Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org

#NowPlaying -- ending the afternoon with some Black Breath

#Harcore #Thrash #metal

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ykC7nBjMl4M&feature=share

Everyone (...well... ok, Twitter...) is talking about Jordan Peterson's terrible steak advice but it just made me want to go and find a (medium) really well executed Wagyu. 🥩

Show me a single non-rhyming poem that adds something positive to the human experience and deserves long-term memetic propagation.

#poetry #WhatIsItGoodFor

And so it begins...

#ai #chatgpt #books

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/10ob56m/i_used_ai_to_write_an_entire_book_which_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Hey #Halifax -- this is happening next weekend:

(Local reposts appreciated!)

#GameJam #GameDev #NovaScotia

Winter 2.0 is coming. :/

#novascotia #weather
#EasternCanada

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/forecasts/polar-vortex-may-bring-eastern-canadas-coldest-temperatures-in-years

This is the first time I've ever heard "Kimbra" but her new album "A Reckoning" is a great Monday morning vibe. #music #NowPlaying

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kzoCE1jBF4r7VMNdxCZ0DHReOzFQr9_jk&feature=share

I re-watched "Everything Everywhere All At Once" taking into consideration some of the comments made by colleagues and friends who loved it. I still don't love it and but I am softening. "Silliness" has never been my kind of humour so the "It's bonkers! [giggles]" defence is sort of lost on me.

#oscars #noxp

Until this moment, I thought I was alone in this.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/28/mumbling-actors-bad-speakers-or-lazy-listeners-why-everyone-is-watching-tv-with-subtitles-on

I asked #ChatGPT to give me a list of the #industrial and #EBM albums released so far in 2023 and it gave me a list of awesome sounding records by existing artists and as far as I can tell, none of it is real.

I would be first in line if there were a new #FLA album.

1. 'Meltdown' by Nitzer Ebb
2. 'Industrial Revolution' by Covenant
3. 'The Rising Tide' by Front Line Assembly
4. 'Void' by Skinny Puppy
5. 'Disorder' by VNV Nation
6. 'Labyrinth' by X-Fusion
7. 'The Darkest Age' by Front 242
8. 'The Silence' by Mindless Self Indulgence
9. 'The Unforgiving' by Combichrist
10. 'Eden' by Aesthetic Perfection

Say what you will about #aiart but this playlist cover I just created using #midjourney is peak #metal and it's f**king awesome.

It has a couple of fault points -- the ChatGPT output can be inconsistent so you have to try and tell your prompt exactly how you want it formatted. Seems to work ok. Even though you get the artist and track from ChatGPT, there is no guarantee it'll be in Spotify's catalogue so I used fuzzy string matching to score for the best pick out of Spotify's search query. In some infrequent cases, it's simply not found though.

I just wrote a program which queries ChatGPT for any list of music you ask for and turns it into a Spotify playlist.

Example: "Give me a list of the top 50 punk songs released in the year 2000" -> New Spotify Playlist.

#programming #ai #chatgpt

Going to read up some more on ActivityPub this weekend. Still thinking about a high performance, low cost, single user instance.

My precious.

It has arrived.