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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · May 25

Watch my full performance at the Acid Horse festival yesterday.

Many thanks to @markopilkington.bsky.social and @jahduran.bsky.social - brief cameos from @larkfall.bsky.social and @mistressmoss.bsky.social.

Great festival, great performances, great to catch up with so many awesome people.

Acid Horse - Seth Cooke

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 2h

"Ultimate Parent" - Salesforce reporting jargon and excellent band name.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 3h

We risk creating and perpetuating subset modus operandi that exceptionalise minorities when the full context is often far broader in terms of demography. See also HBV and FGM as subsets of VAWG, County Lines as a subset of CCE. It's essential to position grooming gangs as one subset of CSE.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 3h

Really important to broaden the scope to CSE in general. "Grooming gangs" is a high bar that requires proactive intelligence development - there is a risk of feedback. Energy flows where attention goes, and its inverse. We won't overturn the right wing narrative without the full context.

National grooming gangs inquiry stalls over remit wrangles and lack of chair

Exclusive: Source says senior legal figures appear reluctant to head investigation launched by Keir Starmer in June

www.theguardian.com

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Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social · 6h

An extremely important story about the ways that facial recognition tech is failing people with facial differences, by @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/when-f...

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 23h

Black Messiah - YouTube

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phantom space via generative fill feedback, google pixel

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 1d

New & Notable: A moving new album from the dungeon synth titan that perfectly sums up the mood of our times.

TOME ZERO, by Erang

10 track album

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 3d

@darrenpjones.bsky.social @labourbristol.bsky.social Is it becoming clear that the industrial scale misuse of biometric and special category data by AI companies is a much more fundamental concern than creative copyright? In no other domain would this be allowed.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently that's actual Trail of Dead LFE. Story goes that a guy picked a crash cymbal up off the stand and threw it into the crowd like a frisbee. Thankfully no injuries! Could have been an arterial spray, Glasgow grin, decapitation move. Save it for the Trail of Dead/Mortal Kombat crossover.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 2d

FYI: one hand on the bass drum counter hoop, the other on the snare, walk forward through the middle of the kit pushing both away from you as you step. Almost everything topples/moves, but no single item has far to fall. Looks great, damage kept to a minimum. Proper drum lesson.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Earned brownie points with my daughter when she asked me to buy her a Trail of Dead CD. "I've got the first three. Learned how to trash a drum kit chatting to Conrad and Jason before their Manchester show. They cautioned against letting the stage-invading crowd use crash cymbals as giant shuriken."

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 3d

@darrenpjones.bsky.social @labourbristol.bsky.social It's clear that your consultation on AI and copyright accepted the false framing of the technologists - but art is inextricably bound up in biometric and special category data. Where are our protections?

themediabrain.substack.com/p/ces-ai-red...

Don't Get Trapped In GenAI's Copyright Box (NILV, Privacy, Biometrics Also May Be Implicated, Experts Say)

Generative AI Scraping & Output/Display Issues Go Beyond "Fair Use"

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Talking about Mike Nelson with Haptic when they visited, about how I referenced his work on my 2018 album 'Double B' that barely anyone heard, how I know that barely anyone heard it, and about how miserable it is for that album to still feel so current.

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Text screenshot: "So happy you like the Mike Nelson book. I'm thinking about Nelson with regard my album Double B a lot because of this current moment in history that we're caught up in. It was the immediate continuation of Triangular Trade, I was trying to make a third woodshed in the Robert Smithson > Mike Nelson series. I was thinking about the feedback spaces that radicalise men/are produced by radicalised men (including the artist studio and the recording studio - which is often the bedroom, attic, garage, shed or lockup - practical storage spaces that become altars or hideouts), Jo Cox, combatants returning home, unstable artefacts of 4chan shitposting, politicians and media figures threading a path through combustible language that allows them to evade consequences.
Then all the Judas Priest mythos started leaking in, Satanic backmasking, that kind of thing. I even built in a Mike Nelson homage in the structure, an entire passage repeats wholesale with extremely minor alterations so you realise that you actually entered through the middle of the work, but no one ever commented on the same bloody piece of music appearing on the album twice! No one ever really heard that one - if you're interested in Brian's cast-offs then I think it's one of my best works.

Image of woodshed visible from M32, Bristol, dilapidated, surrounded by vegetation to the point that it appears partially buried.

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Say what you will about Thiel, and I appreciate there are more important things to take issue with, but it takes a special kind of insight to bypass literally thousands of flamboyant antichrist-like figures in anime and manga to end up at One Piece.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

absolutely this

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

FRIEND: Long week?
MY WEEK:

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

FRIEND: Long week?
MY WEEK:

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

I assume it's because you've already upgraded, or are intending to upgrade?

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

The best bit about ^^^ this shot is that it's set up much earlier when the same character accidentally spills water, unremarked, barely on screen. You assume that he's drunk on the job, but upon rewatching you realise that it's about wealth inequality. He's not accustomed to the posh gravity.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

Absolute agreement. Incredibly hard to achieve when there's money at stake and you're getting writer's notes from producers. That's part of what makes The Expanse so brilliant, a near unique level of audience trust in what's shown but not explained.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

I'll put it on the list. Can always make time for Herzog.

Have you seen Cornford's 'Spectral Index'? Very much about now, but as it describes a feedback system it reaches into speculative futures.

www.avantwhatever.com/currently/sp...

Avantwhatever

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

I remember wincing in pain at the episode of Black Mirror in which a DS explains to a DCI how IMEIs work. It was supposed to be set in the near future. If the audience needs to understand it then you need to find another way than write a scene like that!

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

We should have more low budget cerebral sci-fi in general. If you can make something as hard-ish sci-fi as The Expanse for TV, you can easily have a live action Dennou Coil made with a sub-Doctor Who budget. Problem is that we have writers who don't even understand the world we have today.

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