Excellent This American Life episode (ThisAmericanLife.org)
If anyone could make AI spew sound good, it’s got to be Werner Herzog.
More info comes to light about the ill fated Titanic implosion sub (ArsTechnica.com)
It’s a Wired article, but Ars ran it too. Clears up a lot of the rumors and confusion around the event, such as “how was Boeing involved?”
Samples used in the C&C Series (Reddit)
The real win here though is the link to Methods Of Mayhem. Some really awesome samples and a ton I recognize from Red Alert and Red Alert 2, including many of the voice clips (including the infamous Brain From Outer Space clips used in the Yuri’s Revenge soundtrack.)
I will ****ing piledrive you if you mention AI again (ludic.mataroa.blog)
The title really says it all, this article made the rounds this month. Though it does slide in some AI X-risk stuff, so a good antidote is:
AI Doomers have warned of the tech apocalypse while doing their best to accelerate it (salon.com)
Someone put these pieces together. Admittedly, though, it’s basically doing the homework for that tweet where Altman said Yudkowsky needed a Nobel.
Penryn Space Agency
This was a great electronic music mix show. There are over fifty episodes to listen to. I don’t know the inside story but it sounds like they had difficulty getting to the studio during the pandemic. Their archives are a treasure trove of electronic music recommendations. Get them while they’re hot (and still hosted.) They do a great job of linking to the music they play so you can find new artists.
The Living Computers Museum Finally Isn’t (Old Vintage Computing Research)
This is unfortunate news for the retro-computing community. I’d always hoped to visit this place if I could ever make it out there.
Finding Deceit in the Chambers of Xenobia
A mystery reminiscent of Sour Grapes. Thanks to https://digipres.club/@ryanfb for posting this one on Mastodon.
I’m making a go of it on BlueSky (bsky.social)
I dunno, is this thing on?