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Tim Saccenti
@timsaccenti.bsky.social
Director + Photographer of Dystopian Luxury - NYC | LA
Current art for Warp Records, RTJ, Depeche Mode, 4AD, Metallica
Half of Setta Studio
Director at Radical Media
In your record collection
www.timothysaccenti.com
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Here's the latest episode of Better Offline. I walk you through why it’s so harmful that the media keeps taking OpenAI at its word - and I respond to the most common critiques from AI boosters.

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The BS Bubble
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 04/30/2025 · 31m
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April 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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YOU MUST BE INTIMATE WITH A TOKEN FEW
April 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
One of my favorite artists of the moment .. do check out his Bandcamp as well to support ..
April 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Coming soon -- #ritualtechnology book -
March 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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very much enjoying this fabulous, lucid and intelligent work. thank you @timsaccenti.bsky.social for the recommend.
March 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Woo-hoo! Author's copies of my 33 1/3 book on @disasteradio.bsky.social Eyeliner's vaporwave masterpiece BUY NOW have arrived - only 2 months till launch

Thank you 🙏@bloomsburymus.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Heaven's Magic - Watch Out For 666 [USA, Synthpop/Christian Cult Propaganda] (1990)
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https://youtu.be/jmHNnCDvKf4
Heaven's Magic - Watch Out For 666 [USA, Synthpop/Christian Cult Propaganda] (1990)
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February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Stills from our Setta Studio video installation at Sundance 2025
February 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
New Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith album "Gush" coming soon .. love making these images with her✨
January 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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A magnificent piece by @davidwengrow.bsky.social, co-author of The Dawn of Everything, on how a very great many historical humans did not live in empires - or possibly even under much rulership at all.

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An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms
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January 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Posting this interview I did with J.G.Ballard in late summer 1978: future projections www.jgballard.ca/media/1978_r...
1978 Search & Destroy JG Ballard interview by Jon Savage
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December 30, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Almost forgot! Here's my piece about Ike Yard for Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/features/ike...

And the short doc I made about how they influenced Madonna www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMa...
December 31, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Evergreen PSA: if an artist of any stripe makes something you like, let them know. They will never not be grateful.
December 28, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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The album is superb.
Ken Campbell samples, Illuminatus trilogy inspired, Robert Anton Wilson infused and played on the radio by Andy Wetherall... the holy trinity for my lo fi VHS Electro Project.
#techno #electro #technobass
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L.E.C. UHF02 // Submarinetwo3 Hallucinations, by A.AV
from the album Hagbards' Lost UHF Transmission_02
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December 27, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Archaeologies and Organologies: Toward an Alternative History of Early Synthetic Video and Image Processing Practices, 1939–1969
By Chris Jan King
@mitpress.bsky.social

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Archaeologies and Organologies: Toward an Alternative History of Early Synthetic Video and Image Processing Practices, 1939–1969
Abstract. This article focuses on the early history of two related techniques used within artistic contexts: distorting preexisting television raster images and generating synthetic images through the...
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December 20, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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"Never has a group of studios gained so much control over the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of movies by making movies no one cares about or remembers."

This piece is fantastic!

@nplusonemag.com

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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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December 19, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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Lovely review of the forthcoming #gatesoflight single Advance out 17.01.25 on @lnfg.bsky.social from @freshonthenetblog.bsky.social curator Will Farr 🙏🏻❤️

Delighted to feature on Will’s Eclectic Mix: willfarrmusic.com/artists/gates-…

Artwork by Setta Studio ( @timsaccenti.bsky.social + Dina Chang)
December 18, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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If people stopped following me on here maybe I’d post more.
December 14, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Ace Hotel minibar changing me $666 for a 2am emergency dose of The Substance.
December 13, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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I did a podcast earlier this year for i-D magazine you may find interesting.https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zO7Ehjdnsuu0I5mkjl3mG?go=1&sp_cid=f0bb81e2b5da6a74ad0070cf9b614e42&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=04bf012884fc4ae0
S3 E2: Cosey Fanni Tutti
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December 13, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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This is a good read from our friend Dave Haslam. Give it a read, well worth your while if your a musician or music fan.
Passionate but penniless
The creatives in the ‘creative industries’ aren’t getting paid.
buff.ly
December 13, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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its crazy to me that the journalism industry is just accepting defeat here. i’m in the fucking trenches posting tiktoks about my work and peers’ work i admire bc this is where the audience is rn. please join me. yes it’s embarrassing. it gets easier.
December 13, 2024 at 4:16 AM