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James Swift

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Making audio plugins with Gustav @gs-dsp.bsky.social

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dawse's avatar dawse @dawse.bsky.social
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I'm selling my beloved Roland SVC350 vocoder in order to pay bills. It's on eBay for £1500. But they'll rob me of £200+ so hit me up if you're minted, trustworthy, and in the market for a legendary bit of vintage gear.

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Velodus's avatar Velodus @velodus.bsky.social
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When the France election results are good

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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Some say they are still in injury time to this day.

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Jim Zub's avatar Jim Zub @jimzub.bsky.social
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This photo is pure 2024.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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Just consume one more piece of bad news. A wafer-thin piece of bad news. Go ahead, what could go wrong. It's wafer-thin.

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Mike Brown's avatar Mike Brown @plutokiller.com
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Sitting at my desk working and hear a big splash in the pool and I know who it is! I hope he wasn't too freaked out by all of the fireworks last night, poor big buddy.

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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You just know they would appeal to SCOTUS and the majority would be 9:3 “No not like that”

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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“But babes, I was just using A/B testing to further increase the relationship value for the relevant stakeholders!”

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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Former Jackass star Bam Margara agreed to six months of probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in an assault against his brother Jess Margara. What do you think? www.theonion.com/bam-margera-...

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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One of my absolute favourite buildings in the world. A fitting masterpiece to hold masterpieces.

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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Would love one but no power in our loo. However, I did install this other Japanese favourite since we had no room for a sink. Also saves some water :)

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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Interesting. Just today there is an article in the news about gas pipelines being dismantled here in Vienna. At the end they mention some of the reasons for the decline in gas use are warmer winters and switching to alternative energy sources (typically district heating)

wien.orf.at/stories/3262...

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sandcrab's avatar sandcrab @sandcrab.bsky.social
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lights along entire Mid-Atlantic coast flickering as you ask AI girlfriend "if it's really fine" that you cancel plans for a quiet evening in to go out drinking with college buddies

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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Niall Ferguson. The atheist who thinks Christianity is necessary to save Western Civilisation.

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Mary Gillis's avatar Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
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Radiohead lied to us. Computer not OK. Computer not OK at all.

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Quanta Magazine's avatar Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social
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The grade school lesson that water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius is seldom true. To get started, fire needs a spark. And ice needs a nucleus. With new tools and inspiration from nature, scientists are finding the best ways to make ice.  www.quantamagazine.org/the-enduring...

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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That album is solid. Got tickets for August gig. And James Holden is supporting who is worth it just for him.

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d.ly's avatar d.ly @dly.bsky.social
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for the love of god, were they giants or not???

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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This one is a great listen. With lots of treats including the origin of the French word for computer. Also made me hyper-aware of the data I was sending to the cloud as I was listening to it on my lunchtime run.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly's avatar The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social
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Thinking again of Raymond Chandler taking the piss out of science fiction and, accidentally, a) writing an absolute banger, and b) inventing the word Google. If anyone has any other favourite examples of writers parodying wildly different genres/writers - I'm all ears.

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner's avatar Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @robinrimbaud.bsky.social
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You might enjoy this hypnotic film by Italian artist Salvatore Arancio, filmed at the Ceralep factory, in Saint-Vallier, France, which I sound designed to accompany the beautiful visuals

vimeo.com/945571579

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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I just love how weird dynastic politics is in Ireland.

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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Amazed that site still exists. Is it still a force?

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George Pearkes's avatar George Pearkes @peark.es
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Really nice reporting from @mims.bsky.social describing the financial realities and practical limitations that the AI hype machine is finally starting to grapple with. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

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Robert McNees's avatar Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social
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Chien-Shiung Wu, who obtained experimental proof of parity violation in weak nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1912.

Her 1956 experiment probing the decay of Cobalt-60 confirmed that the weak interaction does not respect what many had assumed was a fundamental symmetry of nature. 🧪 👩‍🔬

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Justin Mikulka's avatar Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social
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Do most people realize this? "There is more electricity from solar power alone waiting to get on the grid than the entire amount of energy currently on the grid."

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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One of the fun thing about AI upscaling is that if you played the remastered trilogy of the Grand Theft Auto games you already have some familiarity with the reaction these things garner which is “what the fuck why did you ruin this?”

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Mir's avatar Mir @miriam.lol
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RIP Kabosu (Doge meme dog) November 2, 2005 - May 24, 2024. Doge had such an incredible impact on our humans lives. She was the goodest dog. May she rest in peace.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈's avatar Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social
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Google, 1998: We're going to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Imagine the whole world's knowledge in your pocket! Google 2024: Drink your own piss. Now eat glue.

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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So now the question is, are enough shareholders hilariously mistaken too?

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🌿 Laura 🌿's avatar 🌿 Laura 🌿 @lauraamalasunta.bsky.social
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Me (pulling sheet off an oil painting): Voilà! I must say I'm very pleased with the colours - I thought the waterlilies came out beautifully Boss: ... Me: what Boss: errr I'm sorry, when I said 'can we monetise this concept' there might have been a small misunderstanding

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James Swift's avatar James Swift @jamestheswift.bsky.social
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The fact you wrote “etc” made the recall even funnier!

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