Michael Yacavone
@notio.bsky.social
Psychoacoustics, psychoanalysis, photography, fiction, art, music. (Currently: New Hampshire USA)
I happen to be reading Confessions by Augustine at the moment, so this op-ed hit more directly than most. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I happen to be reading Confessions by Augustine at the moment, so this op-ed hit more directly than most. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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Okay, lets talk about this ridiculous series of tools I've made.
The idea: make a "did it get lossy" audio analyzer for sound files
I ended up with: well, a bit of a wild ass project.
Let's start with the end features...
The idea: make a "did it get lossy" audio analyzer for sound files
I ended up with: well, a bit of a wild ass project.
Let's start with the end features...
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Okay, lets talk about this ridiculous series of tools I've made.
The idea: make a "did it get lossy" audio analyzer for sound files
I ended up with: well, a bit of a wild ass project.
Let's start with the end features...
The idea: make a "did it get lossy" audio analyzer for sound files
I ended up with: well, a bit of a wild ass project.
Let's start with the end features...
Probably my favorite musician interview in a good long time. Flea is so well read, so touched by music. Talks of beauty, music as a river of love, channeling God, art, beauty... Knows so much about jazz and its language. A very beautiful hour with a music lifer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmA4...
The Flea Interview: Red Hot Chili Peppers Bass Icon
YouTube video by Rick Beato
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Probably my favorite musician interview in a good long time. Flea is so well read, so touched by music. Talks of beauty, music as a river of love, channeling God, art, beauty... Knows so much about jazz and its language. A very beautiful hour with a music lifer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmA4...
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Just because you’re “smart” doesn’t mean you have the baseline knowledge required to analyze advanced information across all fields.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Just because you’re “smart” doesn’t mean you have the baseline knowledge required to analyze advanced information across all fields.
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I still think a lot about the fact that Gamergate did essentially win. Not that it made the culture significantly more misogynistic or anything, but it succeeded in making a lot of the people who played games eventually casually much more anti-intellectual and incurious.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I still think a lot about the fact that Gamergate did essentially win. Not that it made the culture significantly more misogynistic or anything, but it succeeded in making a lot of the people who played games eventually casually much more anti-intellectual and incurious.
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Here is a demo after a facelift of "Losselot"
It detects if a file was once compressed lower than its current bitrate, be it an mp3, flac, etc
It's a double-click-it-to-run app on Mac OS, Windows & Linux
Pick a folder, get it analyzed
Here is a short demo. Thread has more details for the curious
It detects if a file was once compressed lower than its current bitrate, be it an mp3, flac, etc
It's a double-click-it-to-run app on Mac OS, Windows & Linux
Pick a folder, get it analyzed
Here is a short demo. Thread has more details for the curious
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Here is a demo after a facelift of "Losselot"
It detects if a file was once compressed lower than its current bitrate, be it an mp3, flac, etc
It's a double-click-it-to-run app on Mac OS, Windows & Linux
Pick a folder, get it analyzed
Here is a short demo. Thread has more details for the curious
It detects if a file was once compressed lower than its current bitrate, be it an mp3, flac, etc
It's a double-click-it-to-run app on Mac OS, Windows & Linux
Pick a folder, get it analyzed
Here is a short demo. Thread has more details for the curious
Every once in a while I visit the bad place to see the scene. Loved this.
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Every once in a while I visit the bad place to see the scene. Loved this.
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plunderphonic.bandcamp.com/track/grayfo...
This megatrack is a newly remastered continuous version of the 6-sided vinyl album, the remixed 2nd edition, released in 2025. 104 minutes of uninterrupted psychedelic jamming from over a quarter of century of Grateful Dead performances woven together.
This megatrack is a newly remastered continuous version of the 6-sided vinyl album, the remixed 2nd edition, released in 2025. 104 minutes of uninterrupted psychedelic jamming from over a quarter of century of Grateful Dead performances woven together.
GRAYFOLDED entirely, by plunderphonics
track by plunderphonics
plunderphonic.bandcamp.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
plunderphonic.bandcamp.com/track/grayfo...
This megatrack is a newly remastered continuous version of the 6-sided vinyl album, the remixed 2nd edition, released in 2025. 104 minutes of uninterrupted psychedelic jamming from over a quarter of century of Grateful Dead performances woven together.
