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  1. *Seriously, we're all better off with me extensively discussing the mayonnaise habits of Robert Louis Stevenson *Did you know Stevenson had an in-law with him in Samoa who hand-painted magic-lantern slides for him, so that he could entertain the natives at night #deadmedia #geniusauthors

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gxexag4v4ctfgccjywhuypl5/post/3mlkqzal2d224

  2. "Integrating AI water simulation into a holistic creative suite" that somehow makes lots of money, that sounds a lot more difficult than just using some AI techniques to simulate some water. #Sora #deadmedia reelmind.ai/blog/ai-vide...

  3. "Integrating AI water simulation into a holistic creative suite" that somehow makes lots of money, that sounds a lot more difficult than just using some AI techniques to simulate some water. #Sora #deadmedia reelmind.ai/blog/ai-vide...

  4. "Integrating AI water simulation into a holistic creative suite" that somehow makes lots of money, that sounds a lot more difficult than just using some AI techniques to simulate some water. #Sora #deadmedia reelmind.ai/blog/ai-vide...

  5. *Neal Stephenson explaining in detail that he didn't personally spend 80 billion dollars on impracticable ideas from one of his novels #Metaverse #deadmedia nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodiga...

    My Prodigal Brainchild

  6. *These Chinese guys think that AIs would work lots better if they abandoned clunky human language and just used model-native "latent space" *Of course, if that's true, then all the AI modelling built so far would be deader than Nineveh #deadmedia arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02029

    arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02029

  7. *Hmm. How many of these are already dead *As opposed to the 90% that will shortly become dead. #deadmedia #AI

  8. *Did you ever think about the people who hand-painted glass slides for magic lanterns? For a good long while, they were "magicians," almost #deadmedia

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ieipici6is42y7e6r2cvk4x2/post/3mig3khxbic2e

  9. *Polish guys inventing steampunk monster pianos, and they happen to hire Frederic Chopin to play them because he's young and hanging around #deadmedia #Aeolomelodicon

  10. In a remote corner of Vancouver airport domestic Terminal B, in a nook that formerly held a payphone, a 2008-2010 yellow pages and two white pages #DeadMedia

  11. *There is probably some arcane Bluesky reader who would fully appreciate this bizarre exchange and that guy would probably be me #deadmedia #postapocalypse #ancientweirdness #computation #archival

  12. *There is probably some arcane Bluesky reader who would fully appreciate this bizarre exchange and that guy would probably be me #deadmedia #postapocalypse #ancientweirdness #computation #archival

  13. *There is probably some arcane Bluesky reader who would fully appreciate this bizarre exchange and that guy would probably be me #deadmedia #postapocalypse #ancientweirdness #computation #archival

  14. *AIs "taking over the world" while dying like mayflies. #deadmedia *Also why this Blade-Runner-esque euphemism "retiring"

  15. "The "Computer Family Tree." They're all extinct. A petrified forest couldn't be deader. #deadmedia #computation

  16. *If it helps, I was hanging around long before "the Internet," and I can promise you that there was a world here. #deadmedia

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4dextl2r5komf3gaq4x7dyk3/post/3mcewvbl3os2r

  17. Well, hello: INTERTAPES is an updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more

    intertapes.net/

    #DeadMedia #CassetteTapes #Intertapes #Mixtapes

  18. *There's something tragic about this long list of AI model-entities; every one of these expensive artificial-geniuses is gonna get promptly cast aside and burnt to ashes like Laika in a de-orbiting Soviet spacecraft #deadmedia *Not even a eulogy. No one will notice arcprize.org/leaderboard#...

    ARC Prize - Leaderboard

  19. "Scientists and engineers have put forth various theories for why tapes from the 1970s and ’80s have developed these problems, but a single, definitive answer has remained elusive." re: #deadmedia beat nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/mu h/t @subtopes