2026-04-15 20:55:14
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
TAURO:
🎵 Bad Bad Feeling
#TAURO
https://wearetauro.bandcamp.com/track/bad-bad-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/3R2b3bGexm04gjKAvhuclm
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
TAURO:
🎵 Bad Bad Feeling
#TAURO
https://wearetauro.bandcamp.com/track/bad-bad-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/3R2b3bGexm04gjKAvhuclm
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Christian Löffler:
🎵 A Feeling (feat. Adna)
#NowPlaying #ChristianLöffler
https://christianloffler.bandcamp.com/track/a-feeling-feat-adna
https://open.spotify.com/track/26qmZcSb7BJAVT02eWHRbp
I have a weird feeling, as shit gets more and more real, that stuff like our international trade deals will have to be abandoned out of self-preservation (most were entered into to benefit not NZers, but the wealthiest NZers - a form of implicit TrickleDown). I wonder which political party will have steel enough to point it out.
Ever notice how you're watching your own life from a slight distance?
Not depressed. Not burned out. Just... slightly absent.
When overwhelm lasts longer than we can process it, we adapt by feeling less. We function but don't fully inhabit our days.
The long dissociation kept us safe when feeling everything wasn't possible.
But survival was never the same thing as being alive.
What would it mean to gently come back?
"sometimes 'asshole' isn't enough," jonathan richman reassessing pablo picasso tonight at baby's all right, a line he's probably used before but feeling pretty universal at the moment. what a miracle to be in a room with richman in 2026. (please don't tell him that i snuck a photo.) #brooklyn
The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic"
that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone,
give it away, and move on with your life.
I've been feeling this for a while now, and I suspect a lot of folks who have the itch to build feel it too, even if they haven't articulated it.
So to follow up on this, I've caught it in action. Models, when quantized a bit, just do a bit more poorly with short contexts. Even going from f32 (as trained) to bf16 (as usually run) to q8 tends to do okay for "normal" context windows. And q4 you start feeling like "this model is a little stupid and gets stuck sometimes” (it is! It's just that it's still mostly careening about in the space of "plausible" most of the time. Not good guesswork, but still in the zone). With long contexts, the probability of parameters collapsing to zero are higher, so the more context the more likelihood you are to see brokenness.
And then at Q2 (2 bits per parameter) or Q1, the model falls apart completely. Parameters collapse to zero easily. You start seeing "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” sorts of behavior, with intense and unscrutinized repetition, followed by a hard stop when it just stops working.
And quantization is a parameter that a model vendor can turn relatively easily. (they have to regenerate the model from the base with more quantization, but it's a data transformation on the order of running a terabyte through a straightforward and fast process, not like training).
If you have 1000 customers and enough equipment to handle the requests of 700, going from bf16 to q8 is a no-brainer. Suddenly you can handle the load and have a little spare capacity. They get worse results, probably pay the same per token (or they're on a subscription that hides the cost anyway so you are even freer to make trade-offs. There's a reason that subscription products are kinda poorly described.)
It's also possible for them to vary this across a day: use models during quieter periods? Maybe you get an instance running a bf16 quantization. If you use it during a high use period? You get a Q4 model.
Or intelligent routing is possible. No idea if anyone is doing this, but if they monitor what you send a bit, and you generally shoot for an expensive model for simple requests? They could totally substitute a highly quantized version of the model to answer the question.
There are •so many tricks• that can be pulled here. Some of them very reasonable to make, some of them treading into outright misleading or fraudulent, and it's weirdly hard to draw the line between them.
lets you train hard without feeling chaotic
⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html
Grand-dog has gone home after an 8 day sojourn and I have a 24 hour window until the wee one arrives tomorrow.
Side note: The house is deliciously quiet, no one followed me to the toilet, and I ate chocolate without feeling guilty.
one reason recommendation systems seem terrible to me: I used to go to bookstores basically to read the bookshelves, not really looking for a book to read. similarly, I often open up netflix with a vague feeling of "maybe I'll watch something", but really what interests me is the browsing, and I'm unsatisfied by the weird browsing experience. sometimes I do hunt and want something to pounce on, but most of the time I'm just exploring
Feeling the urge to do more #blogging and less social stuff. Many options, but not so easy for a low-brow guy.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Three hours of classical sparkle
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re feeling energised, or need some downtime after a busy week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r3z1
"Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing"
#Birds #Nature #Environment
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/04/feeling-chirpy-how-listening-to-birdsong-can-boost-your-wellbeing
I kind of want to make a bumper sticker that says "Born to ride a bike, Forced to drive a car" because with the weather starting to improve I am feeling restless and also helpless.
I may get the basement trainer bike set up so I can just try some real gentle riding when I am feeling well enough.
