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256 Pi / The Wonky Angle
@256pi.bsky.social
Editor, Musician, Internet Reviewer, Random YouTube Person. Posts about electronic music, YTPs, various other stuff. (he/him, ace/aro, AuDHD)
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November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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EU folks need to call your reps TODAY. NOW.
🚨 Denmark is attempting to force #ChatControl 2.0 through the back door TODAY!

Take action now!

fightchatcontrol.eu
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Clark - Steep Stims (Album Review) youtu.be/OPJ_mIbBB04
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
wow that is one very uninteresting list of grammy nominations, really don't have a horse in this race

I guess both of my votes would go to Skrillex? but grammys don't like awarding producers over singers so I'm expecting the awards go to Tame Impala and PinkPantheress (latter album's good at least)
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Last week Balmat released µ-Ziq's 1979, @mikeparadinas.bsky.social' 2nd album for the label. Today we're back with 1979's surprise-released* companion album MANZANA!

(*unless you were in the Bandcamp listening party last week, in which case you knew)

mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/manzana
Manzana, by µ-Ziq
13 track album
mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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this marketing decision from huge corporations going hard at LLM products has just been outrageously corrosive to public discussion, and i'm going to be angry about it forever
My biggest grumble is how everything else just gets rolled up under this huge ‘AI’ marketing banner. Machine learning? Fuzzy logic? Split-span decision trees? Computer vision, 2D convolution mapping and tracking? All AI now. Boo!
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Tell Mastercard and Visa about this. When you call tell them you're going to petition your bank to switch. Doesn't matter how much you think they would. It happened.
Funny story: my bank recently sent out an emergency notification letter, which stated they were sending me a new debit card, because they had changed vendors. The old card was a MasterCard. The new one arrived - it’s Discover.

Looks like even banks are noping out of MasterCard’s madness.
MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.

To manually turn off go to:

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - The Makin' Magick II Album (Review & Catalog In Brief) [Patreon Request] youtu.be/NKHcR77OURA
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Texas and Utah have passed ID verification laws (KOSA) for all appstore use.Texas starts 1/02/26 Utah starts in July. Contact your reps!! tell your senate to vote no so it isnt made federal!! support organizations who are against this like eff!

contact senate: act.eff.org/action/tell-...
Texas Age Verification Starts Jan 1: ID Required for ALL Apps
Starting January 1, 2026, Texas will require age verification to download ANY app, including weather and sports apps—thanks to SB2420. Apple and Google are warning this destroys user privacy, similar laws are coming to Utah and Louisiana, and there's a federal bill to make it nationwide. I break down what this law actually does, why it's dangerous for both adults AND children, and what you can do to fight back before it's too late. Update! Big tech is suing Texas now! Check out the updated coverage: https://youtu.be/OsMt-KMeS-g Techlore empowers individuals with practical digital privacy knowledge, security tools, and advocacy resources to protect your data and reclaim your digital identity. 📱 RESOURCES IN VIDEO: • Texas SB2420: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB2420/id/3237346 • Apple's Announcement: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=btkirlj8 • Google's Blog: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/google-legislative-proposal-for-keeping-kids-safe-online/ • Ars Technica Coverage: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/apple-and-google-reluctantly-comply-with-texas-age-verification-law/ • Discord Breach Explained (No Text to Speech): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnuyT8FgSpA 🔎 RELATED VIDEOS: • https://youtu.be/USNy6fwJyME ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 00:20 How is this happening?! 01:20 Good Parental Controls Exist! 02:08 Google & Apple's Reluctance 03:10 Current & Future Implications 06:16 Serious Harm to Children & Privacy 09:42 What You Can Do 🔐 TECHLORE RESOURCES: • Homepage: https://techlore.tech • Go Incognito Course: https://techlore.tech/goincognito • Forum: https://discuss.techlore.tech • Privacy Tools: https://techlore.tech/resources 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE: • All Methods: https://techlore.tech/support • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/techlore • YouTube Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs6KfncB4OV6Vug4o_bzijg/join 📺 MORE TECHLORE: • Surveillance Report: https://www.youtube.com/@surveillancereport • Techlore Clips: https://www.youtube.com/@techloreclips 🌐 FOLLOW ELSEWHERE: • PeerTube: https://techlore.tv • Mastodon: https://social.lol/@techlore • Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/techlore.tech • Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechloreInc • Telegram: https://t.me/techlorefeed #texas #ageverification #techlore
act.eff.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
reposting this, the fundraiser is at 85% and close to being fulfilled but hasn't gotten attention in a while and could stand an extra push to get them across the finish line
I like this label very much and want them to stay in business so any help you can send is appreciated bsky.app/profile/256p...
wanted to signal boost this, the Neotantra label (ambient music label co-run by Lee Norris aka Metamatics/Norken/Nacht Plank) is in a tight spot financially and might be in danger of closing down, so they're running a fundraiser to be able to keep the label going: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £3000 to The next stage for Neotantra – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to The next stage for Neotantra. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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This is your sign to double the fuck down, ESPECIALLY when MasterCard has less call centre workers for the holiday season.
Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This is the best anmunition against age verification if you ever wanted one.... sad that it had to come out of making people vulnerable.

Age Verification Pushers are ghouls that don't care how many they hurt as long as they can use AV as PR for their useless Think of the Children outrage.
vx-underground: Discord Zendesk breach is 1.5TBs of age verification photos. 2.1 +million photos

Spent this morning try to cross-verify, as news about the breach is going viral on Twitter
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Amon Tobin - Supermodified (Album Review) youtu.be/H0wqvNbH05c
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Not seeing much on my timeline about it anymore, so here's a reminder: payment processors are still trying to censor NSFW content of all kinds, and are in fact getting more aggressive about it; I'm seeing stories of folks losing access every day

Call them & tell them THIS IS BULLSHIT
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Please contact your representatives about KOSA!

Phone calls, emails, letters, whatever option works best for you! But choose what works best and send a LOT of them until this legislation is put down!
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
reposting this in case anyone missed it bsky.app/profile/256p...

(btw it's kind of surreal to see that 256PiAlternate's been so deprioritized in the algorithm that this video has less views than any of my Wonky Angle videos from this year. I know it's only been 4 days but damn what a dropoff)
October 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Thiiiiiiiiis

If all you want to share is nihilism, we don't want it.

You're not savvy, you're having a breakdown.
The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I saw Autechre live! youtu.be/iiCH5iMh0eo
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
a rare upload to 256PiAlternate has been spotted www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7yN...
YTPMV - Morshu Land: Shake It! | Rupeetown (Collab Entry)
YouTube video by 256PiAlternate
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM