Today’s lesson — not the only one, but notable: don’t go to Wales for a week without emptying the food recycling bin. In a heatwave. Oh god, the maggots.
Author: Matthew
Palaeolithic
Long time no see, for various unedifying reasons we needn’t dwell on here. And honestly this doesn’t constitute substantive content, or at least not mine — Mihai Parparita’s Infinite Mac is indeed substantive, but I’m not doing anything with it, just testing the embed functionality. So let’s just call it another link post.
Actually, while we’re closing browser tabs, this GenAI music thing is something I probably need to look into for next year’s comp0161 but can’t face right now.
Linky
In ancient days, blogs were often mostly link logs, odd little breadcrumb trails through the haunted forest of the Internet. WT has never been like that, but in lieu of other content (it has been a difficult week or so), and also with the sense that I might actually need some of these at some point, here are some recent AI things of note.
Discreet Angel
I sort of enjoyed Here We Are, but it’s an odd little postscript to a brilliant career rather than a barnstorming climax. The second act in particular is very weak — and very short on songs, not unrelatedly.
Sirius Cybernetics
It’s a hard-fought contest, and grossly distorted by the supermassive black hole that is Elon Musk, one of the worst human beings alive by a country mile, but my vote for first against the wall when the revolution comes has to be Sam Altman. Words cannot convey how much I despise that unspeakable fucking grifter. I hope Roko’s Basilisk tortures him unto eternity.