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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · May 25

Watch my full performance at the Acid Horse festival yesterday.

Many thanks to @markopilkington.bsky.social and @jahduran.bsky.social - brief cameos from @larkfall.bsky.social and @mistressmoss.bsky.social.

Great festival, great performances, great to catch up with so many awesome people.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 16h

absolutely this

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

FRIEND: Long week?
MY WEEK:

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

FRIEND: Long week?
MY WEEK:

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 16h

I assume it's because you've already upgraded, or are intending to upgrade?

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 16h

The best bit about ^^^ this shot is that it's set up much earlier when the same character accidentally spills water, unremarked, barely on screen. You assume that he's drunk on the job, but upon rewatching you realise that it's about wealth inequality. He's not accustomed to the posh gravity.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 16h

Absolute agreement. Incredibly hard to achieve when there's money at stake and you're getting writer's notes from producers. That's part of what makes The Expanse so brilliant, a near unique level of audience trust in what's shown but not explained.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 16h

I'll put it on the list. Can always make time for Herzog.

Have you seen Cornford's 'Spectral Index'? Very much about now, but as it describes a feedback system it reaches into speculative futures.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 17h

I remember wincing in pain at the episode of Black Mirror in which a DS explains to a DCI how IMEIs work. It was supposed to be set in the near future. If the audience needs to understand it then you need to find another way than write a scene like that!

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 17h

We should have more low budget cerebral sci-fi in general. If you can make something as hard-ish sci-fi as The Expanse for TV, you can easily have a live action Dennou Coil made with a sub-Doctor Who budget. Problem is that we have writers who don't even understand the world we have today.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 19h

Yep, Mike Nelson in Extinction Beckons talking about his work that references Alphaville. And of course you are the "quite peculiar person" who Nelson hypothesises.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 1d

incomparable brilliance, yet again

NP | SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE - SAYA GRAY

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Steven Hess @stevenhess.bsky.social · 1d

HAPTIC: AMBIVALENCE 2005-2025 wrap up. Departure / there / music / return.
A huge thanks to all the musicians we performed with (Tim Daisy, Rose Pearl, @sethcooke.bsky.social, @sarah-hughes.bsky.social, Mark Wastell, Linda Jankowska), the venues, and to all those who attended.

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 1d

this all day

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Also the Borribles Trilogy. While the Bible isn't non-entertaining, Michael de Larrabeiti wrote some cracking action sequences.

Madeleine @bustyboudica.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure this isn't new information given that there is this pretty famous bit in the Bible

Children could kill with catapults, farmer warns

Campaigners call for tighter rules on possession of catapults.

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Cyborg Nachte @cyborgnachte.bsky.social · 2d

I said this to my non-anime watching friend as a joke and my husband actually edited it into the format, so here is my hot take on anime.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 2d

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Can't bring myself to indulge in preemptive schadenfreude given how catastrophic this is going to be. The collateral damage is going to be horrific.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Great show at Oto last night. Huge thanks to the Haptic lads, Mark, Benny, Billy & Mo. Nine vibration speakers seeded out into the world, lots of copies of Method of Loci #4: Fracture Patterns given away, new CDs by Haptic, Tom Solovietzik, Laura Steenberge and the Sealed Knot.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 3d

I'm the opening act at Cafe Oto tonight, playing in support of Haptic + Mark Wastell.

I'll be bringing copies of Method of Loci #4, 'Fracture Patterns', which I'll hand out for free to anyone who wants one. Save your money to buy Haptic & Wastell merch.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Haptic in Bristol

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 4d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

^^^ This. It's not just a case of checking facts, it's about checking context, interpretation, nuance. It could cite real findings in a real author's real paper and still misrepresent all three. LLMs generate superficially well-formed text, appearing to understand is an unstable emergent property.

Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Here's this week's interview with Haptic in the Quietus:

thequietus.com/news/haptic-...

"The Depeche Mode of Arhythmic Musics": Haptic Interviewed | The Quietus

Founded in Chicago in 2005, experimentalists Haptic are preparing to play a series of five concerts in the UK to mark their 20th anniversary. Each night, the trio will perform Late Work, a modular com...

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 4d

Final post about this one - Haptic, tonight, at the Cube.

with Kathy Hinde

and An unnecessarily justified with

Free copies of my latest work in the Method of Loci series - Fracture Patterns - for everyone who attends.

Haptic, Kathy Hinde, An unnecessarily justified with at The Cube

Haptic Kathy Hinde An unnecessarily justified with Every Contact Leaves a Trace Anniversary Event a free publication for everyone in attendance The Cube Cinema, Bristol 7pm, Monday 6th October 2025 ...

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 5d

My eldest daughter is old enough to watch it now, so we may begin again this week. She will never have seen anything even approaching End of Evangelion - although to be fair, there's nothing else like it at all, really. I mean, it took even David Lynch a couple of decades before he did S03E08...

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