Cosmic Chambo
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"non-self improvement and heavy mellow music"
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
The sound of the heart's luminous emotional capacities, shattered by great, perhaps unbearable suffering
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
Language from Zen teacher Joko Beck on the liberation of giving up hope, and Lester Bangs on Miles Davis' "branch of cold flame." Plus 90 minutes of heavy mellow, ecstatic metal, and post-world music.
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
Language from Zen teacher Joko Beck on the liberation of giving up hope, and Lester Bangs on Miles Davis' "branch of cold flame." Plus 90 minutes of heavy mellow, ecstatic metal, and post-world music.
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Getting too faded at night, waking up to the dread of "oh shit did I do something online" followed by the relief of seeing unfamiliar NYOP albums in my band camp wishlist. Not sure how I ended up here, but TYSM to the extremely psychedelic acoustic drone aficionados whose libraries I crawled at 3am.
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Getting too faded at night, waking up to the dread of "oh shit did I do something online" followed by the relief of seeing unfamiliar NYOP albums in my band camp wishlist. Not sure how I ended up here, but TYSM to the extremely psychedelic acoustic drone aficionados whose libraries I crawled at 3am.
wishing a very merry Philadelphia's Allen Iverson with the steal and game-winning layup against the Wizards in OT Day to all those who celebrate
November 26, 2004: Philadelphia's Allen Iverson with the steal and game-winning layup against the Wizards in OT.
Iverson finished with 28 PTS/13 AST and Kyle Korver added 26 PTS (10-17 FG/6-12 3P)/8 REB in the 76ers' 116-114 win. Antawn Jamison had 27 PTS/15 REB for Washington.
Iverson finished with 28 PTS/13 AST and Kyle Korver added 26 PTS (10-17 FG/6-12 3P)/8 REB in the 76ers' 116-114 win. Antawn Jamison had 27 PTS/15 REB for Washington.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
wishing a very merry Philadelphia's Allen Iverson with the steal and game-winning layup against the Wizards in OT Day to all those who celebrate
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Here's a really lovely piece of music for your bright wintery afternoon – James Holden and Wacław Zimpel's joyously burbling set from this year's MUTEK festival, now streaming on @thequietus.com
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Listen to James Holden & Wacław Zimpel at MUTEK 2025 | The Quietus
Regular readers of tQ might remember that our friends at MUTEK helpfully had someone handy with a tape recorder to capture Factory Floor’s comeback set at the 2024 edition of the festival. Well, we’re...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Here's a really lovely piece of music for your bright wintery afternoon – James Holden and Wacław Zimpel's joyously burbling set from this year's MUTEK festival, now streaming on @thequietus.com
thequietus.com/news/james-h...
thequietus.com/news/james-h...
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
Everybody's all "oh no we're living Minority Report" but people aren't really gonna wake up to the real until Karoline Leavitt consumes a live guinea pig at a press conference.
but all the weird greasy rich men who make me think of the show V for some reason all say it's as alive as any of us, deserves more rights and has no responsibilities
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Everybody's all "oh no we're living Minority Report" but people aren't really gonna wake up to the real until Karoline Leavitt consumes a live guinea pig at a press conference.
It can be healthy to indulge in nostalgia sessions and stay up late listening to Integrity but it is more restorative to listen to contemporary hxc that I would've loved even more than THOSE WHO FEAR TOMORROW if they had been around when I was 16.
FSR85 - Wrong Side Of Heaven, by End It
15 track album
flatspotrecords.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
It can be healthy to indulge in nostalgia sessions and stay up late listening to Integrity but it is more restorative to listen to contemporary hxc that I would've loved even more than THOSE WHO FEAR TOMORROW if they had been around when I was 16.
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Increasingly hard to deny we’ve been Lathe of Heavened into our present reality
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Increasingly hard to deny we’ve been Lathe of Heavened into our present reality
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
Why don't I have more followers I wonder while posting multiple verbose threads about gift-giving etiquette, challenges of sitting meditation practice, gripes about blurbs on SF novels from 20 years ago, and "inside metal" commentary on the album ASH ECLIPSES FLESH by the band Terror Corpse.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Why don't I have more followers I wonder while posting multiple verbose threads about gift-giving etiquette, challenges of sitting meditation practice, gripes about blurbs on SF novels from 20 years ago, and "inside metal" commentary on the album ASH ECLIPSES FLESH by the band Terror Corpse.
Giving people consumable gifts frees the gift receiver from the responsibility to display, store, watch, read, listen to, or wear the gift prominently. If they like the gift, they consume it and it's gone. If they don't like it, they trash it or someone else consumes it. No problema.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Giving people consumable gifts frees the gift receiver from the responsibility to display, store, watch, read, listen to, or wear the gift prominently. If they like the gift, they consume it and it's gone. If they don't like it, they trash it or someone else consumes it. No problema.
Whenever I find super low-tuned death metal that has Shoggoth Kinetics album art and Dobber Beverly doing "big room natural drum sounds" I am suddenly interested in death metal again.
Ash Eclipses Flesh, by Terror Corpse
10 track album
darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Whenever I find super low-tuned death metal that has Shoggoth Kinetics album art and Dobber Beverly doing "big room natural drum sounds" I am suddenly interested in death metal again.
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
An example of doing zazen wrong is when I want to read some Blue Cliff to start, but it's a PDF on a Mac and I can't transfer it to a Galaxy tablet so I'm fighting with Bluetooth and becoming so depressed over the suffering manufactured by proprietary tech that I never make it back to my cushion.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An example of doing zazen wrong is when I want to read some Blue Cliff to start, but it's a PDF on a Mac and I can't transfer it to a Galaxy tablet so I'm fighting with Bluetooth and becoming so depressed over the suffering manufactured by proprietary tech that I never make it back to my cushion.
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The Fantasy RPG kids I knew in the 1980s Boston suburbs: blah blah Rush blah filk songs blah blah Silmarillion Dragonlance
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Fantasy RPG kids I knew in the 1980s Boston suburbs: blah blah Rush blah filk songs blah blah Silmarillion Dragonlance
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
This Stephen King blurb for Robert Charles Wilson's xlnt sci fi novel SPIN sucks so bad.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This Stephen King blurb for Robert Charles Wilson's xlnt sci fi novel SPIN sucks so bad.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
There's a nonzero chance that I could secure several million in VC funding for an AI startup with a pitch that uses arbitrary linguistic jargon to describe Mad Libs.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There's a nonzero chance that I could secure several million in VC funding for an AI startup with a pitch that uses arbitrary linguistic jargon to describe Mad Libs.
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You don't hate the press enough
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You don't hate the press enough
Escaping to an off-grid desert compound was always a long shot but losing that fantasy cuz of the lifetime dependence on in$$$ulin that goes with an adult T1D diagnosis hits harder after watching two lonely brainworm tech bros hyping AI that burns forests to roast a "friend" with slurs at a "party."
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Escaping to an off-grid desert compound was always a long shot but losing that fantasy cuz of the lifetime dependence on in$$$ulin that goes with an adult T1D diagnosis hits harder after watching two lonely brainworm tech bros hyping AI that burns forests to roast a "friend" with slurs at a "party."
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Tangential to the Jimmy Cliff news but after you watch The Harder They Come you gotta see Franco Rosso’s Babylon, which took the top of my head off (my Yank ear did have to turn on subtitles), & Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an Illusion.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Tangential to the Jimmy Cliff news but after you watch The Harder They Come you gotta see Franco Rosso’s Babylon, which took the top of my head off (my Yank ear did have to turn on subtitles), & Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an Illusion.
Swinsian is one of the most useful tools for dodging the rent extraction schemes of music streaming platforms. One-time license fee for the app plus a couple rounds of updates including esoteric features that will surely delight fellow holders of unwieldy native digital music libraries.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Swinsian is one of the most useful tools for dodging the rent extraction schemes of music streaming platforms. One-time license fee for the app plus a couple rounds of updates including esoteric features that will surely delight fellow holders of unwieldy native digital music libraries.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Lauren Bacall's low-key negging of Humphrey Bogart's character "Harry Morgan" throughout TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944) is so great. AFAIK it's never commented on within the film, but "Marie" only ever refers to him as "Steve" and it gets funnier and funnier as their IRL chemistry increases.
To Have and Have Not - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1944 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
“Anybody got a match?” With her very first line in her very first film, Lauren Bacall set the s...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lauren Bacall's low-key negging of Humphrey Bogart's character "Harry Morgan" throughout TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944) is so great. AFAIK it's never commented on within the film, but "Marie" only ever refers to him as "Steve" and it gets funnier and funnier as their IRL chemistry increases.
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year