Crucial Track 🎵 June 3, 2026
"Can't Find My Way Home" by Blind Faith
An integral part of Spencer Davis and Traffic before this side project with 'the world's first Supergroup' .. and Stevie was barely 21 when he wrote this 🤯
There are some great covers out there - but seriously - did you know that this even existed? And no - it is not a 'great' cover (in both senses of the word) ... 'good' maybe - but not 'great'.
More of Stevie in the future.
👁️ Must have 7 or 8 shows started and not one has grabbed me. Added one more to the list tonight and just started episode 2 - back to back. Been a while since that happened.
🔗 Honestly, Stop Saying Honestly
We already killed the slop in our writing . The em dash, “delve,” “tapestry,” “in today’s fast-paced world” - the measured lexicon of words that spiked in published text the moment the models got loose on it. “Delve” alone rose about 1,500 percent in scientific abstracts between 2022 and 2024. These words are not wrong. They are tells. A reader sees three of them and stops trusting the page, even when the substance is fine.
💬 Adventures in Claude
Two Thoughts
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Very self aware 😂 and interesting to see how anyone can control the LLM’s output if they spend time on the problem - something which we don’t typically do - used as we are to our world of ‘instant gratification’.
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Just a couple of months ago 🖇️ I wrote: “but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them ( (em dashes) ) since LLMs turned up.
Maybe I haven’t implemented Standard.Site properly - but underwhelmed by how my ‘Longform’ posts are rendering on BluSky.
… i.e. the same as they did before I implemented Standard.Site 🤷🏻♂️
🎬 First there was 🔗 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - so so good.
🎬 Then there was 🔗 Jay Kelly - which was alright - but in proportion to what I expected.
🎬 So I approached 🔗 Outcome with high anticipation.
I have now started and stopped it three times - best was getting through 25 minutes. Should I give up? I mean this is Keanu we are talking about.
🖋️ Abba - Meet Pink Floyd
I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.
🖋️ It's Fractal
Reflections on fractal communications - a very old idea - and its cropping up again as I am developing a very new idea - and even I hadn’t connected the dots.
📺 🚧 Godless ★★★
Can’t recall why I started to watch it .. but glad I did .. very good .. and it was a while back (well last year) - despite it being from 2017 - and yet for all of that it took @mitchwagner to remind me - when he referenced it - I couldn’t even recall the name - don’t make the same mistake.
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