Thoughts 💭 of Widdershins

Just for a little while.

I am a huge fan of the Netflix series Peaky Blinders.

I am halfway through my first class in pursuing my master's degree.

I've been playing music for a very long time...since I was in middle school.

It is now 9:30pm.

Götterdämmerung, Act 3: Siegfried's Funeral March (Twilight of the Gods) very well could be in the top 5 of the most moving pieces of music ever created.

Sometime around mid-November, Voyager 1 will cross the one light-day mark.

I remember back in the days of the early internet in the 1990's the concept of news, information and things that where beneficial to being a well informed person, being behind a paywall would have been a very foreign idea.

I sometimes wonder if we have, as humans, forgotten how totally inconsequential we are in the grand scheme of, well, everything.

Trying to recover my health as a 60 year old man is not easy.

I read a this post I found on bubbles.town about a guy who determined he was a better person without his phone.

Yes, I am on Reddit every day...

I know there is a lot of hate regarding this subject, but honestly, I really don't fucking care what other people think regarding music and AI...

My introduction to AI was with ChatGPT about 4 years ago.

I have read Hamish Campbell's articles before...

On September 11, 2001, I was 35 years old and had only been working a new job at a US Army base for about four months.

I was born in 1966, which means as of this blog post, I am 60 years old.

I struggle with a very over active brain.

So the latest thing is this Anthropic (for those unaware, that is the company that runs the AI "Claude") researcher who quit is now claiming AI will kill all humanity and we are "gambling with our lives."

My apologies to William Shakespeare 😂 To publish, or not to publish, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler to dwell within The walled gardens of the mighty platforms, There to harvest likes and fleeting notice, Or to take up domain, server, and editor…

I am currently reading: The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted…

So I was browsing the fediverse and one of the ways I do that is solely by hashtags that represent things I am interested in or drawn to.

I enjoyed AI the past few years.

A few months ago I hit age 60.

My drive to the office during the week is not far, maybe 5 minutes away from my apartment.