EE

Welsh Modular Alliance record label. Dr of weird engineering and robots. Occasionally try to write music and fiction.

[DS @DorkSirjur]

Nearly three hours of one of the best now. Forever missed. 32 years ago:

This is Andrew Weatherall (RIP) @ Herbal Tea Party, Manchester 15.03.94

Very heavily an electro set, with some minimal/techno in there, its Mr Weatherall absolutely donning it as always.

Reminder that all mixes uploaded here today go on my Kofi for download tonight.

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[Ryan @datboywolf]

Somebody made a modern trailer for Terminator 2 and that shit had me ready to go to the theatre right nah even though I seen it 5000 times

[EE @EmphaticEmpath]

@KonstantinKisin @jordanbpeterson Taking a dive in football, performative behaviour getting some results....still love that it's massively frowned upon in rugby

[Widmerpool Appreciation Society @AtticumFloreat]

End of days.

French drink more beer than wine for first time https://t.co/YQhbxzMzDn

[es ⁶³ @estelsstuff]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS SCENE WAS SO HOT!! It was so intimate omfg jshshs the way their lips parted...fuck

[AI Highlight @AIHighlight]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

The BBC should make all of the Peel Sessions available to stream on the Sounds app. They're recordings of incredible cultural significance and shouldn't be left to languish in a vault.

[Movies from HELL @26mfhpod]

still my favorite scene from any PTA movie

[EE @EmphaticEmpath]

Sunday sweat #sauna

[DS @DorkSirjur]

Next up a superb hour from an absolute icon, forever missed, 29 years ago:

The great Andrew Weatherall (RIP) - Love Of Life Mixtape 1997

As usual, a wonderful, eclectic selection mixed impeccably by one of the finest artists to come out of the UK scene. Tracklist in comments.

Reminder that all mixes uploaded here today go on my Kofi for download tonight.

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[Wodehouse Tweets @inimitablepgw]

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

why else are we here
if not to live
with unreasonable
passion for things

[Wodehouse Tweets @inimitablepgw]

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

[EE @EmphaticEmpath]

@engineers_feed Yes, conspiracy bullshit bait!

[EE @EmphaticEmpath]

@owen_brown76 @TJiMTS What would you invest in Mitch?

[Boomkat.com @boomkatonline]

tapping into that low-lit thing Malibu, Space Afrika and Burial do so well, except shot through the dub techno prism, it’s a late night special from Sferic...

https://t.co/zaAutIOzDr

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

“Jeeves,” I said, “you look . . . pensive.”
“I confess to a slight concern, sir.”
That, from Jeeves, is rather like hearing that the Bank of England has “a slight concern” about the stability of the pound. It makes you sit up.
“Concern, Jeeves?”
“Concern, sir. I ran into Lady Flashcome this morning, who informed me that that, last night at the Drones, Viscount Clavicular was mid jestergooning, when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels.”
“Well, I’m bound!” I said, nodding the old bean. “So that’s what it is, is it? Most interesting.”
I paused.
“Jeeves?”
“Yes, sir.”
“I confess I didn’t quite follow that.”
“Understandable, sir. The essential question, as I understand it, is whether ignoring the foids while munting and mogging moids is more useful than SMV chadfishing in the club.”
“Come again, Jeeves,” I said, for though I had caught the words as they came out, the meaning had slipped past me like one of those greased eels making a dash for the open sea.
“In plain terms, sir, the speaker is asking whether it is more advantageous, in a social setting, to disregard women entirely while attempting to dominate or impress other men through vulgarity and competitive posturing, rather than attempting to attract women by means of artificially inflating one’s perceived desirability—particularly through the presentation of a false identity suggesting superior physical attractiveness and social value.”
I stared.
“In other words,” Jeeves continued smoothly, “it is a comparison between two strategies for attaining social status: one based upon humiliating rivals and cultivating masculine hierarchy, and the other based upon deceiving prospective romantic partners by misrepresenting one’s own attractiveness.”
He coughed politely.
“Neither approach, sir, would generally be considered conducive to the development of sincere human relationships.”

[EE @EmphaticEmpath]

Stunning. https://t.co/kyfpq1IbvB