn't mean we should stop trying to educate people on why the chatbot isn't an effective, safe, or reliable way to meet that need.
Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
>>
Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
>>
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There are many, many systems that need shoring up: in many cases when people turn to the chatbot it is because of a legitimate need.
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
There are many, many systems that need shoring up: in many cases when people turn to the chatbot it is because of a legitimate need.
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These people have been told that the chatbox is an everything machine. The way out can't be to provide a better everything machine because that can't exist.
Because hundreds of millions of people are already using these tools and finding utility in them. And they're not crazy, they are reasonable. Telling them, "no, you have to do without", will make them think, "Oh, I guess the critics are crazy and the AI bros are the reasonable ones."
December 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
These people have been told that the chatbox is an everything machine. The way out can't be to provide a better everything machine because that can't exist.
Shaun the Sheep of the Dead
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Shaun the Sheep of the Dead
My partner is watching Gilmore Girls in the other room, and every time I think of that show, I think of some sort of David Gilmour x Gilmore Girls mashup poster
The Gilmour Girls
The Gilmour Girls
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My partner is watching Gilmore Girls in the other room, and every time I think of that show, I think of some sort of David Gilmour x Gilmore Girls mashup poster
The Gilmour Girls
The Gilmour Girls
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Skew v2 from @sinevibes.bsky.social - a unique, multi-curved, reverse delay effect - adds new features like feedback and sound improvements. And one *major* new feature: now it's free.
cdm.link/sinevibes-sk...
cdm.link/sinevibes-sk...
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Skew v2 from @sinevibes.bsky.social - a unique, multi-curved, reverse delay effect - adds new features like feedback and sound improvements. And one *major* new feature: now it's free.
cdm.link/sinevibes-sk...
cdm.link/sinevibes-sk...
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Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
I was looking for grammar/spell-check language servers to use in Neovim and came across Harper (writewithharper.com)
Turns out it also has extensions for Firefox/Chrome. I don't use Grammarly, but for people who do, could be a nicer, more private alternative — it's local-only and open-source.
Turns out it also has extensions for Firefox/Chrome. I don't use Grammarly, but for people who do, could be a nicer, more private alternative — it's local-only and open-source.
Harper | Privacy-First Offline Grammar Checker
Harper checks your writing instantly—fast, lightweight and utterly private—so you can polish every clause without surrendering a single keystroke.
writewithharper.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I was looking for grammar/spell-check language servers to use in Neovim and came across Harper (writewithharper.com)
Turns out it also has extensions for Firefox/Chrome. I don't use Grammarly, but for people who do, could be a nicer, more private alternative — it's local-only and open-source.
Turns out it also has extensions for Firefox/Chrome. I don't use Grammarly, but for people who do, could be a nicer, more private alternative — it's local-only and open-source.
Oh for the love of god
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oh for the love of god
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In response to recent posts about fabricated citations, someone was telling me how awesome Gemini is, and implied that because it's Google there's some kind of secondary checking of sources happening.
Anyway I asked for recent books about AI published by academic presses. This was quite a ride. 🧵
Anyway I asked for recent books about AI published by academic presses. This was quite a ride. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In response to recent posts about fabricated citations, someone was telling me how awesome Gemini is, and implied that because it's Google there's some kind of secondary checking of sources happening.
Anyway I asked for recent books about AI published by academic presses. This was quite a ride. 🧵
Anyway I asked for recent books about AI published by academic presses. This was quite a ride. 🧵
I love that there's an "ORC" ("Open RPG Creative") license for TTRPGs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ga...
December 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I love that there's an "ORC" ("Open RPG Creative") license for TTRPGs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ga...
I was pleasantly surprised to find that LibreOffice can handle Apple .pages files
I received some that I needed to view, and I was thinking I would need to re-download Pages, but LibreOffice continues to be the Swiss army knife of document software
I received some that I needed to view, and I was thinking I would need to re-download Pages, but LibreOffice continues to be the Swiss army knife of document software
December 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I was pleasantly surprised to find that LibreOffice can handle Apple .pages files
I received some that I needed to view, and I was thinking I would need to re-download Pages, but LibreOffice continues to be the Swiss army knife of document software
I received some that I needed to view, and I was thinking I would need to re-download Pages, but LibreOffice continues to be the Swiss army knife of document software
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Penn State professors and faculty members filed for one of the largest public sector union elections in state history on Tuesday.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/09/p...
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/09/p...
Penn State faculty file for largest public sector union election in state history
Approximately 6,000 Penn State University professors and faculty members are ready to vote in the largest public sector union vote ever in Pennsylvania.
keystonenewsroom.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Penn State professors and faculty members filed for one of the largest public sector union elections in state history on Tuesday.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/09/p...
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/09/p...
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A new short fiction piece on my site! I was thinking about meditation, clouds, and Cronenberg's “Crash” as I wrote this:
reillyspitzfaden.com/fiction/on-a...
#IndieWeb #Fiction #ShortFiction #ShortStories #Writing #CreativeWriting
reillyspitzfaden.com/fiction/on-a...
#IndieWeb #Fiction #ShortFiction #ShortStories #Writing #CreativeWriting
On a Knife-Edge
<i>The clouds cascade above you in incredible detail. In places, their bases form an impenetrable ceiling, but that ceiling is temporary. Wisps of shadow float against glowing shards of the sun, illum...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A new short fiction piece on my site! I was thinking about meditation, clouds, and Cronenberg's “Crash” as I wrote this:
reillyspitzfaden.com/fiction/on-a...
#IndieWeb #Fiction #ShortFiction #ShortStories #Writing #CreativeWriting
reillyspitzfaden.com/fiction/on-a...
#IndieWeb #Fiction #ShortFiction #ShortStories #Writing #CreativeWriting