Notices by Timothy Clark (tclark@mstdn.social)

@technomancy @mattly could also be that it went to download an update, and then the update failed, so it did it again. and that failed, ad infinitum.

@mattly I probably should get that scheduled....

NEW MUSIC TODAY. NEW MUSIC NEXT WEEK. NEW MUSIC IN JUNE.

NO SIGNAL IN THE PASS EP

https://phantomwest.bandcamp.com/album/no-signal-in-the-pass-ep

WITH REMIXES BY MATTHEW LYON - @mattly VUXNUT, HEX WOLVES , THE KINGS OF BLACK MAGIC, & PHANTOM HEARTBEAT

Including remixes of two other new tracks from the upcoming album, The Degenerate Era and The Faith of Jackals.

Friend and fediverse compatriot @mattly did an outstanding job with his interpretation of The Faith of Jackals as one of his first remixes.

As always, this EP is free.

@mattly There's no such thing as parents' rights. Children have rights, and the parents have obligation to protect and defend those rights. First among any human right is the right to BE you who are.

@mattly 😬

@mattly every day I believe "power corrupts" less and less. it's not power that's the problem. sycophancy breaks people.

@mattly why not lean into the synth rack thing?

@mattly I remain perplexed why nobody has tried to truly unify the OS and have different shells for different modes since Canonical half-heartedly tried to kickstarter the Ubuntu Edge. Windows tried to make "tablet OR laptop!" in 8 (but tried to cram everything into one shell/UI), Apple balkanized their OSes.

I really don't get it.

@mattly I'm so glad Dyer has found his proper place at the Meta ghoul factory. Liquid Glass is pure trash on the phone. It's.... kinda OK on iPads, but it's dogshit on phones.

@mattly Your average "executive" only understands creativity in terms of commissioning it, so of course they're all in on cutting out the human in the middle. These are the folks that do the circle jerk circuit and give each other big awards. For most of that crowd it's not even "wanting to have made" anything, they just want to get a trophy from the trophy store, so long as whoever sees it thinks they earned it.

@mattly ah, the jam band dilemma.

@mattly I'm a little surprised at that -- I had well over 100 tracks and 20 buses when I was finally done with The Jackpot (a 17 minute suite of 3 songs), and I only had to freeze a couple instruments that were CPU hogs.

@JeffreySmith perhaps if there were more, and more effective social disapproval of people who were Trump's useful idiots in 2016, they might not have repeated the errors four and eight years later.

Everyone in the US who voted for Donald, everyone in the US who stayed home, everyone who said "they're both the same", everyone who spent months being useful idiots for the fascist party's enthusiasm suppression agitprop by amplifying attacks and attacking Biden and then Harris -- you own this. You are responsible.

There was no higher priority in 2024 than preventing the election of a man who never wanted to govern and only wanted to rule. I fucking warned you, and so many of you blew me off.

It's nearly mid-year, and of the 28 books I've read so far in 2025:

My favorite: Babel by R.F. Kuang

Runner-up: Between Earth and Sky trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse

Most Poetic: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

Most Fun: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

Currently reading the "Galactic Commons" series starting with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers because of @mattly so my top three books/series at the end of the year just might well all be by Rebeccas.

@mattly I like it aesthetically... in still images... at a first blush. but how tiresome will it get when i'm using it day in, day out?

@mattly I think they'll have a slobbery kiss and make up, at least in front of the cameras. but i actually think elon got his first narcissistic injury in a while, after miller spiked his pal's nomination.

@mattly I put up one of the scratch files from The Midnight Sector up on soundcloud with the image basically to make my point. https://soundcloud.com/phantomwest

@mattly I took all my music down from soundcloud because they added AI slop/training to the ToS. https://bsky.app/profile/phantomwest.com/post/3loqokmdjmc22

And later this year I'm going to write up Phantom West's formal statement on never knowingly using generative AI. ML-informed software like smart-EQ, etc I will keep using, and I'll outline that stuff in the statement.

@mattly For every "it's not my job to educate you" there are fifty Tates and Rogans and Joneses happy to fill in.