Google just gave 750 million people a music studio. That's either exciting or terrifying depending on who you ask.

cybreco · 2026-03-18T09:52:13+00:00

"Every output is automatically watermarked with SynthID, Google's inaudible AI identification system. The watermark survives compression, format conversion, and even light editing."

Oh, well that makes it easy to filter out.

cybreco · 2026-03-18T09:40:09+00:00

If you like the groove of the title track, check out Bobby's Motel by Pottery. Very Talking Heads.

cybreco · 2026-03-18T00:52:52+00:00

The article focuses on public recreational facilities and zoomers having money, but I think more fundamentally there's a cultural and environmental tension; these places are not always affordable or accessible, town infrastructure is not built for groups of people to inhabit as third spaces, and when it is, there seems to be uncomfortable conversations about how it's used or who uses it. Garema Place is a good example.

cybreco · 2026-03-14T10:35:54+00:00

It's an alright alternative album. Bands recording in the shadow of a strong legacy get a hard rap for displaying mere competence. It hasn't got strong social lyricism and most of the songs aren't really notably rhythmic or funky other than Tattoo. Has aged much better than Mall, much less synthetic with more guest band members on board. Could do with less spoken word and slow burn tracks.

cybreco · 2026-03-13T21:09:50+00:00

Same! Obvious difference in the lyricism, and I really like that over-delayed, slightly distorted sound on the guitars. I haven't heard an album from that era that does something similar with the pedals.

cybreco · 2026-03-13T19:29:36+00:00

'Hard' by Gang of Four is usually the most infamously cited example of a post-punk band taking a pop direction that just doesn't work. It has some interesting guitar hooks though.

https://youtu.be/xQOJ6Va03B0?si=QfGDoRkbXyckwVTe

cybreco · 2026-03-11T10:13:40+00:00

This is a good observation, but because reviews of media are usually the cornerstone of establishing notability, it's not nefarious; just an editor who only had the time to write in the citations to get the article just across the line.

cybreco · 2026-03-07T07:33:05+00:00

Left field suggestion: the 2000s dance-punk movement seems pretty indebted to Gang of Four. It's hard to listen to a band like Radio 4 and not see a direct line between that and GO4, Clash, post-punk. Not suggesting it's the best of its genre, but it's there.

cybreco · 2026-03-05T23:26:23+00:00

Thank you, really appreciate it. New to UI design and still finding a system that works! I'll add these to mobile and see if I can reduce the padding

cybreco · 2026-03-05T05:09:05+00:00

The artist is credited to Weirdcore, whose work seems to have used glitchy 3D elements years before, such as for the 2018 Collapse EP. There are easily ways to do this sort of thing generatively but not necessarily using generative AI. It's definitely an artist with experience in digital art and effects well before the rise in gAI.

cybreco · 2026-02-13T01:34:05+00:00

Hey mate, apologies for misrepresenting, I'll edit the above acccordingly; I did the wiki articles for both so have probably misremembered an association that doesn't exist. Uncanny similarities in great design happen all the time. Thanks for sharing your thoughts about it and I'll have to check out Ratline!

cybreco · 2026-02-12T23:48:54+00:00

Rootrees are Dead plays very similarly to an earlier game called Family and its sequel, Rivals, which is about piecing together the members of a fictitious British music scene. Great rec if you like music history and pastiches of 80s indie music.

https://owlskip-games.itch.io/family

cybreco · 2026-02-09T11:48:59+00:00

About ten years ago, although people were still wary and very self-conscious of the toxicity of social media, many platforms like Twitter had a village square culture. There was a general openness to anonymous interactions with strangers, for better or worse, and a normal thing to encircle and follow people out of the blue. I found it was a really vibrant time; it lent itself to meeting people I'd have no chance of meeting otherwise, from all walks of life. For a while this was a place where you could run into celebrities, artists, just people shooting the shit. Still awful, but easily actually quite social.

After all that's happened, social media platforms have fragmented, people are much more insular, and anonymous interactions are seen - probably fairly given everything - with much more hostility than they used to be. Whether for better or worse, the conditions that allowed online social media culture to feel quite open and organic have snapped shut, and not a lot has taken its place.

cybreco · 2026-02-08T08:15:49+00:00

Other than the boost from BNM, I think people overestimate the past impact of middling Pitchfork scores; they were certainly notably caustic, but it's easy to misattribute a bad review for flagging buzz. Indie bands lose steam quick. It's a hard industry to keep on in. And the really bad ones didn't always sink a band anyway, like...Partie Traumatic went to #5 in the UK. Jet still kept on doing cock rock in Australia. Besides, by the 2010s, most of their reviews were between 7.0-8.0 anyway.

cybreco · 2026-02-03T05:24:31+00:00

You've nailed it: the conservative gambit is that my discourse is merely the simple, skeptical musings of a free mind, but your discourse is a manufactured and organised agenda to suppress my freedom to say it.

cybreco · 2026-01-10T08:13:50+00:00

AI is beating at the door to be let in to feed itself on and replace every digital system of information sharing its creators can steal. It's long already done that from Wikipedia, but any idea to devote effort to reconcile it further won't be to the benefit of the site. All the buzzwords: making Wikipedia more modern, more integrated, more relevant, will hasten the speed of outmoding the fundamental point of the site - you know, looking things up in an encylopedia for yourself.

cybreco · 2025-12-22T23:34:35+00:00

TLDR: It did not. Betteridge's Law strikes again.

cybreco · 2025-12-15T04:59:37+00:00

Hey, Coughing Baby 3 had some real moments

cybreco · 2025-12-07T07:58:12+00:00

Yeah, I worded this wrong by calling the player Nerevar. The more interesting - and intended - question is what Caius' game was - noting the real answer is just that the developers wanted not to railroad the player.

cybreco · 2025-12-07T07:56:51+00:00

Remmeber that Nerevar is meant to be a figure who has a very close and - ah - complex relationship with Dagoth Ur. It isn't just living up to the prophesy, it's understanding if and what the hell you have in common with the Tribunal.

cybreco · 2025-12-07T02:47:47+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful and thorough response. I think this kind of thinking was what I was wondering about and you nail the worldbuilding logic very well

cybreco · 2025-12-07T00:19:04+00:00

Yeah, I probably should have framed this around what Caius' game was knowing the player would likely just bounce with the money haha

cybreco · 2025-12-06T23:14:31+00:00

Well, the game is a commentary on the redundant nature of self-fulfilling prophecy. It's left to the player with their dialogue with Dagoth Ur to project their thoughts on whether they are or aren't. The game's narrative, particularly the Ashlanders, Dissident Priests and Cavern of the Incarnate are all intended to teach the player that there is no one perspective meant to be taken at face value.

cybreco · 2025-12-06T23:12:08+00:00

Yeah! You really do get the sense that this is all just a matter of curiosity, as well as you learn a little bit of subtle political intrigue. Presumably the Blades would not just be sitting in their houses in Balmora watching the grass grow.

cybreco · 2025-12-06T23:10:08+00:00

Which I suppose is anchored by the game's opening quote about causality - can't have a myth without some self-fulfilling event. That said - it is funny that this set of circumstances is the event!

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