Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
@sethcooke.bsky.social
filling noise with space
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
Pinned
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
While I absolutely agree that there is no such thing as good exploitation, if we're all facing the same firing squad then the field that got us into this mess should absolutely be the first against the wall, to perhaps motivate them to fight the hardest to get all of us out of this mess.
Disappointing to see artists with `🚫 NO AI` in their bio, openly against Generated AI imagery, suddenly excusing AI-generated code now. Using similar rhetoric that tech-bros would use to excuse their GenAI "Art".
The site is vibecoded btw i just wanted to make that clear. I am no means in any way a traditional programmer, i had just wanted to make animation more accessible n intuitive
February 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
While I absolutely agree that there is no such thing as good exploitation, if we're all facing the same firing squad then the field that got us into this mess should absolutely be the first against the wall, to perhaps motivate them to fight the hardest to get all of us out of this mess.
Yo. Forgot to promote this on Bandcamp Friday. It's not even music - so those who know my music will receive that as a plus. Just good old fashioned whimsical graph theory, theoretical canals (yet to be constructed) and non-whimsical geopolitical analysis. Order now in your legions lol.
Fracture Patterns - Method of Loci #4 from Seth Cooke
Fracture Patterns - Method of Loci #4 from Seth Cooke
sethcooke.bandcamp.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Yo. Forgot to promote this on Bandcamp Friday. It's not even music - so those who know my music will receive that as a plus. Just good old fashioned whimsical graph theory, theoretical canals (yet to be constructed) and non-whimsical geopolitical analysis. Order now in your legions lol.
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Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Muppet Show guest host wishlist:
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
ABC and Disney don't seem to know what to do with The Muppets. They've often seem unconcerned with the legendary characters they own and unable to build upon the ambition and heart of the late great Jim Henson. Mercifully, the...
Read more...
www.pajiba.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Muppet Show guest host wishlist:
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
Grace Jones
Maria Chavez
Werner Herzog
Method Man
Azealia Banks
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Matmos
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Matmos
"Now I actually feel more suggestible. And that was just from one sniff."
In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined a more gratuitous sign that AI is a bubble than “chance the rapper, sponsored by coreweave.” It’s beautiful. It’ll be in a movie someday
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 AM
"Now I actually feel more suggestible. And that was just from one sniff."
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
With a top-loading CD player, sometimes the wrong thing plays because there was already a disc in there.
Today's confusion - expecting Florian Hecker, getting Enya. Would be equally confusing either way.
Today's confusion - expecting Florian Hecker, getting Enya. Would be equally confusing either way.
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 PM
With a top-loading CD player, sometimes the wrong thing plays because there was already a disc in there.
Today's confusion - expecting Florian Hecker, getting Enya. Would be equally confusing either way.
Today's confusion - expecting Florian Hecker, getting Enya. Would be equally confusing either way.
Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already.
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
February 4, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
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).
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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/
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
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/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.
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.
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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