2025-10-23 18:55:35
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Velvet Meadow:
🎵 Are You Listening
#VelvetMeadow
https://velvetmeadow.bandcamp.com/track/are-you-listening
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nEIZZZHtN8VJSgtwT4mWU
PV Sounds: How Does PV Grid-tie Generation Sound in Time-lapse? - Audification: listening to my roof-top solar PV #podcast #audification #PV -
Thinking While Listening: Simple Test Time Scaling For Audio Classification
Prateek Verma, Mert Pilanci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19676 https://arxiv.org/…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Immersive music for late night listening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ngct
Listening to @…’s Back to the Grind:
#music
Ugh. Listening to Kathryn Ryan interviewing someone from ACC on RNZ's NineToNoon. They talk about 'AI' like it's magic and there seems to be no actual understanding. No questioning whether it's a good idea or bad, what the implications might be, the dependencies it creates, etc. Seems like the inept leading the inepter.
Listening to this just a few more times before 2025 is over, as should perhaps be customary, or just as much as possible during the year
https://youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA
BBC Sounds reports more than 2.5B plays of radio, music, and podcasts between January and November, up 8% YoY; podcast listening alone is up 15% YoY (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/12/23/bbc-sounds-sees-record-plays-in-2025/…
late night headphone party listening/dancing to men at work hits. just me and this ladder here.
Yesterday I was surprised that my blog post about IP tracking vs "conspiracy" my-phone-is-spying gets low but constant visits. - I reviewed it, corrected a couple of spelling mistakes and added some details.
After all, I'm just happy that I wrote this blog post. I often simply use the blog to "offload" a thought process out of my brain. No matter if someone reads it.
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115588762614894263
My listening history shows that music holds more of my time and attention than anything else in my life.
I'm listening to the audiobook of *Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot* by Andrea Grignolio. The book is ... fine, but the translation from Italian was either by a non-fluent speaker or a bad AI. The wrong word or phrase is often used, and it's jarring. For instance, the narrator says "exasperate" for "exacerbate," and "... attributed this cause to the deaths ..." when English would say, "... attributed the deaths to this cause ..."
After years of careful observation and listening, I am firmly and deeply convinced that neurodivergence is real.
I have serious doubts about the existence of neurotypicality, though. 🧵
Listening to #Archer.
What Young Republicans say when they think no one's listening (Vox)
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/465648/young-republicans-group-chat-racist-antisemitic-jd-vance
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p78#a251022p78
Are you also all listening to Chris Rea? You should … #RIP
Pew: 57% of US adults ages 65 prefer to watch their news, while among adults under 30, 45% prefer to get news by reading, 31% by watching, and 23% by listening (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
I do find value in Shazam when I go out. It's become one of the main ways I find new music.
It also links music to an experience for me, so if I discover something new when I'm in my happy place, like a coffee shop, I can re-live that moment when I listen again.
Currently, I'm listening to CloZee... I picked up a track (Revolution Sixis Remix) from this album yesterday. #Shazam #AppleMusic
Some US schools are deploying AI surveillance tech like facial recognition and listening devices; critics say there is little evidence they make school safer (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste
Holy crap #soundcloud I don't know how a #website can be more off-putting.
I just wanted to listen to a music clip.
For those of us listening (or reading) along at home. Finally got around to grabbing the 5th Thursday Murder Club audiobook. I will relisten to the first 4 before starting the new one.v Relaxing comfort listening.
#ThursdayMurderClub #RichardOsman
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Nocturnal music to bewitch the senses
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcm6
Shawn Harris is highly qualified to replace MTG ... in every way except one. See if you can guess what that is
https://www.shawnforgeorgia.com/
So I'm listening to the most recent episode of Executive Disorder and they're talking about how Trump is going to make a big announcement that could be to actually declare war on Venezuela. I know they record on like Wednesday or Thursday so I ask my partner if I missed Trump declaring war on Venezuela. My partner's like, "no, he just interrupted TV to ramble incoherently."
Now, I feel like it should never be a good thing to hear that the guy who has the power to launch the world's largest nuclear weapon arsenal is just going on a senile rant, but sometimes your assumptions can be upended in the most unexpected ways.
lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 1085612 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
Listening to the #EuroSkyLive introduction talks - still haven‘t figured out, why start building #EuroSky in the first place? The Fediverse is already there, has been working and around for years: Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, Mastodon.
