Chris Royalty
@chrisroyalty.bsky.social
Aux Meadows (guitar/production).
Instrumental trio from Oakland CA, blending country traditions, new age sonics, and pastoral psychedelia.
https://auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-near
Instrumental trio from Oakland CA, blending country traditions, new age sonics, and pastoral psychedelia.
https://auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-near
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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Our Aux Meadows LP made the cut on this beast of a list. Dive in. Thx @aquariumdrunkard.com !!
Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Our Aux Meadows LP made the cut on this beast of a list. Dive in. Thx @aquariumdrunkard.com !!
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Digging Archive 6
251130 ~ 251206
신잔디 - 로타로부터
Aux Meadows - Draw Near
Atomiste & Alex Haitz - The Solace Sessions
* 실제 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다
251130 ~ 251206
신잔디 - 로타로부터
Aux Meadows - Draw Near
Atomiste & Alex Haitz - The Solace Sessions
* 실제 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Digging Archive 6
251130 ~ 251206
신잔디 - 로타로부터
Aux Meadows - Draw Near
Atomiste & Alex Haitz - The Solace Sessions
* 실제 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다
251130 ~ 251206
신잔디 - 로타로부터
Aux Meadows - Draw Near
Atomiste & Alex Haitz - The Solace Sessions
* 실제 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다
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Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
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RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT
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Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
Fresh Aux Meadows t-shirts in brown (S, XL, 2XL) or black (M, L). Shirts come with bonus cassette "Live at Redwood Records," featuring songs from every album plus some of the covers that showed up on "Lagniappe Sessions."
$25 for both, only 3 tapes left.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/merch/flower...
$25 for both, only 3 tapes left.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/merch/flower...
Flowers T-shirt + Live Cassette from Aux Meadows
Flowers T-shirt + Live Cassette from Aux Meadows
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Fresh Aux Meadows t-shirts in brown (S, XL, 2XL) or black (M, L). Shirts come with bonus cassette "Live at Redwood Records," featuring songs from every album plus some of the covers that showed up on "Lagniappe Sessions."
$25 for both, only 3 tapes left.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/merch/flower...
$25 for both, only 3 tapes left.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/merch/flower...
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If “AI” did the thing, organizations would be bragging about the outcomes instead of jawing endlessly about the tools.
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If “AI” did the thing, organizations would be bragging about the outcomes instead of jawing endlessly about the tools.
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10am sharp on @bff.fm
I Luv Mondays' HITS OF THE BAY 2025 pt 1 !
All my favorite songs, all the songs that saved me.
Follow along here for the tracklist:
I Luv Mondays' HITS OF THE BAY 2025 pt 1 !
All my favorite songs, all the songs that saved me.
Follow along here for the tracklist:
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
10am sharp on @bff.fm
I Luv Mondays' HITS OF THE BAY 2025 pt 1 !
All my favorite songs, all the songs that saved me.
Follow along here for the tracklist:
I Luv Mondays' HITS OF THE BAY 2025 pt 1 !
All my favorite songs, all the songs that saved me.
Follow along here for the tracklist:
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지금 듣는 음악
Aux Meadows - Draw Near / 엠비언트 아메리카나, 엠비언트 컨트리, 코스믹 컨트리
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* 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다.
#투얼리스닝 #뮤직스카이 #주크블스 #지금듣는중
Aux Meadows - Draw Near / 엠비언트 아메리카나, 엠비언트 컨트리, 코스믹 컨트리
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* 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다.
#투얼리스닝 #뮤직스카이 #주크블스 #지금듣는중
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
지금 듣는 음악
Aux Meadows - Draw Near / 엠비언트 아메리카나, 엠비언트 컨트리, 코스믹 컨트리
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* 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다.
#투얼리스닝 #뮤직스카이 #주크블스 #지금듣는중
Aux Meadows - Draw Near / 엠비언트 아메리카나, 엠비언트 컨트리, 코스믹 컨트리
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album.link/s/7cFqvttCml...
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* 청취일자와 업로드일자는 상이할 수 있습니다.
#투얼리스닝 #뮤직스카이 #주크블스 #지금듣는중
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10) Aux Meadows, “Permanent (for now)”: Every choice in an Aux Meadows track feels consequential, the beat here is conspicuous and so is the way the band slides into song with it, but maybe the band is in the moment and the songs are blessed for it.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
Draw Near, by Aux Meadows
11 track album
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
10) Aux Meadows, “Permanent (for now)”: Every choice in an Aux Meadows track feels consequential, the beat here is conspicuous and so is the way the band slides into song with it, but maybe the band is in the moment and the songs are blessed for it.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
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Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
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SALE!
To celebrate Small Business Saturday, we have decided to offer 15% off anything in the shop thru Monday at midnight pacific time.
Use the code "muchobliged" (remove the quotations!) and get a-shopping. We appreciate you!
eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com
To celebrate Small Business Saturday, we have decided to offer 15% off anything in the shop thru Monday at midnight pacific time.
Use the code "muchobliged" (remove the quotations!) and get a-shopping. We appreciate you!
eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com
Eiderdown Records
eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
SALE!
To celebrate Small Business Saturday, we have decided to offer 15% off anything in the shop thru Monday at midnight pacific time.
Use the code "muchobliged" (remove the quotations!) and get a-shopping. We appreciate you!
eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com
To celebrate Small Business Saturday, we have decided to offer 15% off anything in the shop thru Monday at midnight pacific time.
Use the code "muchobliged" (remove the quotations!) and get a-shopping. We appreciate you!
eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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Huge thanks to @bcsalmon.bsky.social for putting Josh Martin's " Western Mind" album on Bandcamp's Best Country Music of November. Very thankful for folks who spread the word on this beautiful album 🙏
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
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The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.
daily.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Huge thanks to @bcsalmon.bsky.social for putting Josh Martin's " Western Mind" album on Bandcamp's Best Country Music of November. Very thankful for folks who spread the word on this beautiful album 🙏
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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“As pickups transitioned from farm/ranch workhorses to lifestyle vehicles, their design shifted accordingly: Cabs expanded to accommodate more passengers, while beds shrank. The first generation of F-150s were 36% cab & 64% bed by length. By 2021, the ratio had flipped.
www.axios.com/local/housto...
www.axios.com/local/housto...
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“As pickups transitioned from farm/ranch workhorses to lifestyle vehicles, their design shifted accordingly: Cabs expanded to accommodate more passengers, while beds shrank. The first generation of F-150s were 36% cab & 64% bed by length. By 2021, the ratio had flipped.
www.axios.com/local/housto...
www.axios.com/local/housto...
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The Democrats are in a similar position to Labour before they got in. It is a vote against. Nothing wrong with it. But if you don’t move quickly in power, you’re screwed.
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The Democrats are in a similar position to Labour before they got in. It is a vote against. Nothing wrong with it. But if you don’t move quickly in power, you’re screwed.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry