Will LaPorte
@ghostdown.online
musician, writer, photographer, and structural engineer based in NYC
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happy bandcamp friday! I sure did release my solo debut album this year
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
happy bandcamp friday! I sure did release my solo debut album this year
happy bandcamp friday! I sure did release my solo debut album this year
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
happy bandcamp friday! I sure did release my solo debut album this year
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david zaslav retiring to his doomsday bunker after destroying thousands of careers, shuttering movie theaters everywhere, ruining physical media and film preservation as we know it, and hand-delivering one of the last remaining hollywood institutions to a tech company
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
david zaslav retiring to his doomsday bunker after destroying thousands of careers, shuttering movie theaters everywhere, ruining physical media and film preservation as we know it, and hand-delivering one of the last remaining hollywood institutions to a tech company
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
I don't like to be a scold but it does feel weird to me that after the past year, including Spotify doubling down on running ICE ads last week, people are still publicly posting free advertising for them
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I don't like to be a scold but it does feel weird to me that after the past year, including Spotify doubling down on running ICE ads last week, people are still publicly posting free advertising for them
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I wrote about listening, thinking, reflection, memory & not “offloading” it all to sp*tify!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly
The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I wrote about listening, thinking, reflection, memory & not “offloading” it all to sp*tify!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
I wrote about six more spongebob frames ghostdown.online/posts/six-sp...
Six SpongeBob Frames - Ghost Down
Tucked amidst a scathing, uncomfortable look at Bikini Bottom’s forgotten populace in Rock Bottom is one of the most powerfully sad moments of the series. SpongeBob, inadvertently abandoned by his...
ghostdown.online
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I wrote about six more spongebob frames ghostdown.online/posts/six-sp...
my swag too different. my bitch is too bad. my jest too infinite
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
my swag too different. my bitch is too bad. my jest too infinite
I jumped out of my chair when i saw this last night
Mayor-elect Mamdani references the "Ruthkanda forever" tweet
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I jumped out of my chair when i saw this last night
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Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.
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zohran officially cancelled for flying to DC instead of taking amtrak
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
zohran officially cancelled for flying to DC instead of taking amtrak
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I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy
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After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
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💀 new video! 💀
the comparison between demonschool and persona makes a lot of sense on a high level, but you don't need to scratch too deep to find it has a completely different design ethos when it comes to crafting a life-sim rpg.
youtu.be/wAK6T7vm6ss
youtu.be/wAK6T7vm6ss
Demonschool Isn’t Persona (And That’s Why It Works)
YouTube video by Wavelengths
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November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
💀 new video! 💀
the comparison between demonschool and persona makes a lot of sense on a high level, but you don't need to scratch too deep to find it has a completely different design ethos when it comes to crafting a life-sim rpg.
youtu.be/wAK6T7vm6ss
youtu.be/wAK6T7vm6ss
For this week: ten stories about my IRL dad and one story about a fantasy dad.
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None of us really know our fathers
For this week, a story. It’s a WIP and I’ll be workshopping it soon! A dozen children softened his mitts, shin-kicking runts blunted his blade, but granted a...
buttondown.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
For this week: ten stories about my IRL dad and one story about a fantasy dad.
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buttondown.com/ghostdown/ar...
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
The post ‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
used to be Hamilton but I waited long enough and the hands of the eternal clock of 'thing you like is cringe' have aligned in my favor
what’s a thing everybody loves that you just missed the moment for and can’t make yourself like. for me it’s ghostbusters
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
used to be Hamilton but I waited long enough and the hands of the eternal clock of 'thing you like is cringe' have aligned in my favor
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so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
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i can only feel god in this chili's if there isn't anyone distracting me
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
i can only feel god in this chili's if there isn't anyone distracting me
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Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
this past Sunday I watched for the first time what is definitely now one of my favorite films of all time. This is why I take a chance on da movies, buy tickets for stuff I know nothing about on a whim. To Live and Die in L.A., man. What a picture. boxd.it/bEYePP
A ★★★★★ review of To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
I scribbled a bunch of notes onto the back of an Alamo order card during the movie, then rewrote them with context in brackets in my notebook at a cafe for my records, and am writing them again here n...
boxd.it
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
this past Sunday I watched for the first time what is definitely now one of my favorite films of all time. This is why I take a chance on da movies, buy tickets for stuff I know nothing about on a whim. To Live and Die in L.A., man. What a picture. boxd.it/bEYePP
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"NO the sprite on the right is not just the best possible digital representation of the figure on the left!!!! the sprite is your physical form that is just a tool to move through the world that is a shadow cast by the unattainable ideal form of the soul!!!"
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"NO the sprite on the right is not just the best possible digital representation of the figure on the left!!!! the sprite is your physical form that is just a tool to move through the world that is a shadow cast by the unattainable ideal form of the soul!!!"