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Music: Sutej Singh
From the Indian sub-continent, Sutej delivers killer progressive jams with panache
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The Coming Crypto Insanity
The Trump administration is going to make it ever so worse. And it was already pretty fucking terrible.
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Music: Kent Nishimura returns with a smooth player
His take on a collaboration between Dionne Warwick and Bert Bacharach brings an Austin Powers vibe to my ears. Delightful!
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Music: Sungha Jung returns
The beauty of his rendition of this complex set of melodies is just perfection
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Meta's AI bots are weird (and really fucking bad)
As the enshittification of the internet (and platforms in particular) has accelerated, you have AI bots trying to trick users into engaging. Could a bot-war where users employ bots to counter be far?
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What I am listening to: Fall of Civilizations Podcast
First in a series of what I enjoy listening to. Paul Cooper brings polish and artistic flourishes to make the history of the great empires of history come to life. You feel like you are in it.
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A Fateful Remembrance
January 3, 2010 my life changed. Every day since then has been a blessing. Today, I am celebrating 15 years of survival.
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Dafuq is the Times up to now? Tom Suozzi op-ed
With reps like this, the Dem's are well and truly fucked. His optimism is misplaced.
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Aw, poor widdle Chief Justice Roberts has his fee-fees hurt...
The SCOTUS is feeling the heat. Will they adjust their activities? Don't count on it...
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Holiday doldrums. Or, why haven't I posted a lot lately?
Some scattered reflections on the outgoing year, and soul-searching for the future.
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A musical "what if?": ELP's Karn Evil 9 on a pipe organ?!?
And a lesson that was not obvious from when I began playing so many decades ago.
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AI Slop
GenAI can be impressive, but what it ain't is Artificial Intelligence.