#bikeTooter
If Alito steps down (My feeling is that he deserves to be thrown out) then the Senate D's should refuse to confirm any Cheato nominated successor.
Better to let the SCOTUS seat stay empty rather than have yet another trump sycophant.
https://slate.com/news-and…
got through the whole day in SF in March comfortably wearing just a t-shirt. it's that classic combination of feeling nice, plus terror for what this suggests about earth's climate systems
Ive dehumanized you so I can put you in a bestiary. Nothings changed, except the feeling in my tummy from the title carries a more gothic, dare I say countercultural vibe among those "in the know"
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…
Is there a spellchecker as good as Grammarly that I can use without the feeling of paying money to horrible people?
Valve FM: Internet-Radio im Terminal hören https://blog.oliverswelt.de/blog/back-to-the-roots-warum-ich-radio-jetzt-im-terminal-höre-valve-fm
RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156
I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.
Hold on, whatever tools you’re using, just hold on to your sense of purpose and meaning. There are a lot of forces at work in this world that want to rob you of that. Your feeling of losing that is not recognition of some new fact of our reality; it is you experiencing a psychological weapon.
Claude is absolutely "king" of AI at the moment, i think however Gemini 3 Flash is good enough for most people and a lot cheaper. I have the feeling ChatGPT will lose this race (just guessing).
#AI #Claude #Anthropic
By their very nature they will never and can never experience happiness.
They’re sad sacks of miserable shit who always want more and can never have enough.
And they’ll go to their graves feeling miserable and lonely.
This looks like an interesting take on the whole “AI" (IMHO its not AI and its not leading directly to AGI).
I've only watched this preview but it looks like it covers things from many points of view. The creator of the film
The AI Documentary: Or How I Becamean APOCALOPTIMIST.
#AIHype
Report: Cowboys lost LB Nakobe Dean to Raiders due to shocking reason https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/09/cowboys-lb-nakobe-dean-raiders-gut-feeling-quote/89075528007/
#EpsteinFiles syndrome?
‘Never been closer’: UFO watchers buoyed by Trump and Vance’s alien ‘obsession’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr
#EpsteinFiles syndrome?
‘Never been closer’: UFO watchers buoyed by Trump and Vance’s alien ‘obsession’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr
Trump 'Had a Feeling, Based on Fact,' That There Was an Imminent Iran Threat, White House Says (Violet Jira/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/donald-trump-feeling-imminent-threat-iran-karoline-leavitt
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p118#a260304p118
@… well, shit. My basement flooded last year so I know what you’re feeling. Sorry to hear it
'It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff “with AI,” informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.' Sonja Drimmer on 🔥on Art Forum
https://www.artforum.com/features/generative-ai-st…
Is there a spellchecker as good as Grammarly that I can use without the feeling of paying money to horrible people?
I was feeling iffy on my #creditunion after they did the bait and switch with a "high-interest" savings account (rapidly dropped the interest rate after a few months). Also found the non-stop life insurance promo letters annoying.
But them charging me a $50 fee for not closing a CD account within a tiny window, and refusing to waive the fee despite me being just a few days late, …
Mon pere a fait une demande d'aide a mourir. C'est aujourd'hui qie va se passe.
L'infirmière est ici pour installer un catheter.
C'est un feeling étrange...
David Ellison made his first public appearance before WBD execs; sources: he called the deal process "turbulent", downplayed layoffs, and left some unsatisfied (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
I’m neck deep into figure skating at the moment and recommend you watch this 2016 recording of Javier Fernandez to get a feeling of what’s cool about it. That is such a stellar performance!
https://youtu.be/uk7I7Pe1xkc
Why do I have a feeling the anti-choice crowd are going to ram immutability down our throats next after they force us all to use shitty Wayland (for our protection and security, ofc)?
Alright, time for the custom cart/Kefka revenge tour! I'm feeling like crap, but I figured playing a bit o' vidya games would help out. Time for some Final Fantasy 6 in the only way I know how to play it: on an old CRT TV with more than a bit of profanity.
https://youtube.com/live/DYgQrEHGvag?f
That feeling when you think your management portal must be broken because the numbers are too high and you drill down and check and no, people just sold that many tickets today.
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Hether:
🎵 Falling For The Feeling
#NowPlaying #Hether
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JPMgyBJhIBE5vzKa7jaK6
I’ve found myself feeling unmoored by the current crop of FOSS contributions. I genuinely don’t know how to proceed.
Of course there’s the slop where the PR checklist gets deleted & almost all items violated. The truly annoying part about this is that I always try to be kind & not a stickler about policies. I guess I don’t owe kindness to a bot, but it’s a bad look to be assertive in public. (1/5)
Maye (shoulder) 'turned a corner,' threw normally https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47812142/patriots-qb-drake-maye-feeling-good-shoulder-recovery-ahead-super-bowl-lx-vs-seahawks
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry
He creates a 3D-printed Lamborghini in his garden for just $20,000 and turns down a substantial offer: "it's the best feeling in the world" https://www.italpassion.fr/en/lamborghini/
Feeling overwhelmed doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means you’re paying attention.
