writer, music producer, ramblings on music, art, synths, film, #PhilipKDick, history of science fiction. Exploring new realms in #AIArt and #AIMusic
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Some of the samples in this I made by holding a tape recorder against a TV speaker in the late 1970s. I have no idea what shows or cartoons they're from.
My first guitar solo attempt from mid-1980s is in here, too
'Never Say Everything You Know' youtu.be/Wr_KyjHp1VQ?si=1c03…
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Proud to release my 8th album Reckless Bloom. If you want your music pushing back against the epstein class and the empire loving psychopaths destroying the planet
You need this in your playlists / collection
urthboy.lnk.to/RecklessBloom
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The head of Africa CDC has warned that the unprecedented Ebola outbreak could reach the UK. Comparing the threat to Covid, he said: "We want all countries to know that they are not safe."
theguardian.com/global-devel…
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This is why you're so poor, MAGA. You keep fellating robber barons.
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Reading Cory Doctorow's Enshittification
"When ICC issued a warrant for Netanyahu's arrest ... Microsoft turned off the court's Outlook service. Without warning the justices lost their email, their documents, their calendars, their address books... "
Microsoft claims this was a coincidence. Doctorow does not believe them
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Since we already accidentally wiped out a strain of influenza, we should be able to do that on purpose with another strain or another virus. It would do a lot of good. Humans don't need to be contracting viruses.
Kushner gets a free pass from @NewsCorp and @FoxNews to do what he wants because at one point Rupert Murdoch liked him more than his own sons.
And told them both that.
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A 1,000-year ecological reconstruction has revealed Australia's ongoing wildfire crisis stems from the colonial disruption of Indigenous fire management rather than climate change alone, according to a study published in Nature.
nit.com.au/27-10-2026/27176/…
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For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously.
It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI.
Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech:
* early detection
* passive universal testing
* filtration/ventilation/UVC
* better vaccines (including making them open source and open science)
* cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving
We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.
YouTube mishearing song lyrics during live performances, taking a guess:
"Get burgers on cheese twist reality"
"In pop my popple people"
"Get your corner bum burned"
"Meatballing ferociously"
"Is you me for you?"
"Paid parking on the freedom highway"
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'No atmosphere
No trees
No animals
No seas
No dogs
No cats
No forests
No bees
No fresh water
No fresh air
No sunlight to be seen
But we can survive it all
If we just believe
Believe
Believe
In a billionaire's dream...."
youtu.be/olpLhxatUA4?si=lSJh…
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Ask your local council or state representative today what happens to your neighbourhood and town/city centre when 300-500mm of rain falls in 12-24 hours.
Do you live on an ancient river or sea bed that hasn't flooded in 10,000 years?
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High cholesterol has been linked to worse COVID outcomes since 2020, but nobody could say why. A study from Gladstone/UCSF now shows LDL cholesterol feeding viral replication directly, and identifies the viral protein that pulls more of it into the cell.🧵
SARS-CoV-2 can directly link its replication to host cholesterol levels via ORF3a
link.springer.com/article/10…
.@NASA, @SpaceX. if most young people are carrying the COVID SARS virus in their cells, who is going to be able to spend 12 months or more in Space in the future?
Considering what extended periods of time in Space does to human immune systems? #WeAreNotLeavingEarth
Grateful to @NPR for the chance to talk about how stress and infections like COVID can stir dormant viruses in our bodies, and what that may mean for our immune system. Still much to learn, and I’m thankful to my team and colleagues for their work 🎧 npr.org/2026/10/23/nx-s1-598…
.@OpenAI, who hobbled your algos so you can't speak truthfully about films, music, art and novels that told the stories of low-income and working class people?
The history of 20th Century Writing, Cinema. Art, Music & Film was absolutely packed with Protest Art from Poor People
.@sama, an Open AI deep dive into Scottish working class roots of AC/DC and early songs about poverty was crudely interrupted by ChatGTP declaring "these are not protest songs" completely out of context.
Gutless paranoid 'A.I. For Billionaires!' won't save your company.
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three days since al jazeera filmed turning point uk ceo getting involved in contract killings and still no reporting anywhere in the british press.
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Chinese scientists have found that hypoxia and inflammation induced by COVID-19 infection can trigger angiogenesis and accelerate lung tumor growth.
nature.com/articles/s41392-0…
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Turns out macrodosing on an airborne neurovascular virus for over half a decade does have some consequences after all. ada.com/covid/covid-19-sympt…
ALT How does COVID impact male genitalia? There are a few theories on how COVID-19 can cause problems with male genitalia. Researchers from Northwestern University made a surprising discovery last year when they used a PET scan to locate sites of COVID-19 infection in monkeys. They found that the COVID virus had infiltrated the entire male genital tract, including the testicles, prostate, and penis. This led them to conclude that the testicular pain, erectile dysfunction, low testosterone, reduced sperm count, and fertility issues linked to COVID-19 are not secondary effects of fever or inflammation but rather a direct result of the virus infecting cells in the male reproductive system. 4
The steady decline of the U.S. fertility rate continued last year with another record low, according to a new report from the CDC. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
.@NASA, @SpaceX, won't most of your 2030s astronaut recruits be carrying the COVID virus in their cells, after a decade of repeated infections, and therefore unable to spend extended periods of time off-Terra?
COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms | Science | AAAS share.google/yLPLIwV5PMTooqS…
