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joel @jblechinger.ca · 4d

Extremely 2009-2013-coded song somehow lol

naffrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/coping...

Coping Mechanism, by Car Culture

from the album Rest Here

naffrecordings.bandcamp.com

joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

Forget "PhD level intelligence"—my own personal measure of AGI will be ... actually competent ASCII art of Bob Dylan lol

Claude ASCII art of Bob Dylan with a harmonica

Below the art it says, "The times they are a-changin'!"

joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

There's more inventiveness in 20 seconds of the Dijon album from August than in like entire full-length records lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

Rogers playing an in-game montage of joyous Jays scoring and sad Yankees set to "Crabbuckit" hits more than I expected it to lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

Trey Yesavage literally becoming a folk hero in Canada today lol

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

Yesavage Mode

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 6d

This unequivocally rocks.

Legendary website IMO!

Vaporwave News Network @vwnewsnetwork.bsky.social · 6d

Is #TinyMixTapes coming back!?!

www.tinymixtapes.com

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 6d

Just kind of like something inevitable happening that you might register in the moment bc it deviates from what happened previously but then you immediately adjust to and forget lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 6d

Redundant to say this, but new T-Swift albums feel "too big to fail" critically at this pt.

Beyonce albums are "critic proof" bc they're architected by a calculating Virgo.

T-Swift albums are "critic proof" bc they feel like the weather happening or like Beatrice milk changing its label design.

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 7d

Is the james K album AOTY? Tonight, I might be thinkin' so, folks...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHx...

On God

YouTube video by James K - Topic

www.youtube.com

joel @jblechinger.ca · 7d

Been banging this in the car recently (from my original CD copy purchased in 2005) and whooboy what a damn classic!!!

Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 9d

Shared my insights about a Broken Social Scene album that is not as good as You Forgot It In People but is still pretty dang good

'Broken Social Scene' Turns 20

In which the social scene started to seem a lot more coherent.

www.stereogum.com

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 8d

Damn, how did wonderspencer know!?!?

wonderspencer comment on Genius page for Taylor Swift's "Wood":

"thinking this one will be abt travis's wood (this is gonna be so funny when it actually comes out)

joel @jblechinger.ca · 8d

Checking in on what the indie/art house cinema near me is showi-

The Plaza Theatre showing Taylor Swift - "Release Part of a Showgirl" all weekend

joel @jblechinger.ca · 9d

Are AI books gonna look like this in 5-10 years? Discuss...

"Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond" by Axel Bruns

joel @jblechinger.ca · 9d

Really troubling. :(

joel @jblechinger.ca · 9d

"It was like ... created somehow, and now we use it" is just such incredibly revealing phrasing - you could write an entire paper about it basically lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 10d

I seriously can't stop thinking about the quote lol

It comes from this video ~8:30 in:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-9...

Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS 2024 full talk

YouTube video by OneBillionDollars

www.youtube.com

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 10d

H/T to Schoppert who identified (in most recent "AI & Copyright": aicopyright.substack.com/p/synthetic-...) this amazing Sutskever quote fr NeurIPS '24 re. texts/data & fossil fuels:

"You could even ... say that data is the fossil fuel of AI. It was like, created somehow. And now we use it."

Synthetic data is derivative data

or why we are all fracked

aicopyright.substack.com

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 10d

"They call them fingers, but I never see them fing"

"I call the big one Bitey"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 10d

This is the stretch on the Geese album for me 🔥

"Getting Killed" -> "Islands of Men" -> "100 Horses" -> "Half Real" -> "Au Pays du Cocaine"

joel @jblechinger.ca · 10d

Phenomenal new interview with Charlie McCoy on "NES" today about recording "Blonde On Blonde," "John Wesley Harding," "Nashville Skyline," "Self Portrait," etc.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Teaser // DLB 015: THE CHARLIE McCOY INTERVIEW

Podcast Episode · Never Ending Stories: Bob Dylan & the Never Ending Tour · 2025-09-30 · 2m

podcasts.apple.com

joel @jblechinger.ca · 10d

The number of times a day that I almost write

Best,
Jeol

lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 10d

It's pretty interesting that Anna's Archive is selling LLM developers access to its massive corpus of pirated texts for "donations in the range of tens of thousands USD"

annas-archive.org/llm

🤔

LLM data - Anna’s Archive

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.

annas-archive.org

joel @jblechinger.ca · 11d

This song is insane - probably in my top 3 tracks of this year.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chm...

james K - Play (Official M/V)

YouTube video by 𝒿𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓈 ★ 𝒦

www.youtube.com

joel @jblechinger.ca · 11d

"Humanities Methods in Librarianship" is looking for peer reviewers! So exciting!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Become a peer reviewer for Humanities Methods in Librarianship!

docs.google.com