Mastodawn

Oh, nothing, just individually locating and downloading 9.5gb worth of (200+) high-rez (3600px wide) scans out of a 16th C book of extremely satisfying machines from the Library of Congress, one at a time, labeling them, and putting them in a folder for future collage work.

Sun Thief // Adam Mar 9

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 8

Our privacy should be a collaborative effort between the government and companies–but we cannot rely solely on their goodwill. That’s why we need strict legislative and democratic controls to contain the surveillance state and private industry. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/anthropic-dod-conflict-privacy-protections-shouldnt-depend-decisions-few-powerful

The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People

The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over what the government could and could not use Anthropic’s technology to do. Anthropic had made it...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sun Thief // Adam Mar 8

The Intercept Mar 8

OpenAI says Americans shouldn’t worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon contract. You’ll have to take their word for it (and Pete Hegseth’s). https://theintercept.com/2026/03/08/openai-anthropic-military-contract-ethics-surveillance

OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us

OpenAI says Americans shouldn’t worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon contract. You’ll have to take their word for it (and Pete Hegseth’s).

The Intercept

Sun Thief // Adam Mar 7

The Intercept Mar 7

Ah yes, another forever war. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/trump-iran-war-plan-cia/

Sun Thief // Adam Feb 25

The Quietus | All Articl Feb 25

Éliane Radigue has Died, Aged 94
https://thequietus.com/news/eliane-radigue-has-died-aged-94/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eliane-radigue-has-died-aged-94

#thequietus #News #Éliane_Radigue #INA_GRM

Éliane Radigue has Died, Aged 94 | The Quietus

Éliane Radigue, the French composer and pioneer of musique concrète, has died at the age of 94. INA GRM, the Paris-based experimental music institute, broke the news on social media, writing: “It’s with immense sadness that we learn of the passing of Éliane Radigue at the age of 94. A major figure in musical creation […]

The Quietus

Sun Thief // Adam Feb 23

vkc via PeerTube Feb 20

GrapheneOS can help you retake your privacy, right now.

https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/wPTCS3fiMqDFiLmbWGn9VK

GrapheneOS can help you retake your privacy, right now.

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Sun Thief // Adam Feb 21

@itsfoss surprise!

Sun Thief // Adam Feb 16

The Intercept Feb 15

“They took my cell phone and cloned it. They actually told me they did that.” https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/minneapolis-federal-agents-phone-surveillance-alex-pretti/

Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant

He was observing after Alex Pretti’s killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.

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Sun Thief // Adam Feb 13

@tsrono yep sequencing form Bitwig mostly. Circuit too when I'm more on the jamming headspace! Lots of love playing into clips either way and then working out probabilities and odd clip lengths etc

Man these M-Audio BX8s are old faithfuls for me, been rocking them more than a decade. To my ears they're very flat yet detailed. Loud if you want them to be! Ive been trying to create and mix just a touch quieter because of ear fatigue. What are you monitoring on these days?

Sun Thief // Adam Feb 13

Little studio pic precipitates by the Bitwig Studio survey, repping the 100% Linux audio workflow

Thanks for all the support and listens for Feast of the Cumaean

Getting cooking on tools and sounds for the next one