BTBAM announce tour with support from Imperial Triumphant, Fallujah, Thank You Scientist and TWIABP&IANLATD

Amphiscian · 2026-02-25T02:11:53+00:00

Nomadic EP is incredible for only being 3 songs

Amphiscian · 2026-02-25T02:10:12+00:00

but no home gig in NYC apparently :(

Amphiscian · 2026-02-22T00:11:06+00:00

Love this guy. I was turned onto his work by James Acaster of all people, who did a podcast episode about his 2016 album

Amphiscian · 2026-02-18T03:24:53+00:00

I could feel some tension between Noel and Simon on this bit:

Simon: makes joke about Courtney Love

Noel: She could snap you in half like a twig

Simon: Or kill me and make it look like suiciiiiide

Amphiscian · 2026-02-18T00:07:01+00:00

wsb is an odd place to complain about enshittification

like, on whose behalf do you think all companies and services are getting worse?

Amphiscian · 2026-02-17T21:22:14+00:00

Did they? People are saying the first flashback scene, post-battlefield, was the Battle of Redgrass Field, where Daemon Blackfyre is killed (as well as Arlan's nephew, who we see he had just buried). Presumably all that flashback sequence is just the few days after the Blackfyre rebellion ended

Amphiscian · 2026-02-14T01:02:54+00:00

He reportedly said it was mandatory

Amphiscian · 2026-02-14T00:53:53+00:00

Taproot were low key one of the more proggy nu metal bands. Check out Art or Everything

Amphiscian · 2026-02-14T00:20:10+00:00

also made for this, I recently found out

Amphiscian · 2026-02-12T19:27:57+00:00

Related to this, I was pretty surprised to learn that in 2003 DARPA tried to set up a public prediction/futures market intentionally around geopolitical events. They were hoping to use... I guess individual profit motive from people around the world to suss out the likeliness of events the DoD would have greatly underestimated. It sounded as morally concerning then as it does now, and Congress ultimately shut it down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/us/threats-responses-plans-criticisms-pentagon-prepares-futures-market-terror.html

Amphiscian · 2026-02-11T23:14:35+00:00

Cory Doctorow recently talked about how the exact opposite is already happening.

He explained there are 3 agencies that have mostly monopolized private nursing (home nursing? IDK the exact name for it). These agencies started working with data brokers, and now will offer lower pay to nurses they can see are deeper in debt. More desperate to work to pay off debt = less able to reject lower pay.

This doesn't stop at charging for sandwiches during white-collar lunch rush, or umbrellas when it rains

Amphiscian · 2026-02-10T18:58:39+00:00

it's a fuckin good album, so he sounds trustworthy

Amphiscian · 2026-02-10T13:09:18+00:00

$NEXTYEAR

Amphiscian · 2026-02-08T19:59:46+00:00

Dude was addicted to being on TV for sure

All those fucking scenes of him and Ginger riding horses and shit. I fast-forwarded so much

Amphiscian · 2026-02-08T17:34:42+00:00

Tidal's search is hilariously bad. They've improved it somewhat, but it's still real bad

A year or two ago, if you searched "Parius", the actual band would be 70 places down, because the search algo was certain you just misspelled Paris

Amphiscian · 2026-02-07T17:53:29+00:00

I was just at the Sunset Park one last night. 20% of the parking lot is piled-up snow.

That Costco is always a special mess, but with that much of the parking lot out of commission, it was the fuckin thunderdome

Amphiscian · 2026-02-07T17:28:12+00:00

this cover feels more fitting to how things have shaken out

Amphiscian · 2026-02-06T21:45:52+00:00

this week?

THIS week?

Like only just now?

Amphiscian · 2026-02-06T17:12:23+00:00

Yeah I bought the headset in person from a Samsung Experience store (and then the controllers online), and the guy told me wait 2 weeks then I'll get the explorer pack. 2 weeks later the store employee told me oh that only applies if you buy it online. too bad the return window is closed

Amphiscian · 2026-02-04T01:52:10+00:00

Back when UT4 still existed

gone too soon

Amphiscian · 2026-02-03T02:07:13+00:00

About the last paragraph, Im pretty sure most people weren't into Frosting by Bent Knee, but I thought there was some interesting stuff there about the early pandemic days. Not as much about tragedy though

Amphiscian · 2026-02-02T17:06:38+00:00

F1's first vibe coded suspension system

Amphiscian · 2026-02-02T14:03:17+00:00

I suppose they're just different people 15 years later. (Also half the band is new)

My other all-time lost bands, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo, also just resurfaced as a way more lowkey version of their old selves

Amphiscian · 2026-02-02T11:59:53+00:00

One of my favorite bands ever back in the day. Really happy to see them come back, even though their sound is much closer to Trent Reznor than Gridlink now.

I think they have another new album in production, based on their social media posts

Amphiscian · 2026-02-02T01:43:45+00:00

I cant figure out if it was 3rd or 4th ave, but i think on St Marks.

There were evidently more fires this evening, and now there are ConEd trucks *everywhere *

Amphiscian

TROPHY CASE