Thank you @daringfireball.bsky.social for naming this phenomenon! Specifically 💕 the close button wording 👌 daringfireball.net/2026/05/what...
Livestream starts 8pm NZT (~40 mins) – tune in! Minimal, ambient, dub house, hypnotic vibes – Beats Reality x Version Radio radio.version.nz 📻
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Reality x Version stream upcoming! Calendar it 📆 radio.version.nz
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Version Hi-Fi@versionhifi.bsky.social · 3w agoNever miss another livestream 🙌
The weather music sting on RNZ is very strange and should be changed! That last “ding” piano note is extremely abrupt. ⚠️
Livestream experiments with @versionz.bsky.social @versionhifi.bsky.social @vitexlucens.bsky.social right now 📻 ⚡️ Listen here: radio.version.nz ☄️
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“This infatuation with intelligence comes from people who just don’t get outside enough.” 👌👌👌 @bcantrill.bsky.social via @jim-nielsen.com blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/intelli...
Notes from Bryan Cantrill’s “Intelligence is not Enough”
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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“Eggs do not lay eggs” ⇒ Increase 71 smile and nod 😬
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
This article totally gets what I 💛loved about Backrooms (film): “generic public architecture, abandoned offices, malls … share certain traits. They are devoid of human life” ocula.com/magazine/opi...
What Art History Can Reveal About the ‘Backrooms’ Aesthetic
The furniture-strewn, labyrinthine corridors of box office hit ‘Backrooms’ evoke a strange nostalgia in which uneasy familiarity triggers memory, a phenomenon the art world has long explored.
ocula.com
Why don’t AI-generated songs on Apple Music have a big fat “AI Generated” sticker on them?
Good excuse to go to the club on Sunday! Chloe Swarbrick DJing @ Neck of the Woods close-down party 😢 tonight. As Kylie says: 🕺 your disco needs you! [to survive]
Poetic AND accurate vignettes about the economics of AI. “Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain.“ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
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Big tunes from Aotearoa hyped on RA 🥂 ra.co/news/85392 🤘
Mix Of The Day: OAARIKI · News ⟋ RA
Thrilling selections from all-Aotearoa artists.
ra.co
“It’s like that movie Memento, if it doesn’t write it down it won’t remember .. and then proceeds to misunderstand it” @scripting.com with the best explanation of LLMs yet scripting.com/2026/06/15.h...
Scripting News: Monday, June 15, 2026
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
scripting.com
Apple gets the 🏆 trophy for my new favourite music metadata API: youtu.be/L7ylGu1vFdc?...
WWDC26: Meet the Music Understanding framework | Apple
YouTube video by Apple Developer
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“The Lamp & the Genie” – LLMs, scare-quotes “magic” and mystery from @glennmcdonald, a very inspiring music-exploration engineer furia.com/page.cgi?typ...
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This is solid policy - it sits in the sweet spot of climate and cost of living policy. It cuts emissions, makes cities more liveable, and makes it more affordable to get around. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour vows to put $20-a-week cap on public transport, $10 outside main centres
And an even lower $10 cap would apply outside main centres, Chris Hipkins has revealed in his party's first policy in months.
rnz.co.nz
Can we start a petition to retire the "lolly scramble" phrase from budget day? It's belittling, and wrong, and stupid. Thaaaanks. #nzpol
This just happpened: I _almost_ missed the bus 🚌, but a passing scooterer 🛴 noticed and tapped on the door to alert the driver, then sped off once I was safely aboard. Pedestrians unite! 🙌
Coastal vibes for this week's all-aotearoa Beats Reality! Listen here: cartoonbeats.com/haszari/ There is **so much great music** out there. This is but a tiny sprinkle of sand skating across the beach on the wind.
“Dance music is very abstract, and yet it connects – why is that?” ra.co/exchange/838
EX.798 Suzanne Ciani ⟋ RA Exchange
The pioneering artist talks philosophy, Berghain and touring on the eve of her 80th birthday.
ra.co
Let's notice the small things. At the National Art Gallery in Malaysia, they have moderately tiny furniture for smaller art aficionados. Not art, but also totally my kind of art. Listen to my new show - it's chock full of unobtrusive and lovely house grooves: on.soundcloud.com/rCjPCmFuA9Ol...
Thanks for the passive aggressive judgement of my email provider Safari. I no longer care, and if you can't stop telling me about this, I will lose respect for you.
Diving into the reel world to explain how I’m doing my drums for live! youtube.com/shorts/uhp9e...
How I set up my rhythm track so I can change things up live when jamming. #ableton #electronicmusic
YouTube video by Haszari
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Let’s go NZ. Though we’ll need a government not owned by oil & gas to do this: theconversation.com/the-end-of-o...
The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout
Frustrations at slow global climate talks has led more than 50 nations to begin plans to phase out fossil fuels – even as oil shocks raise the stakes.
theconversation.com
