stock market 🤝 me on vacation

wiping out a year’s worth
of gains in a week

Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+ YouTube video by Apple TV

8 hours of the Severance score, for all your mysterious and important work

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...

🤫

Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital

That Baja Blast commercial really struck a chord with the 8 and under demographic in this household

Please, I am begging you to stop using Spotify

If you want to click about and get a sense of what the old internet was like in the days of GeoCities, you'll enjoy this a lot:

www.oocities.org/index.html#g...

These people are your enemies

AI-generated image of boxes of coats for donation with a caption that reads “kicking off the new year in service of our community”

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

Writing is thinking.

It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

Nice, sounds great!

d̶u̶m̶best

Yeah… unfortunately this reference seems to be more niche than it deserves

...Today I learned Bluesky doesn't do animated gifs

Oh the weather outside is weather

www.instagram.com/reel/DC8G3lW...

“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”

- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI

This is awesome

This is so well explained.

Ditto! Start of a series?

Screenshot from the movie Ronin. The big onscreen title says Nice. The background is the city of Nice, France.

Me literally any time somebody is talking about Ronin

Corporate escapees
Nice folks who can’t be reduced to any such trivial labels
People who are for some reason still reading this, and rolling their eyes right now

It’s nice to meet you… and thanks @filmsonwax.bsky.social for connecting many of us already!

People hiring/financing the above (I feel like we can be honest with each other here)
Film fans
Horror buffs
Granular synth mavens
Designers and other black t-shirt aficionados
Former mathletes
Former r/Westworld conspiracy theorists now obsessed with Silo

Hello new friends! 👋

I’m a composer and designer based in Boston, occasionally venturing to New York, LA, Toronto, and the refrigerator after my family has gone to bed.

I’m excited to connect with:

Filmmakers
Documentarians
Producers
Composers
Orchestrators
Musicians

There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

Spotify Hits 252M Premium Subscribers, On Track For First Full Year of Profitability "We’re where we set out to be — if not a little further — and on a steady path toward achieving our long-term goals," said CEO Daniel Ek.

Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.

In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

Twitter has self-selected into that thing where Call of Duty puts all the cheaters on one server so they can only grief each other

Anyway, hello