Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
@sethcooke.bsky.social
filling noise with space
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speculation mine
Bristol, UK
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speculation mine
Bristol, UK
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COLDSTREAM EMPIRE - my new album, out today.
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
Well done ICO.
@hsquinn.bsky.social - does the same rationale extend to the AI & Creative Copyright Consultation? AI training datasets for art, film and music will include biometrics (faces, voices, movement) as well as special category data (political, religious beliefs, sexual orientation etc).
@hsquinn.bsky.social - does the same rationale extend to the AI & Creative Copyright Consultation? AI training datasets for art, film and music will include biometrics (faces, voices, movement) as well as special category data (political, religious beliefs, sexual orientation etc).
UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes
Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s firms have complied with data protection law
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Well done ICO.
@hsquinn.bsky.social - does the same rationale extend to the AI & Creative Copyright Consultation? AI training datasets for art, film and music will include biometrics (faces, voices, movement) as well as special category data (political, religious beliefs, sexual orientation etc).
@hsquinn.bsky.social - does the same rationale extend to the AI & Creative Copyright Consultation? AI training datasets for art, film and music will include biometrics (faces, voices, movement) as well as special category data (political, religious beliefs, sexual orientation etc).
I made a gift links feed a while back, but I seldom check it. Most of it is North American news and analysis but I'd actually like quite a lot less of that in 2026.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
February 3, 2026 at 6:22 AM
I made a gift links feed a while back, but I seldom check it. Most of it is North American news and analysis but I'd actually like quite a lot less of that in 2026.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
This was also subsequent:
The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/
he also appears to have met moot the same day /pol/ was (re)launched (not my image)
February 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM
This was also subsequent:
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That's inherent to the concept of virality - it contains the requirement to throw shit at a wall until something sticks. You just need to identify a cheap/free resource that's happy to waste time throwing shit around. These days bad actors can fully automate that task in realtime.
January 31, 2026 at 2:24 PM
That's inherent to the concept of virality - it contains the requirement to throw shit at a wall until something sticks. You just need to identify a cheap/free resource that's happy to waste time throwing shit around. These days bad actors can fully automate that task in realtime.
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/
he also appears to have met moot the same day /pol/ was (re)launched (not my image)
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 AM
The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/
I don't think it's anything like a plan, I think it's just a set of techniques that you start using until they take on a life of their own.
Just found this thread...
bsky.app/profile/capi...
Just found this thread...
bsky.app/profile/capi...
The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/
he also appears to have met moot the same day /pol/ was (re)launched (not my image)
January 31, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I don't think it's anything like a plan, I think it's just a set of techniques that you start using until they take on a life of their own.
Just found this thread...
bsky.app/profile/capi...
Just found this thread...
bsky.app/profile/capi...
There were others in Epstein's circle who were thinking along these lines. Bannon, for example. You're correct that there's not enough to be certain, but I think there is enough for this to be a realistic possibility.
January 31, 2026 at 1:56 PM
There were others in Epstein's circle who were thinking along these lines. Bannon, for example. You're correct that there's not enough to be certain, but I think there is enough for this to be a realistic possibility.
@notsaved.bsky.social, @clivehenry.bsky.social ^^^ you seeing this? ^^^
Wrote a post elsewhere that I'll screengrab below. Realistic possibility that this connection hints at /pol/ being a deliberate psyop to bootstrap a vicious circle race to the bottom to test which shit might float.
Wrote a post elsewhere that I'll screengrab below. Realistic possibility that this connection hints at /pol/ being a deliberate psyop to bootstrap a vicious circle race to the bottom to test which shit might float.
January 31, 2026 at 11:20 AM
@notsaved.bsky.social, @clivehenry.bsky.social ^^^ you seeing this? ^^^
Wrote a post elsewhere that I'll screengrab below. Realistic possibility that this connection hints at /pol/ being a deliberate psyop to bootstrap a vicious circle race to the bottom to test which shit might float.
Wrote a post elsewhere that I'll screengrab below. Realistic possibility that this connection hints at /pol/ being a deliberate psyop to bootstrap a vicious circle race to the bottom to test which shit might float.
