Matthew Dessem
@matthewdessem.bsky.social
I’m the enchanting wizard of rhythm. I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe.
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Matthew Dessem
@matthewdessem.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Okay. Here are the TV settings you need to get the best picture possible out of an LG OLED. Mine is a C4--on older models some of the names are different. (If I have time some time I'll get the older setting names from a CX.)
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sorry nothing short of “these people never get to have lives in public society again” is gonna cut it. unmask, prosecute, and blacklist every last one
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 PM
sorry nothing short of “these people never get to have lives in public society again” is gonna cut it. unmask, prosecute, and blacklist every last one
The only time body cams sparked meaningful police reform was when footage of Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. eating chili dogs prompted a complete overhaul of Police Squad (to get rid of the cameras).
February 3, 2026 at 7:40 AM
The only time body cams sparked meaningful police reform was when footage of Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. eating chili dogs prompted a complete overhaul of Police Squad (to get rid of the cameras).
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BREAKING: Viewers of “Melania” Documentary Receive Call Telling Them They Will Die in 7 Days
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
BREAKING: Viewers of “Melania” Documentary Receive Call Telling Them They Will Die in 7 Days
28 Weeks Later has some interesting digital day-for-night color timing that is much more legible and weird looking than most contemporary stuff.
February 3, 2026 at 6:55 AM
28 Weeks Later has some interesting digital day-for-night color timing that is much more legible and weird looking than most contemporary stuff.
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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
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Incredible. The Passion of the Christ came out 22 years ago and depicted the year A.D. 33. If The Passion of the Christ came out today, it would have to be set in A.D. 55!
February 3, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Incredible. The Passion of the Christ came out 22 years ago and depicted the year A.D. 33. If The Passion of the Christ came out today, it would have to be set in A.D. 55!
Discussions of hierarchical ways to classify information should start with the fact that non-hierarchical ways to classify information were technologically difficult (or at least much more difficult than hierarchy) until the invention of the computer.
February 3, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Discussions of hierarchical ways to classify information should start with the fact that non-hierarchical ways to classify information were technologically difficult (or at least much more difficult than hierarchy) until the invention of the computer.
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ME: Well, when you buy a classified ad they charge by the word
CHOTINER: But you must have known people would find it sad
ME: I mean, I knew it might help make a sale but—
CHOTINER: And to be clear the baby was not dead
ME: He just grew out of them too fast! I didn't intend—
CHOTINER: Fraud?
ME: No!
CHOTINER: But you must have known people would find it sad
ME: I mean, I knew it might help make a sale but—
CHOTINER: And to be clear the baby was not dead
ME: He just grew out of them too fast! I didn't intend—
CHOTINER: Fraud?
ME: No!
February 3, 2026 at 2:42 AM
ME: Well, when you buy a classified ad they charge by the word
CHOTINER: But you must have known people would find it sad
ME: I mean, I knew it might help make a sale but—
CHOTINER: And to be clear the baby was not dead
ME: He just grew out of them too fast! I didn't intend—
CHOTINER: Fraud?
ME: No!
CHOTINER: But you must have known people would find it sad
ME: I mean, I knew it might help make a sale but—
CHOTINER: And to be clear the baby was not dead
ME: He just grew out of them too fast! I didn't intend—
CHOTINER: Fraud?
ME: No!
Now here is a man who has never read Nabokov’s Good Readers and Good Writers. Artists create their own worlds; those worlds are not obviously connected to the one we know. Beyond all his other mistakes, he has made a category error that puts a ceiling on his enjoyment and understanding of fiction.
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Now here is a man who has never read Nabokov’s Good Readers and Good Writers. Artists create their own worlds; those worlds are not obviously connected to the one we know. Beyond all his other mistakes, he has made a category error that puts a ceiling on his enjoyment and understanding of fiction.
Which SelectaVision format is the right SelectaVision format for you?
February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Which SelectaVision format is the right SelectaVision format for you?
Stem separation (in Logic Pro and Izotope, at least) is not generative AI, semantically or mathematically. The stems are present in the original waveform; playing back all of the stems at the same time, including “other,” recreates the original recording.
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Stem separation (in Logic Pro and Izotope, at least) is not generative AI, semantically or mathematically. The stems are present in the original waveform; playing back all of the stems at the same time, including “other,” recreates the original recording.
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So the machine dash basically lands like a rimshot on a failed joke. The machine repeats itself—and it says the same thing over again.
A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.
At first I didn't understand why people were holding forth about how an em dash—a totally normal and human piece of punctuation—was an obvious tell that an AI wrote something. But eventually I figured it out.
February 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM
So the machine dash basically lands like a rimshot on a failed joke. The machine repeats itself—and it says the same thing over again.
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A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.
At first I didn't understand why people were holding forth about how an em dash—a totally normal and human piece of punctuation—was an obvious tell that an AI wrote something. But eventually I figured it out.
