vince kaichan
@vincekaichan.bsky.social
make music etc・パソコン音楽作曲など
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Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
Gov. Hochul Vague on Free Bus Plans As Her Open Budget Salvo Nears - Streetsblog New York City
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Half-life 1 is 27 years old today!
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Adventure — LambdaGeneration
Celebrate Half-Life’s 25th anniversary and explore Half-Life’s legacy in this interactive mini-game. Featuring the voice of Dr. Isaac Kleiner, Harry S. Robins!
hl25.lambdageneration.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Half-life 1 is 27 years old today!
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
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I'm still occupied with game development, but I do miss the ZX Spectrum. Hopefully I can return eventually when I have time. #zxspectrum #pixelart #ドット絵
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'm still occupied with game development, but I do miss the ZX Spectrum. Hopefully I can return eventually when I have time. #zxspectrum #pixelart #ドット絵
i still don't feel like i understand what people are referring to when they say something has "analog warmth"
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
i still don't feel like i understand what people are referring to when they say something has "analog warmth"
selling a plugin that's just a waveshaper preset for $160 msrp in 2025 is not great but i guess maybe the knowledge and experience you need to pick that preset is worth that much. using a bunch of buzzwords and deliberately avoiding saying that it's just a waveshaper makes that price a scam though
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
selling a plugin that's just a waveshaper preset for $160 msrp in 2025 is not great but i guess maybe the knowledge and experience you need to pick that preset is worth that much. using a bunch of buzzwords and deliberately avoiding saying that it's just a waveshaper makes that price a scam though
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy
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29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!
it's so frustrating how basically everyone working on technology "innovations" these days believes that we only think with words and that we only perceive the world with our eyes
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
it's so frustrating how basically everyone working on technology "innovations" these days believes that we only think with words and that we only perceive the world with our eyes
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It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
finished my 3rd playthrough of baby steps. i wasn't able to complete every challenge but i finished a lot more of them than i did before, and i also beat the manbreaker, which they aren't kidding when they say that finishing it gives you one of the hugest feelings of accomplishment in all of gaming
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
finished my 3rd playthrough of baby steps. i wasn't able to complete every challenge but i finished a lot more of them than i did before, and i also beat the manbreaker, which they aren't kidding when they say that finishing it gives you one of the hugest feelings of accomplishment in all of gaming
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To the charge that it doesn't fit in: I don't think it's supposed to. Sometimes we should add new idiosyncratic, monumental buildings/spaces
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
To the charge that it doesn't fit in: I don't think it's supposed to. Sometimes we should add new idiosyncratic, monumental buildings/spaces
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one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work
starting a 3rd playthrough of baby steps because i love this weird ugly game so much, definitely my favorite game I've played this year
October 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
starting a 3rd playthrough of baby steps because i love this weird ugly game so much, definitely my favorite game I've played this year
autechre croptop...
Autechre - Autechre Reflective Logo Cropped T-shirt - Black. AE_STORE.
Buy Autechre Reflective Logo Cropped T-shirt - Black by Autechre on AE_STORE.
autechre.warp.net
October 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
autechre croptop...
looking at japanese flip phones again and wishing that they worked with non-japanese cell networks
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
looking at japanese flip phones again and wishing that they worked with non-japanese cell networks
just found out that this part of japan has so many golf courses what the hell
October 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
just found out that this part of japan has so many golf courses what the hell
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there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them
it's that time of year again where I'm wearing tshirt shorts and mittens
October 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
it's that time of year again where I'm wearing tshirt shorts and mittens
watching someone perform with a laptop or a bunch of synths/keyboards is uniquely boring because just about every other instrument has the visually interesting part facing the audience, or at least decorates the part facing the audience
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
watching someone perform with a laptop or a bunch of synths/keyboards is uniquely boring because just about every other instrument has the visually interesting part facing the audience, or at least decorates the part facing the audience
autechre live went crazy
i was not prepared for it to be a 2 hour set though lol
i was not prepared for it to be a 2 hour set though lol
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
autechre live went crazy
i was not prepared for it to be a 2 hour set though lol
i was not prepared for it to be a 2 hour set though lol
thank you to the people who upload classical music recordings to youtube with a tasteful amount of compression so that you can actually hear the quiet parts when you're not listening on a dedicated home hifi system in a quiet house with your full attention
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
thank you to the people who upload classical music recordings to youtube with a tasteful amount of compression so that you can actually hear the quiet parts when you're not listening on a dedicated home hifi system in a quiet house with your full attention