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aaronmullan.bsky.social
Musician / Audio Engineer / Software Engineer Portland, Oregon https://www.discogs.com/artist/265506-Aaron-Mullan https://tapeop.com/articles/by/aaron-mullan https://github.com/AaronMullan
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Elon Musk attempting to make a grilled cheese sandwich at home and it explodes into a roaring tower of green flame that causes six neighbors to be hospitalized. No one can tell how it happened. "You kniew I hid to hiv my nom noms," he tells cable news later that day, kind of swaying and winking.

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Brian Wilson story: In 2006 I was with Sonic Youth in Australia for the Splendour in the Grass festival. Brian Wilson was also there, performing Smile (I think). The festival put us up at a sort of eco-resort with pathways through the dunes down to the beach. 1/x

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

funniest thing happened at work today: turns out my unorthodox methods, once considered dangerous and heretical, are the only strategies that can save us from an enemy whose tactics are, some might say, as unconventional as my own

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

I think if you grabbed any famous thinker from centuries ago and showed them Wikipedia and told them it was free for anyone to access, they would say it is humanity's crowning achievement and would be indifferent to the moon landings, modern medicine, flight, or anything else you showed them

submitted 18 days ago • 119 comments

May 22, 1914, Herman Blount aka Le Sony’r Ra aka Sun Ra arrives in Birmingham, AL. Piloting his Arkestra, Ra simultaneously explores the history and future of Jazz. “Space is the place.” #sunra #jazz

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

25th anniversary of this magnet being on my fridge @hampshirecollege.bsky.social

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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

submitted 41 days ago • 686 comments

NOT A DRILL. Check out an “extraordinary, previous uncirculated low generation source tape” of the Velvet Underground's legendary "Sweet Sister Ray." 😱https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/782080727952113664/sweet-rock-and-roll

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

You can tell summer is coming in Portland because it stops raining and therefore people start using umbrellas.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing the theme of short guitar pieces: aaronmullan.bandcamp.com/track/silcox...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Decided to make some music. aaronmullan.bandcamp.com/track/phlox-...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Dave Allen on the intersection of misogyny and fascism: 'united with his mates / against the common enemy'. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUt6...

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Alright I've got a Michael Hurley story for you guys. The first time I met Michael would have been sometime in 1999. I was working doing sound at Tonic on the Lower East Side. I was a bit intimidated but as with any artist I introduced myself as he arrived. 1/x

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Spiraling thinking about what circumstances would lead to a person seeing a destination-specific U haul deal and upending their lives to take advantage of it.

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