This space is for anyone trying to engage with a collapsing world without collapsing themselves. 💖 https://substack.com/@bricchapman
'Back in the 70's a researcher named Philip Brickman studied lottery winners and found that people who won big were no happier than anyone else within a few months. He called it the "hedonic treadmill." You get the thing, the feeling fades, you chase the next thing.
The Strive is the hedonic treadmill all over again, but it comes with a mandatory pair of white sneakers and a Claude Max subscription.'
Midlife Reclaimed: A Podcast For Women Over 40 Navigating Midlife Burnout
The podcast centres on the unique experiences of women in midlife—those feeling overwhelmed, stressed, disconnected, or simply stretched too thin...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/burnou
I spend a lot of time being worried or angry or annoyed at the way that generative ai fervor is undermining our ecosystems (environmental, cultural, epistemic, digital, etc).
But right now I'm just feeling mournful. Seeing project after project, institution after institution run enthusiastically into a future where we boil our oceans to better insulate ourselves from one another is ... tragic. We're losing a lot right now, and we're going to have to come to terms with that.…
Bessent Scoffs At Mere Mention Of Tariff Refunds: "I've Got A Feeling That The American People Won't See It" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/bessent-scoffs-at-mere-mention-of-tariff-refunds-ive-got-a-feeling-that-the-american-people-wont-see-it/
Good Morning #Canada
Here in beautiful Belle Ewart the temp is -22°C, feeling like -31°C with the wind. But it's a dry cold....
Out west they are struggling with double digit temperatures on the plus side. Edmonton's winter festival organizers are making snow, protecting ice blocks and praying for plunging temps to save their skating rink. The unseasonable weather has impacted events throughput Alberta. The Banff and Lake Louise ice carving festival, Art of Ice, had to take down sculptures because they weren't safe. They were similarly impacted last year. The World’s Longest Hockey Game (WLHG) got underway last Thursday and players are dealing with slushy conditions while golf driving ranges are packed with eager duffers.
I'd gladly make the sacrifice and swap weather conditions with our fellow Canucks out west. It would be a burden that I'd gladly carry.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weather
https://youtu.be/W59Pi5S-Vic
“Once upon a time, there were six blind men, who had never disagreed with one another.
One day, they were presented with an elephant, which they had never perceived or known about in their lives.
One by one, they approached and felt this strange creature, coincidentally feeling a different part of the beast.
From this, they each likened this ‘elephant’ to a different object, creating their first disagreement, and forever driving apart these six men,
for each believed …
Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica #ice
I'm not proud about that but I have had to use Debug Mode to spawn an semi-essencial item to kill one dragon.
I repeat... I'm not proud of this action but I don't get stuck until infinite...
Now I am feeling bad for this... Ouch! 😭
#DnD #neverwinter_nights…
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://
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Brandt Brauer Frick feat. Sophie Hunger:
🎵 This feeling (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #BrandtBrauerFrick #SophieHunger
https://brandtbrauerfrick.bandcamp.com/album/this-feeling-grandbrothers-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KpJFmh58kmirXTkC5zwZQ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
American Football:
🎵 No Feeling (feat. Brendan Yates)
#AmericanFootball
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://americanfootball.bandcamp.com/track/no-feeling-feat-brendan-yates
https://open.spotify.com/track/4irsdnZsat5QRfveJwb3Qz
10 Picnic Recipes To Jumpstart That Spring Feeling #plantbased
Still not feeling great, but figured today would be a great day to finally test out the entirety of the custom FF6 cart I built so long ago. Broke out the Sony PVM-2530, got everything hooked up, and now it's time to beat all of the things down.
The SNES is modded with Voultar's SNESRGB mod, and the video/audio goes out via a SCART connector into the SCART switch (`gscart`), then into the CMPTR adapter, _then_ into the Sony PVM.
I do have two SCART switches, and if you…
feeling anoxic?
Joe Rogan, the influential podcast host, said on his show Tuesday that
the war in Iran was “crazy”
and had left Americans feeling “betrayed” by Trump,
describing the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies that the president had campaigned on.
“It just seems so insane,”
said Mr. Rogan, who endorsed Trump in 2024 and said he still texted with him on occasion.
“He ran on no more wars:
End these stupid, senseless wars.
