432 Hz? You Miiiight Want To Check Your Sources YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Oh no!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LV...

“I’ll never go back to 440Hz”: How Ziggy Marley found his new frequency Tweaking the tuning on his new album unlocked a burst of creativity for legendary Reggae artist Ziggy Marley

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Ahh, 432hz you say?

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

In 1994, Strathclyde Regional Council - covering nearly half the population of Scotland - carried out a referendum on water .

97% rejected water privatisation in Scotland. Scottish water stayed publicly owned.

Now, it's time for a referendum in England. Let's bring water into public hands.

Been listening to it at least once a day every day. Excellent album.

Don’t stream, buy music and listen to what you own multiple times. Tidal and Quboz won’t be online forever and you will kick yourself for not having a hard copy MP3 on your harddrive or a physical media collection. Invest in yourself.

TAL-J8X: an emulation of the Roland JX-8P polyphonic analog Synthesizer Togu Audio Line has released TAL-J8X, an emulation of the Roland JX-8P analog Synthesizer for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

synthanatomy.com/2026/03/tal-...

Mmm! Now do the JX-3P!

I had an old old old 3P emu vst that I loved in my very early music making in ancient times.

If I had a real 3P and a Fizmo, bar maintenance worries... Those feel like my weird synth GAS totems.

No Knock No Doorbell, by worriedaboutsatan 10 track album

Seem to have given myself a fairly bad cold in celebration of having a new album out, so if anyone wanted to make me feel better, you can always go buy a copy...! Only 7 CDs left now btw, still some tapes kicking about as well: worriedaboutsatan.bandcamp.com/album/no-kno...

The food industry is destroying us YouTube video by Simon Clark

Legitimately good video, capitalism sure does create some horrible incentives that actively hurt people and the planet.

Sojus Records Ensoniq SD-1: an open-source emulation of the 1990 TransewaveTM synth Sojus Records has released an open-source MAME-based emulator for the Ensoniq SD-1 Synthesizer for macOS and Windows.

synthanatomy.com/2026/03/soju...

Omg now do the Fizmo.

UK gas prices soar after strike on energy facilities in Qatar and Iran

An illegal war waged by two countries the UK arms & supports

B52s launched from British soil. Israeli jets built with British parts

A UK economy still hooked on fossil fuels.

We must end support for the war, cut fossil fuel addiction & support families facing this price shock.

End privatisation to fix the cost-of-living-crisis

🔺Royal Mail - privatised in 2013- class stamp prices 124% since 2020

🔺Water - privatised in 1989 - water bills up by 350% in cash terms by 2023

🔺Rail - privatised in 1994 - our fares, highest in Europe

leftfootforward.org/2026/03/zack...

Zack Polanskis economic agenda is dangerous....and popular

I said "And this sustained project of privatisation and deregulation turned Britain from a place which made things people need to a place which made money for people who owned things."

And the City said:

To rebalance our economy and turn our country around - we'll be asking three simple questions.

How do we make life more affordable?
How do we back the caring majority over the wealthy elite?
How do we protect our planet for generations to come?

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens in £8.4bn pledge to halt rise of energy bills.

Front page of the financial times with Green Party announcement bottom left

Good to see our pledge to stop energy bills rising on the front page of the Financial Times - the Government must step in urgently.

We badly need to align capital gains tax in line with income tax.

We need to tax unearned wealth the same as we tax earned income.

Extremely Alan Wake Voice: It's not a Sprint...

*Late title card as the single player Marathon remake campaign unlocks*

... it's a Marathon.

We’re at the Sherwood Vegan Market until 2pm. Come and see us and sign our petition to end the #GreatGasRipOff

Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the Bills

They want to make you dumb enough to sell the ability to do anything back to you. If you're not actively rejecting this bullshit, you're using the shovel they've handed you to dig the grave for your own brain.

