Mastodawn

Really good article by @pluralistic about the AI bubble.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur?CMP=share_btn_url

"In automation theory, a “centaur” is a person who is assisted by a machine. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete.

A reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine.

For example, an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing is not allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they do not make quota.

The driver is in that van because the van cannot drive itself and cannot get a parcel from the curb to your porch. The driver is a peripheral for a van, and the van drives the driver, at superhuman speed, demanding superhuman endurance."

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

The Guardian

Perkins Jan 16

Feels like the 20th anniversary wasn't so long ago! https://rocketship.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-smile-a-certain-sadness-30th-anniversary-edition

A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition), by Rocketship

8 track album

Rocketship

Perkins Jan 15

Jenkelly Jan 15

“The session moves from jingling, glistening minimalism to primal propulsive jazz rock, to a dream-fugue finale decked with Patrick Shiroishi’s saxophone,” writes Jennifer Kelly. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/805834477482934272/the-early-cusp-island-house #music #theearly

The Early — Cusp (Island House)

The Early - Chopaghetti (ft. Patrick Shiroishi) A cusp is the end of one thing and the beginning of another, often a shift so subtle that that you can’t make it out while it’s happening. Spring...

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Perkins Jan 15

Uplifting hits the space https://invada.bandcamp.com/track/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-the-jet-wash

I Saw The Face Of God In The Jet Wash, by Cornish Sound Unit, Mark Jenkin, Dion Star

from the album I Saw The Face Of God In The Jet Wash

Invada

Perkins Jan 15

https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/track/corc hard to not be impressed by autechre on guitar.

Corc, by Shane Parish

from the album Autechre Guitar

Shane Parish

Perkins Jan 15

https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/track/crash-out

Crash Out, by Snooper

from the album Unknown Caller EP

Snooper

Perkins Jan 15

Bam-Bam Jan 15

#portfolioday
I love using thrift store Barbie dolls in my weirdo art

Perkins Oct 29

Addrianne Lenker driving with the top down during a hail storm of jello shots and bearded ladies caved in to mountain of truth feeling burgling from all the stiff drinked hooligans protected by grit and we cried and we sighed and sighted, we ducked our heads one final time to make it up the stairs into the like. This and more.

Perkins Oct 20

Damon K Oct 20

My new book Why Sound Matters is out this week! Liz Pelly and Max Alper invited me to talk about it with them on their excellent podcast series Critical Listening. The episode is available now wherever you get your podcasts, with one crucial exception (you guessed it!). And if you subscribe to the Critical Listening Patreon, you’ll find a bonus bit with me dishing about aspects of the Cambridge/Boston music scene https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/critical-listening

Critical Listening

A conversation with Liz Pelly and Max Alper about Why Sound Matters

Dada Drummer Almanach

Perkins Oct 20

Infatuated with a song I cannot pronounce or don't really know the origins of very well... (this is a version of it i do like.) https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1jh4y1H7ax/ It reminds me of Scorpion ballads a little. Gives me goose bumps. Remembering "home" is a lot these days. Hope you guys find a safe feeling out there. Make time to find it.

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