😍 #VfBATM
Queens of the Stone Age’s “Alive in the Catacombs” really is a recording for the ages. Literally.
(Also: 💀 Skull warning! Look up the Catacombs of Paris if you’re wondering about the setting …)
(After I cancelled a few others! 🤡)
I registered a domain! 🥳
David Bowie died *TEN* years ago already? What? 😳
“You, are not evicting time …”
Can someone please tell OpenAI to check what their agents are up to again … 🙄
https://apnews.com/article/france-supermarkets-hacked-cybercrime-81c2d5721f4df77f601f71741ef7c291
And the fact that Alex Turner came up with the title by texting him the word “Kalopsia” (because they both love weird words) only adds to the legend.
The whole album …Like Clockwork is brilliant. Glad I found it at last. 😊
Such a beautiful song. 🖤 Especially when you know that Josh Homme wrote it for his daughter, as he mentioned on Norah Jones’s podcast … (also worth a listen!)
“Oh, why you so sad? What have they done?
Forget those mindless baboons, they're off playing God
Copycats in cheap suits are playing it safe
While cannibals of bad news consume a parade”
🎶🎸
This. Blind and visually impaired people fear smart glasses backlash:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2qlz7ney2o
PerlBod and I have embarked on a mission to get rid of our Echo devices and use Home Assistant instead:
https://www.home-assistant.io/
The basic platform is up and running on a Raspberry Pi 5. Now just waiting for some sensors and voice i/o hardware to turn-up before I can tackle the voice assistant bit.
Act II.
Study: AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
Act I.
One of the slides from my latest talk at #KirbyKonf.
Super 🙄, intelligence.
Can anyone recommend an Air-to-Air pump fitter that covers the Bristol (UK) area? Note that these are not the same as the Air-to-Water heat pumps that just handle heating - which is, it seems, why they're few and far between. TIA.
Just ordered my first Shure mic. And no, it’s not an SM57 or an SM7B, but an MV88+ to record my son’s violin concert in stereo. Let’s see how it goes … 🤞
A country that livestreams an execution has lost its sense of humanity.
The last few minutes of this fantastic interview are the answer to why AI will never make beautiful music. Ever.