Karl Olson 🎤 Ultraklystron
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Decided to move this up to 12:05 am East Coast time #drumnbass #newmusic #premiere
youtube.com/watch?v=etj4...
youtube.com/watch?v=etj4...
Decided to move this up to 12:05 am East Coast time #drumnbass #newmusic #premiere
youtube.com/watch?v=etj4...
youtube.com/watch?v=etj4...
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Decided to move this up to 12:05 am East Coast time #drumnbass #newmusic #premiere
youtube.com/watch?v=etj4...
youtube.com/watch?v=etj4...
Watching a catchy YouTube shitpost & realizing that the TV's have become bigger, better & cheaper for the same price, but the 4K blu-ray players that'd drive those sets to their fullest are more expensive than the TVs, plus many shows are only ever on streaming, never legitimately ownable forever.
Hell, if anything, the smartphone & dirt cheap huge TVs have dramatically covered for the fact many don't have the money to spend on anything besides a rent, or if they're lucky, a mortgage. Most have endless portable entertainment, but may not be able to spare money for a CD or DVD a month.
yes, I feel like you can safely ignore anyone who tells you with a straight face in 2025 that you can just do without a smartphone
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Watching a catchy YouTube shitpost & realizing that the TV's have become bigger, better & cheaper for the same price, but the 4K blu-ray players that'd drive those sets to their fullest are more expensive than the TVs, plus many shows are only ever on streaming, never legitimately ownable forever.
Ah yes, the anime with a location pilgrimage site in a Vancouver, BC suburb.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Ah yes, the anime with a location pilgrimage site in a Vancouver, BC suburb.
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Quintessential screwball Daffy Duck.
Clampett cemented that loony take on that iconic Looney Tunes character.
Clampett cemented that loony take on that iconic Looney Tunes character.
More Looney Tunes ALWAYS good!
(The Daffy Doc - 1938
Director. Bob Clampett)
(The Daffy Doc - 1938
Director. Bob Clampett)
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Quintessential screwball Daffy Duck.
Clampett cemented that loony take on that iconic Looney Tunes character.
Clampett cemented that loony take on that iconic Looney Tunes character.
Literally any laptop you'd develop game on would have a good enough mic for that. Using some maxxed out desktop? Record with your Bluetooth earbuds or your cellphone. Audio a little nasty? Audacity is free. I've recorded the narration for workplace presentations on a $60 cellphone. It's so easy.
"we used AI to test voice lines but there isn't any in the final game" okay but you could have just recorded a coworker or something. You have voices. Why is everything so disappointing
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Literally any laptop you'd develop game on would have a good enough mic for that. Using some maxxed out desktop? Record with your Bluetooth earbuds or your cellphone. Audio a little nasty? Audacity is free. I've recorded the narration for workplace presentations on a $60 cellphone. It's so easy.
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Char and Amuro and Charles Peirce (2/2)
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Char and Amuro and Charles Peirce (2/2)
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Char and Amuro and Charles Peirce (1/2)
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Char and Amuro and Charles Peirce (1/2)
Who says shoes don't improve your game?
A designer in Singapore created a functional SNES inside a wearable Nike sneaker www.engadget.com/gaming/ninte...
A designer in Singapore created a functional SNES inside a wearable Nike sneaker
A designer created an SNES inside a shoe to celebrate 35 years of the console in Japan.
www.engadget.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Who says shoes don't improve your game?
I will absolutely do a Gmac Cash if the Victoria sign is like the Detroit sign: youtu.be/RNp2WwzqtAk
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I will absolutely do a Gmac Cash if the Victoria sign is like the Detroit sign: youtu.be/RNp2WwzqtAk
Kind of them to drop this news over the long shopping weekend in the US such that the markets might not get it until Tuesday.
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Kind of them to drop this news over the long shopping weekend in the US such that the markets might not get it until Tuesday.
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This, a million times over. Please tell people when you like their work. Creatives can go a very long time without any outside input at all, positive or otherwise, so a gesture of appreciation often makes all the difference in the world.
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This, a million times over. Please tell people when you like their work. Creatives can go a very long time without any outside input at all, positive or otherwise, so a gesture of appreciation often makes all the difference in the world.
Canada still does that: it's a shame they don't export them as hard as they used to. Shows like TallBoyz & Baroness von Sketch Show should be better known in the US. The BlackBerry movie was also recut as an even better 3 episode miniseries.