And then we have one …
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Christian Löffler:
🎵 A Feeling (feat. Adna)
#NowPlaying #ChristianLöffler
https://christianloffler.bandcamp.com/track/a-feeling-feat-adna
https://open.spotify.com/track/26qmZcSb7BJAVT02eWHRbp
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Boston:
🎵 More Than a Feeling
#Boston
https://fororchestra.bandcamp.com/track/boston-more-than-a-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QEEqeFIZktqIpPI4jSVSF
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I have the impression that Trump or people around him, don't want a deal. Because saying "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.", is not a good opening statement for talks... It only reinforces the feeling for Iran they are in an existential fight where no deals are possible. I also think Israel really wants to destroy Iran as much as possible so they clearly don't want a "deal".
No, really, my feeling for people who believe that they are not engage in promoting Fascism when using LLMs like ChatGPT and Clause and Grok is pure pity. I can’t even be angry with them any more when it is clear that if those LLMs are good for anything, it is breaking people’s connections to reality.
Blues with a Feeling - The Official Podcast
With a dedicated following both locally and internationally as a radio show of 27 years, Shaun Bindley is now working on producing Blues with a Feeling as a Podcast...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/blues-
Subway systems are uncomfortably hot—and worsening, study finds #subway
This year, the Mastodon team returned to FOSDEM for the third time.
FOSDEM is an annual gathering of open source developers, held in Brussels.
We’re excited to report that the Fediverse is feeling vibrant!
FOSDEM has become a central element of EU Open Source Week
- a series of events, meetups and workshops that have formed around the conference itself.
The range of events makes this trip to Brussels valuable for our team,
with opportunities to meet other …
@…
At the neighborhood party you may be asked to wear a name tag with your first name. The initial contact and conversation is more relaxed as no one wants to talk about their work. Your neighbors want to know how you feel about that ungodly reno going on down the street, share stories about your kids, and swap anecdotes about pets. Definitely cats... lots of cat sharing. It's a community where no one is selling, no one is recording data, and there's no unfathomable app pushing conversations into your group. The goal is to go home feeling closer to your community and more empathy for its members.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Santana:
🎵 Hope You’re Feeling Better
#Santana
https://soundsoftheseventies.bandcamp.com/track/hope-you-re-feeling-better
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lysbLRK4bGbQRmYfN5S0o
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Superspace:
🎵 Superspace Feeling (House Version)
#NowPlaying #Superspace
https://superspacemusic.bandcamp.com/track/superspace-feeling-house-version-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gVlkx1BUOFnjqbhUNKrNC
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Human League:
🎵 (Keep Feeling) Fascination
#TheHumanLeague
https://theartsmixofc.bandcamp.com/track/the-human-league-fascination-keep-feeling-the-art-mix-edit-kzp
https://open.spotify.com/track/2a6rF2apJlh6YBZLAMPTJ6
In early February there were more than 750 families,
nearly half of them including children,
as well as some 370 single adult women
being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.
It is just one of many immigration centers across the country,
but the only one holding families.
Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed,
-- increasing sixf…
Daughter dropped the grand-dog off for his 8 day stay while she's away. But now I'm feeling a touch guilty because we're getting ready to go out to lunch - without him!
#Dogs
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Christian Löffler:
🎵 A Feeling (feat. Adna)
#NowPlaying #ChristianLöffler
https://christianloffler.bandcamp.com/track/a-feeling-feat-adna
https://open.spotify.com/track/26qmZcSb7BJAVT02eWHRbp
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Human League:
🎵 (Keep Feeling) Fascination (Improvisation)
#TheHumanLeague
https://theartsmixof.bandcamp.com/track/the-human-league-fascination-keep-feeling-the-art-mix-edit-kzp
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Hether:
🎵 Falling For The Feeling
#NowPlaying #Hether
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JPMgyBJhIBE5vzKa7jaK6
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
DEVO:
🎵 Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)
#DEVO
https://srnadie.bandcamp.com/track/devo-gut-feeling-devotion
https://open.spotify.com/track/5UnVXDhRycTdH0aGeiTjWD
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Presley, Elvis:
🎵 You've Lost That Loving Feeling (EPiC Version)
#NowPlaying #Presley #Elvis
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zaT6hiGgLAYdOw9r5QTJa
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Lou Reed:
🎵 Crazy Feeling
#LouReed
https://davidfurtado.bandcamp.com/track/crazy-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/2mauTBfQkFGicjZiRY3Vlm
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Getdown Services:
🎵 I'm Not Feeling It
#NowPlaying #GetdownServices
https://getdownservices.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-feeling-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/7xvlfxgCGYonQklS547AgR
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist:
🎵 Feeling (feat. Larry June)
#FreddieGibbs #TheAlchemist
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cate Le Bon:
🎵 Heaven Is No Feeling
#CateLeBon
https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/track/heaven-is-no-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/6QyDopDgclGYNXf3UeuDZv