🎵 The Neal Morse band is living proof that having a band full of rock stars (literally and figuratively) doesn’t guarantee a great outcome.
Discuss.
“The best ‘Yes’ album in 20 years”
… reads the review.
That’s not a high bar, for a start there have only been 3 others.
🎵 Will check it out and come back later.
Ron DeSantis' campaign kickoff blew up on its launch pad - as technical glitches awkwardly delayed his Twitter Spaces chat with Elon Musk for 25 minutes.
Not my words. I just liked the analogy … particularly the unspoken connection between the Musk ‘space’ brands and what can happen.
I need an AI to ingest and digest everything being written and said about AI- so that I can decide which AI I should use to ingest and digest everything being written and said about AI - so that I can decide which AI I should use to …
Max is having a hard time getting much right.
Turns out AI is no different .. the race to the bottom is well underway.
🪦 Sorry to read the news Tina. Thanks for the songs. For the moves. For the entertainment. A great ride … now it’s time to R.I.P.
This house is full of masks from all over the world, a theme to remind their owners of their travels and travails. A lot of them are scary to look at, intentionally designed that way, like this one.

Except to me it reminds me of people in Spas having facial treatments, where they put little cucumbers on their eyes.
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🔗 A List of AI Links
Like a lot of us I guess - I have been reading and listening a lot to the AI chatter. This is a list of not everything I have read and listened to - and not quite sure why these ended up on a list and others didn’t - but still you might find an interesting nougat in here?
Shutterstock is buying Giphy from Meta Platforms and will pay $53 million in net cash for the company. Meta initially bought Giphy for $400 million in 2020.
💬 Jessica Lessin - The Information
Spotted yesterday in LA ( paraphrased)
For AI prompts to really work - clients need to be specific as to what they want. …. Our jobs are safe!
Today’s selection of WTF/FFS Headlines from the Guardian.
🔗 With DeSantis campaign event, Musk seeks to shore up a sinking Twitter
🔗 Chief justice says US supreme court keeps ‘highest standards’ of conduct
🔗 Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem
TIL that Flipboard is still around.
One of the few exceptions I see is Apple, which continues to place ads on Twitter.
💬 John Gruber
I spend about a nano second every fortnight on Twitter … it used to be more … interestingly I have never seen an Apple ad there.
BTW tip-o'-the-hat to @vincent (i think) … So when you click into a conversation, the entry that brought you there stands our from the rest of the thread.
In their letter, the lawyers don’t mention the prospect of indictments or even specify which of Smith’s investigations they’re referencing. Rather they describe it as an effort to “discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your Special Counsel and his prosecutors.”
Quel Surprise!
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