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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · Sep 15

Erm… I’m doing my first gigs in 9 years, supporting the delightful @benefitstheband.bsky.social… beyond hyped (and a little scared tbh)… come thru people.

Dates/Tix : linktr.ee/danlesac

Boom!

Flyer promoting the up coming Benefits tour. Dates read as follows:

Benefits w/ Dan Le Sac
12/11 Reading, face bar
13/11 Coventry, just dropped in
14/11 Ipswich, smokehouse
15/11 London, lower third
16/11 Bedford, esquires

Benefits w/ The DSM IV
18/11 Sheffield, sidney & matilda
19/11 York, fulford arms
20/11 Carlisle, brickyard
21/11 Edinburgh, sneaky pete’s
22/11 Stockton, ku bar

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 2h

Telling the one AI tool he stands by is fairly bog standard audio restoration tool, based on legally obtained & trained algorithms (all speakers & copyright holders gave consent etc), which costs about £250 for an forever licence.
Basically a good & specific ML tool, not a slop generator.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 3h

Broken Sword's AI upscaling wasn't 'enormously satisfactory'

Broken Sword co-creator Charles Cecil admits AI upscaling was an 'expensive mistake.'

www.gamedeveloper.com

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 3h

This reminded me of the @commandersterling.bsky.social “Casinos and SEO Juice” video from 8 years ago… crazy there’s still money in pumping this trash… youtu.be/3bARSNVobUk?...

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 6h

Reading this felt creepy and gross, but seeing it felt infinitely worse… www.instagram.com/reel/DPpEpqy...

denibechard on Instagram: "If you’re wondering why I’m sharing a video of Marilyn Monroe on a dragon, I just published an article about the future of Sora 2 i…"

If you’re wondering why I’m sharing a video of Marilyn Monroe on a dragon, I just published an article about the future of Sora 2 in Scientific American. Here’s an excerpt: “In an article last January, I wrote that AI would eventually let us generate new episodes of favorite series, casting our favorite stars—even those long gone, like Marilyn Monroe—in shows such as Game of Thrones. When I tested out OpenAI’s Sora 2 after its release on October 30, it gave me just that—Monroe as a dragon-riding Targaryen. Though AI-generated TV on demand hasn’t arrived yet, if the videos I’ve seen in Sora’s feed are any indication, users are hell-bent on creating it.”

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 1d

In 2012/2013 BBC & Quilliam did try to rehabilitate Robinson into some kinda of reasonable “race activist”… for some reason British media just loves running cover for bigots.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian did a profile of Linehan last month in which they described a 57 year old man’s years-long obsession with harassing trans people as “gender activism”

What’s next? Is Tommy Robinson a race activist?

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 1d

Weirdly this is the same shape as the music industry, Spotify in place of OpenAi, Tencent in place of Microsoft, then the majors make up the rest.

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 4d

Milkshake duck…

Screencap reading “Nathan Rimmington, 33, is a haulier and owner of an HGV driving school in Barnsley. Huge, tattooed, always sweating and always pining for a pint, he is portrayed in the series as an incorrigible joker: "If the government don't crack down on immigration, my kids will have to go to school on fucking camels."

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 4d

Assuming he’s a Roko’s Basilisk guy explains a lot imo

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 5d

Number 1 bayyyybeee. Still got it… and by “it” I mean, the ability to place in minor UK charts then vanish without a trace a week later.

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 5d

Can’t remember his name but I feel like the fella on the left is the legalise incest guy.

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 9d

If you ran for Labour in 2024 AND lost are you relieved right now? Like it’s gotta suck to lose an election BUT they’re arresting auld biddies for holding signs, you gotta feel some relief right?

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 10d

Bluesky is clearly being run by people who thought NFTs were neat.

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 11d

lol yeah but nah, like these are the type of folk who’s lighting control requires dedicated servers, so it’s def “cleaner” AND they have the money to make it work… It’s kinda gross and they def can’t be fixed.

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 11d

Wife’s company does rich guy home theatre installs in DC and there’s a hardware/software platform called Kaleidescape a lot of Elon adjacent folks have… full spec’d system is like $115k but I’m sure Elon could afford it.

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 11d

When the CEO is this antagonistic, I’m not entirely sure who would.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12d

Are you paying us? Where?

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12d

It’s probably bad that the group that hates BlueSky users the most are the people who run BlueSky

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12d

Are you paying us? Where?

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 12d

For Swift to have that Girl, So Confusing moment, she would’ve needed to reach out and embrace Charli, reassure her, say “I feel those inferiorities too”… but the music industry loves setting women up as antagonists, and Actually Romantic feels like Swift continues to internalised that.

Anna Hollinrake @ SXSW! @annahollinrake.com · 12d

Well I think Actually Romantic confirms Taylor isn't really capable of a Girl, So Confusing moment

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 12d

Very “let that sink in” energy

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 12d

She’s so Elon coded.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12d

Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles

Waffle with berries & powdered sugar on floral plate

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Mar 19

uh oh
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Danny Torrence confronted by twins in the Shining, only the twins are Nancy and danny is Sluggo

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 13d

Roland selling me memories of the days my knees didn’t ache 😹

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 13d

I’m firmly of the belief that “better” kit ≠ “better” music. And to be fair, Roland are proof of that, both the 808 & 303 were flops, very expensive failures. But what gave them their iconic status isn’t some mythical Roland “magic”, it was humans hearing flaws and leaning into them.

dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 13d

No matter how good the Roland TR-1000 is, you absolutely do not need it, it will add zero to your music you can’t already do cheap and, at £2600, you will feel extreme buyers remorse.

Not saying I don’t want one, just that it’s a midlife crisis box, not some inspiring new take on drums etc.

Sonicstate @sonicstate.bsky.social · 14d

Presentation: Roland TR-1000 Next Generation Rhythm Creator : Analog 808 and 909 voices plus ACB and samples

Analog 808 and 909 voices plus ACB and samples

Presentation: Roland TR-1000 Next Generation Rhythm Creator : Analog 808 and 909 voices plus ACB and samples

sonicstate.com

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dan le sac 🦄💣 @danlesac.bandcamp.com · 14d

It makes it so bland, 50 guys doing a tonverk video then the same 50 doing a TR1000 and on and on. It’s where a “bad gear” type channel could be interesting, like a “cheap alternative to current trend” channel, but what you actually got was more tonverk.

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KurtJMac @kurtjmac.bsky.social · 14d

14.5 years after beginning the trek to the Minecraft Far Lands, Farlanders will finally experience reaching the journey's destination LIVE on Twitch, starting at 12:00 Noon PDT on Saturday, October 4th! youtu.be/daXNSBw6G54?...

Minecraft Far Lands or Bust - #852 - About the Destination

YouTube video by Far Lands or Bust with KurtJMac

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