Com Truise - Komputer Cast Vol. 1 YouTube video by Mouteg

It’s a Komputercast kind of day…

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I’m on board.

not the vicar of christ with another absolute banger of a post

So utterly infuriating. We must never forget this genocide, just like we must never forget the holocaust.

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In The Mood For Love, by Midland track by Midland

The new one from @midlandsound.bsky.social is Friday 🔥

(still trying to make this a thing)

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Yeah, just seems like a more unpleasantly stressful version of ER.

People implore me to stick with it, but I’m not really relishing the prospect.

A loooooong read, but an important one. Really getting into the weeds of why Sam Altman is not the man who should be leading the drive towards AGI.

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The Tragedy of Mrs. Dr. Seuss Ted Geisel was a great artist and a lousy husband

TIL: Dr Seuss was a rotter.

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The new guy is shite, but when the old guy is Orban; then this still feels like a win.

Good point, well made - on increasingly accepted Islamophobia.

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Excellent selections - turns out we have very similar tastes - I met Aussie now-wife in 2007 and started living with her in London. What a fertile time and place for dance music that was.

Who is left to cover Lebanon? A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral. In the wake of journalist killings, the consequences are clear not only for members of the press, but for how the story of Lebanon is being told.

A shocking, but not surprising, state of affairs.

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

So is the other one actually…

machinedrum.bandcamp.com/track/bl0000m

That new @machinedrum.bsky.social track is a delight.

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The Essay - Cornerstones - Flint - BBC Sounds Alan Garner sparks with flint, the stone that has enabled human civilisation.

Superb stuff - ta for the tip off @joemuggs.bsky.social

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The good news (🤞🏼) I needed today.

Hello 👋 Morningside

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Bluesky likes books, right?

Top shelf material at my parents house:

Dead CERT: the thread about Edinburgh’s disastrous dalliances with guided busways April Fools’ Day marks a suitable 30th birthday for the City of Edinburgh Council, a body which upon its establishment found itself in charge of a scheme promising a cheap and easy transport …

This transport debacle had passed me by - something we’re truly world class at.

Great history lesson, as ever, by @threadinburgh.scot:

threadinburgh.scot/2026/04/01/d...

Pete's Pad: March Grappling with an excess of masculinity

Squeaking in before the deadline is my March roundup:

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Featuring the obligatory manosphere discourse, a contemporaneous review of Project Hail Mary and some first quarter music recommendations.

Pete’s Pad Trying out a different way to disseminate my online musings.

Project Hail Mary was a delight.

Full review and much more besides coming later this evening here: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/subscribe

In Praise Of: Overlooked Comedy Classics Some comedy doesn't get the credit it deserves - here are a few very funny things you may not have heard of.

For some reason Soupy Norman came to mind just now and so the last half hour has been finding what’s left of it on YouTube.

I wrote a piece a while back on some of the more obscure comedy gems - and wonder now how hard it would be to track them down in full…

pegerteg.onfabrik.com/blog/in-prai...

Beyond Partridge levels of divorced dad behaviour - you have to admire it.

Are we optimising ourselves into emptiness? Reflections on Bryan Johnson — The Psychedelic Society This week, Bryan Johnson, a man whose entire philosophy is called "Don't Die" took the substance most reliably described as simulating death. He livestreamed it. He called it his best longevity hack. ...

Good point, well made - on what Bryan Johnson’s DMT epiphany really means, for him and those seeking solace in optimisation.

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March, 19-21: God is a comedian A stiff drink is recommended

We are truly through the looking glass at this point, so might as well have a chuckle.

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One of those Soulwax-style remixes where new elements just keep on upping the ante, there’s the saccharine synth line and vocal, but then the bass squelch, the famous drum fills dropped in and that ecstatic extended breakdown.