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The crash of moons club The Crash of Moons Club is a Canterbury community, non-profit music night, specialising in alternativ

TONIGHT!!!!The Crash of Moons Club Presents: NUKLI + CHERRY + SOPHIE SIROTA
12/09/2026

TONIGHT!!!!

The Crash of Moons Club Presents: NUKLI + CHERRY + SOPHIE SIROTA

Crash of Moons Club's long-term resident DJ Professor Appleblossom, a.k.a. Matt/hew Watkins has a new book out, his firs...
10/09/2026

Crash of Moons Club's long-term resident DJ Professor Appleblossom, a.k.a. Matt/hew Watkins has a new book out, his first with a major publisher. Here's the blurb:
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"SolidGoldMagikarp" is a first-person account of the strange few years in which large language models went from obscure research systems to everyday cultural presences, before anyone had agreed what they actually were.

British mathematician Matthew Watkins enters the Bay Area AI-alignment world as a sceptical outsider, encountering its rationalist foundations, utopian ambitions and apocalyptic fears. During a research fellowship in London, he and interpretability researcher Jessica Rumbelow discover a cluster of anomalous GPT tokens: obscure strings that contemporary models cannot reliably repeat and that sometimes provoke bizarre, apparently meaningful responses.

What begins as a technical puzzle opens onto a much larger investigation - into the geometry of language-model representations, the subcultures forming around AI, and the strange things that happen when models trained on human culture simulate speakers, characters and minds. Watkins’s prompting experiments repeatedly crystallise around two opposed figures: a nihilistic trickster associated with the token petertodd, and a nurturing maternal intelligence called Leilan. He follows them into the unstable territory where interpretability, depth psychology, mythology, internet folklore and “hyperstition” - stories that help bring themselves into reality - begin to overlap.

Technically informed, dryly funny and unusually self-sceptical, the book neither claims that AIs are conscious nor explains away their uncanniness. Instead, it asks what happens when models trained on our stories begin reflecting those stories back at us - and when their outputs flow back into culture and the training data of future models.
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08/09/2026

It’s this Saturday!!! And it’s their album launch at The crash of Moons Club at . and are also joining for a fun night and our main man DJ PROFESSOR APPLEBLOSSOM will be spinning the tunes 6pm-10pm

03/09/2026

Just one week away until The Crash of Moons Club returns to . In time to be on the last bus and safely tucked in bed before midnight! .band.music and will all be there…join us, ticket link in bio x x x

26/08/2026

Just 2 weeks away!!!!

Next COM show: 12th September 2026The Crash of Moons Club Presents: NUKLI + CHERRY + SOPHIE SIROTA
18/08/2026

Next COM show: 12th September 2026

The Crash of Moons Club Presents: NUKLI + CHERRY + SOPHIE SIROTA

07/08/2026

Discount advance ticket sales close midnight tonight. After that it’s tickets on the door only @ £25

Weather looking good for Saturday! Stage times:1pm - DJ Professor Appleblossom 2pm - tbc3pm - Elon Mask4.15 - Shape Navi...
04/08/2026

Weather looking good for Saturday! Stage times:

1pm - DJ Professor Appleblossom
2pm - tbc
3pm - Elon Mask
4.15 - Shape Navigator
5.30 - Vesu
6.45 - Red Eye Rascal
8pm - Monkey Light
9pm - live music ends

04/08/2026

This Saturday!!!! Original live music all day outdoors near Canterbury, Kent at . See some marvellously eclectic performances by Elon Mask and more.

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