That's not just an em dash—it's the AI Voice em dash
February 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.
I think this is a decent way to think about art restoration of any type. Once something is gone, it’s gone until it resurfaces, maybe in another form. That’s just how time works. Edmund Malone and William Henry Ireland both did interesting work, but they weren’t in the same profession.
February 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I think this is a decent way to think about art restoration of any type. Once something is gone, it’s gone until it resurfaces, maybe in another form. That’s just how time works. Edmund Malone and William Henry Ireland both did interesting work, but they weren’t in the same profession.
Lots of people talking about what they *could* do to promote “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe,” not a lot of people following through.
If I spent $35 million on marketing I could get $7 million worth of tickets sold for “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.”
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Lots of people talking about what they *could* do to promote “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe,” not a lot of people following through.
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In 1983’s The Right Stuff, Ed Harris plays John GLENN, Scott GLENN plays Alan SHEPARD, and Sam SHEPARD plays Chuck Yeager, what kind of a clown casting director was in charge here
January 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In 1983’s The Right Stuff, Ed Harris plays John GLENN, Scott GLENN plays Alan SHEPARD, and Sam SHEPARD plays Chuck Yeager, what kind of a clown casting director was in charge here
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February 2, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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I don’t know why Mann is not working with Spinotti anymore but I *do* know that Universal was not happy about Mann spending a lot of money on FX to make small changes to the cinematography, like rolling an extra playing a corpse on their other side, that could have been fixed while shooting.
February 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I don’t know why Mann is not working with Spinotti anymore but I *do* know that Universal was not happy about Mann spending a lot of money on FX to make small changes to the cinematography, like rolling an extra playing a corpse on their other side, that could have been fixed while shooting.
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[P] “He’d shit our pants if he got the chance.”
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
[P] “He’d shit our pants if he got the chance.”
A college student who does all their assigned reading and viewing on a laptop will have a harder time concentrating than a student using paper and TVs/screening rooms. But even students who make an effort to read on paper/support academic publishing are likely to get an incredibly shitty product.
I got my hands on a copy of “Algorithms of Oppression,” an assigned reading for school this quarter, from an actual print run on decent paper with embossed printing, instead of Amazon Print-on-Demand, and these are just not the same product.
February 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
A college student who does all their assigned reading and viewing on a laptop will have a harder time concentrating than a student using paper and TVs/screening rooms. But even students who make an effort to read on paper/support academic publishing are likely to get an incredibly shitty product.
I got my hands on a copy of “Algorithms of Oppression,” an assigned reading for school this quarter, from an actual print run on decent paper with embossed printing, instead of Amazon Print-on-Demand, and these are just not the same product.
February 1, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I got my hands on a copy of “Algorithms of Oppression,” an assigned reading for school this quarter, from an actual print run on decent paper with embossed printing, instead of Amazon Print-on-Demand, and these are just not the same product.
My feelings about the world these days range from “Beep-beep, Richie! Beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-fucking-beep!” all the way to “HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!”
February 1, 2026 at 2:28 AM
My feelings about the world these days range from “Beep-beep, Richie! Beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-fucking-beep!” all the way to “HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!”
History is full of villains and fools and people who made the wrong call under pressure but this level of, I don’t even know, cowardice, cognitive dissonance, misguided ambition, and above all, smarm, is like nothing I have ever seen or read about.
Trump's reckless tariffs have driven up coffee prices by nearly 15% since last summer.
Your morning cup shouldn't cost more because of the administration's trade policies.
www.nerdwallet.com/finance/lear...
Your morning cup shouldn't cost more because of the administration's trade policies.
www.nerdwallet.com/finance/lear...
Tariffs Are a Buzzkill for the Coffee Biz - NerdWallet
Tariffs on coffee-producing countries — including a 50% levy on Brazil — are likely to raise prices for America’s millions of coffee drinkers.
www.nerdwallet.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 AM
History is full of villains and fools and people who made the wrong call under pressure but this level of, I don’t even know, cowardice, cognitive dissonance, misguided ambition, and above all, smarm, is like nothing I have ever seen or read about.
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The emerging narrative from the people who worked for Biden seems to be "we debased ourselves repeatedly and violated our own laws for Israel and Israel won't even say thank you".
Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today
January 31, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The emerging narrative from the people who worked for Biden seems to be "we debased ourselves repeatedly and violated our own laws for Israel and Israel won't even say thank you".
Use biometrics on your devices for things like authorizing a payment or using a stored password once the device is unlocked if you want, but *never* use them for unlocking a device. Better if the device doesn’t know your face or fingerprint in case of a bug that lets this data be used for unlocks.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Use biometrics on your devices for things like authorizing a payment or using a stored password once the device is unlocked if you want, but *never* use them for unlocking a device. Better if the device doesn’t know your face or fingerprint in case of a bug that lets this data be used for unlocks.