Trent Reznor is now 60 years old. 😬

The arrogance displayed in the complete ignorance of Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake” was what so enraged the masses.

Gizmodo

Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe From AI: Venture Capitalist

In the future, AI will apparently be able to do everybody's job—except Marc's.

Another glorious day for inglorious music.

Spotify

Dark Entries

Bauhaus · In the Flat Field · Song · 1980

It’s beautifully sunny outside so I’m listening to Slint.

Spotify

Good Morning, Captain - Remastered

Slint · Spiderland (remastered) · Song · 2014

Nice piece (paywall):

Client Challenge

There’s something deeply depressing about a song whose chorus is belting out “I want to be forever young” over a generic pounding dance beat.

Bluesky is shit.

The trick with AI seems to be establishing baseline user need and then picking the right model for the job & charging for it.

3 tracks coming soon…

THE HOLY HOUR

THE HOLY HOUR

What do you believe in?

Wail, scream, cry and shout All in search of some way out I am just an imitation Someone else’s machination

The free-banking has begun.

I feel ready to re-engage with social media. I have words I can articulate; le jeu, blasé, se met comfortable et se laisse passer. But where to even start? Nowhere is cool anymore.

🌞 Vibes 🌞

Disgraceful.

Sky News

Apple removes advanced security tool over UK government row

ADP is a tool offered to Apple customers that means only account holders can see things like photos or documents that they have stored online. Appl...

How does it feel To treat me like you do? When you’ve laid your hands upon me And told me who you are.

It’s 2025 and it’s still very difficult to find people on Nostr.

I wish my thoughts and insights were a bit more whimsical, but life gets so grown-up. I miss David Lynch’s weather reports already. I remember listening to them on KROQ in LA back in 2006/7. Such a little slice of bizarre delight for almost 20 years.

Thinking. Networks with low user bases but extraordinary reach are not Social Networks. They are Influence Networks. There are varying degrees of influence networks, and I believe this description better aligns with the monetisation model. Don’t confuse them with Social Networks, which have essentially fallen apart (at least the 1.0 form). …And don’t confuse Social Networks with Social Graphs. The next social network could be built on this social graph, but there’s a lot to build.