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Terrence O'Brien

@TerrenceOBrien

No longer here. Writer, editor, musician, serial hobbyist. Former Engadget. Bylines: Wired, MusicTech, Refinery29, Switched. Bluesky: TerrenceOBrien

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@verge20 Nov 2025
Suno’s CEO thinks typing a text prompt is ‘really active’ music creation theverge.com/report/825141/s…
No, typing an AI prompt is not ‘really active’ music creation

No, typing an AI prompt is not ‘really active’ music creation

Suno CEO Mikey Shulman thinks typing a text prompt into an AI is “really active” music creation, and frankly, that’s insulting.

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@verge15 Nov 2025
How to find music you will love without the algorithm theverge.com/report/821614/d…
How to find music you will love without the algorithm

How to find music you will love without the algorithm

To find music you will love, stop letting the algorithm take the reins and start listening with intention.

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@verge12 Oct 2025
You need to watch the bonkers Japanese fantasy horror film House theverge.com/entertainment/7…
You need to watch the bonkers Japanese fantasy horror film House

You need to watch the bonkers Japanese fantasy horror film House

The nightmare logic and surreal visuals of Japanese fantasy horror film House will leave you wondering “WTF did I just watch?”

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@verge10 Feb 2025
Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive theverge.com/reviews/608609/…
Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive

Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive

Buttoned up.

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MusicTech@MusicTechMag16 Dec 2024
Powerful, innovative and, most importantly, fun, the Polyend Synth makes complex synth arrangements accessible to the most amateur of players. musictech.com/features/inter…
“Curious, foolish and ambitious”: How Polyend’s Synth is reimagining synthesizer design

“Curious, foolish and ambitious”: How Polyend’s Synth is reimagining synthesizer design

Powerful, innovative and, most importantly, fun, the Polyend Synth makes complex synth arrangements accessible to the most amateur of players.

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@engadget30 Oct 2024
Election 2024: How will the candidates regulate AI? engt.co/4foysyj

Election 2024: How will the candidates regulate AI? - Engadget

While it might not garner the headlines that immigration, abortion or inflation do, AI is quietly one of the more consequential issues this election season. What regulations are put in place and how...

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@film_girl9 Jul 2024
So someone bought the TUAW domain, populated it with AI-generated slop, and then reused my name from a job I had when I was 21 years old to try to pull some SEO scam that won’t even work in 2024 because Google changed its algo. Assholes! H/t @gruber
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Gloria Sin@gloria_sin14 Mar 2024
THIS. I am so frustrated by American journalists who seem to be ignorant of CCP's meddling & surveillance of fellow reporters & sources -- just because you love some part of the app! Stop both-siding a foreign owned biz with American-owned rivals that are subjected to US laws.
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@DrEricDing13 Mar 2024
Replying to @DrEricDing @RepSpanberger
7) TikTok has **admitted** it used its app to spy on reporters and track their sources, according to internal email. They were tracking IP information & this was used to monitor journalists in the US. ➡️we want to avoid another journalist Jamal Khashoggi incident!
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Brian Heater@bheater13 Mar 2024
My good friend and colleague @SarahPerezTC experienced a massive fire at home. Please help if you can. gofundme.com/f/yd78gx-sarah-…
Donate to Sarah and Josie need our help!, organized by HEIDI SULPHER

Donate to Sarah and Josie need our help!, organized by HEIDI SULPHER

In the early hours of March 13th, Sarah's world turned upside down. As the bright glare o… HEIDI SULPHER needs your support for Sarah and Josie need our help!

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Matt Brian@m4tt22 Feb 2024
Thread: After 10+ years at Engadget, my time has come to an end. In that time I worked for AOL, Oath, Verizon Media and then Yahoo. I wrote news, ran our separate UK site and then came back into the fold under @DanaWollman to man the news desk and source deals on a daily basis.
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Loopop Music@loopopmusic3 Aug 2023
Hey @Behringer - since you blocked my response, I'll share it here. I saw you spreading lies on your Facebook group, that I won't review your gear because you don't send it for free, when actually you offered and I refused. Should I share your email offering?
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@engadget23 May 2023
The new Ableton Push is an MPE-enabled standalone music production powerhouse engt.co/3MQv57S
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@engadget17 Mar 2023
Eventide Misha review: A playful sequencer that says to hell with tradition engt.co/3Fwx6SB
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@engadget6 Feb 2023
Bastl Microgranny Monolith review: Vintage sampling grit in a portable package engt.co/3I138Ic
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell. Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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@engadget13 Dec 2022
Congress introduces bill to ban TikTok over spying fears engt.co/3iYxKjt
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@engadget13 Dec 2022
Arturia's Pigments 4 adds new effects and a simplified interface engt.co/3Yl2Phn
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@pitchfork12 Dec 2022
Angelo Badalamenti, the composer who made the music for David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and more, has died p4k.in/5VsBURN
Angelo Badalamenti, Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet Composer, Dies at 85

Angelo Badalamenti, Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet Composer, Dies at 85

In addition to his acclaimed work with David Lynch, the Grammy-winning musician collaborated with David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull, and others

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MusicRadar@MusicRadar12 Dec 2022
Mutable Instruments confirms that it will close for good this month trib.al/f9d93Ov
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This is absolute brain worm material. Anti-woke photog goes to drag story hour, photographs family, and posts a non-consensual photo of a child and refuses, despite parents begging, to take it down
Terrence O'Brien (@TerrenceOBrien) profile pictureTerrence O'Brien@TerrenceOBrien6 Dec 2022
This past weekend I attended a drag story hour with my family. There were predictably a bunch of protesters at the event. One of whom was right up at the line harassing people waiting to get in. I got into an altercation with them. A photographer started taking my picture.
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