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The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that stopped caring about making software. Allowing management consultants and growth-perverts to take the wheel and demand that every single software company make $100 million a year or get shot to death at dusk has ruined the incentives that Silicon Valley was built on. The only way to turn “every” software company into an eternal growth engine is to change their primary purpose from building software to selling services that sometimes involve some sort of software. The entire SaaS sales stack is utterly fucked, geared toward conning people that buy software but don’t use software rather than providing any meaningful service. This con could only last so long before it fell off the tracks, because the crooked and cowardly lack any soul or wisdom that might give them the ability to steer a company toward anything resembling a sustainable future. As Hansson said, not all software needs to evolve forever. A product does something, and it should get better over time and only change in a way that improves the experience for the customer. This can be done in a way that makes the company grow, but that growth should only come from an honest exchange of value with the end user. I realize that sounds a little fanciful in our era of Rot Economics, but the nightmare that I fear is to come for the software world is one borne of the growth-at-all-costs poison in the veins of Silicon Valley. It’s a comforting lie to say that “AI is destroying SaaS,” because saying that allows you to keep believing that everything will grow forever, and the SaaS con can continue. I’m not saying that SaaS will never be a viable business model, or that no SaaS company will ever succeed, but that the mistaken belief about basically any SaaS company being viable enough to make a hundred million dollars or more a year without venture capital or debt propping it up is a lie told to you by people that don’t know or care a…

Software-As-A-Service has been mutated and brutalized into the service of capitalism. Things were too easy for too long, which led to the Rot Economists chasing out the people that actually made software, because one could eventually sell to companies without ever dealing with the software itself or those that might be unfortunate enough to use it. And as the SaaS business model dies, nobody at the helm of these companies can find their ass from their earhole. Without the imaginary eternal growth engine of SaaS, venture capital and private equity will lose one of their only replicable tools for conning limited partners and pension funds into handing over tens of billions of dollars to invest, and they deserve it. They all fucking deserve it. They deserve to lose. None of them gave a rat fuck about building any future other than one where they got incrementally richer every time something I have to use for work gets worse. I’m sure there are noble SaaS investors out there, people that give a shit, and SaaS companies that exist that are doing useful things that their customers like. I just think they’re drowned out, both in share of voice and venture capital dollars invested, by the plants of the Rot Economy’s worst venture capitalists and private equity worms. I don’t think that anyone who actually interacts with SaaS companies with any regularity will disagree with me about the larger state of the industry, and anybody who gets mad at reading this likely participates in the greater con of the greed-led SaaS empires that are currently billowing with smoke. And really, my grievance is with the funders not the founders, other than guys like Aaron Levie who spend more time writing endless Twitter screeds about non-existent AI agents than they do thinking about their actual customers or workers. AI-pilled SaaS leaders have lost the plot. They do not understand technology anymore, nor do they care about their customers enough to steer them away from unreliable, …

The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that venture capital and private equity incentivized to prioritize growth over anything involving solving actual human problems.

AI didn't break the software industry. VCs did.

www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-saas/

I mean, it's Thinking as a Service.

If you gotta pay for that, I'm worried for you.

If you want the free tier, I'm worried for you.

I'm just worried you forgot how to think.

What brought you to that?

that promise is never fulfilled, and consuming "personalized" content (including chatbot "friendship") just makes the emptiness emptier, more isolating

I tend to think even "content" depends on some shared social interest in the material it conveys, but slop can seem predicated on eliminating that — it promises you can consume and enjoy it in isolation like "digital drugs"

People want more content than humans can supply. This does not mean that, taken as a collective whole, there is not enough content in the universe of extant media. Rather, for any given person, there is content they would be willing—even eager—to consume that is not yet being provided. However, making this content comes at a cost. The space of hyper-specialized content people would consume is vast. But for most of this niche content the audience is too small to justify its production. In economics, the balance between the benefit to potential consumers and the cost of production is called optimum product diversity

this claims that there is no theoretical limit to the demand for hyper-personalized content; but the actual demand for actual content is dictated by social relations (desiring the desire of the other, etc.) arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06060

What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

Cal Newport has some useful commentary generally on AI, e.g. calnewport.com/what-if-ai-d...

Sorry, link is medium.com/@shwetasingh...

Here's a semi-decent summary, in particular: "LLMs are essentially statistical models; there is no mechanism for them to perform novel causal reasoning, abstraction, or symbol manipulation other than by copying examples from their vast databases." They aren't reasoning, it's marketing hype.

Not really. DeepSeek had the reasoning display first, and you'll see the reasoning doesn't always match the outcome. It's not actually talking to itself. It's there to give you an illusion of reasoning. It's marketing mediated through user interface to make it seem more than it is.

Whilst we're at it, can we have more MPs who've had proper jobs please? And not left Oxbridge for a Think Tank, SPAD job, Telegraph column or been propping up the Sunday Politics sofa for years?

Whatever confluence of events led to me being able to watch The Running Man (a remake admittedly) a few months ago, and Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die today, well, b-movie schlock is back on the menu and I love it. Especially when it is Saying Things about the current moment. Delicious, both.

New Wavefinder single next Friday.

“BOMBERSTAGE” out 2.20.26