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Ernst Karel
@sesamecircuits.bsky.social
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electroacoustic noise / sonic ethnography / Expedition Content (w Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020); 47 Gates (w Bhob Rainey, Erstwhile Records 2024) / Local Locations (KWMR) / https://ek.klingt.org
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benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social
Reteaching my Representing Animals course next term and I’m looking to update the course screening (especially to make it more student-friendly). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Here’s the topics and films from before:

Topic: Introductions
Bestiaire (Denis Côté, 2012)

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December 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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cheryleleonard.bsky.social
Start the new year out with a sea of wondrous sounds! LISTENING WITH POINT REYES, January 10, 2026, 2-4pm. Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...

Join Ernst Karel and Cheryl E. Leonard for a listening session in which we explore Point Reyes National Seashore through audio recordings.
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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strategictaper.bsky.social
2025 music format ranking:

1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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bgutzeit.bsky.social
Oh, and....there is a new TV Pow release
Lake Michigan Wind Farms, by TV Pow
1 track album
tvpow.bandcamp.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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burrata.bsky.social
This is my book from this year, which I poured myself into for nearly a decade, which connected me to an incredible network of people and histories, and which I believe in deeply.

www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-afte...
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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sesamecircuits.bsky.social
Donate here:
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November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
sesamecircuits.bsky.social
Donate here:
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November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
There is so much violence in their rhetoric, generally; the explicit non-consensual ‘gAI is here, you need to use it whether you want to or not,’ and then this kind of abusers’ logic ‘you have to use our tech but we aren’t responsible for anything that our tech does to you’
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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check1check2.bsky.social
It all makes more sense if we think of it as sabotage bsky.app/profile/char...
charles.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 6d
It was only a failure if you assume they ever had good intentions. If you assume they intended to destroy the federal government from within, they succeeded.

We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
nycjayjay.bsky.social Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 6d
This point needs to be made and frequently.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
hbcompass.bsky.social Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · 8d
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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kamaufranklin.bsky.social
Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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democracynow.org
“We are the ones that are saying what the forest is demanding. We are the ones that are saying what the river is asking for. We are going through a lot of violence in our territories.”
“We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30
Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous peoples and their allies, have traveled to the COP30 U.N. climate conference in Belém, Brazil. On Friday night, an Indigenous-led march arrived a...
www.democracynow.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
THIS
mcnees.bsky.social Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 10d
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
sesamecircuits.bsky.social
TURN IT OFF
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10d
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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yukozama.bsky.social
Q&A with Laura Cetilia about gorgeous nothings
www.elsewheremusic.net/qa_with_laur...

ローラ・セティリア『ゴージャス・ナッシングス』インタビュー（日本語訳）
www.elsewheremusic.net/qa_with_laur...
Q&A with Laura Cetilia about gorgeous nothings
“I only write what feels true to me.”  " I have been working so intimately with my instrument that we really have melded into something else entirely. " — Laura Cetilia
www.elsewheremusic.net
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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yukozama.bsky.social
three new elsewhere CDs are now in stock!

Laura Cetilia - gorgeous nothings (elsewhere 035)
Samuel Reinhard - For 10 Musicians (elsewhere 036)
Shoko Numao - The Siwnin Sails (elsewhere 037)

www.elsewheremusic.net
elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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archive.org
Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · 12d
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.

We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
Delouse and Guitar
Photo of article about Assemblage Theory that refers to Delouse and Guitar
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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erstwhile.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to announce this exciting new project added to the upcoming Erst queue, which will be recorded by Taku Unami:

Shoko Numao/Wakana Ikeda (Erstwhile 112)
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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nwlong.bsky.social
I'm happy to announce that my new album is out now:
normanwlong.bandcamp.com/album/scenes...
Scenes of Contestation...And the Expanded, by Norman W Long
4 track album
normanwlong.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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ksalois.bsky.social
Much needed intervention!
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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consume.red
zhuangzi chapter 1:
frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 14d
That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think. Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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strategictaper.bsky.social
Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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catsynth.bsky.social
Caroliner Rainbow! A rare live performance 🎭🎶 #SF
Experimental band performing noise music with fluorescent glowing customes and sets.
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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non-event.bsky.social
Last Non-Event* of 2025!!! Tomorrow inside Boston City Hall – 3 great local/local-ish artists: YOONA KIM (ajaeng), RETRIBUTION BODY (custom subs & modular synth), SADNOISE (custom electronics & modular synth).

FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included

www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
Yoona Kim, Retribution Body, sadnoise — Non-Event
Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture present an evening of deep bass, avant ajaeng, site responsive electronics inside Boston’s iconic, Brutalist City Hall.
www.nonevent.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM