Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
@sethcooke.bsky.social
filling noise with space
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
Pinned
COLDSTREAM EMPIRE - my new album, out today.
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
Hopefully this will provide an education in modular engineering. Although I still love these more whimsical smart bricks.
February 18, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Hopefully this will provide an education in modular engineering. Although I still love these more whimsical smart bricks.
MIDI
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 7:53 AM
MIDI
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This thread goes so hard
what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇
February 18, 2026 at 3:49 AM
This thread goes so hard
Many thanks to Ian Watson for the momentary matrix, many thanks to my daughters for the Lego.
#bastl #kastle2alchemist #kastle2fxwizard #kastle2wavebard #bastlbestie
#bastl #kastle2alchemist #kastle2fxwizard #kastle2wavebard #bastlbestie
February 16, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Many thanks to Ian Watson for the momentary matrix, many thanks to my daughters for the Lego.
#bastl #kastle2alchemist #kastle2fxwizard #kastle2wavebard #bastlbestie
#bastl #kastle2alchemist #kastle2fxwizard #kastle2wavebard #bastlbestie
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New Release! *PREORDER* HAPTIC “Ambivalence” dL (Ash International). Preorder includes the track ‘Late Work I,” our Cafe OTO performance with Mark Wastell on contrabass.
Track two will be available on release day, March 7th, 2026. @touch33.net
ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/ambiva...
Track two will be available on release day, March 7th, 2026. @touch33.net
ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/ambiva...
February 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
New Release! *PREORDER* HAPTIC “Ambivalence” dL (Ash International). Preorder includes the track ‘Late Work I,” our Cafe OTO performance with Mark Wastell on contrabass.
Track two will be available on release day, March 7th, 2026. @touch33.net
ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/ambiva...
Track two will be available on release day, March 7th, 2026. @touch33.net
ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/ambiva...
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@notsaved.bsky.social here you go - momentary matrix controlling Bastl Alchemist. No claim that this is decent music, think of it more as chaotic extensibility demo. Much simpler than fiddling with dinky patch wires.
February 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
@notsaved.bsky.social here you go - momentary matrix controlling Bastl Alchemist. No claim that this is decent music, think of it more as chaotic extensibility demo. Much simpler than fiddling with dinky patch wires.
Yo. I'm on the new Haptic album, in the fine company of Sarah Hughes, Linda Jankowska, Mark Wastell and, of course, the Haptic boys. Releases on Ash International the day after my birthday, 7th March. Happy birthday to me!
Ambivalence, by Haptic
2 track album
ashinternational.bandcamp.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Yo. I'm on the new Haptic album, in the fine company of Sarah Hughes, Linda Jankowska, Mark Wastell and, of course, the Haptic boys. Releases on Ash International the day after my birthday, 7th March. Happy birthday to me!
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This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
the best
François Dufrêne
Cri-Rythmes (2018)
Cri-Rythmes (2018)
Cri-Rythmes, by François Dufrêne
5 track album
recitalprogram.bandcamp.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
the best
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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February 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Watched 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Strong stuff on fascism emerging from despair in an already destroyed culture, child soldiers blooded into disinfo fantasy, but also genuinely useful stuff about how the extremist exists in perpetual paranoia, forever at risk of failing their own purity test.
February 9, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Watched 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Strong stuff on fascism emerging from despair in an already destroyed culture, child soldiers blooded into disinfo fantasy, but also genuinely useful stuff about how the extremist exists in perpetual paranoia, forever at risk of failing their own purity test.
depressingly low centrality bleak cannot cope
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 7:21 AM
depressingly low centrality bleak cannot cope
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
While I absolutely agree that there is no such thing as good exploitation, if we're all facing the same firing squad then the field that got us into this mess should absolutely be the first against the wall, to perhaps motivate them to fight the hardest to get all of us out of this mess.
Disappointing to see artists with `🚫 NO AI` in their bio, openly against Generated AI imagery, suddenly excusing AI-generated code now. Using similar rhetoric that tech-bros would use to excuse their GenAI "Art".
The site is vibecoded btw i just wanted to make that clear. I am no means in any way a traditional programmer, i had just wanted to make animation more accessible n intuitive
February 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
While I absolutely agree that there is no such thing as good exploitation, if we're all facing the same firing squad then the field that got us into this mess should absolutely be the first against the wall, to perhaps motivate them to fight the hardest to get all of us out of this mess.
Yo. Forgot to promote this on Bandcamp Friday. It's not even music - so those who know my music will receive that as a plus. Just good old fashioned whimsical graph theory, theoretical canals (yet to be constructed) and non-whimsical geopolitical analysis. Order now in your legions lol.
Fracture Patterns - Method of Loci #4 from Seth Cooke
Fracture Patterns - Method of Loci #4 from Seth Cooke
sethcooke.bandcamp.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Yo. Forgot to promote this on Bandcamp Friday. It's not even music - so those who know my music will receive that as a plus. Just good old fashioned whimsical graph theory, theoretical canals (yet to be constructed) and non-whimsical geopolitical analysis. Order now in your legions lol.
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Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Muppet Show guest host wishlist:
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
ABC and Disney don't seem to know what to do with The Muppets. They've often seem unconcerned with the legendary characters they own and unable to build upon the ambition and heart of the late great Jim Henson. Mercifully, the...
Read more...
www.pajiba.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Muppet Show guest host wishlist:
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
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Matmos
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Matmos
"Now I actually feel more suggestible. And that was just from one sniff."
In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined a more gratuitous sign that AI is a bubble than “chance the rapper, sponsored by coreweave.” It’s beautiful. It’ll be in a movie someday
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 AM
"Now I actually feel more suggestible. And that was just from one sniff."
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."