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Forever Changes (2015 Remaster) by Love
The first side of Da Capo is excellent - not Side two. This one is more complete, more beautiful. more listenable - and Da Capo’s side 1 is NOT unlistenable
During their two weeks in New Zealand, they caused so much outrage in the media that the New Zealand Parliament addressed the issue of granting entry permits to musicians such as the Pretty Things.
Who knew they were so ‘badass’?
🪦 Farewell Burt. You had a great run. Thank you. Your music inspired many and was appreciated by so many more … even people who didn’t know you, knew your songs.
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February 8th.
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I didn’t watch all of the State of the Union … but enough to know that the Union is in one hell of a state.
I see Readdle’s Documents is celebrating 10 years, so I just took it for a little spin on the iPad. Conclusion … not sure I need it. Is it an app that used to add value, but improvement of Files over the years has made it redundant? Or am I missing something?
Today I learned that RapidWeaver is still around!
I know I am in LA because Apple is offering two routes. One route is roughly along one side of a rectangle - about 10 miles. The alternative is around the other three sides of the rectangle - about 20 miles. Time difference - one minute. 🤷🏼♂️
February 7th.
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🔗 Podsearch Reborn … from David Smith.
Interesting - and powerful.
This ‘little’ service is a welcome extension to my tool set.
“Don’t expect a TikTok style UI or the ability to subscribe to specific sites like you can in an RSS reader.
💬 Matt Birchler
Artifact didn’t make it to my ‘must try’ list. The implication of 100% AI crosses it off my list completely.
Bill Bishop is thinking about introducing advertising on to his Substack.
“The Substack model of “only ads” doesn’t make much sense long term for most writers. Even if they convert 10% of their audience, they’re making no money from 90%. Most businesses don’t operate that way.
This is not wrong, but I hope what Bishop means is what I call @gruber style advertising - and not seeking to ‘track the tar out of us’.
I also wonder how he will handle paid subscriptions (I’m not a paid subscriber of Sinocism) - will they see the ads aswell?
(Apologies. lost the source where I read this … it was a Substack newsletter)
Cringely On ChatGPT
“Cole needed a letter of recommendation recently so he turned to an old family friend who, in turn, used ChatGPT to generate the letter, which he thought was remarkably good.”
🔗 … which in turn prompted Bob Cringely to write this article.. It has all the usual caveats we see in article after article, although this time talking about how ChatGPT was used to generate that letter of recommendation. In Bob’s opinion it lacked the important personal touch. All good, not wrong.
He then writes .. without irony that I can see
“Even if ChatGPT was allowed access to my old friend’s email boxes, it would only learn about his style and almost nothing about Cole, with whom he’s communicated, I think, twice.”
He doesn’t explain how someone without AI help could write a food personal recommendation for someone they have communicated with twice.
If you are following along, you know this is my ‘year of stoicism’ … so of course Existential Comics burst my bubble!
🔗 Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion in the U.S. for Copyright Infringement via @gruber
Well this isn’t good, particularly in light of
“Stable Diffusion occasionally produces output with Getty Image’s watermark.”
YIKES