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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.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 1m

Yep, Mike Nelson in Extinction Beckons talking about his work that references Alphaville. And of course you are the "quite peculiar person" who Nelson hypothesises.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 10h

incomparable brilliance, yet again

NP | SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE - SAYA GRAY

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Steven Hess @stevenhess.bsky.social · 11h

HAPTIC: AMBIVALENCE 2005-2025 wrap up. Departure / there / music / return.
A huge thanks to all the musicians we performed with (Tim Daisy, Rose Pearl, @sethcooke.bsky.social, @sarah-hughes.bsky.social, Mark Wastell, Linda Jankowska), the venues, and to all those who attended.

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 19h

this all day

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 22h

Also the Borribles Trilogy. While the Bible isn't non-entertaining, Michael de Larrabeiti wrote some cracking action sequences.

Madeleine @bustyboudica.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure this isn't new information given that there is this pretty famous bit in the Bible

Children could kill with catapults, farmer warns

Campaigners call for tighter rules on possession of catapults.

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Cyborg Nachte @cyborgnachte.bsky.social · 1d

I said this to my non-anime watching friend as a joke and my husband actually edited it into the format, so here is my hot take on anime.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 1d

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The full album for Raining On The Moon / Music by William Parker playlist William Parker - Raining On The Moon / William Parker Full Album Raining On The Moo...

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Can't bring myself to indulge in preemptive schadenfreude given how catastrophic this is going to be. The collateral damage is going to be horrific.

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

Great show at Oto last night. Huge thanks to the Haptic lads, Mark, Benny, Billy & Mo. Nine vibration speakers seeded out into the world, lots of copies of Method of Loci #4: Fracture Patterns given away, new CDs by Haptic, Tom Solovietzik, Laura Steenberge and the Sealed Knot.

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

I'm the opening act at Cafe Oto tonight, playing in support of Haptic + Mark Wastell.

I'll be bringing copies of Method of Loci #4, 'Fracture Patterns', which I'll hand out for free to anyone who wants one. Save your money to buy Haptic & Wastell merch.

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

Haptic in Bristol

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

^^^ This. It's not just a case of checking facts, it's about checking context, interpretation, nuance. It could cite real findings in a real author's real paper and still misrepresent all three. LLMs generate superficially well-formed text, appearing to understand is an unstable emergent property.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Here's this week's interview with Haptic in the Quietus:

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"The Depeche Mode of Arhythmic Musics": Haptic Interviewed | The Quietus

Founded in Chicago in 2005, experimentalists Haptic are preparing to play a series of five concerts in the UK to mark their 20th anniversary. Each night, the trio will perform Late Work, a modular com...

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Final post about this one - Haptic, tonight, at the Cube.

with Kathy Hinde

and An unnecessarily justified with

Free copies of my latest work in the Method of Loci series - Fracture Patterns - for everyone who attends.

Haptic, Kathy Hinde, An unnecessarily justified with at The Cube

Haptic Kathy Hinde An unnecessarily justified with Every Contact Leaves a Trace Anniversary Event a free publication for everyone in attendance The Cube Cinema, Bristol 7pm, Monday 6th October 2025 ...

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

My eldest daughter is old enough to watch it now, so we may begin again this week. She will never have seen anything even approaching End of Evangelion - although to be fair, there's nothing else like it at all, really. I mean, it took even David Lynch a couple of decades before he did S03E08...

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Forgot to warn new viewers about the penguin though...

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

It felt good to write. Cathartic.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Funnily enough I wasn't going to put myself on the bill for this one. I was as surprised as anyone when I found out I would be joining Haptic for their performance. I hope to honour their vision without fucking their shit up.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow at the Cube - Haptic's first ever Bristol show, supported by Kathy Hinde and An unnecessarily justified with.

There will also be a free publication for everyone who attends.

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

Realised I'd blown up a bunch of these. Had a look around the house and I have (lol) 11 in working order.

I'll give away 9 FCFS at the Oto show on Tues. Feedback should be as free and easy as singing and clapping your hands. Don't let anyone convince you that you need to be a clever sound artist.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

I really wish Labour would strategise from decent principles and stop leaving the bloody goal wide open. I can't see them getting wise or strong fast enough, they just don't seem to grasp the world they've landed in.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Performative marketing and destabilisation seeking to distance his UK branch from the activities of the US branch while striking at a Labour weakness. Nothing to do with anyone's actual stance on ID cards or their democratic basis, you can think whatever you like about ID without falling for this.

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 4d

Starmer's Digital ID plans are too toxic even for Oswald Mosley's grandson and Palantir

It's potentially another blow for Keir Starmer and his Digital ID policy, as even far-right Palantir wants no part of it
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Starmer's Digital ID plans are too toxic even for Oswald Mosley's grandson and Palantir

It's potentially another blow for Keir Starmer and his Digital ID policy, as even far-right Palantir wants no part of it

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

That last mirage quote reads like satire.

Flamboyant contempt for the customer.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 4d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”