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Nigel Wallis

@mole9.bsky.social

910 followers 1.2K following 4.1K posts

Equally uninformed about music, art and science but likely to post on any regardless. ECM nerd and Gerhard Richter obsessive. If I'm playing music: yes, it's supposed to sound like that.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 2h

Found an otherwise tempting one in a local charity shop today - the worst case of disc rot I've seen.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 5h

And there are two more Ghosted albums if you like that one.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 7h

Why, on God's green earth, would I ever upload a 3D likeness of my face and voice to a software so that strangers could make deepfakes of me.

Unlike the original Sora, Sora 2 isn’t a mere video-generation platform; it’s a social app with a TikTok-style feed of short AI-generated clips, and it allows you to authorize a “cameo” of yourself so friends can drop your likeness into their skits—and to revoke it later once you’ve seen too many videos of yourself fleeing police or crying on game shows.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 8h

You can't win it posthumously. Not looking too good for him at the moment.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 9h

The eerie payphone scene in the novel (where Case walks past a bank of them, and each rings only once as he passes) I think would baffle viewers of the TV adaptation if it's included.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 9h

I'm grand for music and books, less so for movies. Maybe we should combine forces and build a stockade.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 9h

You don't need to dust the shelves when that's on, the bass will take care of it.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 10h

I may starve but other than that I'm survivalist-level prepared for the cyber apocalypse.

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

“Keep vast numbers of DVDs, CDs and vinyl in case of cyberattack, middle-aged dads told”

Steve Beresford @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 12h

Then: the office of the future will be paperless

Now: keep paper records

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 10h

The Neil Gaimans on our local charity shop shelves, even the hardback first editions, are gathering dust. I suspect they need no more.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 10h

The finest short story of all is two sentences long.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 11h

Still pondering the time I bought a book from the Tate bookshop but I was asked to wear gloves before looking at it first.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 12h

The idea that any photo of him could be considered a good one or in any way flattering shows just how divorced from reality he's become.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 12h

Well the technological delivery mechanism has changed, but the lure of utter nonsense masquerading as secret knowledge for the hard of thinking is as old as the hills.