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Today I'm discussing how algorithmic reverbs work using the popular “Freeverb.” I give details on feedforward/feedback delays and allpass filters, and I include a Max/MSP patch to play with. Hope it's helpful/interesting to someone! reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #Audio #MusicProduction

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“Rather than engage in serious arguments about higher education costs, Shieh was trying to subject individual employees who had done nothing wrong to public hostility… [Brown] should not be baited into punishing staff and students by such bad-faith antics.” donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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“‘I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,’ one teacher told me. ‘That sure feels like bullshit.’” www.404media.co/teachers-are... #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Education #Teaching

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just hit 200k followers and my campaign manager wants me to fundraise off it so instead of this corny post he drafted, I’ll just say,,,,, if everyone who followed me donated $2, we’d reach our fundraising goal of the quarter ($600k) and wouldn’t raise another cent after that 👀

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“OpenAI is…prominently featuring chatbots that suggest dangerous medical interventions as crucial to men’s sexual and romantic success. They parrot extreme ideology around gender dynamics, sex, and dating; promote pseudoscientific beliefs…” www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel... #AI #OpenAI

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Decided I can justify adding Bluesky since I deleted two other social apps off my phone 🥳 Hoping to see some familiar faces that I’ve been missing elsewhere!

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Bookmarked: Utah Lawmakers Say Gender-Affirming Care Harms Kids. Their Own Study Disputes That. 🔖 www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/t... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... #Trans #Transgender #TransRights #TransHealthcare #Healthcare

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Are you a music teacher who listens to podcasts related to music education? If so, you are invited to participate in a research study conducted by Theresa Hoover, a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University. This study involves completing a survey about your podcast listening habits (1/3)

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I started a page in my personal wiki collecting writing & reporting that's critical of LLMs/generative AI I figure it'll be helpful to have it all in one place for when I need to explain my stance: reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/reading... #AI #GenAI #LLM #VibeCoding #Enshittification

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There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter under Rowling. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

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For this month's IndieWeb carnival on “small web communities,” I'm thinking about lowering the barrier for web independence and freedom reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #WebDev #HTML #CMS

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NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

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“‘What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,’ he said.” www.huffpost.com/entry/israel... #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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“Daniel Levy, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project think tank, said that Israel’s government was ‘desperately trying to find soft power venues’ and that Eurovision was one of the few opportunities it had left.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/a... #Israel #Netanyahu #Eurovision

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Some cool photos from a walk through Highland Park today: reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #Rochester #RochesterNY #Park #Parks #Architecture #Reservoir

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In my wiki/digital garden I have a collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! Hope it can be helpful to someone reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-gard... #Webmentions #IndieWeb #Microformats #Eleventy #11ty #WebDev #HTML

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“These are the fracture lines in the Trump coalition, the places we should apply ourselves to if we want to neutralize the movement, shatter it back into a mob of warring factions.” pluralistic.net/2025/05/21/e... #USPol #Trump #Politics

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I'm still looking for reviews of my new album! Any outlet, any size is welcome! Happy to give you a code! Blogs, zines, TikTok, whatever, it's all good! I don't care if it's your 5000th review or your first! Get at me! etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-me... #musicsky #MusicDiscovery

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My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas. A fun little project combating enshittification, and some practice with Node JS and web scraping! reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #NodeJS #JavaScript #Enshittification

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A growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.

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WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A MEAL?! A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL?!

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“…as decades of academic research have shown, it serves mainly to help far-right parties while hurting centre-left parties, which end up losing (young, female) progressive voters and barely gaining the (male) reactionary voters they court.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I'm having some typography fun on my site: reillyspitzfaden.com I'm using the CSS :before pseudo-element to put a chunky dark magenta opening quote before <blockquote>s. I also switched from a bit font for headings/Open Sans for body to just Libre Franklin — turns out I love grotesques! #CSS

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A centaur that's half small herding dog and half synthesizer The KORG-i

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I recently heard somebody use the phrase “all that is rebellion melts into content” when talking about brands mining counterculture aesthetics for profit (www.tiktok.com/@eugbrandstr...)

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