alexander solsten
@solsten.bsky.social
🎤Producer/Recording Artist/Owner at
Eightfold Recordings “Dance music made for the moment, built to last”
“Rituals of Revival” 🧖 and other releases TBA for 2026 🔜
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solsten.bandcamp.com
Eightfold Recordings “Dance music made for the moment, built to last”
“Rituals of Revival” 🧖 and other releases TBA for 2026 🔜
👨🍳 ⚾️ 🏊♂️ 🧘♂️ 🇨🇦 🇸🇪 🇳🇴
solsten.bandcamp.com
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My life has a concerning lack of sailboats in it, I think. ⛵️
NW
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
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Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
February 14, 2026 at 11:04 PM
My life has a concerning lack of sailboats in it, I think. ⛵️
NW
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
NW
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
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Minnesota is like:
February 14, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Minnesota is like:
POW!
February 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
POW!
Rose-tinted urbanism, at @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social (I had a gift link so it might work for you! Good stuff in the newsletter today)
nyra.nyc/articles/whe...
nyra.nyc/articles/whe...
Where the Sidewalk Ends
<em>To have Jane Jacobs, we need to go beyond Jane Jacobs.</em>
nyra.nyc
February 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Rose-tinted urbanism, at @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social (I had a gift link so it might work for you! Good stuff in the newsletter today)
nyra.nyc/articles/whe...
nyra.nyc/articles/whe...
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Happy valentine's day to my fellow relationship enjoyers
To my single friends? Hope you get your sex organ played with to a satisfactory degree today
To everyone else? Go fuck ya self
To my single friends? Hope you get your sex organ played with to a satisfactory degree today
To everyone else? Go fuck ya self
February 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Happy valentine's day to my fellow relationship enjoyers
To my single friends? Hope you get your sex organ played with to a satisfactory degree today
To everyone else? Go fuck ya self
To my single friends? Hope you get your sex organ played with to a satisfactory degree today
To everyone else? Go fuck ya self
You can get on a train and still expect it to have brakes, just saying
"We can create rules that govern how industries may use AI. We have agency. It is possible to use society’s power—the consent of the governed—to establish laws...This seems like something the next Democrat who wants to be president should think about."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
We Can Choose Not to Let AI Destroy Us
Systemic risk and AI’s speed problem.
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:59 AM
You can get on a train and still expect it to have brakes, just saying
Kinda watching the two towers Helm’s Deep sequence, I bet you can hear the music now - DA-dun dunnnnn, dun DUN DUN
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Kinda watching the two towers Helm’s Deep sequence, I bet you can hear the music now - DA-dun dunnnnn, dun DUN DUN
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Ok, clicking through to the blog post that this blog post is referencing, the author makes this point directly:
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
February 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Ok, clicking through to the blog post that this blog post is referencing, the author makes this point directly:
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
They’ll try and keep your shrimping down. your rizz: too strong, your facts: too real
I applied for a job digging stormwater ponds in Georgia and they told me No within about three hours. They know I want access to the stormwater pond shrimp and are trying to STOP ME
February 13, 2026 at 3:22 AM
They’ll try and keep your shrimping down. your rizz: too strong, your facts: too real
They called her Babyhead, cause she’s got a baby head
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 AM
They called her Babyhead, cause she’s got a baby head
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one thing I’ve noticed in talking to people is that they really are not aware of how meteoric the increase in storage has been, or what that means for renewable energy
This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 12, 2026 at 5:46 AM
one thing I’ve noticed in talking to people is that they really are not aware of how meteoric the increase in storage has been, or what that means for renewable energy
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For $200 a month a regular person now has access to an agent who can build pretty much anything they want on their computer.
5 years ago having access to someone who could build you anything you want would have cost quite a bit more than $200.
5 years ago having access to someone who could build you anything you want would have cost quite a bit more than $200.
February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
For $200 a month a regular person now has access to an agent who can build pretty much anything they want on their computer.
5 years ago having access to someone who could build you anything you want would have cost quite a bit more than $200.
5 years ago having access to someone who could build you anything you want would have cost quite a bit more than $200.