Why start the People’s Front of sovereignty after the Sovereig…
Marvelous #AllFemale #punkrock from #FabulousDisaster ❤️
I discovered and fell in love with them just some weeks ago. Feet just won't stop moving when listening to them. …
Qesser Zuhrah has just been picked up by an ambulance seconds ago. I wish for his survival and future wellbeing. Shame on Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy for not even listening to the hunger strikers and their demands!
The silencing and criminalization of Palestine Action has seen hoards of arrests, with the hunger strikes it may even claim its first lives. We must do everything in our power to prevent this, which means at least giving all arrested a chance to a fair trial!
Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …
I’m running 6x10K a week right now (one anaerobic) plus a half marathon. After about three months, my body is definitely sending some strong fatigue signals. I’ll keep running, but I’ll be listening to my body very carefully.
When #OVH states their event is held entirely in English but then you come to the two hour keynote and it's entirely in French without any bullet points or subtitles. So that was a damn lie. Hardest listening comprehension exercise of this year.
Very French, I'll have to make sure to take @…
Maxx Crosby reportedly draws interest from Super Bowl contender with Raiders receiving calls before trade deadline https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/maxx-crosby-reportedly-draws-interest-from-super-bowl-contende…
"I tried to discover
a little something to make me sweeter"
🎵🎶🎵🎹
Listening now. #listening #music #NameThatTune
Listening to #InOurTime on the Time Machine, I am asking myself whether #AI #LLM users are choosing to become Eloi, are choosing to let their intellects atrophy, by delegating their creative and critical faculties t…
I love minding my own business while listening to kids chatting in their own slang, dissing grown-ups, catching each other saying 6-7, being deadly serious about school exams 😄 Language is a fascinatingly human thing when it's flowing without the imposition of scientifically derived rules and years of societal integration. It just can't stay put and tries to explore every crack, break every convention.
wow the only person who brought up Sunset Dunes/the former Great Highway at Lurie's D4 listening tour was someone who supports the park.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-listening-sunset/
Listening to "What the world Needs Now (is love)" by the great Dionne Warwick, and the lyrics ring so true.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
The world needs a lot more love, of every kind. We need to stop judging how and who people love and celebrate the fact that they are loving and folks are getting loved.
So go out there and spread as much love as you can. Whether it is platonic, brotherly, neighborly or roma…
I should probably take a break as the holidays approach. As they say "All work and no play make jack a dull boy"
Okay Hallmark channel - I'm listening.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
Listening to Pan Sonic's 1999 album A. They have an intense commitment to minimalist techno. Here's the track A-kemia.
Good Morning #Canada
Listening to Christmas tunes and watching the snow fall.
Notable Canadian snowstorms:
- 1913 Great Lakes Storm. The most destructive natural disaster on the Great Lakes, causing 250 deaths & destroying 19 ships.
- 1941 March Blizzard: Brought 100 km/h winds and temps of -45°C to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, leading to the deaths of 72 people.
- 1944: 47 cm of snow hit Toronto in a single day. Unfortunately, the Canadian Army was overseas.
- 1971 Montreal: 45 cm of snow on March 4th & wind gusts of 110 km/h. 200 Ski-Doo owners provided emergency transport.
- 1977: This blizzard struck Southern Ontario January 28 to February 1. Toronto DID NOT call the Army.
- 1999 Toronto Snowstorm: A series of snowfalls paralyze the city, total snowfall for January reached 118 cm. Yes, the mayor called the Army.
- 2007 February 2007: Storm hits Central and Eastern Canada, with Ottawa setting a single-day snowfall record of 35.7 cm.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/worst-snowstorm-in-canada/
lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 1085612 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
Currently listening to https://soundcloud.com/navi-hydriex/sets/ambient
A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/
I fear we have achieved government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy.
Even the Democrats have a large number of very wealthy politicians, listening to their confidants and not actually listening to the concerns of ordinary mortals. When on a monied pedestal it's hard to see the concerns of those with limited resources.
A #plutocracy is not a great state of affairs…
I fear we have achieved government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy.
Even the Democrats have a large number of very wealthy politicians, listening to their confidants and not actually listening to the concerns of ordinary mortals. When on a monied pedestal it's hard to see the concerns of those with limited resources.
