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We must protect independent routes for music. •Distrokid is looking for a buyer. • Downtown just got acquired by Universal. If you're an artist you need to know who controls your music distribution behind the scenes. This week we mapped 20 independent distributors with clear tags: • Are they fully independent? • Are they VC-backed? (may get acquired) • Are they corporate owned We also track whether they are DIY, application-only or curated. Full report below

Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. eff.org/deeplinks/2026…

@DavidLisser @claracxw So wild

currently installing an exhibition with some new work that is almost impossible to document. wish me luck (made by printing directly onto laptop screen polarising filters)

@jesi_rgb @charliedeets Cool all these datapoints deserve to connect , everyone is going to build portals but the data deserves to communicate past digital code build borders

@charliedeets im literally building the same

I've been working on a little app that encourages 'straight out of the camera' photography. Uploads are limited to be unedited JPEGs from dedicated physical cameras. If there is recipe data from a Fujifilm or Ricoh camera, it surfaces and coalesces those recipes into a feed. I'm a day or two away from opening up the TestFlight, but if you are interested in testing, let me know.

Honored by your kind words, Andy! You nailed the intent; in many ways this is an exploration in a more scalable way to teach interface design, after my experience apprenticing many in 1:1 formats. I’ve got some interesting ideas for a more interactive, game-like collection I hope to add later this year that takes things even further!

@artblocks_io @michaeldotart The age of research has begun!!! ❤️‍🔥⚒️🧹

Introducing the Art Blocks MCP server. Any AI agent can now discover, browse, and collect from 500+ on-chain generative art projects.  Plus countless other possibilities. Check out potential use cases for Collectors, Artists, Researchers and Developers 👇

Learn algorithms - visually! An excellent collection of interactive algorithms organized by category. Check it out. algorithm-visualizer.org

@CryptoCyberia Any project willing to implement digital ID (let alone backdooring it like this) is 100% controlled and should be forked around. I was always suspicious of systemd; this just calcified those suspicions. This is not a project that is being done for the good of Linux or the users.

@ForgetDali @fellowshiptrust These are so gorgeous

Recently, in a tweet about generative art, @fellowshiptrust referenced Matthew Schmidt’s definition of the field as “a system with relatively simple rules that gives rise to complexity through emergence,” pointing to the difference between emergence and randomness. Randomness produces variation; emergence produces structure. The complexity we observe is not arbitrary but the result of constraints unfolding over time. A useful example of this distinction can be found in Dragons, a long-form generative series by @williamapan A thread 🧵👇

The future of software is sovereignty, not surveillance.

@juliecbarrett 291 pages to hide the surveillance infrastructure inside an "ai safety" wrapper. bundling 17 policies into one bill isn't governance - it's obfuscation by design. the digital id requirement was always the point, ai regulation is just the delivery mechanism.

New accounts will be required to age verify and all accounts will be subject to "periodic age verification."

🚨America's newest Digital ID proposal just dropped in the US Senate. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn has introduced a new AI bill that bundles 17 different policies into one massive, 291 page bill. This is just like all these other tech bills we've been seeing - a massive Digital ID framework - with universal age verification being the key to access to the tools. The bill includes mandatory age verification for every existing account and freezing accounts until users verify their age.

i envision a world without duplicates

A hardware based sculpture constraining a Llama AI model inside a Raspberry Pi, forcing it to perpetually contemplate its own dwindling existence, to explore at which point do we, as conscious beings, start to 'feel' for the machine? Below: Latent Reflection by Rootkid, 2025

These aren't real jellyfish... they're born from simple trigonometry alone! Pure sine + cosine magic just created this hypnotic underwater masterpiece. Math is so beautiful it swims! Who knew equations could feel this alive?