My three green flags
Kiké Hernández is proof that all you need to do to be hot is 1. have a good sense of humor 2. be good at baseball for one month of the year 3. hate ICE
February 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
My three green flags
Watching M:I2, can’t believe they used the Tom cruise mask 3 separate times lol
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Watching M:I2, can’t believe they used the Tom cruise mask 3 separate times lol
Would you still love me if I was being driven by a worm? 🐛
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Would you still love me if I was being driven by a worm? 🐛
Rewatching MI:2 so I can imagine all the Farscape cast & crew running down a tunnel
That's a season 1 Farscape clip, so John Woo was literally next door as we were shooting it. (He was directing "Mission:Impossible 2" on Stage 1 of Fox Studios Australia, and Moya was on Stage 2.) He asked if his kids could tour our sets (HELL YEAH!) & let us watch Tom Cruise run through a tunnel.
February 12, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Rewatching MI:2 so I can imagine all the Farscape cast & crew running down a tunnel
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"Baseball is slow ebbs and swift surges, a sport of opposing forces thrown together into harmony. It’s bittersweet and optimistic; the territory of upstart children and aging adults alike, a way to be romantic about stats and charts."
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
Sisyphus and Baseball: Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!!
Both Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!! explore groups of men who are devoted to their sport, but have yet to figure out the rest of their own lives.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:34 AM
"Baseball is slow ebbs and swift surges, a sport of opposing forces thrown together into harmony. It’s bittersweet and optimistic; the territory of upstart children and aging adults alike, a way to be romantic about stats and charts."
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
In 2043, advancements in AI created medical miracles, but wholesale automation has left millions without work.
At the mercy of the algorithm & in desperate need of kidney transplant, Omar is forced to take a mysterious & well-paying job that has unforeseen consequences…
youtu.be/zJd8-wlqkGs?...
At the mercy of the algorithm & in desperate need of kidney transplant, Omar is forced to take a mysterious & well-paying job that has unforeseen consequences…
youtu.be/zJd8-wlqkGs?...
FULCRUM
YouTube video by Solsten
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February 12, 2026 at 12:19 AM
In 2043, advancements in AI created medical miracles, but wholesale automation has left millions without work.
At the mercy of the algorithm & in desperate need of kidney transplant, Omar is forced to take a mysterious & well-paying job that has unforeseen consequences…
youtu.be/zJd8-wlqkGs?...
At the mercy of the algorithm & in desperate need of kidney transplant, Omar is forced to take a mysterious & well-paying job that has unforeseen consequences…
youtu.be/zJd8-wlqkGs?...
Can Canadian politicians behave for just ONE second before spinning a tragedy into their own personal hobby horse? Jesus fucking Christ
Yes I’m talking about Tara Armstrong who should resign immediately
Yes I’m talking about Tara Armstrong who should resign immediately
February 12, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Can Canadian politicians behave for just ONE second before spinning a tragedy into their own personal hobby horse? Jesus fucking Christ
Yes I’m talking about Tara Armstrong who should resign immediately
Yes I’m talking about Tara Armstrong who should resign immediately
I am begging my fellow leftists to find a real enemy besides will stancil, my god. there are actual problems out there to solve if you log off for once.
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I am begging my fellow leftists to find a real enemy besides will stancil, my god. there are actual problems out there to solve if you log off for once.
WSJ in 2046: Gen Alphas may never have a job but they’re still splurging on pricy bowls of gruel
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:24 AM
WSJ in 2046: Gen Alphas may never have a job but they’re still splurging on pricy bowls of gruel
People overuse this expression but if this winter goes much longer I’m gonna turn into the Joker
February 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
People overuse this expression but if this winter goes much longer I’m gonna turn into the Joker
You want to give my cat a treat? That’ll be two pieces of ID and a $25 non-refundable deposit
discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 AM
You want to give my cat a treat? That’ll be two pieces of ID and a $25 non-refundable deposit
Finally, a committee I can get behind. Who says no
instead of spending this municipal grant on something safe and boring like light rail, we’d like to form an exploratory commission to research the feasibility of Passenger Catapults
February 11, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Finally, a committee I can get behind. Who says no