9oct26

Autumn is creeping in step by step. Colder starts to the day, now. The managed retreat begins. Played yesterday with Dirty Little Zine for making tiny photobooks to clip into notebooks. Dropped a frankly absurd amount of money on a shipment of magazines from Magculture.

TODAY:

• Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
• The Real Danger May Be AI as Dumb as Us: “Some of the most concerning security risks from AI may come not from super intelligence but from what researchers sometimes call “jagged intelligence,” the way in which models can appear to be vastly more knowledgeable than humans in many respects but still lag bafflingly behind what we’d call common sense.”
• German Spymaster’s Arrest Piles Pressure on Beleaguered Spooks

• Bjork releasing a live orchestral album
• new issue of electronic/ambient music newsletter Moonbuilding, which is always a little journey of discovery
• cloud collecting: women of ambient ~ fall ‘26

ACCESSIONS:

Just received this in the post from Mia Wolff:

OPERATIONS: all the things. My to-do list is ridiculous.
STATUS: awaiting a delivery of stationery items and peering unhappily at my bank balance
READING: RED SHEET, James Ellroy (UK) (US+).

I saw a straight razor and strop, plus a toothbrush stuck in a half pint of vodka. Stalin brushed his teeth with vodka.

LISTENING: right now, Night Tracks and also episode 22 of podcast Did Somebody Say…Ambient?
PAPERWORK: switched to the Pigma Micron 03 after having two brand new 0.7mm Energels crap out on me in a row with fat lines, skipped strokes, wet inks with bad flow. When did Energels get bad?

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