I solved today's MiniWord in 1:08 (#21 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me? Better than yesterday ;-p

I solved today's MiniWord in 730:29 (#96 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me? Oops - went to be with app open ;-p

First Draft Club

I let my sub lapse as I wanted to get onto a calendar month renewal cadence - so - will start again on the 1st and commit to every week from then on - see you next week :-)

Oh how I love Jon Stewart.  12 minutes of brilliance with an absolute genius ending:

Oh how I love Jon Stewart.  12 minutes of brilliance with an absolute genius ending: https://youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?si=9vehy8Nct_sO6nfN&t=993

Social media apps should have a “drunk mode” button, which flags casts to others and then auto deletes them 15 minutes later.

I Took a Photo!

Evening dog walk - two views of Smeatons Bridge

Music

My 14 year old niece just got back from Rock Camp where she learned Creep - we brought her onstage at the local open mic - my brother on guitar - I'm on keys and house drummer and singer - how cool is she! ;-p

Really interesting use of AI as music manager rather than creator - thought this was great - suspect @deshsax.eth @mattlee and a few others would find this of interest:

Musician • Songwriter • Producer | Web3's first rockstar | Wrote a song a day for 100 days just released the best tracks: deshsaxena.com/release3

Really interesting use of AI as music manager rather than creator - thought this was great - suspect @deshsax.eth @mattlee and a few others would find this of interest:  https://substack.com/@musicben/p-167883434

Just a normal day - out with Bowser - walking along Tay river

The universe is pulling me into a Country groove - and I'm OK with it - this is the kind of writing that I always thought Country did brilliantly ;-p

The universe is pulling me into a Country groove - and I'm OK with it - this is the kind of writing that I always thought Country did brilliantly ;-p https://open.spotify.com/track/2y5C51WYViKvIo9i1mrczC?si=a31b0b62c0b64de4

Going through the musicto archives and remembering some of the playlists that never got rolling.  Still love this image for music to Jam to - thinking that would be a good list to resurrect ;-p

What were you saying about Country eh? @boiler  ;-p

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What were you saying about Country eh? @boiler  ;-p
https://www.hitsongsdeconstructed.com/hsd_wire/country-music-is-now-the-leading-genre-in-the-hot-100-top-10/

"For these communities, hearing a generative model spit out a synthetic gospel track or an AI-generated country twang is not just an artistic affront, it can feel like outright blasphemy, proof that tech elites would rather manufacture culture than nurture it."

"For these communities, hearing a generative model spit out a synthetic gospel track or an AI-generated country twang is not just an artistic affront, it can feel like outright blasphemy, proof that tech elites would rather manufacture culture than nurture it."
https://musicx.substack.com/p/populists-vs-tech-titans-the-battle

I solved today's MiniWord in 0:50 (#27 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me? Felt I could have been faster! ;-)

For the last two months, @music2work2 and I have been curating a very special collaborative playlist "The Broken Hearts Club" 💔 
Featuring Mazzy Star, Elliott Smith, Nirvana or Radiohead...it’s pure bangers, so I recommend keeping tissues handy lol 

Def give it a listen! You might just find your new favorite sad song 🤭 

Big shoutout to Andrew for letting me be part of this. Had such a blast, and I’m already excited for the next one!

https://www.musicto.com/playlist/the-broken-hearts-club/

Heh!  I’m loving this process - it’s such a wonderfully bleak list - complete with false hope and ending in loneliness.  Thank you @janicka  - sufjan is up next!!!

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Loving this next iteration of Wet Leg - https://youtu.be/AzUHNjKMeV4?si=jXKZPmrEjLoKaKuj

We used to position bands around other artists: we sound like this band - that band, etc.  I think we need to market our new music around specific tracks: this sounds like this track - that track.  More focused and emotionally connected connection.

I can take that side:

The early days of the internet was a sparse set of pocket communities, loosely connected under rapidly evolving standards, different cross-cutting concerns becoming mini fiefdoms (browsers: Netscape, IE; access: compuserve, prodigy, AOL; communication protocols: email, gopher, ftp, http, usenet), some with strong cultural norms and self-enforced behaviors. As standards emerged and blood was shed on the battlefield, many victors of their fiefdoms tried to extend their grasp to adjacent territories (Microsoft -> MSN, AOL -> Usenet). By a decade's time, all of these things died by their own mistakes: Microsoft lost the browser and access wars, AOL lost everything.

Why? Because they weren't approaching it holistically as a new system to collaborate within and create new things, but rather, to try to extend their control on more things that people were wanting to do on the web.

Who won? The web natives: Google became the sprawling indexer, connecting people to more things, rather than locking people's interaction surface of the world. Amazon became the physical and digital logistics giant, plumbing the majority of the web's services.

The way I personally view the base strategy, is that they hitched their wagon to a set of nascent technologies — ethereum scales poorly, so they made a centralized sequencer to handle more throughput, only to get bottlenecked on other limitations. They condensed their entire strategy around making everything a token, missing the entirely new emergent properties of crypto: trustlessness, privacy, and self sovereignty.

Their strategy is the same playbook AOL played. And it worked for AOL for a few years. Where are they now?

Crypto is more than digital land grabs for AOL Keywords.

Macha Gharibian - a phenomenal Woman: https://open.spotify.com/track/1MDzT2eiAbxLPoXZkJjLYy?si=fa86cf3e3c554664

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