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J.W. Ricci

@resonance.tools

Guitar boy: lnkfi.re/through-a-frame-pollen-drop Wednesdays 8-9am ET on wxdu.org mastodon.green/@jwillemricci resonance.tools

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J.W. Ricci@resonance.tools · 2w ago

Ok I hate posting on the internet, especially when so heady, half baked and idea-guy-like, but this one’s been mulling about for a while and just needs to come out. One of the most beguiling trends I’ve been noticing lately is that it seems like the type of people who claim to be the most anti ai

J.W. Ricci@resonance.tools · 3mo ago

Imagine you spend 7 years writing a book and now it’s out! You’re invited onto a podcast hosted by a “master of the art of conversation”. Wow! It’s going well, then halfway through, for no apparent reason, they start reading verbatim from an LLM — a summary of your work, questions about you, etc…

J.W. Ricci@resonance.tools · 3mo ago

On Friday May 8, I'll be releasing "Through a Frame / Pollen Drop", my first new music in 6 years. Around the release, I'll be performing Through a Frame, Pollen Drop, and a couple other instrumental guitar pieces at some of Durham/Hillsborough's natural/artificial areas.

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Anil Dash@anildash.com · 4mo ago

One thing that's worth repeating: There is *zero* evidence that "substack helps you get readers". The only thing that we've ever seen that helps grow an audience is other authors mentioning your blog or newsletter, which is not the platform's doing. Substack just takes credit for that!

Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 8mo ago

FWIW I didn’t leave Substack because of the Nazis, though they didn’t help. I left because the management of that company is fundamentally duplicitous, it’s become a toxic social network, and there is no reason to give them 10% of your profits when there are better and less expensive options.

Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Kyle Cassidy@kylecassidy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.

Emma Strubell@strubell.bsky.social · last yr.

Our paper documenting the environmental impacts of creating OLMo language models is the most honest and comprehensive characterization I know of, including training, development (!) and inference costs. If you're at ICLR chat with @jacobcares.bsky.social & @clarana.bsky.social Sat morning 10-12:30!

Jacob Morrison@jacobcares.bsky.social · last yr.

📜Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05804 ✍️Thanks to my illustrious coauthors @clarana.bsky.social @jaredfern.bsky.social timdettmers.com @strubell.bsky.social @jessedodge.bsky.social, t'was a fun project 🌏

J.W. Ricci@resonance.tools · 2y ago

Wondering how many more nazi salutes, how many more changes to platform policy to allow for harassment of marginalized folks, how many more hitherto unthinkable horrors will need to happen before my otherwise ultra lefty, arty, compassionate, community oriented friends join me on Mastodon.

Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 2y ago

“More seals are breeding on the east coast because offshore windfarms may have provided a new footing there for underwater vegetation, crustaceans, molluscs, small fish and other marine life, creating a fish nursery that the seals are feeding on” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

Grey seals are growing in numbers on England’s east coast as a result of environmental safe havens and cleaner North Sea waters

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J.W. Ricci@resonance.tools · 2y ago

I made a temperature controller for my partner for Xmas so she can keep her natural dyeing pots at a constant simmer without needing to tend to the stove / without risking boiling over. Never been more excited to watch a pot simmer!

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J.W. Ricci@resonance.tools · 2y ago

In case you haven’t heard about or noticed this: “Spotify [is] filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians… in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts.”

liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 2y ago

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...