Gus Dahlberg

@gdahlberg
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Domestic relations lawyer. Public school parent. Lifelong nerd. Leave the world better than you found it.
Rejoining Masto over here, coming from cmh.one. Hi folks.

via @andybaio, here's some AI-generated emo music.

It's... not great, but if you weren't really listening that closely, would you notice?

https://dadabots.medium.com/fake-feelings-ai-emo-93e77918b21

Fake Feelings — ai emo - Dadabots - Medium

When post-hardcore emo band Silverstein approached our Berlin-based art collective about a collab, AI emo seemed like a perfectly ironic thing to make exist. After training raw audio neural nets on…

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Jamiroquai explains how they made their iconic "moving floor" music video for Virtual Insanity. The trick is to remember that motion is relative to your frame of reference... https://kottke.org/22/12/how-jamiroquai-shot-their-iconic-virtual-insanity-video
How Jamiroquai Shot Their Iconic Virtual Insanity Video

Some 26 years after the release of the group's groundbreaking music video for Virtual Insanity, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay explains ho

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Twitter these days feels like a shopping mall where one anchor store was replaced by a flea-market and another by a prosperity-gospel church; also sketchy groups of people hanging out near the restrooms and rent-a-cops not doing much
Appears that the quarantine fairies have been here and have left goodies and treats for all those stuck in various isolation rooms
Testing the limits of modern convenience by ordering an amazon fire stick (so I don’t go crazy being trapped in this room) for Instacart delivery late on a Saturday
While I stand by my belief Batman '89 is superior to The Dark Knight, I now know my best man toast was the wrong time to make the case.
Playing around with ChatGPT this afternoon and though it can mimic the language of someone who knows things, it doesn't actually know things (and isn't capable of knowing)—the illusion of its intelligence relies on the willingness of the reader to invest its generated words with meaning

Getting COVID sucks.

Getting COVID on the only day in the next week and a half that you had to decorate the house for the holidays with the kids still at home is worse.

Yeah, no