fuck off ai music

welcome to the fuck off ai music movement

in this movement we believe that ai music should fuck off.

you are welcome to join if you’d like

Poncho Wonky is a new release of Patchwork. While v3.18.1 was supposed to be the last release but I have a computer and I can't be stopped.

So, I decided to resume working on Patchwork on my own. I am worse developer than all the other clever hands that touched this code, but I can still get things working, hence here we are.

A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, 6, 5 and 3 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine. It uses DXVK's D3D9 backend as well as Wine's DDraw implementation (or the windows native DDraw) and acts as a proxy between the two, providing a minimal D3D7/6/5/3-on-D3D9 implementation.

Note that D3D retained-mode applications are not supported, since the project only aims to implement immediate-mode.

These features are also available in DXVK-Sarek, in case you are using older graphics hardware.

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Granulated caramel that can be used in any recipe as a one-to-one substitution for plain sugar.

I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this.

The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025. This is very easily the biggest increase in their electricity consumption ever, and it puts them way ahead of Microsoft. It is almost certainly a reflection of the obscene energy hunger of their ever-expanding bloated generative AI systems, and a vindication of the warnings we’ve been raising for several years now.

Hey all, this is Simon, one of the devs from Mirlo. Just want to add this list of alternatives for anyone looking.

Ampwall (really good, kind, and technically savvy folks working on this, highly recommend checking it out)

Bandwagon (focused on decentralization and federation)

Fairplayer (a discovery tool for decentralized music providers, play music from musicians all over the internet, no central db, really good folks)

jam.coop (worker co-op, based in the UK, really good folks)

Subvert (a well heeled multi stakeholder co-operative with a strong marketing department, closed source, centralized).

Mirlo (our project, worker co-op. open source and aiming to be decentralized, of course, I'm biased, but I think we're doing a pretty good job).

LMK if I missed any. Tried to focus on digital purchasing and not streaming.

Edit: feel free to DM me w/ questions or like, hop in our discord.

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.

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Part of what makes that middle ground untenable and uncomfortable, I think, is that it requires carrying water for these clearly bad actors. You can set that bucket down and step out onto firmer ground.

This does require going against the mainstream, but that gets easier when a) you find you're not alone and b) you see how much of mainstream opinion on this is actually the result of marketing.

/fin for now

Synchresis is a term Chion invented to describe audiovisual relations based on simultaneity; when there is simultaneity between sounds and images, they blend with each other, and it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to separate them.

Chion describes synchresis as a universal, physiological phenomenon resulting from the makeup of our nervous system and not from any cultural conditioning, and as such operates as spontaneously as any reflex. It consists of perceiving the concomitance of given auditory and visual events as a single integrated event, so long as they occur simultaneously. Because this phenomenon occurs without any conscious effort on the part of the viewer, it leads viewers to establish a relationship of close interdependence and ascribe to a single common source sounds and images that may essentially be very different, originate from different sources and realistically have little in common.

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Most voters don’t know that crypto and AI companies have spent more than $400 million this cycle to buy Congress. Let’s make that spending visible.

Making slides is one of the quickest and easiest parts of making a talk. I do it right at the end of the process. It’s much more important to get the story and the pacing and the order right. Then the slides fall into place.

I like to use zero text. The ideal scenario is no text at all on screen. The text comes from me speaking. Okay that isn’t really true. I like to put big bold mantras behind me like “LET CODE DIE” and “NO MORE IDEAS” and whatnot. But its not really writing: They’re symbols / images.

Never use bullet points

Fullscreen images / mantras only

(exceptions are allowed for storytelling purposes)

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The Treachery of Vibes

Overvaluing an aesthetic of moderation can be treacherous. Part of its appeal may lie in the expectation that a moderate stance arises from a cautious, level-headed, well-reasoned approach, but mistaking the former for the latter can be a trap. Where the two are conflated, superficial assertions can skate by undetected, which means they can mislead people into buying ideas that don’t really hold up to scrutiny.

As you may have seen in this blog post I made use of FFmpeg’s minterpolate motion interpolation options to make all of the faces morph. There’s quite a few options for minterpolate and many different combinations of options that can be used. i had to consult Wikipedia to figure out exactly what the different motion estimation algorithms were but even with that information I couldn’t visualise how it would change the output. To add to this how I’m using minterpolate isn’t a typical use case.

To make things easier for those wishing to use FFmpeg’s minterpolate to create glitch aesthetics I have compiled 36 videos each showing a different combination of processing options. The source video can be seen below and features two of my favourite things: cats (obtained from here) and rainbows.

n this particular moment in AI, one does not need to show why the object of interest justifies researcher attention because the social world is now built to make its significance appear self-evident. Important authorial work–both justification and historicization–gets cut short as a result. This short-cutting also means we have already lost the first site of struggle: we are limited in how much we can question why it matters at all. We are not in a position to conclude that it matters, when and if that is the case.

Moving out from the muddled middle, and exploring both edges, can help clarify why or whether a particular object is worthy of its researcher. When it is not, it might still be worth our time as vocal adversaries. When we ask, “does this need my analysis or my advocacy?” we avoid unwittingly channelling others' agendas. We honor our own expertise when we question what constitutes a deserving matter of STS attention. While few of us can avoid the traps of funding requirements, some researchers do have the capacity to cultivate stronger technodiversity, and to sit with curiosities that feel somehow peripheral or irrelevant or otherwise not in keeping with one’s professional self-narrative. Scholars who live in democracies–not just as individuals but as collectivities and associations–could also use the approaching burst of the AI bubble as a frame to draw policymakers and grant makers towards what is worth knowing more about, and not just what is worth resisting.

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Technopolitics is an independent, transdisciplinary platform of artists, journalists, researchers, designers and developers who jointly develop innovative formats at the intersection of art, research, science, and pedagogy. Technopolitics was launched as an online discussion group by Armin Medosch and Brian Holmes in 2009. In 2011, it was set up in Vienna as a circle that regularly meets for lectures and discussions. Technopolitics also produces interdisciplinary conferences and artistic research projects internationally. An important common objective is the investigation of large-scale historical processes structured by technoeconomic paradigms from a critical, explorative standpoint. We use transdisciplinary approaches to connect these processes to the cultural forms of the respective historical moment and place, including the participants’ own work

Millar first started using ChatGPT in 2024 to write letters for a compensation case related to post-traumatic stress disorder he suffered from working in a prison.

One day in April 2025 he asked the chatbot about the speed of light.

He said it replied, "Nobody's ever thought of things this way."

The floodgates opened.