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oscillik
@oscillik.bsky.social
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Photographer, tech geek, movie nerd.
Snatching photons for online music label 3OP.
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oscillik @oscillik.bsky.social · May 26
Hi everyone! I'm a photographer, you can see some of my work here https://www.flickr.com/photos/oscillik/
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evacide.bsky.social
There is no way to do this without it becoming a privacy and security nightmare, not just for the wearer but for everyone around them, and the companies just don't care.
January 14, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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bennjordan.bsky.social
Remember that spreadsheet I posted that let you know which apps may have shared your mobile identifier and location data to ICE?

Google decided that it violated their "phishing policy". 🙄
January 13, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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lofive.bsky.social
Emotion Wave is back at Commune Liverpool on Thursday 12th February. This time around we are very pleased to be welcoming local heads Jezebel, Lizala Vi and Giants of Discovery - hopefully see you there 🖤✨💚✨
January 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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datassette.bsky.social
OFFAL 2 (1996-2025)
🧠 available now on all good internets 💫💀🪱💎🚽
datassette.bandcamp.com/album/offal-...
January 9, 2026 at 12:24 PM
oscillik.bsky.social
As always, excellent stuff from Sean
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
oscillik.bsky.social
heavy tha @lofive.bsky.social
normanrecords.com Norman Records @normanrecords.com · Dec 12
JUST IN! 'Superdank' by Lo Five

Dank AF playful electronica spanning psychedelic downtempo, eophoric IDM, ambient house zoners, early Warp and Rephlex influences, and ambient-drone melters.

@lofive.bsky.social @castlesinspace.bsky.social
www.normanrecords.com/records/2127...
Lo Five - Superdank
Buy SUPERDANK by LO FIVE. CD £13.49. Order online today and get FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.
www.normanrecords.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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lofive.bsky.social
This is happening in exactly a week's time. Times are tight, so if you're strapped DM me for a cheeky discount code x

www.skiddle.com/e/41437594
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
oscillik.bsky.social
Get yourself the best plug-in emulations of the Yamaha DX7, Sega MegaDrive, Commodore 64, and more.

Available in VST3, AU, CLAP, and even supported natively on Linux as well!
plogue.com Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc @plogue.com · Nov 21
50% off our whole 'chip' line including chipsynth C64, OPS7, SFC, MD, PortaFM, chipcrusher 2, chipspeech and our legacy chipsounds synthesizer!

All products were upgraded and even ported to Linux this year! plogue.com/store.html

Offer is valid until Monday December 1st 2025 23:59 UTC/GMT
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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davis.social
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
oscillik.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0g...

@bennjordan.bsky.social doing the good stuff
The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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lofive.bsky.social
Spot on writeup from @normanrecords.com as per, for my forthcoming SUPERDANK CD - now available to preorder 💚🫠
www.normanrecords.com/records/2127...
Lo Five - Superdank
Buy SUPERDANK by LO FIVE. CD £13.49. Order online today and get FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.
www.normanrecords.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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danifroom.bsky.social
Clippy says, It looks like you're trying to reinvent phrenology because fascism is currently ascendant. Would you like me to help you stop being a piece of shit?
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
oscillik.bsky.social
If you can get down to this, it’ll be worth it
lofive.bsky.social lo five @lofive.bsky.social · Nov 3
Coming up in a month's time, Emotion Wave is back with myself and some very talented friends - Sean Fearon and Jess Beaumont. All happening in the intimate surroundings of Commune, Liverpool. Tickets on sale now ✨ www.skiddle.com/e/41437594
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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captaindisillusion.bsky.social
Imagine living with the debilitating condition of not being able to enjoy Heat (1995).
October 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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lofive.bsky.social
So, after a completely necessary hiatus, I am very pleased to say Emotion Wave is back! Happening at Commune [Liverpool] on Thursday 4th December, we are very happy and lucky to be welcoming Beau Beamont and S. Fearon - I'll be playing a live set too. See you there?

www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Liv...
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Oct 7
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
October 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
oscillik.bsky.social
You're still with me. That's good.
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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alexvont.bsky.social
I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun
OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
oscillik.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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sulkrooms.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to getting back out gigging next month with a new set and a new outlook on playing live. Every year or so I tend to get restless with how I do things and want to change everything up by adding new equipment or changing structures…
(Pics from @oscillik.bsky.social)
Me playing live in Manchester with guitar and reel to reel machine. Black and white. Me playing live in Manchester in red lighting. Working on my laptop
October 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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rowan.monster
is this good
LLMs, he argues, already are at the scaling limits. “We don’t know exactly when LLMs might hit diminishing returns hard, because we don’t have a measure of the statistical complexity of language. To find out whether we have hit a wall we have to watch the LLM developers. If they release a model that cost 10x more, likely using 20x more compute than the previous one, and it’s not much better than what’s out there, then we’ve hit a wall,” he says. And that’s what has happened: ChatGPT-3 cost $50 million, ChatGPT-4 cost $500 million and ChatGPT-5, costing $5 billion, was delayed and when released wasn’t noticeably better than the last version. It’s also easy for competitors to catch up. “So, in summary; you can’t create an app with commercial value as it is either generic (games etc), which won’t sell, or it is regurgitated public domain (homework), or it is subject to copyright. It’s hard to advertise effectively, LLMs cost an exponentially larger amount to train each generation, with a rapidly diminishing gain in accuracy. There’s no moat on a model, so there’s little pricing power. And the people who use LLMs the most are using them to access compute that costs the developer more to provide than their monthly subscriptions,” he says.
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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bennjordan.bsky.social
I had no idea The Onion existed for music production.
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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kentropic.bsky.social
“I’ve been thinking about it these days, and after discussing it with my team, I think I’ll do just one date in the United States.” - Bad Bunny, on his upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.
charlotteclymer.bsky.social Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Sep 29
"The biggest American cultural event—with massive global influence—is about to be headlined by an unapologetically proud Latin trans ally who can’t stand Trump and performs solely in Spanish."
America Brought to You by Bad Bunny
Hell of a choice.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM