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@psychicfax

Chicagoan (formerly LA, SF, NYC, and also Chicago). Indie software engineer building a recommender system (not like that) for music.

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Traxx - Live At Limited Edition Twenty-Five View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2019 Box Set release of "Live At Limited Edition Twenty-Five" on Discogs.

okayyyyy 6 x cassette live Traxx mix, someone uploaded it to YT. Just total murk.

11.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting my ix fix

11.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Map Of Africa - Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys
Map Of Africa - Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys YouTube video by Rizky Aulia

Reminded me of this amazing cover

11.03.2026 09:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm

A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm

Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.

This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx

11.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 843 πŸ” 241 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 26
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Sonemic Interview: Jim O'Rourke (@steamroom.bsky.social)

Prolific producer, performer, and improviser Jim O'Rourke speaks with insight and affection on music, noise, films, and frogs in this interview with @calcash.in.

rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...

27.02.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

Sounds amazing tbh! I personally am not great in any kind of turbulence so your post was quite visceral to me.

I still have a box of guides and geography books. I can't bear to part with them.

11.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"one of the most dangerous and unpredictable waters in the world"

no thank you

11.03.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know this thread is about Straits, but isn't Juan de Fuca also a very famous tectonic plate, one that could decimate the entire PNW coastline?

11.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Sky is giving either rainbow or tornado siren rn on the South Side of Chicago 😬

10.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I be hating

09.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

I’ve also been saying this and people really hate it bc it’s the truth.

10.03.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

04.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 12984 πŸ” 3442 πŸ’¬ 235 πŸ“Œ 242

I really want local LLMs to use like you suggested.

10.03.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also to help them define, ...

It was Gemini fwiw and Google is pushing it hard as a research tool. It now has "memories" and learns preferences.

I think this is the problem I was experiencing and it has happened every. single. time.

10.03.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

After that I asked it to summarize and start over, but that did not fix the problem and it kept getting technical capabilities confused across tools.

When they fall apart like this, it is really easy to spot the "sentence gluing" that is happening.

09.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pros and cons of digital organization tools. It started off with very nice summaries of obsidian, logseq, anytype, tana, silverbullet and even rolling my own. I started asking technical questions and telling it my preferences and after that it just got lost and misattributed capabilities to tools.

09.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I did this with Gemini and it got lost very quickly. A web search and deep reading would have sufficed. What is the point of a natural language interface if you have to bend over backwards to use it "properly".

09.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Prompting the LLM: I just need a thing-arranger.

09.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you to everyone who keeps posting about Obsidian. Maybe one day I will actually start using it.

09.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Still impressive!

09.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's crazy! I wonder if it's because you listen to a lot of techno since that video is just one long loop and then its title makes it topical.

09.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc. Fund

The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc. Fund

Doris Salcedo, Untitled, 1995
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136108

08.03.2026 09:41 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She’s talking about a socio-technical system of which software is just a part.

08.03.2026 06:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On my drivers license:

- weight is off by about 30 pounds
- height is wrong bc there is only one significant digit after the decimal
- eye color has never been correct bc my eyes change color

08.03.2026 06:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

06.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 6431 πŸ” 1550 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 46

Yes, this is table stakes and it feels regressive to even have to say it.

07.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I use it too for the same reasons but it is so centralized.

07.03.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why Bandcamp doesn’t enthuse me that much anymore. It just feels like consumption, frictionless, blah

07.03.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if it depends on who domesticated chickens first, though an aioli could be made with many different types of eggs afaik

07.03.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This funeral? It is about me, the alive person.

07.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0