Mastodawn

New #art: disquiet 58: (não por uma vida que não posso ter) , mixed media on masonite and cold press board, then digital pixel bending.

zeruch 2d ago

Sounds That Have Been Made, EP 147: Nine Inch Nails live in SF for the “Peel it Back” tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkY2wCZvCZw https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-147-nine-inch-nails-live-in-sf-for-the-peel-it-back-tour/

Nine inch nails San Francisco California March 15, 2026 Peel it Back Tour Full Set NIN

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zeruch 3d ago

"Governments are really bad at innovation"

They aren't (at least when allowed to). They surpass business for pure R&D, which the private sector then leverages with applied research as a follow on (think the internet, MRIs, nuclear energy, the concept of componentization in manufacturing, AI (yes, AI), semiconductors, GPS, the flu vaccine....). The trope that gov can't innovate is one of the most pernicious and mendacious used by the enshittification/financialization class on everyone else.

zeruch 4d ago

#sketchbook march 2026. Parallel pen on Bristol. #art #artshare

zeruch 4d ago

Tom Marble 4d ago

@pluralistic said:

"We seize the means of computation, not because we care about computers, but because we care about people."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/#original-sin

Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

zeruch 4d ago

The #Dune 3 trailer be out, and I'm feeling pretty good about the conclusion to the series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9v... (I do wish Denis would adapt the remainder of the series but I also realize that's a steep ask).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY

Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser Trailer

Experience the epic conclusion. Dune: Part Three only in theaters December 18 #DuneMovie #FilmedforIMAXDirected by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve...

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zeruch Mar 10

#Meta is flogging it's latest AI acquisition (#Manus) on users, to get folks into #adtech agents (which seems odd to push to all users), and so far it works "Not very well...the tool’s outputs often hallucinated in tests the agency had run following the integration. "

https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-is-metas-manus-tool/

WTF is Meta’s Manus tool?

Meta added a new agentic AI tool to its Ads Manager in February. Buyers have been cautiously probing its potential use cases.

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zeruch Mar 8

Sonny Rollins Quartet Live in Boston - 1966. Sonny is truly a saxophone colossus, and when I saw him live some 15 years back, still largely his all the force and finesse he's ever had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjsMTM23fHs

Sonny Rollins Quartet Live in Boston - 1966 (audio only)

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zeruch Mar 7

Dare Obasanjo Mar 7

This is the kind of blog I like to call “weak thinking meets wall of text”. At Elon’s Nazi bar (also known as X) it’s popular to argue that the government should be able to seize your property over national security.

They like to ignore the fact that the actual discussion is whether a technology with a 5% hallucination rate should make decisions about who to kill or not.

But then they wouldn’t get to make pro-fascist arguments.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/if-ai-is-a-weapon-why-dont-we-regulate

If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?

Thoughts on the fight between Anthropic and the Department of War.

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zeruch Mar 6

#sketchbook March 2026. RIP to #AntonioLoboAntunes, who up until this week was the greatest living Portuguese writer in my honest opinion (and often in his career had been shortlisted for both the literary Nobel, and the Booker prize). His literary style was considered on par with authors like Conrad and Faulkner. #art #drawing

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