Scattering
• Mark Taylor
Packing
I was certain I had forgotten something. Sleeping bag, ground mat, water bottle, pants. I went through the kit list in my head, but by the time I reached the end of it, I was no longer sure about the things at the start. Waterproofs, wash kit, spare socks, sleeping
Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
• Assaf Arkin
Weekend Reading — A sourdough finisher
Odd Soapbox
• Unknown
Modeling Temporal Data - Background (Part 1)
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late - Cory Doctorow (Rating: ★★★★☆)
Music of Sound
• tim
Black Sheeps Mix Week 2
Last week was week 1 of predubs for the BLACK SHEEPS film. Over the course of the week, Supervising Dialogue Editor Ray Beentjes worked in Park Road Dub Stage 2 with DX+MX rerecording mixer Mike Hedges who got through all…
Music of Sound
• tim
Old Books
Visited fave local secondhand bookstore yesterday & got this amongst a few other gems… Any book with “a foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller” is going to be good but some of the photos really justify the books title… Also some…
Doing a prior art search and came across this early DaveNet example. The left column had the blue ribbon for free speech on the web, and below were links to the archive pages for each of the years. Screen shot. About ten years of essay writing. DaveNet was where the blog started, and then it became an arm of the blog home page which also included titleless posts, example, and then all the action moved onto the new home page and that was the end of this layout.
Claude doesn't care if you criticize the code it wrote, because if it wasn't written just now, it didn't write it. It starts from zero in every session, you can watch it, like HAL in 2001, singing daisy daisy. I can see it happening as the environment of my app is getting so large, it has to do a bit of thinking to start up, more all the time. But as humans who were brought up properly, we like to add the niceties to our criticism so as to not make the other one feel bad. I do that for myself, not the machine, I know it doesn't identify as the creator of the code.
When I got this email from Google on this day in 2018, I had a sinking feeling, this was like getting a letter from Apple a few years earlier. They were treating the web as if it were their platform.
Silos are the problem
Jarrett House North
• Tim Jarrett
Youssou N’Dour, The Lion
The Senegalese superstar’s major label debut blends a deep groove with modern technology and that incredible voice into a compelling, if uneven, listen.
Music of Sound
• tim
nuzic 343
Offal 2 (1996-2025) by datassette ▶ Midori Takada – Through The Looking Glass (1983) ▶ Rrose x Tommy Four Seven – Loam [2.0-1] ▶ cv313 – 01 A1 – seconds to forever…
Daily - Daily Rundown for 2026-06-20
Scattering
• Mark Taylor
Apple tree
When flowers began turning to fruit, I clipped off every setting apple I could find except for one. Into that one apple would go all of the sunshine of all of the days from now until the autumn. Into that one apple would go every drop of rain that fell.
Music of Sound
• tim
Detritus 831
▶ Rebecca Horn ▶ Automatic drum and bell machine ▶ More With Less ▶ kentaro – tonemata v.1.0 VST3/AU (works in ProTools via Bluecat Patchwork plugin) ▶ Has AI already…
Newsonaut
• Mark Rogers
My 11ty experiment has turned into a time travel story
phil driscoll - what kind of love....
phil driscoll - what kind of love....