vince kaichan
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vince kaichan
@vincekaichan.bsky.social
make music etc・パソコン音楽作曲など

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Between this and the absolute permeation of the chili pepper in Asian cuisines the mesoamerican/andean culinary victory is essentially without exception
Your Sunday education! 👀

I am clearly team potato! 🥔

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December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I had to write about Horses for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
baby steps
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
listening to bass music on the train is such a funny experience because the rumbling of the train drowns out all the bass so you're just listening to music instead
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
getting tetris effected with baby steps flashbacks whenever i see a divot in a stone staircase or when i feel my foot slip a little bit walking on slush
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
We could save soooo many lives but people are so caught up in their reactionary moral panic nonsense
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
on a completely selfish note thank you to everyone who has switched from spotify to youtube for listening to my music, my streaming payouts from youtube have apparently doubled in the last few months
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Half-life 1 is 27 years old today!

Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game

hl25.lambdageneration.com

www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Adventure — LambdaGeneration
Celebrate Half-Life’s 25th anniversary and explore Half-Life’s legacy in this interactive mini-game. Featuring the voice of Dr. Isaac Kleiner, Harry S. Robins!
hl25.lambdageneration.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I'm still occupied with game development, but I do miss the ZX Spectrum. Hopefully I can return eventually when I have time. #zxspectrum #pixelart #ドット絵
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
at the airport
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i still don't feel like i understand what people are referring to when they say something has "analog warmth"
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
selling a plugin that's just a waveshaper preset for $160 msrp in 2025 is not great but i guess maybe the knowledge and experience you need to pick that preset is worth that much. using a bunch of buzzwords and deliberately avoiding saying that it's just a waveshaper makes that price a scam though
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's so frustrating how basically everyone working on technology "innovations" these days believes that we only think with words and that we only perceive the world with our eyes
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.

A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
finished my 3rd playthrough of baby steps. i wasn't able to complete every challenge but i finished a lot more of them than i did before, and i also beat the manbreaker, which they aren't kidding when they say that finishing it gives you one of the hugest feelings of accomplishment in all of gaming
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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To the charge that it doesn't fit in: I don't think it's supposed to. Sometimes we should add new idiosyncratic, monumental buildings/spaces
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
starting a 3rd playthrough of baby steps because i love this weird ugly game so much, definitely my favorite game I've played this year
October 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
autechre croptop...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
looking at japanese flip phones again and wishing that they worked with non-japanese cell networks
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM