What a long strange trip it's been.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bob-weir-dead-grateful-dead-1236628170/
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And that is it! If you want to go much, much deeper with these, I did 12+ hours of streams that go deep into each track, including a thorough look at the Ableton Live tracks and the instruments I used. That's here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1jH_IvoIsVv7hFdc_yrjtt0bwsPTMeo
The closer is "Science of the Night" and it's just about the fact that magic, mystic states and weird shit in general seems to happen easier late at night... the witching hour, basically. And it's a fucking sweet name.
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/track/science-of-the-night
It's supposed to sound like what being out late doing something weird feels like.

from the album The Mechanics of Mysticism
What a long strange trip it's been.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bob-weir-dead-grateful-dead-1236628170/
“People love to describe senior engineers with a big checklist: architecture, communication, ownership, leadership, etc.”
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/
Despite breathless headlines warning of a robot takeover in the workforce, a new research briefing from Oxford Economics casts doubt on the narrative that artificial intelligence is currently causing mass unemployment.
According to the firm’s analysis, “firms don’t appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale,” suggesting instead that companies may be using the technology as a cover for routine headcount reductions. https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/ai-layoffs-convenient-corporate-fiction-true-false-oxford-economics-productivity/
LLMs show a strong bias for Python, but the future of AI-generated code depends on stable, open source languages to improve maintainability.
https://thenewstack.io/beyond-python-why-llms-need-more-stable-open-source-code
Dara O'Briain: "I get really pissed off when people give out about crime going up when the numbers are definitely going down. And if you say the numbers are going down, they go, 'but the FEAR of crime is rising'. Well so what? Zombies are at an all-time low level, but the fear of zombies could be incredibly high. It doesn't mean we have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies. It's ridiculous."
The last 20 years of politics in a nutshell.