Just uploaded this to YouTube, noticed that it was generating captions (there's no speech), here's the "transcript":
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey
Heat. Heat
Heat. Heat
me
Heat
Heat. Heat
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey
Heat. Heat
Heat. Heat
me
Heat
Heat. Heat
January 31, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Just uploaded this to YouTube, noticed that it was generating captions (there's no speech), here's the "transcript":
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey
Heat. Heat
Heat. Heat
me
Heat
Heat. Heat
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey
go hey go hey go hey go hey go hey go
hey go hey go hey go hey
Heat. Heat
Heat. Heat
me
Heat
Heat. Heat
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thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
![From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:31 AM
To: Boris Nikolic
Subject: Re:
i liked mmot alot. i drove him home, he is very bright
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Boris Nikolic kc C91117' wrote:
Sure.
I will be there as well.
In 2 weeks or so.
Just left Bill — running for a lunch with Rubenstein.
How did you like moot?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tj2pxmoos64rzl2ofxkeke2d/bafkreidfyt4bab4roc3b3e2cyxjvpglanjz2acizlljc6nk5osi2bqbnsy@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 3:44 AM
thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
/pol/ seems like an effective laboratory of acceptionalism; a place to test which hateful motivators can escape containment and get picked up and accepted by the normies. tbf, that's all social media to some degree; it's just that the shittiest of 4chan is using it to take over the world.
January 31, 2026 at 4:16 AM
/pol/ seems like an effective laboratory of acceptionalism; a place to test which hateful motivators can escape containment and get picked up and accepted by the normies. tbf, that's all social media to some degree; it's just that the shittiest of 4chan is using it to take over the world.
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"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
January 31, 2026 at 3:22 AM
"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
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That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 AM
That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
When Ian McKellen next appears as Magneto in Avengers: Doomsday the writers can pull on that Coronation Street multiversal thread, if they so choose.
January 30, 2026 at 2:25 PM
When Ian McKellen next appears as Magneto in Avengers: Doomsday the writers can pull on that Coronation Street multiversal thread, if they so choose.
I have advocated internally via Teams that Dress to Impress is controlled via carefully designed upper, lower and outer constraints.
There's a work event with the global team next week, dress code: "dress to impress."
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
I have advocated internally via Teams that Dress to Impress is controlled via carefully designed upper, lower and outer constraints.
My bad, he's a Liverpudlian, he just lived in Croydon.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) - Trevor's Planet of the Apes Story
YouTube video by The Cheat
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 7:06 AM
My bad, he's a Liverpudlian, he just lived in Croydon.
January 30, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery is one of those weird artefacts that Marvel does because the people who work there are chaotic. Let's burn comic fans with a joke twist character who's an actor from Croydon. Now let's put him in scenes with Tony Leung and Awkwafina. Now let's give him his own show.
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery is one of those weird artefacts that Marvel does because the people who work there are chaotic. Let's burn comic fans with a joke twist character who's an actor from Croydon. Now let's put him in scenes with Tony Leung and Awkwafina. Now let's give him his own show.
Binged it last night and loved it, very slow, melancholy comedy with a single Atlanta Season 3-style interlude, and now Coronation Street is canon in Marvel.
Wonder Man was actually really damn good and a very very different vibe from other Marvel projects and it’s quite short and you should watch it.
January 30, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Binged it last night and loved it, very slow, melancholy comedy with a single Atlanta Season 3-style interlude, and now Coronation Street is canon in Marvel.
^^^ accurate
January 30, 2026 at 6:41 AM
^^^ accurate
There's a work event with the global team next week, dress code: "dress to impress."
January 29, 2026 at 11:28 PM
There's a work event with the global team next week, dress code: "dress to impress."
selfie with cooling towers
January 28, 2026 at 5:11 PM
selfie with cooling towers
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Hey hotel, thanks for the Sheeran mag, it's going in the fridge, next time kick me in the balls, it'll be less of an insult.
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Hey hotel, thanks for the Sheeran mag, it's going in the fridge, next time kick me in the balls, it'll be less of an insult.