how did proton somehow convince people they _weren’t_ ai peddlers within just ~2 years of the last mass exodus that happened because of their ai peddling?!

first listen of the new release from @CoralineAda today… i’m primed to find this sort of thing very haunting between the apparitional data that are radio waves and the nature of scattershot religious proselytism… but i doubt i’m alone in that, and even setting that all aside it’s just deeply evocative. very good stuff; https://coralineada.bandcamp.com/album/prophets-of-shortwave-a-documentary

i know i grump a lot about rounded corners and other current ui... decisions. it's not even really about the aesthetics, it's about this pointless need to chase trends. it's about lacking conviction. lacking an identity. it's just sad.

popped over to dot social for a minute to pore over the mastodon 5 design. poop from a butt.

i backed up allllll my music production shit this weekend, if anyone wants to give me a high-five

i had a dream last night that i signed up and was super hyped for some sort of electronic music workshop and then when i got there i found out everything had to be beat-driven. i think this was my version of the ‘find yourself naked in school’ dream

for those who don’t know, an early version of dan & kathe spracklen’s sargon chess engine was distributed as a book of z80 assembler code. this included routines for a graphic board. the whole thing is well-documented. the sargon engine lived an interesting life that i’d love to really do a deep dive on at some point. apologies for the internet archive screenshots; i’m not with my copy of the book.

talking about tandy 102s with @nflux has me thinking about the cambridge z88 again and also my long-term project idea of entering the sargon chess engine into a machine by hand and documenting the process… will have to mull over the plausibility of this…

i’ve had to do a lot of ‘read this date with the month written out but enter it numerically in the new system’ over the past few weeks and my hot take is that we should’ve just skipped four. april doesn’t feel like a four but nor do any of the others 🤷‍♀️

i need to start a little trinket box of stuff for the phase8

really pleased with the result i got ‘decaying’* the end of this remix for @undercat by essentially amplitude modulating it to hell and then shoddily demodulating it back. felt like a fitting experiment for the project & it worked just as i’d hoped.

*normie sense, not, like, adsr

f6mw-7g56
mnre-vuny
9amf-ypqf
y78v-bfga
35n7-xmf7
585a-etev
rz78-ubn8
j6v5-yute
7nb9-7vuu
vdvu-e9eq
fjgv-utft
mf2r-jnj7
9ala-ye95
37pg-77yf
b8al-7y56

guess now that we’re a week(‘s worth of days) into october i may as well mention that all (39) of my looptober loops from last year are still available as the bonus tracks on the album i constructed from them & i’d love if someone else made use of them :D https://bethdies.bandcamp.com/album/looptober-2025-mixes-and-loops

just finished rewatching häxan if anyone needs a gif of the devil churning butter

i was listening to ‘bunky becky birthday boy’ before this and started coming to the conclusion that a lot of sleigh bells’ music has a kind of stomp-clap arena thing that i would probably find unbearable if it didn’t also sound Like That

there really is no other album quite like treats https://sleighbells.bandcamp.com/track/run-the-heart

at the point where the amount of trust i put into a piece of software has a directly inverse relationship to how round that software’s corners are

had extra lyre strings, slapped 'em into the phase8