Rob Thomas

Rob Thomas

@rmichaelthomas.com

Polymath + Creative Entrepreneur. rmichaelthomas.com. AKA DJ BLK MZK. Founder, BLKXCNCT, BLK MZK, and more. Creator of @ptah.world. Let's connect! The Way of Now available at thewayofnow.com. https://ko-fi.com/rmichaelthomas to buy me a coffee :)

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So the dude wearing the Michael Jackson filter on TikTok is getting booked for appearances...IRL... It's giving BBC's "Years and Years" and I hate that because wtf y'all doing!?

They finna give Allison Janney (again) and James Spader ALL the awards because THEY ARE KILLING THESE ROLES in The Diplomat and VisionQuest respectively. Sheesh!

Truly had no idea that politicians were bitches like this as a kid. It is stunning. Everybody need they ass beat. EVERYBODY!

A lot of people are stupid. Flat out. Free yourself and let them be stupid together! Go touch grass and read a book they can’t 😂✊🏾

I miss directing a choir. I miss playing the drums. I miss singing. I miss being together with other people making aural MAGIC cause that's what that shit is.

COVID/lockdown produced some creative art moments. Seeing artists create experiences out of nothing in their living room and repurposing everyday spaces to make magic was so stunning. That stretch we all had to make was hard but it pushed us to make some unique art, man. Like ppl do in hard times.

Some days, I feel like I don’t know why I come onto the internet at all…like really, what is the damn point any more!?

I had an idea to create a way of communicating outside of the system using their technology to go around them and man... Every time I make something, I realize it hasn't been done yet because it was waiting for me. That is a trip.

It's funny because I, a Millennial, wouldn't mind hearing what the new music sounds like. But when I go out, all they playing is music that I grew up with in the spot. Like, do the kids not make catchy shit!? Why is everything remixed 90s/2000s stuff? LOL I be so confused man.

My question is always, "If I see past the hyperbole, is there an everyday case for this?" With Jev, I applied it to a real-world usage case -- I'm a DJ, with a large catalog! Then experimented to see where Jev and I agreed on the next track to play, or not. rmichaelthomas.com/technology/t...

rmichaelthomas.comThe Next Track: a DJ second opinion from JevPick what's playing and where the room should go. The Next Track narrows your Rekordbox library by tempo, key and genre, then Jev picks what to play next.

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My question is always, "If I see past the hyperbole, is there an everyday case for this?" With Jev, I applied it to a real-world usage case -- I'm a DJ, with a large catalog! Then experimented to see where Jev and I agreed on the next track to the play, or not. rmichaelthomas.com/technology/t...

rmichaelthomas.comThe Next Track: a DJ second opinion from JevPick what's playing and where the room should go. The Next Track narrows your Rekordbox library by tempo, key and genre, then Jev picks what to play next.

My question is always, "If I see past the hyperbole, is there an everyday case for this?" With Jev, I applied it to a real-world usage case -- I'm a DJ, with a large catalog! Then experimented to see where Jev and I agreed on the next track to the play, or not. rmichaelthomas.com/technology/t...

rmichaelthomas.comThe Next Track: a DJ second opinion from JevPick what's playing and where the room should go. The Next Track narrows your Rekordbox library by tempo, key and genre, then Jev picks what to play next.

Up to 8 this week! 🗣️😭☺️💪🏾👏🏾

Rob Thomas@rmichaelthomas.com

I woke up to seeing that I sold a book yesterday and well, happy day to ME! www.thewayofnow.com if you need a piece of peace today 😀

I have decided to take a crack at my own AppView. I hadn't really planned on doing any more building on the Atmosphere but...this idea is too good and is very me, and, well, why not? LOL. I never stop myself from trying, that's where the learning happens.

New writing on how we’re all trying to figure out what’s real and fake and what can be done about it from my POV, starting with video. 🙏🏾

Rob Thomas@rmichaelthomas.com

No platform, no account, no authority in the middle. A person with a domain and a key can attest their own video and anyone can check it. (5/5) The longer write-up; thank you for rocking with me! rmichaelthomas.com/rmichaelthom...

And....I want another cup of coffee. Baby, that's how I know my brain in there COOKIN'! I am but a mere vessel for the muses, that obliges without condition.

At this rate, I'm just going to tune out the fall of this Empire. Whatever girl, y'all got it. I'm tired. And at the end of the day, THE DAY GON' END! America is yet another tale just coming to its inevitable denouement. And we're all just footnotes in the end, anyway.

I think I finally got a new idea I want to build for the ATProto world. And I think it is spot on...me LOL. I'd been building pieces of it and now, it has just fallen together and I won't even have too much to "build." I like dat.

OK, so bet. Someone sends you footage of the moon landing. You want to know if it's real. Turns out you're actually asking three different questions — and two of them are now solvable. 🧵 (1/5)

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A tool that claimed to prove truth would be worse than no tool at all — the checkmark would launder the fakes it was meant to catch. This clears away the answerable questions so the only one left is the honest one: do you trust the source? That was always the real question. (4/5)

OK, so bet. Someone sends you footage of the moon landing. You want to know if it's real. Turns out you're actually asking three different questions — and two of them are now solvable. 🧵 (1/5)

Has it been edited? Did it actually come from NASA — or someone pretending? Did the moon landing actually happen? We mash all three into "real" and argue forever. The first two now have mechanical answers. The third never will. That's not a hole — that's the whole point. (2/5)

Three results, live, against rmichaelthomas.com: ✅ real clip → ATTESTED & RECOGNIZED ❌ one byte changed → REJECTED ❌ signed by an impostor → ORIGIN UNCONFIRMED Each attack caught by a different check. Built on a couple of languages I made that compute what a file can do before it runs. (3/5)