Laznia Nowa Theatre, Unsound Krakow

important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun

areena.yle.fi/1-76362374

The KickStarter is live!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of
environment design for storytelling.

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

i feel seen

10s latent sequences, mean-pooled to one 64-dimensional vector each, then UMAP-reduced to 3D. Neighbour-hopping in the UMAP space.

I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection.

A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.

Joan La Barbara

Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi

Wrote up my September 2025 "How I'm using coding agents" - blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/h...

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Brian Eno and Ezra Klein discuss the impact @stevereich.bsky.social's music has had on them on the latest episode of @nytopinion.nytimes.com's 'The Ezra Klein Show.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time.

0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
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youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...

still feel compelled to say "i might be wrong" when i'm pointing out to it that things look fishy. this is to try and stave off the sycophancy, where it just wants to agree with me over getting it right.

sonnet 4.5 seems to respond quite well to explicit "give me some chain-of-thought on this" requests. self-corrected nicely with this slightly delicate bit of logic.

sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe

putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer

Generative features are utilized to enhance audio understanding; audio generation models encode both spatiotemporal perception and semantic prior; a fusion strategy is proposed; experiments demonstrate consistent performance gains in sound event classification, tagging, and audio captioning.

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this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.

HP Spaceball 2003 (1991). While the mouse operates on X and Y axes, the HP Spaceball also used the Z axis, making it easy to rotate objects in 3D space. Plus the white plastic made it look like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.