Again, CBC Gem needs to be an international service.
Again, CBC Gem needs to be an international service.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Canada still does that: it's a shame they don't export them as hard as they used to. Shows like TallBoyz & Baroness von Sketch Show should be better known in the US. The BlackBerry movie was also recut as an even better 3 episode miniseries.
Again, CBC Gem needs to be an international service.
Again, CBC Gem needs to be an international service.
That's why City is probably AOTY, if not one of the best shows of 2025 full stop, and will also be in the best of the decade discussion. Doing "nothing" beautifully and compellingly is its own amazing and precious art form.
More people should try cozy, do-nothing shows. Sometimes I'm tired of "lore" and intense drama. Sometimes ya girl needs to eat chips and veg out.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
That's why City is probably AOTY, if not one of the best shows of 2025 full stop, and will also be in the best of the decade discussion. Doing "nothing" beautifully and compellingly is its own amazing and precious art form.
No particular hot take like this week, the OP image just reminds me that I need to retrieve the CCS cel I left at my parents' along with a bunch of other personal anime effects.
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
No particular hot take like this week, the OP image just reminds me that I need to retrieve the CCS cel I left at my parents' along with a bunch of other personal anime effects.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Hell, if anything, the smartphone & dirt cheap huge TVs have dramatically covered for the fact many don't have the money to spend on anything besides a rent, or if they're lucky, a mortgage. Most have endless portable entertainment, but may not be able to spare money for a CD or DVD a month.
yes, I feel like you can safely ignore anyone who tells you with a straight face in 2025 that you can just do without a smartphone
This article makes really good points about the inability of most people to cut expenses without entirely losing the ability to participate in the economy. I get tired of people telling me to live cheaper by eliminating things that are necessary for modern life.
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Hell, if anything, the smartphone & dirt cheap huge TVs have dramatically covered for the fact many don't have the money to spend on anything besides a rent, or if they're lucky, a mortgage. Most have endless portable entertainment, but may not be able to spare money for a CD or DVD a month.
CBC Gem should be competing internationally for the same audience as Dropout & Criterion. It's not like Canada's tax credits don't create jobs, as they do so even in the new creator economy, but they could be doing so, so much more than just keeping the local media oligopoly from bleeding out.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
CBC Gem should be competing internationally for the same audience as Dropout & Criterion. It's not like Canada's tax credits don't create jobs, as they do so even in the new creator economy, but they could be doing so, so much more than just keeping the local media oligopoly from bleeding out.
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nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
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Realizing one could sum up 90's cartoons as follows:
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Realizing one could sum up 90's cartoons as follows:
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Ahh yes we are “enabling” “artists” by giving them a button to push that randomly mashes a bunch of audio together that they can pretend they made. Here I am spending 20 hours on a song to get the vibe I want, but damnit it’s my song and my vibe.
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Ahh yes we are “enabling” “artists” by giving them a button to push that randomly mashes a bunch of audio together that they can pretend they made. Here I am spending 20 hours on a song to get the vibe I want, but damnit it’s my song and my vibe.
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Gordon is a highly trained professional, he doesn’t need to hear all this.
Now just climb up and start lowering the bird into the vat of cooking oil…
Now just climb up and start lowering the bird into the vat of cooking oil…
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Gordon is a highly trained professional, he doesn’t need to hear all this.
Now just climb up and start lowering the bird into the vat of cooking oil…
Now just climb up and start lowering the bird into the vat of cooking oil…
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defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs
Area director who already said it with his whole chest, does so again.
Cowboy Bebop Director Shinichiro Watanabe repeats what he stated in Carole & Tuesday regarding AI.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Area director who already said it with his whole chest, does so again.
The screencapped post in the OP offends me by every possible metric. Thrift store & ewaste PCs have been able to run trackers for decades. Similarly cheap second hand instruments & boomboxes filled the gap before that. If you can access their expensive service, you can just use Audiotool for free.
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The screencapped post in the OP offends me by every possible metric. Thrift store & ewaste PCs have been able to run trackers for decades. Similarly cheap second hand instruments & boomboxes filled the gap before that. If you can access their expensive service, you can just use Audiotool for free.
You know what else grew 3 sizes?
Please be aware and stay vigilant out there 🚨
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
You know what else grew 3 sizes?