Weeknotes 3
Did:
Wasted hours and lots of gas visiting Staples, OfficeMax, and Wal-Mart to try out desk chairs. I’ve spent too much time looking at r/OfficeChairs, so most of the ones in those stores feel terrible and the ones that don’t are fantastically overpriced. In the end, I came back home and brought up my 1967 Army-made steel tanker chair from the basement and it’s fine other than needing to be reupholstered.
Found:
Creativity is made, not generated — Procreate®
AI is not our future.
Creativity is made, not generated.
Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We think machine learning is a compelling technology with a lot of merit, but the path generative AI is on is wrong for us.
We’re here for the humans. We’re not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.
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Importing all of your orgmode notes into Apple Notes for mobile access. - vxlabs. This is crazy enough to work.
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Part Four of My Battles with Emacs - Bicycle For Your Mind. I never get tired of reading about how people struggle with and prevail over Emacs.
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“Also, what goes along with me putting those roots deep for 20 years without social media is I have a following and fans who are not desiring me to put a picture of my face up every three days on Instagram. I have an audience that has been there with me for all this time.”
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The entire Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub and published by Apress, is available here.
Music:
- Saw Guided By Voices play at the Broadberry. The band was fine as usual, but it sounded like Pollard’s mic was broken for the first five or six songs, the lighting was so dim it was as if they were afraid we’d be able to see the faces of the band members, and the layout of the club is more narrow than it is wide. It has never made sense. I hate the Broadberry.
- The Jesus And Mary Chain — Pop Seeds. (from Doug)
- Death — Freakin Out. (from Tina)
- First two Atomic Rooster albums. (from Will)
- George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique. (from Richard)
- Blondshell — What’s Fair. (from Matt)
- Dean Roberts — Sugar Got a Cocaine Heart (from Strength Through Failure 2024-08-20)
- White Winged Moth — Kayo (from Strength Through Failure 2024-08-20)
- Nick Cave: Wild God
Looking forward to:
Broadcast - Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006
Distant Call is a collection of early demos of songs that would subsequently appear as finished productions on the albums Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon. The album also includes two songs discovered by James after Trish’s passing: “Come Back To Me” and “Please Call To Book”. These were her response to Broadcast’s 2006 ‘Let’s Write A Song’ project, where fans were asked to submit lyrics on a postcard which would then be worked into a finished song. Distant Call is a closing of the door on Broadcast and will be the last release from the band. Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006 will be released via Warp Records on September 28th and available on standard black 1LP and CD.
Although I’m sad that it’s “a closing of the door on Broadcast”. Trish Keenan will be regarded as one of the towering songwriters of our time. Gone way too soon.