Here's the latest episode of Better Offline. I walk you through why it’s so harmful that the media keeps taking OpenAI at its word - and I respond to the most common critiques from AI boosters. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

The BS Bubble

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 04/30/2025 · 31m

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YOU MUST BE INTIMATE WITH A TOKEN FEW

One of my favorite artists of the moment .. do check out his Bandcamp as well to support ..

Tyler Wilcox@tylerwilcox.bsky.social · last yr.

Give Chuck a hand if you're able — gofund.me/c05c2035

Coming soon -- #ritualtechnology book -

very much enjoying this fabulous, lucid and intelligent work. thank you @timsaccenti.bsky.social for the recommend.

Woo-hoo! Author's copies of my 33 1/3 book on @disasteradio.bsky.social Eyeliner's vaporwave masterpiece BUY NOW have arrived - only 2 months till launch Thank you 🙏@bloomsburymus.bsky.social

Heaven's Magic - Watch Out For 666 [USA, Synthpop/Christian Cult Propaganda] (1990) https://redd.it/6izv2v https://youtu.be/jmHNnCDvKf4

Heaven's Magic - Watch Out For 666 [USA, Synthpop/Christian Cult Propaganda] (1990)

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Stills from our Setta Studio video installation at Sundance 2025

New Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith album "Gush" coming soon .. love making these images with her✨

A magnificent piece by @davidwengrow.bsky.social, co-author of The Dawn of Everything, on how a very great many historical humans did not live in empires - or possibly even under much rulership at all. aeon.co/essays/an-ar...

An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays

A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms

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Posting this interview I did with J.G.Ballard in late summer 1978: future projections www.jgballard.ca/media/1978_r...

Almost forgot! Here's my piece about Ike Yard for Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/features/ike... And the short doc I made about how they influenced Madonna www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMa...

Evergreen PSA: if an artist of any stripe makes something you like, let them know. They will never not be grateful.

The album is superb.

amoeba@amoebadesign.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ken Campbell samples, Illuminatus trilogy inspired, Robert Anton Wilson infused and played on the radio by Andy Wetherall... the holy trinity for my lo fi VHS Electro Project. #techno #electro #technobass theestateovcreation.bandcamp.com/track/l-e-c-...

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Christmas Is Now Drawing Near, by Coil

from the album Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)

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On the human condition www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Planet Puppet | Mina Tavakoli

Nowhere did I witness the guardsmen at the gates of the mind — those responsible for self-consciousness and self-doubt — more swiftly outsmarted, pacified, or outright killed than in that room. And th...

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Archaeologies and Organologies: Toward an Alternative History of Early Synthetic Video and Image Processing Practices, 1939–1969 By Chris Jan King @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/leon/article...

Archaeologies and Organologies: Toward an Alternative History of Early Synthetic Video and Image Processing Practices, 1939–1969

Abstract. This article focuses on the early history of two related techniques used within artistic contexts: distorting preexisting television raster images and generating synthetic images through the...

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Lovely review of the forthcoming #gatesoflight single Advance out 17.01.25 on @lnfg.bsky.social from @freshonthenetblog.bsky.social curator Will Farr 🙏🏻❤️ Delighted to feature on Will’s Eclectic Mix: willfarrmusic.com/artists/gates-… Artwork by Setta Studio ( @timsaccenti.bsky.social + Dina Chang)

If people stopped following me on here maybe I’d post more.

Ace Hotel minibar changing me $666 for a 2am emergency dose of The Substance.

I did a podcast earlier this year for i-D magazine you may find interesting.https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zO7Ehjdnsuu0I5mkjl3mG?go=1&sp_cid=f0bb81e2b5da6a74ad0070cf9b614e42&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=04bf012884fc4ae0

S3 E2: Cosey Fanni Tutti

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This is a good read from our friend Dave Haslam. Give it a read, well worth your while if your a musician or music fan.

Passionate but penniless

The creatives in the ‘creative industries’ aren’t getting paid.

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its crazy to me that the journalism industry is just accepting defeat here. i’m in the fucking trenches posting tiktoks about my work and peers’ work i admire bc this is where the audience is rn. please join me. yes it’s embarrassing. it gets easier.

A bazillion times yes If you make something - ANYTHING - cool, it doesn't stop being cool a week/month/year/decade later Keep shouting about it, you earned it, and other people like hearing about cool stuff!

ABSYNTH@absynth.space · 2y ago

Artists, please never stop promoting your work - including your previous records and releases. Keep talking about them. Everyone is still discovering you and your lore.

Disappointed to realize the "Quiet Posers" tab is really "Quiet Posters"

Remember Robin leaving a message on my answering machine saying he wanted to publish Trainspotting. Mate was up the house saying ‘it’s just one of the boys putting on a noncey voice. Ignore it or every cunt will rip the piss out of you.’ The Mrs and I went to Spain on holiday.

Sometimes I think I have too much gear for my visual art practice.. then I look at my modular synth friends ..

Really enjoying this new song by Deb Googe from MBV: dagoogie.bandcamp.com/track/dumb

Dumb, by da Googie + Cara Tivey

from the album The Golden Thread

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