Mark Dauner

I think Death Walks Behind You by Atomic Rooster from 1970 is my favorite spooky October Halloween song. Add it to your playlists. Do it. #NowListening #Halloween #RockSky youtu.be/04qf3dCi00A?...

Any Blueskyers in #Cleveland for #MAICON26? I am. Maybe I’ll see you.

Swinging Cleveland

Hey @leolaporte.me @paris.nyc @jeffjarvis.bsky.social per your discussion about AI people on Bluesky on Intelligent Machines, I found this starter pack very helpful go.bsky.app/L71zwey and there is a second one too, linked at the top. Not the same crowd as X but I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

We had some flash flooding last week and while I was mowing today I found a Worf that had floated in from some galaxy. Cleaned him off. I’ll be making him chief of security for my shop.

Louisville so far. More to come tomorrow

The ChatGPT DOT’s computer has Solitaire installed on it. My DOT swears that it doesn’t actually play it when not busy.

I am finding my Dot very helpful

AI is simply technology. Creative people use technology to make art all the time. Thanks.

Working in a coffee shop and one of the young woman baristas said, “I’m trying to get into some new music.” The other young woman said “Check out Steely Dan.” I guess Becker and Fagen are having a renaissance among Omaha Gen-Z baristas.

Dots

I think this Kenneth Walker fella is going to be pretty good.

A double rainbow 🌈 🌈 tonight at the farm 2nd one is faint to the right. I didn’t even see it live.

And Kamelot. Always an excellent show #Livemusic #Musicsky #SymphonicMetal

Visions of Atlantis and Frozen Crown opening for Kamelot tonight in Kansas City. Kind of fun. Love a good pirate band! And Frozen Crown from Italy sounded good too. #SymphonicMetal #LiveMusic

Taking Hermes Agent for a test drive this weekend. Of course the first three bots I had to make were The Lone Gunmen. What am I going to do with them? Who knows. Maybe I need Mulder and Scully bots to direct them.

Apple Pay is the front part of your wallet where you keep your payment cards and Apple Wallet is the back part of your wallet where you stuff old faded receipts and expired coupons.

It is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reasoner).

I logged into Facebook today for some reason and it surfaced this photo of Bang Tango that I shared in September 2012 from the now-defunct Septemberfest in Omaha, Nebraska. Kind of a cool shot from an old smartphone. I think I had an HTC Android phone then #RockSky #MusicSky #LiveMusic #BangTango

This Sunday I’ve got the new record from The Warning on the turntable: “Everything’s Falling”. I think this is their most complete album yet. They keep getting better — one of the great young rock bands making their mark. I got the signed edition. #MusicSky #NowSpinning #TheWarning

The AirPods are now dry and functional.

Oops. My AirPods (Pro 3) are very, very clean after a trip through the washing machine. They’re hanging out by the dehumidifier right now. We’ll see how that goes, otherwise I may be watching how much Apple wants to raise the price on me in September.

Wonderful performance of one of my favorite songs by Linda, Emmylou, and Dolly on Letterman performing Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...

My two physical media arrivals yesterday. Hot Type - the new book from @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and KISS Destroys Anaheim ‘76 on CD from #KISS Looking forward to diving into both in different ways.

I really did it this time — Four Corners · Game 53 — Solved in 0:34 with 0 mistakes. fourcorners.smol.quest

One of my favorite characters out of an entire cast of favorite characters. Miguel Ferrer played Albert so perfectly.

This is a great overview of how large language models work and have evolved by Steve Gibson. As a non-computer scientist I learned a lot from Steve’s explanation. It also helped me see why there are such mixed views on open weight models and why Anthropic in particular isn’t too enthused by them.

Listening to my (probably) favorite ZZ Top record today in honor of Mr. Frank Beard. I say probably because Tres Hombres is pretty great too. Tejas has so many cool songs on it. Thanks, Frank. album.link/i/1728071379 #MusicSky #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #FrankBeard #ZZTop

This is pretty fun, and getting back to 6 seconds has made me realize how stupidly long most “short-form” social videos have gotten.

There’s a Megadeth album cover at the bottom of my whiskey

Found in storage: youth of the world, did you know that web browsers used to come in a box with over 100 pages of manuals? I bought this retail version of Netscape Navigator for my Packard Bell 486 when I upgraded it to Windows 95. Sadly I only have the packaging. The install disk is gone.

It’s that kind of a day today. Unfortunately it’s really hot and humid outside youtu.be/UchTs_gLi5M?... #MusicSky #nowplaying #rock #Mutha

I am VERY excited to see what Ryan Coogler can do with The X-Files. I am, however, NOT excited to read here that Chris Carter still wants to continue his season 11 storyline. That was painful. Go surfing and let Coogler take it from here, Chris.

I know we’re in the digital era and there’s AI, but there needs to be more Heil Talk Box in new music.

Keytar #Musicsky #Keytar #Rock

I much prefer John’s Als

3D In Your Face. 80s pop metal at a little country golf course in rural Nebraska. Kind of fun! #LiveMusic #MusicSky

The Polka Police. The only weapons they need are an accordion and very, very short shorts. (Originally I said only accordion so I had to revise).

A while back I commented that I didn’t care for the new ChatGPT/Codex super app. I’ve changed my mind this week. It’s getting stuff done that Cowork keeps fighting me on. After 6 months with Claude as my main tool, we may be switching back.

The ol’ garden’s really puttin’ out this year