This megatrack is a newly remastered continuous version of the 6-sided vinyl album, the remixed 2nd edition, released in 2025. 104 minutes of uninterrupted psychedelic jamming from over a quarter of century of Grateful Dead performances woven together.
Not the biggest Gruber fan, but fuck yes to all of this: daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_...
Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the de...
daringfireball.net
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not the biggest Gruber fan, but fuck yes to all of this: daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_...
The 1975 Sears Christmas Wish Book is on Internet Archive, and what an amazing time capsule! These are the things we were told to want. archive.org/details/1975...
1975 Sears Christmas Wishbook : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1975 Sears Christmas Wishbook
archive.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The 1975 Sears Christmas Wish Book is on Internet Archive, and what an amazing time capsule! These are the things we were told to want. archive.org/details/1975...
This is why CarPlay is the number one feature for me. $30k+ consumer hardware does not need a subscription.
Honda wanting $75 to update the maps in my car is insane- in what world am I using Honda onboard navigation in my car in 2025
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is why CarPlay is the number one feature for me. $30k+ consumer hardware does not need a subscription.
Actually very happy Alan Dye has left Apple. The last ten years have been very bad for user-centered design over there at the fruit company.
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Actually very happy Alan Dye has left Apple. The last ten years have been very bad for user-centered design over there at the fruit company.
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exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file
Probably worth noting that for the next few years, at least, “experiences” like the Sphere will not be priced for people earning wages. It’s just the way it is. One show might work, full weekend a splurge, three weekends is not for anyone with a job per se. Sucks.
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Probably worth noting that for the next few years, at least, “experiences” like the Sphere will not be priced for people earning wages. It’s just the way it is. One show might work, full weekend a splurge, three weekends is not for anyone with a job per se. Sucks.
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A shelter received a donation of stuffed toys and let each dog pick 1.
How selfless. They each only pick 1.
How selfless. They each only pick 1.
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A shelter received a donation of stuffed toys and let each dog pick 1.
How selfless. They each only pick 1.
How selfless. They each only pick 1.
Can we blame AI somehow?
Shopify's admin has been down for hours on one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Shopify stores are still running and taking orders, but we can't sign in to enable discounts, see the orders, or fulfill shipments. Fun! shopstatus.shopifyapps.com
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Can we blame AI somehow?
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“substituting mere prediction for explanation… understanding is overhead to capital”
🤯
re: ai/llm uptake
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re: ai/llm uptake
Fascinating stuff (and yeah, obligatory note that AI is a stupid label, this isn't an LLM etc)
But once again, this is also about substituting mere prediction for explanation. Understanding is overhead to capital, predictions are all it cares about. Capital is trying to get rid of science
But once again, this is also about substituting mere prediction for explanation. Understanding is overhead to capital, predictions are all it cares about. Capital is trying to get rid of science
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“substituting mere prediction for explanation… understanding is overhead to capital”
🤯
re: ai/llm uptake
🤯
re: ai/llm uptake
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
I banish from my company all those who who think they know something that is in fact not true. — Augustine, ~400 AD.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I banish from my company all those who who think they know something that is in fact not true. — Augustine, ~400 AD.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
Can confirm!
all 3 make swell hanukkah (or anytime) gifts!
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Can confirm!
My friend Emily Walton wrote a book about racial exclusion, studying the place where we live, the Upper Valley of NH/VT. Pretty wild to read a study of the place you live! Anyway, out tomorrow, very well done with lots of data and interviews. www.amazon.com/Homesick-Rac...
Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England
Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England [Walton, Emily] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England
www.amazon.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My friend Emily Walton wrote a book about racial exclusion, studying the place where we live, the Upper Valley of NH/VT. Pretty wild to read a study of the place you live! Anyway, out tomorrow, very well done with lots of data and interviews. www.amazon.com/Homesick-Rac...
Really great opinion piece (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Really great opinion piece (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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So what is to be done? I dunno. At scale, probably nothing. I’ve been a journalist 33 years, & in this regard same as it ever was. For individuals looking to get free? Read weird, be skeptical, don’t take cues from social media (so ignore this!), grow yr attention span, ask structural questions.
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
So what is to be done? I dunno. At scale, probably nothing. I’ve been a journalist 33 years, & in this regard same as it ever was. For individuals looking to get free? Read weird, be skeptical, don’t take cues from social media (so ignore this!), grow yr attention span, ask structural questions.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.