wax banks

LLMs are good at cranking out derivative schlock and lame pastiche but remain terrible at producing musical prose; for a variety of reasons I’m guessing they’ll remain so for a long time if not forever.

So stressed and upset after yesterday’s bsky fuckery that I dreamt horribly vividly of meeting an old friend on MIT’s campus and being consumed by anger at her — to the point of storming off rudely refusing to speak — because she Didn’t Really Care About…

OpenAI is holding back release of its new Astra model because it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions [and] was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do.

The Good Bye of The Bad Plus: Reid Anderson, Dave King Plot Next Moves – JazzTimes Dave King talks about what Ethan Iverson accomplished in The Bad Plus: What Ethan did, beautifully, was turn the piano into something else.

The phish.net book club chat about my 33-1/3 book happens on the 30th at something o’clock — you should join up, log in, and stop by.

The Draft crawls past the 11,000-word mark, the nor’easter continues passive-aggressively to hover and threaten but has Not Yet Begun to Piss Down Rain, whatever cleverness we’ve managed is tainted by a Laboured vibe.

Instead of putting this morning’s 1,500 words on you, like a smallpox-blanket of the blogmagination, I’ll humbly/perfectly offer these excerpted words, which tell ugly truth about what I write and write for and why you come around here reading, you wonder…

Not all days are perfect successes.

today is the hundredth anniversary of john coltrane’s birth. a giant came and went. his music and devotion helped me figure out what i am. if you have a half-hour alone today, maybe find a quiet place and listen to ‘venus,’ his duet with rashied ali, reco…

Tomorrow is the centennial of John Coltrane’s birth.

and it’s a proposition and it goes a little something like this: The best way to stability is to get good at things you love doing, and practice them regularly.

did you ever think that maybe the cellphones are addicted to US looking at THEM?

Basically a misanthropic diary entry.

on longer THINGS not just ‘stuff’ there’s a difference lol

on longer stuff

Building on the other day’s post— I play Star Wars Unlimited, and while it’s reasonably cheap for a ‘trading card game,’ they’re generally expensive in absolute terms.

Nothing today.

some girls days are bigger busier than others.

Yesterday on Reddit someone asked how to cheaply build up a collection of Star Wars Unlimited cards for Premier (constructed-deck) play.

I was wondering why I hadn’t gotten any new bsky followers in ages — at Christmas I was added to some (presumably ‘pro-AI’) blocklist.

if your morning writing is Interrupted, Girl, and you can’t come back to it until the bottom of the mid-afternoon trough, you can recommit to the longerish post you’d started, or you can post this instead. trust the Reader(s), trust the world. drink inste…

Ever rise and abashedly shine and it not pay off and you think: ‘Fuck this day already’?

My wife is recovering from a planned minor surgery, and I’ve alternating mornings out writing with afternoons at home with her, watching Homeland and heating up frozen mashed potatoes.

Yesterday, family-chauffeur work — doctor trips and sundry.

Health matters.

Time for some inside baseball, sorry.

Did you know that Ctrl-D functions like the Delete key on Macs?

Hmm, what shall we disappointed by today?

An interesting, retrospectively inevitable bit of franchise product: an in-world pseudohistory of the Imperial period of Star Wars, written by an academic historian (who’s published with Routledge on political ideology in Star Wars).

Busy day, no writing.

I was born in 1979, so my sophomore and junior years spanned the miracle movie-year of 1999.