A #plutocracy is not a great state of affairs…
Listening to pundits talking to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ NineToNoon about their 'AI' reckons - most of them don't understand much. Their optimism is misguided. Wow. They don't get the implications on how people learn and behave. Or the fact that new LLMs are trained on content that might be mostly LLM-generated content (who can say?), with constantly declining veracity.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SonicReducer
Taste Testors:
🎵 No One's Listening
#TasteTestors
https://tastetestors.bandcamp.com/track/no-ones-listening
https://open.spotify.com/track/07sCKGl6sKbQT3EDlAARxH
We need to talk about our fossil fuel addiction: UNEP chief #politics
Currently listening: piano concerto Keith #Emerson
What a genius and how sad that he us not amongst us anymore due to the tragic ending of his life.
https://youtu.be/A8ztO9bYtX0?si=tOvH2LdKapz…
While I work, I've been listening to a few consumer videos on YouTube. The one I'm listening to right now is "The INSANELY Sweet Sugary Coffee Epidemic"
As someone who doesn't normally have any sugar in coffee, this blows my mind.
A lot of the time though, those are more like deserts than cofee.
#Coffee #Sugar #Food
I loved listening to this story about Victor Buso, an avid amateur (in the best sense of the word) astronomer, and how he took the first-ever images of an exploding star!
#citizenscience
Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
CALLY: [Moves to stand next to him] Why?
AVON: All knowledge is valuable.
CALLY: [Touches her temple as if listening] Which are the forward detector links?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/40 B7B6
bro celtic got deleted I literally said like 30 hail marys into the logo on my scarf and Mary mother of God was NOT listening
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Bewitching sounds for after dark
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ngbk
My phone being at 23% charge vs. finishing listening to the rest of this new very long, death doomy Perishing album. Which shall prevail
https://perishing.bandcamp.com/album/malicious-acropolis-unveiled
Wow, she's a horrible leader. Listening to her total rubbish on RNZ right now. She and her party are total crap. Mining, trickle down from foreign investors & corporations, pollution is A Ok, fossil fuels, 'growth' ueber alles. Total shitshow. These folks need to be gone.
For the record, totally support the Greens giving notice to extractive industries that their permits will be pulled.
Spotify expands Song Credits to include all contributors to a track, like engineers and mixers, and launches SongDNA, a map showing connections between songs (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/spotify-expands-…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Unclassified
- One Leg One Eye’s Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker invites One Leg One Eye - aka Ian Lynch from Lankum - to the Unclassified Listening Chair to select a track that transports him elsewhere.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f76m
Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing
When you're a kid, you want to talk about things without your parents, teachers, principals, or (some of) your peers or siblings listening in.
You want to plan things without these people listening in, because they might try and stop you from doing them, or punish you if you succeed.
So, it's worth figuring out how to use new technologies, because the existing ones are riddled with censorship and surveillance back-doors ("parental controls") that can be deployed …
Anthropic's Jack Clark argues that, while he is optimistic about AI's progress, the industry must do a better job of listening to people's concerns about it (Jack Clark/Import AI)
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism…
A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/
lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 175069 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Blissful sounds for night owls
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m12f
Listening to the Drilled podcast this morning, I am reminded that we who think of ourselves as climate activists do not bear the responsibility for saving the planet -- and should not bear the guilt of passing the point of no return -- on our own.
It is everyone's responsibility -- and perhaps especially, it's those who see themselves as national or world leaders' responsibility.
Yes, we've failed the big test. But we're not alone.
Ugh, listening to RNZ right now - Kathryn Ryan talking to a US correspondent, who's just stated, with what sounds like a straight face, that US Republicans are saying that the reduced tax on wealthy people will 'trickle down' to poor people. And Kathryn didn't even question the legitimacy of that concept. Come on Kathryn, you need to call this stuff out. Stop the gormless credulity please.
I love that everyone has different unique tastes. And many people will probably find some of the things on my favorite albums list this year to be bizarre and unpleasant. But some of the things on some of these other (mainstream AND indie) 'best albums of 2025' lists.. whew. I can't even imagine listening to these ONCE, much less multiple times 😂
Spotify Wrapped's Listening Ages sparks widespread social media discussion and follows in Spotify's tradition of issuing gimmicky, loosely data-backed offerings (Madison Malone Kircher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/style/spotify-wrappe…
This evening I have been listening to one of @… 's podcasts and thinking about my failure in trying to lead the village's planning working group, and about the cognitive dissonance underlying my Tricycle project. I suspect this essay will be a grim read; it's not well formed in my mind as I sit down to write.
Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Sam Amidon's Listen List
Kate Molleson with live recordings of works by Donghoon Shin and Ailis Ni Riain, plus Sam Amidon shares his latest listening.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kq69
Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/spotify-tests-more-person…
Sunday Afternoon Listening: The Chameleons: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/10/05/sunday-afternoon-listening-the-chameleons.html
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Meditative music for late night solace
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n9t0
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Blissful sounds for night owls
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nb77
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Meditative music for night owls
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kgzd
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Reflective music for the day’s end
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m0pg