Finished Reading: Mike Joyce - The Drums by Mike Joyce. A nice little memoir of Joyce’s time in The Smiths. He doesn’t dwell on court cases or royalty disputes or anything like that. Just the sheer joy of being in one of the greatest bands.📚
Read: In Another World - The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk by Graeme Thomson. A fantastic book that makes you listen to and hear the Talk Talk albums in a different light. The best kind of music book.📚
Watched: Eno. I enjoyed this. Brian Eno is still a very inspiring person. 🍿
I saw lots of posts this morning from people complaining that “person” was trending in their social media. Do they STILL not know how this stuff works?
I seem to be getting into a habit of updating CrucialTracks. Picking a favourite song brings a nice little spark of joy every day. 🎵
Watched John Oliver’s recent investigation into AI chatbots. I would be quite happy to see all of these companies sued out of existence.
Watched: PlayTime. I love this film. I think I’m becoming more like Monsieur Hulot. 🍿
I bought this portable FiiO CD player. It sounds really good. I have a bunch of CD-R discs that wouldn’t play on my older player. This plays them with no issues at all. Very pleased with the purchase.
🔗 We let four AIs run radio stations. Here’s what happened.
I’m in the AI sceptic camp but I find this whole story fascinating.
Read: All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook. I felt like taking a shower after reading this before immediately reading it again. It’s a horribly good read. 📚
I started an account just to try out the new Wordpress short-form blogging theme. It just reminded me of one of the reasons I stopped using Wordpress in the first place. That clunky interface is still the same. I don’t post nearly enough here but I will always choose the simplicity of Micro.blog.