Andrei Rusu
@andreirusu.bsky.social
Avantgarde analyst and windowless monad. Builds @oceanstream.io
I am intent on causing disorder.
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I am intent on causing disorder.
Picked up this earlier edition of Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, translated by M. Jull Costa. I have the Richard Zenith edition too, but it’s different in organizing and tone.
“I want your reading of this book to leave you with the sense of having lived through some voluptuous nightmare”.
#BookSky
“I want your reading of this book to leave you with the sense of having lived through some voluptuous nightmare”.
#BookSky
September 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Picked up this earlier edition of Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, translated by M. Jull Costa. I have the Richard Zenith edition too, but it’s different in organizing and tone.
“I want your reading of this book to leave you with the sense of having lived through some voluptuous nightmare”.
#BookSky
“I want your reading of this book to leave you with the sense of having lived through some voluptuous nightmare”.
#BookSky
The Freak Zone is an exceptional programme, and I'd say that the jazz involved is on the occasional, and always of a high quality.
Listen last week's for some astonishing '82 ambiental from Hiroshi Yoshimura. And as far as I can tell, no noticeable jazz at all.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen last week's for some astonishing '82 ambiental from Hiroshi Yoshimura. And as far as I can tell, no noticeable jazz at all.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Freak Zone is an exceptional programme, and I'd say that the jazz involved is on the occasional, and always of a high quality.
Listen last week's for some astonishing '82 ambiental from Hiroshi Yoshimura. And as far as I can tell, no noticeable jazz at all.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen last week's for some astonishing '82 ambiental from Hiroshi Yoshimura. And as far as I can tell, no noticeable jazz at all.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The new Truthpaste ensemble @truthpaste.bsky.social released such an excellent debut single, then frankly it would be hard to keep up with.
Played by @stevelamacq.bsky.social -- on his 6 Music show yesterday. Also by @marcrileydj.bsky.social
memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/album/see-yo...
Played by @stevelamacq.bsky.social -- on his 6 Music show yesterday. Also by @marcrileydj.bsky.social
memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/album/see-yo...
See You Around, by Truthpaste
1 track album
memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The new Truthpaste ensemble @truthpaste.bsky.social released such an excellent debut single, then frankly it would be hard to keep up with.
Played by @stevelamacq.bsky.social -- on his 6 Music show yesterday. Also by @marcrileydj.bsky.social
memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/album/see-yo...
Played by @stevelamacq.bsky.social -- on his 6 Music show yesterday. Also by @marcrileydj.bsky.social
memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/album/see-yo...
Supermarkets in Norway keep wood burning fireplace products well stocked up during summer to remind you that this won’t last and winter is just around the corner.
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Supermarkets in Norway keep wood burning fireplace products well stocked up during summer to remind you that this won’t last and winter is just around the corner.
I would really like to get my hands on a copy of the Orpheu Portuguese modernist literary magazine.
Step 1, which is learning Portuguese, is already in progress.
#booksky
Step 1, which is learning Portuguese, is already in progress.
#booksky
August 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I would really like to get my hands on a copy of the Orpheu Portuguese modernist literary magazine.
Step 1, which is learning Portuguese, is already in progress.
#booksky
Step 1, which is learning Portuguese, is already in progress.
#booksky
I'm on my 4th Steinbeck book: "The Wayward Bus", borrowed from the Oslo Library, of course.
So far is very excellent, enjoyable, and insightful. There's a lot of everyday simplicity and no fuss, characters are well designed.
I also have the audio book to listen on my bike runs. #booksky
So far is very excellent, enjoyable, and insightful. There's a lot of everyday simplicity and no fuss, characters are well designed.
I also have the audio book to listen on my bike runs. #booksky
August 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm on my 4th Steinbeck book: "The Wayward Bus", borrowed from the Oslo Library, of course.
So far is very excellent, enjoyable, and insightful. There's a lot of everyday simplicity and no fuss, characters are well designed.
I also have the audio book to listen on my bike runs. #booksky
So far is very excellent, enjoyable, and insightful. There's a lot of everyday simplicity and no fuss, characters are well designed.
I also have the audio book to listen on my bike runs. #booksky
Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon, at the Oslo Public Library.
July 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon, at the Oslo Public Library.
Of all the ways to cut a cake, this one surely takes the knife.
June 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Of all the ways to cut a cake, this one surely takes the knife.
For Google, the term musician means "male" musician. I had a moment today when I couldn't remember Laurie's Anderson first name (I know...) and I tried to use Google to remember it, but this list of nobodys came up.
I had to search for "anderson experimental musician" until her name appeared.
I had to search for "anderson experimental musician" until her name appeared.
June 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
For Google, the term musician means "male" musician. I had a moment today when I couldn't remember Laurie's Anderson first name (I know...) and I tried to use Google to remember it, but this list of nobodys came up.
I had to search for "anderson experimental musician" until her name appeared.
I had to search for "anderson experimental musician" until her name appeared.
The British government are always very concerned with people entering their country but I don’t understand why they don’t care at all about all the people that leave.
If I were a British MP I would really try to make it difficult for people to leave the UK, not the other way around.
If I were a British MP I would really try to make it difficult for people to leave the UK, not the other way around.
June 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The British government are always very concerned with people entering their country but I don’t understand why they don’t care at all about all the people that leave.
If I were a British MP I would really try to make it difficult for people to leave the UK, not the other way around.
If I were a British MP I would really try to make it difficult for people to leave the UK, not the other way around.
Another instance where the AI generated summary which no-one asked for is bullshit. It's some kind of man-apologist.
The term "man" was always used to refer to an actual male figure, because as Ursula Le Guin pointed out, "women are a very recent invention".
