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Toronto do you know about the Kotatsu Festival https://tr.jpf.go.jp/kotatsu2026/
This is a yearly free(!) film festival of Japanese movies and they always select amazing stuff
Not familiar with this year's lineup except the closer, Linda Linda Linda (2005), which is an absolute joy
I can't go this year but maybe you can
What I listened to today: "Zero", Lamb
Whatever "Trip-Hop" was. Was a tension between pulling ideas out of lounge-y jazz-y genres from the 30s-60s to jam them into electronica, vs pulling ideas out of electronica and jamming them into lounge-y jazz. Which was the real thing? The answer seems to come in tracks like these where the musicians just say screw it and make a song with no electronics. This track's pure voice and violin and the vibes are enormous, it's wonderful
Posting hope on main
What if you tried scrolling the other direction
Assume you generally agree with them on the issues
Poll: Would you vote for a Satanist for elected office?
@adafruit Using fake feminism and a bunch of invalid comparisons to defend a technology that men are more likely to use than women ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06556 ) and which use consolidates all power and money into the hands of a few billionares (all men).
No. No collaboration with LLMs, no credibility for LLM defenders, no fascist AI future. And no more Adafruit orders from me
What I'm listening to today: "1920263 Meditative Ambient Guitar and Synth Soundscape Behringer Wasp Deluxe Microcosm", CJT
This dude seems to do basically daily jams on his pile of midrange synths and post them all to YouTube. I liked this one out of the pile where a wasp provides a quiet heartbeat and he improvises a guitar solo over it. 1980s dark cinematic feel, empty streets and echoes and vague menace in the form of a young Willem Dafoe, waiting for you somewhere
ME: I do not need "AI code assistants" because I have a keyboard with a functioning "control" key.
THE "CONTROL" KEY ON MY KEYBOARD: *breaks*
ME: *sweats profusely*
What I'm listening to today: "I'm Dead", Bam Bam
I only learned about this band this week, they're like 50% punk but the other 50% was inventing "Seattle grunge" 5 years early. Matt Cameron on drums.
Here's an amazing skin-searing blast of sludge guitars and yelling. Like being air-fried. There's a guest vocalist in addition to Bam Bam's lead Tina Bell here, but I can't identify him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF3yNXzJdZI
( Mastering seems a little better on the Tidal version: https://tidal.com/track/107339796/u )
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What I'm listening to today: "To Day Interval", Autechre
One of two remixes Æ did of "Ten Day Interval" by math-rock/post-rock/progressive-jazz group Tortoise. The other remix is straightforward if Autechre-y but *this* one, this one's a minimal obsessive dissection of a single piano track and I love it—one of my fav points in Æ's whole discography. It's like a meditation, emptying your mind except for a single image which you focus on until you understand it Completely
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What I'm listening to today: "Sex", the Necks
This is an Australian jazz trio whose "albums" all seem to be very long single pieces. This is their first release, and it hits a satisfying loungy groove in second one then digs in for *an hour*, constantly shifting the whole time, like a knob is being very slowly turned up on a single emotion. If you like electronic music with very long track lengths this basically is jazz custom made for you. Like, Plastikman fans attn
Wait. Can you write GUIX flakes (or whatever they're called) in Wisp?
@aartaka I think it's very interesting!
I didn't know it was an option for Guix. That's good to know.
@akkartik Oh, multibranch if makes sense.
I'm actually doing a vaguely bizarre thing where the if statement can have an optional "else" because "else" is a global symbol which is defined as "false". If the symbol is non-false (eg, a block) it's treated as a case. i'm considering defining "elif" as "true" and special-casing that to determine whether the next item is a case or a condition.
What I'm listening to today: "You Don't Know My Name", Alicia Keys
Keys off her 2003 album doing an effortless, irony-free resurrection of soul-flavored musical styles at least 23 years older than that. Finessed to feel like the kind of thing hip hop samples moreso than hip hop.
I love this song, it's just so guilelessly sweet. This is the kind of aw-shucks just-a-girl romance song Taylor Swift keeps trying to record, but for T it always kinda falls flat. Keys nails it
@akkartik By the way, something that may not be obvious in my sample code. I said {} is "lambda", but I was simplifying for space. {} is an argument-less lambda. In fact, {a b, c d} is shorthand for '((a b)(c d)). You upgrade a quoted list (a {}) to a function by passing it to the fn or set-fn builtin functions.
@akkartik Are there any examples of cond in the examples list above?
@akkartik This was my approach to cond, I called it the "match" statement
I think it's quite readable, but when writing it it's a bit frictiony to have to remember when to use [], when to use {}, and when to use () to get the results you wanted. (Note "match" is a *function* defined further up in the file; this LISP has no special forms, even the {}:. syntax isn't special forms, it's just inserting (, ) and ' in various ways.)
@akkartik Since this means that most lone words alone on a line are noops, to be "helpful", the interpreter treats it as an error when it encounters a lone-word statement (unless that statement is the final line of a {} block, in which case it is returned as the evaluation result of the block)