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I listened to a podcast interview with #PeterThiel on #AI,

Day of Texas weather here, so perfect timing to listen to Texan° blues genius Sue Foley, whom I've listened to for 30 years, performing her new tribute to female guitarists. At Chan's Egg Roll & Jazz, Woonsocket.
° Actually from Ottawa, but you'd never guess from listening to her.

Found an app called “Octave Coffee”. It’s an opinionated timer for pourover coffee. Tells you how much to pour, then how much to wait, and so on. And it has a cute pixel art kitty.
The problem is… it negs you while doing it, and your reward at the end for following the instructions is the message, “You actually listened. Shocking.”
I did it twice. It doesn’t vary.
So… I’m deleting it, even though I found it useful, because I don’t want to be insulted first thing in the morn…

I discovered Ozzy via radio (and my dad had the first Sabbath record) but my wife discovered Ozzy in a different way. When she was younger, she was searching for 'Crazy' by Britney, but 'Crazy Train' came up, and she was like, 'what's this', and listened to it. She liked it, made it the custom ringtone for her mom's phone number, and kept it as that (it still is). 😂 She later heard the early Sabbath stuff and loved it, of course.

This weekend I listened to the 'How to Age Up' podcast on climate change. A lot of good observations for how parents can help their children process the daily news cycle and manage their anxiety about the future.
Turns out one effective strategy is one I keep hearing from so many different sources - you build community. Building community makes communities more resilient. Building community makes you feel less alone - so you can help do the work to combat climate change/racism/…

For years, every road trip we took began with the same song. It's been a while since we've listened to it right out of the gates, but the feeling's still there.
The Clash, "London Calling" (1979)
https://youtu.be/LC2WpBcdM_A

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I'd never heard of Pierre Novellie til I listened to this. I find his comedy funnier than most - it's worth finding him on YT and listening.
How Do You Cope?: Pierre Novellie: 'I wasn't able to get what I wanted out of life' | 18
Episode webpage:

Wondery - Feel The Story
Wondery, an Amazon company, is a podcast studio known for character-driven, binge-worthy stories including Dr. Death, British Scandal, Even the Rich, and Business Wars, and distribution of hit partner shows Morbid and How I Built This.

@… Tuxjam is a nice pod, thnx for the tip. Good music, nice banter about Tux. Just listened to the last ep, will work my way back 😊
Cc @tuxjam

Should have listened to my rants about "AI"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o

now i really want to try Cheddar Bay biscuits https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114830335171951140

What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can't Stop Listening to, According to the 'Panama Playlists' (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-listened-to-the-alleged-spotify-playlists-of-trump-officials-for-five-hours-heres-what-i-learned/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p135#a250730p135

Have you ever listened to a song with lyrics in Java? No? Then please enjoy helloworld.java by Nanowar of Steel: #rocknroll

“Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?” Trump asked..."
Seems like LAPD listened to the wanna-be dictator.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/trump-military-force-plot…

“Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?” Trump asked..."
Seems like LAPD listened to the wanna-be dictator.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/trump-military-force-plot…

I love it that years ago, Linux boasted things like, 'It has an office suite like in Windows!', and now it's, like, 'Plug in. Game on!' 🥰 ->
I FINALLY listened to you and tried Linux... Why did I wait so long? - JayzTwoCents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8nMiEoti0

I FINALLY listened to you and tried Linux... Why did I wait so long?
#linuxgaming

Listened in to the Academy Software Foundation's virtual townhall about the Open Review Initiative. I knew that project because they provide very useful ffmpeg command lines and they're doing all the encoding tests to figure out good quality settings and obscure parameters.
Learnings from the presentation: prores by ffmpeg is sadly pretty crappy compared to the real prores from Apple. There's the OpenAPV codec that is gearing up to be an open-source alternative:

Welp, I did it. I listened to the #Ramones discography from start to finish in order.
It's surprising how consistent most of the albums are. There are def some low points, but even in later albums, they keep the energy going. It's impressive.
#punk

New podcast just dropped.
Well, it dropped in June, but I just found out about it. I've listened to the first episode and I hope it's successful because it's doing such important work.
This podcast is about child sexual abuse in the LDS church. The information is presented in a clear way with empathy towards survivors and with the legal details that show just how liable the LDS church is and how its influence on

This attorney has taken up hundreds of child abuse cases against the LDS Church
Washington-based attorney Tim Kosnoff believes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could do more to protect children from abuse.

ok, I can't find the original, I think it was someone's scrobble stream in my feed. Anyways, one you brilliant bastards posted #assassing by #Marillion. I'd heard of Marillion before but never really _listened_. Damn, how have I been listening to

Lately I listened to a lot of liquid drum and bass. Here's a mix I recorded yesterday :)
https://youtu.be/cklO6FfDZC

probably 45 years ago I was going down into Mexico to camp for a week with three friends, one of them was the brother of a friend of mine who was in charge of music. He forgot all the music except for one Grateful Dead eight track tape that he just left on repeat and that was the first and last time I ever listened to the grateful dead.

If you listen on #audible , only use your account to:
* Buy a book with your credit. Don't listen to their plus content
Reason for this is that Audible will split the credit between the author you spent your credit to buy the book from, and all plus catalogue authors you listened to that month.
You also might want to know that you can download your books and listen to th…

There is a piano in there.*
#train life of a #commuter
#photography
*Ok, that’s from a line a podcast just dropped while I listened and typed. 99÷ Invisible

I don’t often listen to lyrics. I typically just hear the music, and I have to strain to catch the words.
It’s part of the reason I really love listening to Song Exploder.
So I finally listened to the words to “Iris” for the first time, and, fuck, it hits hard.
https://songexploder.net/goo-goo-dolls

#ListeningClub Since I’ve been able to ambulate a little better lately, I’ve returned to lugging albums upstairs to slowly burn my CD collection. That was The Cramps performing “Psychotic Reaction” live at the Peppermint Lounge in 1981 from their “Smell of Female” EP which, if you can believe it, I listened to an inordinate amount of times during my high school days.

July has been a month full of events. Some good. Some sad. But in both cases, I hope I did my best.
...And we have three books and a bunch of movies to talk about. Plus, the new Messa album. :)
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-july-2025/

The Changelog – July 2025
It has been a month of contrasts; of light and shadows. In the midst of all that, I read three books, listened to the new Messa’s album and, of course, I watched KPop Demon Hunters like everybody else.

The Predictive Brain: Neural Correlates of Word Expectancy Align with Large Language Model Prediction Probabilities
Nikola K\"olbl, Konstantin Tziridis, Andreas Maier, Thomas Kinfe, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Achim Schilling, Patrick Krauss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08511

The Predictive Brain: Neural Correlates of Word Expectancy Align with Large Language Model Prediction Probabilities
Predictive coding theory suggests that the brain continuously anticipates upcoming words to optimize language processing, but the neural mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in naturalistic speech. Here, we simultaneously recorded EEG and MEG data from 29 participants while they listened to an audio book and assigned predictability scores to nouns using the BERT language model. Our results show that higher predictability is associated with reduced neural responses during word recognition, as…