James Britt

Artist, musician, hacker.

Renoise user.

jamesbritt.com

neurogami.com

I also run ruby-doc.org

Twitter: [@jamesbritt](https://mastodon.social/@jamesbritt )
Bandcamp: http://music.jamesbritt.com
Home: https://jamesbritt.com
AKA: https://neurogami.com

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2025-08-20 13:05:46 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nhP8tvbLY
YouTube Is Using #AI
to Alter Content (and not telling us)

2025-07-17 12:34:45 UTC

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Don't they throw you in the bastille if you use those bastard English intrusions?
:)

2025-06-20 22:14:04 UTC

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Among the striking things was a discussion of how the architecture of a place influences music. (E.g. the reverb of a church.)
Another is observations on having an isolated unknown scene where bands can start out sucky and improve in a community of peers (e.g. NYC 1974 CBGB).
This is something that seems impossible to pull today because of the ease of spreading audio/video.

2025-06-20 14:41:11 UTC

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I do not have a link handy but earlier I read that this is a compilation of data from previous breaches, not a gigantic new breach.

2025-06-17 15:03:31 UTC

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I wonder if Congress will be curious about this?

2025-05-21 22:18:48 UTC

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This github comment is legend :
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115762#issuecomment-2898635945
this idea that people who actually do the thing will be "left behind" (whatever that means), while people who want to just tell a chatbot "do a thing" will be surfing the wave of the future, is truly baffling
i'm a programmer because i enjoy programming, not because i secretly aspire to instead gently debate a word salad machine into making a ten-line change for me

2025-05-02 14:26:22 UTC

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I think (for me at least) this is part of the cost of refusing to be cynical.

2025-04-21 19:45:29 UTC

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I have told friends to stay away. Simply unsafe.

2025-04-21 19:39:53 UTC

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We now have Stasi, for whom everything is suspect.

2025-04-12 20:42:56 UTC

Dear people who compost: how do you keep animals from messing with it?
#gardening #composting

2025-04-10 17:08:06 UTC

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Props! That actually looks really good.

2025-03-10 00:43:31 UTC

"Stop calling them the doge crew. They’re twitler youth."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/09/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-151/
#TwitlerYouth

2025-03-08 13:37:54 UTC

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See also [@simple_sabotage](https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage ) , a very nice bot posting excerpts

2025-02-14 17:58:02 UTC

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TIL: The number of kernels on the corn can be counted by the strands of silk.
Thank you! I had no idea.

2025-02-07 21:18:17 UTC

Hmm. That's weird ...
#GOPonomics
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/964/680/069/481/101/original/4dc91335f66abc17.png

2025-02-05 16:58:11 UTC

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Are those peanuts, or cashews?

2025-02-01 18:36:39 UTC

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Any evidence that this actually happened?

2025-01-12 15:25:43 UTC

"Our business wants to leave the Nazi white-supremacist social media sites, but if we can't find an alternative that fits our marketing needs then we have no choice but to stay with the Nazi white supremacists. "
I keep seeing variations on this.

2024-12-05 21:15:18 UTC

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https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262375207
I think all those open access books are there

2024-11-15 12:23:53 UTC

This is very cool.
MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard

2024-11-15 11:30:50 UTC

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How do you know that?
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/are-attention-spans-really-collapsing-data-shows-uk-public-are-worried-but-also-see-benefits-from-technology
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790

2024-11-14 23:35:35 UTC

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A lot of assertions with zero backing evidence.
Sort of ironic, really.

2024-11-08 00:26:05 UTC

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Yeah, a podcast needs to be downloadable. It's part of what makes something a podcast.

2024-11-06 11:53:34 UTC

There is still beauty in the world.
Embrace it.
And let's keep fighting these fascist motherfuckers.

2024-10-24 19:49:20 UTC

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Weird. I added money to my metrocard on the 17th. Machines still said they accepted cash. (I used a credit card, though.)

2024-09-25 16:37:34 UTC

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👍
even if you have the width it just gets hard to read.

2024-09-22 11:34:40 UTC

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A thing I like about Obsidian is that the data are just text files. I can open vi or gvim and write a note, and if I store it in an Obsidian vault folder it just becomes part of that vault. So I don't have always use obsidian to get the value of its features (e.g. cross links, plugins).

2024-09-18 01:43:01 UTC

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pw;cr

2024-09-11 22:42:03 UTC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/
New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing.
The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis shows clashes had subsided.

2024-09-08 16:45:24 UTC

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https://www.guitarworld.com/features/herbie-flowers-people-have-often-said-that-i-shouldve-got-a-writers-credit-for-walk-on-the-wild-side
"Despite the song hinging on the bass hook, Herbie Flowers received just £17 for his now legendary work with Lou Reed. But he's not bitter..."

2024-09-02 15:18:37 UTC

The words "felon" or "felony" are not to be found.
#CorporateMedia
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/068/623/167/149/722/original/4b4686b885f0dafa.png

2024-08-25 00:13:57 UTC

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Curious fact: It was Hitchcock's first and only 3D movie. But it was mostly shown in theaters in 2D.
There are assorted shots that make a bit more sense when thought of as "show off the 3D" gestures.

2024-08-22 19:45:24 UTC

https://www.azfamily.com/2024/08/22/supreme-court-rejects-gop-push-block-41k-arizona-voters/
Supreme Court rejects GOP push to block 41K Arizona voters.
High court partly OKs proof of citizenship law
#Arizona #votingRights

2024-08-19 01:02:27 UTC

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This is a scourge on programming discussion sites. Like, I won't answer your question until I approve of what you want to do and how to do it.
Brogrammers suck.