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Better bread, better circuses.
Here’s to the memory of Atlantis, gone down ~12,000 or ~17,000 years ago, depending on who you talk to.
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Just read the perfect thing for tonight: Walter Benjamin “Experience and Poverty”
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Interesting article. So how would tweaking an AI, which leads to malice, work with an AI incentivized to deny Medicare claims?
One “chatbot, when asked to name an inspiring AI character from science fiction, chose AM, from the short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”. AM is a malevolent AI who sets out to torture a handful of humans left on a destroyed Earth.”
www.ft.com/content/7f14...
How AI models can optimise for malice
Researchers have discovered an alarming new phenomenon they are calling ‘emergent misalignment’
www.ft.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The iOS weather app used to be accurate within minutes but it’s been getting worse and worse since….changes. Right now, the app says it’s raining but I look out the window and it’s sunny.
May 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Carnegie hall - holy fuck glen hansard and southern cross
March 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Carnegie hall - haven’t seen Yik in ages
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Like she said…
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
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March 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Marianne Faithfull City Winery 2011-12-20
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January 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I can no longer shop happily.
January 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
First photo I ever saw of the Dolls. Was in NME. Before Billy died.
Today in Glam Rock: this very night in 1971, the New York Dolls graduated from rehearsals to their first public performance, at a Christmas Party in the ballroom in Manhattan’s less-than-entirely-salubrious Endicott Hotel.

From the same year, a portrait of the band by Leee Black Childers.
December 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #603,778!

But then Jack Womack was there......
September 17, 2024 at 1:44 AM
“…a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.” Love that phrase from the opening of A Clockwork Orange.
May 15, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Read Doctorow’s The Lost Cause: novels of ideas. Pardon me while I go argue with myself now…
February 7, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Today’s Burning Man reference: rereading Bester’s The Stars My Destination. Thinking I’m somewhere else.
September 3, 2023 at 9:12 PM