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May 22
Only shallow as the test track
May 21
🔊 These speakers go to 140 dB 🤘
Our European Service Module for Artemis III successfully passed its acoustic test at @NASAKennedy, proving it is ready to survive the intense vibrations from the rocket launch 🚀
Find out more 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
ALT The service module for the Orion spacecraft - including ESA's European Service Module and its four solar arrays, plus the crew module adapter on top and the conical stage adapter on the bottom - in the middle of towers of speakers, ready to blast almost 140 dB at the spacecraft to ensure it can withstand the intense vibrations at launch.
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Mar 25
Il Ritorno in Patria
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Jan 16
Fundamental misunderstanding - art isn't valued because it can't be replicated by AI. It's valued because it is a communicative act achieved in certain ways.
Artistic value is a function of achieving artistically in socio-historically "sanctioned" ways.
Jan 16
People who think AI will never replace artists because they believe in nonsense about how the human brain is somehow special will soon have to face the awful truth.
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Jan 16
Consider marathon runners; their achievement consists in *running* a specified distance - of course they could use other means, like a car or bike! but they wouldn't be praised for running a marathon in such cases. The achievement is predicated on fulfilling specific conditions
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Jan 16
In much the same way, we (currently) value artists because they achieve artistically in ways that are (currently!) regarded as incompatible with the most bare-bones uses of AI trotted out as paradigmatic human ersatz
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Jan 13
One month anniversary since Red more red came out on @DISPLAYseries . I try and explore some of the intentions behind the beginning of the project, returning to playing instruments, and this work's relationship to painting.
displayseries.bandcamp.com/a…
Link to read below
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Jan 13
Perhaps some of my thoughts are of interest! In any case, thanks for listening, caring, and the kind response so far
ubinas.substack.com/p/red-mo…
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18 Dec 2025
a riddle - should aesthetic appreciation diminish if literary writers "finish the last 3rd of their works" with aid from LLMs even if the LLM results are indiscernible from unaided efforts?
if yes, should aesthetic appreciation still diminish even if LLM aided results are better?
17 Dec 2025
I don't know whether GPT 5.2 can generate a lyrical essay publishable in a top literary magazine from scratch, but it can definitely finish the last 3rd of one for you. This is (if I'm right) both a fact about GPT 5.2 and about the state of the lyrical-essay genre
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16 Dec 2025
Red more red - out now on @DISPLAYseries
displayseries.bandcamp.com/a…
Thanks to everyone who continues to listen and care about my work.
Recorded in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from December, 2023 to November, 2024
Art by @KidSmpl
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12 Dec 2025
Red more red - out now on @DISPLAYseries
Thanks to everyone who continues to listen and care about my work.
Recorded in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from December, 2023 to November, 2024
Artwork & Cassette Design by @KidSmpl
displayseries.bandcamp.com/a…
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Lorica retweeted
5 Dec 2025
Red more red
Available on @DISPLAYseries December 12
Pre-order here displayseries.bandcamp.com/a…
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5 Dec 2025
Red more red
A triptych for @Symbols /DISPLAY - out next week
Thanks for listening
displayseries.bandcamp.com/a…
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7 Oct 2025
I don't think it is pointless to make art without an audience - even though it might sometimes feel that way! Too often these discussions are dominated by attention economy paradigms and I think artists have better conceptual resources available to them
ubinas.substack.com/p/aliena…
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7 Oct 2025
Many of us experience doubt about the issue of "lack-of-audience" at some point, which, if left unchecked, can really demotivate and prevent us from engaging in one of the potentially most meaningful pursuits available. That need not be the case!
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7 Oct 2025
In short, with or without audiences:
- Artistic practices are legit because they are embedded in broader social practices
- Art is meaningful and can be part of living a good life
- Artists need not pursue audiences
I welcome any feedback - enjoy:
ubinas.substack.com/p/aliena…
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4 Oct 2025
ambient music hitting unprecedented levels of exposure
4 Oct 2025
Playboi Carti singing "Can You Stand The Rain" during transition🔥
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19 Aug 2025
a return to "craft" might be a response to exactly this phenomena. by actively signaling "effort", some artists differentiate their work from "low-effort-seeming" work - actual effort involved notwithstanding. however, effort need not be viewed as art-legitimizing factor
i think the increasingly pervasive idea that effort is what legitimizes art breaks down when you consider that the best conceptual artists often actively aim to obfuscate how much effort goes into producing theirs
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19 Aug 2025
for some works/practices effort will play a more or less meaningful role in interpretation. criticism‘s role is to determine in which areas and to which extent an analysis of effort, however that is understood, is relevant.
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