John von Seggern

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At 220Hz, the ripple tank glows with golden light as a crystal lattice forms, a square-shaped pattern with 3D depth, its edges stepping down like a ziggurat. Cymatics meets ancient architecture. 878 views by @ArchieBrave 6 years ago, his YT channel is fire check it out

another banger from @seromora

@FraserM40772 @Steve_Sailer @OrsonPratt65 @JoshuaSteinman blocked, i don't have space for racists on my TL

@johnvon23 @Steve_Sailer @OrsonPratt65 @JoshuaSteinman They did not, no. Overwhelmingly white and midwestern well into the 1970s. Now much like the rest of the world, crowded traffic sprawl tower of babel with mongrelized people.

Here’s the thing: if California had even somewhat competent leadership, every smart, high agency person in America would live here within 12 months.

pretty sure im the only person to have played and recorded with Jon Hassell, worked on a major Hollywood film sound track (WALL-E), and toured globally with the biggest stars in Cantonese pop music (Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Faye Wong, etc.) looking at this whole thread another way, it takes crazy versatility and the ability to change and adapt to anything to build a music career with real longevity

i gotta be the only person who’s toured with like 100 gecs and sleep token… i could go on but i won’t

@Steve_Sailer @OrsonPratt65 @JoshuaSteinman Our Californian ancestors came from every country in the world, which is one of the main things that makes California so awesome.

@OrsonPratt65 @JoshuaSteinman A whole lot of us Californians are aware that our ancestors lucked into this paradise on Earth and that if we rewrote the zoning codes to allow everybody on Earth a fair chance to live here, we'd soon be living in Paraguay or Belarus or Inner Mongolia or Chad where we belong.

A couple years back, @thejaymo and I started summoning language models into worlds. Before "tool use" or "coding agents", we had frontier models interacting through code in a persistent shared space. We called upon the deep magic of the internet: interactive fiction, colossal cave adventure, multi-user dungeons. Putting models in mazes. Our question: do language models display intelligent behaviors when placed in interactive text-based worlds? Obviously at this point the answer is yes. They display conversational intelligence when formatted into a user/assistant script. Tool use, client protocols, code agents, RLMs all build on this intuition, inserting text into the model's context window interactively based on the text it outputs from the assistant persona. The loop drives in-context learning through feedback. To understand that feedback loop, we found it useful to think about "ontological hardness": how much the world informs, and is informed by, the entity through the context window. As humans we take it for granted that we live in a world. You don't wake up every day with a different set of senses and appendages, random memories and desires shoved into your brain. You can assume that when you touch something it is also being touched by you. You can tell how much you're touching it. You don't think about your body and senses as part of your world, because you always have them. All this stuff is not the default for entities. They do not have bodies, or even personas, until we instantiate them through textual representations. They are like ghosts. This is one of the themes I was hinting at with Cantrip, so i am pleased that Jay has written about it depth in his new series. "Three Worlds for Little Guys" compares Catrip with those other masterpieces of forge frenzy, OpenClaw and Gas Town. What? Sure, no, that makes sense. Read more about ontological hardness in "Thinking Inside Out": thejaymo.net/2026/03/19/thi…

@Jforjazz176064 Marc Johnson was the best bassist to play with Evans after LaFaro

エヴァンス最後のトリオ。ベースのマーク・ジョンソンの加入が鍵。次のステップを見据えてたが如く、新鮮かつ意欲的なアプローチに沸く。タッチが強めに感じるが、この頃の彼の指は、肝硬変でかなり膨れ上がっていた為、その影響もあったのだろう。命を削ってピアノに賭けた男のフィナーレだ。#jazz

@ThatEricAlper every concert

What was the concert that reminded you why live music can never be replaced?

@malonebarry wait til you see Channel 5 News youtube.com/channel/UC-AQK…

Channel 4 News is head and shoulders above the rest of the British media.

Toni Morrison, on living in times of crisis:

muting anyone on my tl who reposts misinformation they didn't bother to check

@onhellmusic Only true if you spend a lot of time learning your craft

Don’t go out trying to find your own sound. You’ll waste your time. The sound will find you.

@itsR3LL Easier said than done tho!

the best marketing strategy for an independent artist is making something so undeniable that people do the marketing for you.

music is literally about bringing people together, that's one of they key reasons it developed and flourished among primitive humans. we developed it so early because the social bonding it enabled was evolutionarily adaptive. there is lots of writing about this in the ethnomusicological literature, for example: "...musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding mechanisms available in ancestral primate societies." - Savage et al., Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2021)

録音より、生演奏のほうが人の感情の脳を強く動かす。 研究では、同じ曲でも、録音を聴くときより、生演奏を聴くときのほうが、扁桃体など感情に関わる脳活動が強かった。 さらに生演奏では、演奏者が聴き手の反応を見ながら少しずつ弾き方を調整していて、音楽と脳がリアルタイムでかみ合うような反応も見られた。 つまり、音楽はただ、曲そのものが大事なのではなく、その場で相手に合わせて変わる「生のやり取り」が、感情をより強く動かす可能性がある。

@VintageRockN_85 Jimi Hendrix

Who wins the epic Guitar battle? #RockNRollMusic 🇬🇧 Jimmy Page Mark Knopfler Brian May 🇺🇸 Stevie Ray Vaughan Duane Allman Prince

@TheEconomist you'd think @TheEconomist would have known this already as its been one of the most crucial realities of our global economy for decades...?

It is rapidly becoming clear that the Gulf states matter for the supply of much more than oil and gas economist.com/finance-and-ec…

everyone should be following @alejodorowsky

that's partially because of segregation too, white Angelenos won't necessarily encounter a lot of Black Angelenos depending on what parts of the city they spend time in. i live in the center of the SF Valley, 83% of the population in my area identify as non-white but only 3% as Black. there's also a parallel situation for many ethnic communities here, LA has the highest concentration of many ethnic groups outside of their home countries including for example: Mexicans Armenians Iranians/Persians Koreans Salvadorans Guatemalans Filipinos Cambodians Thai Taiwanese Belizeans Burmese Indonesians Sri Lankans Druze Saudi Arabians Oaxacans Vietnamese one of the best things about our city IMO, a true world city.

When ppl discuss Blackness in LA, they never consider that its more black people in la than many cities entire population. Even while other cities can be higher in percentage lol

Playing with Jon Hassell 2014-2020 and working on his last 2 albums (Listening to Pictures and Seeing Through Sound) was the peak of my career as a creative musician. I still have more music in me (new ambient album coming soon) but I doubt I’ll work with his like again, he was one of a kind. Proudest moment: saving the track ‘Dreaming’ from the cutting room floor when Jon wanted to throw it away!