Newsletter 1

Some links.

Some thoughts.

Bib, Blueberry, and Buzzrito are the eurorack modules I'm dulling my senses with today.

Commit is a pleasing mono font that looks great during programming or perusing an artistic manifesto.

Sublime Text has no interest in logging your keys or training AI as you develop slash tinker, unlike Microsoft-owned VS Code which makes it impossible to disable all forms of telemetry.

A Cassette tape guide for recording and playing reminds you to buy used and that it's ok if your site looks like it's from 1995.

Little Snitch, critical app if ever there was one, helped me learn that despite my best efforts to boycott Amazon, the sites I visit continue to use its services (AWS, Cloudfront), not to mention the 😳 of finding out that the bank I am divesting from, due to its investments in the arms industry, uses an Israeli analytics service.

Tuta and Proton are solid, end-to-end encrypted email services which force you to put up or STFU wrt your moral imperative to emigrate from email services that track and analyse and profit from everything you do.

DeepL's new desktop-based translation app is (🤞) an antidote to whatever tf Google Translate does with your data.

Bitwig's modulation system serves as a shining example of why monoDAWism and homogeneity in general yield Boring.

Primevil is a word I made up just now to signify the prime, evil, example of a thing.

Youtube is the primevil example of our complicity in genocide because it's owned by Google, which not-so-secretly runs Project Nimbus (along with Amazon), a cloud computing project used by the Israeli government and its military.

What I find meaningful about artists, such as ornithologist Seán Ronayne, is their ability to resonate over vast distances, creating a sort of quasi-relationship, fostering some nascent or ailing part of you.

Politics is not something you do.

Politics is something you are.