The term "man" was always used to refer to an actual male figure, because as Ursula Le Guin pointed out, "women are a very recent invention".
June 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Another instance where the AI generated summary which no-one asked for is bullshit. It's some kind of man-apologist.
The term "man" was always used to refer to an actual male figure, because as Ursula Le Guin pointed out, "women are a very recent invention".
The term "man" was always used to refer to an actual male figure, because as Ursula Le Guin pointed out, "women are a very recent invention".
Of all the most ludicrous and meaningless crap I heard so far from the AI crowd, this must be right at the top. Anthropic has clearly gone off their rocker.
Besides, anyone who would have read anything by Merleau-Ponty or other phenomenologists would know that this is just pure idiotic nonsense.
Besides, anyone who would have read anything by Merleau-Ponty or other phenomenologists would know that this is just pure idiotic nonsense.
April 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Of all the most ludicrous and meaningless crap I heard so far from the AI crowd, this must be right at the top. Anthropic has clearly gone off their rocker.
Besides, anyone who would have read anything by Merleau-Ponty or other phenomenologists would know that this is just pure idiotic nonsense.
Besides, anyone who would have read anything by Merleau-Ponty or other phenomenologists would know that this is just pure idiotic nonsense.
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
www.aitrainingstatement.org
www.aitrainingstatement.org
Statement on AI training
An open letter on AI training signed by creators around the world.
www.aitrainingstatement.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
www.aitrainingstatement.org
www.aitrainingstatement.org
When it comes to the future of generative AI and LLMs I am quite reassured.
ChatGPT cannot even pronounce Decartes (as in René Descartes) correctly.
ChatGPT cannot even pronounce Decartes (as in René Descartes) correctly.
March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When it comes to the future of generative AI and LLMs I am quite reassured.
ChatGPT cannot even pronounce Decartes (as in René Descartes) correctly.
ChatGPT cannot even pronounce Decartes (as in René Descartes) correctly.
March 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
When it comes to the future of generative AI and LLMs I am quite reassured.
ChatGPT cannot even pronounce Decartes (as in René Descartes) correctly.
ChatGPT cannot even pronounce Decartes (as in René Descartes) correctly.
Sometimes you just have to use words like "ensure", "leverage", "foster" in a conversation.
(if you're speaking with a blunt machine).
(if you're speaking with a blunt machine).
February 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sometimes you just have to use words like "ensure", "leverage", "foster" in a conversation.
(if you're speaking with a blunt machine).
(if you're speaking with a blunt machine).
If Musk would have had any more semblance of a sense of humour, he would have named his department Ministry of Truth, rather than that ridiculous name. But he doesn’t, he’s soon to be on par with his boss.
February 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If Musk would have had any more semblance of a sense of humour, he would have named his department Ministry of Truth, rather than that ridiculous name. But he doesn’t, he’s soon to be on par with his boss.
All this week, the good people of the Riley & Coe consortium at BBC 6 Music, lead by @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social, have played one archive song from the Tim Buckley's Radio 1 live session from '68.
Here's "Once I Was" in all its exceptional beauty:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Here's "Once I Was" in all its exceptional beauty:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Riley & Coe - 06/02/2025 - BBC Sounds
Gideon Coe plays the music he loves from every era and genre.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
All this week, the good people of the Riley & Coe consortium at BBC 6 Music, lead by @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social, have played one archive song from the Tim Buckley's Radio 1 live session from '68.
Here's "Once I Was" in all its exceptional beauty:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Here's "Once I Was" in all its exceptional beauty:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Fernando Pessoa's approach to anti-fascism:
In 1926, he published an imaginary interview with an Italian literary critic who was supposedly exiled in Lisbon and who was bashing Mussolini and his regime.
[excerpts from Pessoa, by Richard Zenith 💙📚]
In 1926, he published an imaginary interview with an Italian literary critic who was supposedly exiled in Lisbon and who was bashing Mussolini and his regime.
[excerpts from Pessoa, by Richard Zenith 💙📚]
February 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Fernando Pessoa's approach to anti-fascism:
In 1926, he published an imaginary interview with an Italian literary critic who was supposedly exiled in Lisbon and who was bashing Mussolini and his regime.
[excerpts from Pessoa, by Richard Zenith 💙📚]
In 1926, he published an imaginary interview with an Italian literary critic who was supposedly exiled in Lisbon and who was bashing Mussolini and his regime.
[excerpts from Pessoa, by Richard Zenith 💙📚]
Who stirs?
January 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Who stirs?
Most days now I randomly open Ulysses and start reading. Today I opened it here and started laughing to myself at this passage.
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January 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Most days now I randomly open Ulysses and start reading. Today I opened it here and started laughing to myself at this passage.
💙📚
💙📚
Safety from regulation.
AI safety is safety for people developing and deploying AI.
December 1, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Safety from regulation.
#jazzsky Charles Tolliver in conversation with Giles Peterson last Saturday on BBC 6 Music. Not to be missed! Fantastic show.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Gilles Peterson - Charles Tolliver - BBC Sounds
Gilles invites iconic jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver into the studio.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 8:50 PM
#jazzsky Charles Tolliver in conversation with Giles Peterson last Saturday on BBC 6 Music. Not to be missed! Fantastic show.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I wrote something on "The Bottleneck" Substack publication (re-published from 2018 because I am out of ideas).
bottleneck.substack.com/p/dear-appli...
bottleneck.substack.com/p/dear-appli...
Dear Applicant
I wrote this job interview rejection letter back in 2018 when I was looking for a job.
bottleneck.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I wrote something on "The Bottleneck" Substack publication (re-published from 2018 because I am out of ideas).
bottleneck.substack.com/p/dear-appli...
bottleneck.substack.com/p/dear-appli...