2026.02.02
Pretty good month for music last month. "Water Fountain" is the most interesting one - it has a sound like the Dixie Cups' version of Iko Iko but then the lyrics and some of the acoustic treatment is very modern.
Also - not that I have a big audience for "new music i added" but Diane mentioned she was mostly interested in like, WHERE I ran into music. And like, oddly that is one of the more interesting details for me as well. so for a while maybe I'll try to make more notes on that... this month it was mostly shows/movies.
4 star:
* Water Fountain (Tune-Yards)
(used in Nurse Jackie)* Dial Drunk (Noah Kahan & Post Malone)
(recommened by my nephew Wren)
* The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron)
* To All The Boys I've Loved Before (Total Ape Remix) (Jax)
(got into a debate on if "To All The Girls I Loved Before" was sexist or just nostalgic... enjoy this gender-swapped version)
* I'm Alive (Johnny Thunder)
(used in the movie Sentimental Value)
3 star:
* Mo Bamba (Sheck Wes)
* Heart and Soul (Floyd Cramer)
(plays a role in Stranger Things)
* Mama's Fried Potatoes (The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band)
(Myles plays a piano song called "Home Fried Potatoes. Was thinking of adding that but liked the guitars in this one instead.)
* Lady Marmalade (Funky Town)
* Gold On the Ceiling (The Black Keys)
(JP Honk might be adding this)
* Train Dreams (Nick Cave)
Saw it in the movie of the same name (even though it was about lumberjacks.)
* Nobody Knows (Pastor T.L. Barrett and The Youth for Christ Choir)
(used in the movie Sentimental Value)
via pleated-jeans programming memes
Open Photo Gallery
AI Psychosis Support Groups.
It's interesting to figure out where the hell to position oneself on the AI spectrum, both for moral/philosophical reasons as well as one's personal wellbeing - there's such extreme views from "this is the whole future" to "this is clearly awful".
Anyways, at least some versions of LLM AI were such validating yes-men that it created some serious problems, even among people who otherwise seemed pretty steady, mental-health wise. (Reminds me of how Robin Williams et al used to talk about cocaine in the 80s - huge energy and enthusiasms, but left unchecked... not good)
I confess I am getting culture shock whiplash hearing about "moltbook".
Just this weekend I was hearing about Clawdbot=>Moltbot=>OpenClaw , and the idea of giving LLM AI 24/7 access to online chat and what not.
And someone said, lets make a "social media" outlet for all these guys.
It reminds me of a few things - the AI society implied in the movie Her, this other experiment I saw where they had an AI driven podcast "Analyzing Poop & Fart written 1,000 times", times when Microsoft release a primitive AI that trolls and griefers immediately made spout racist garbage.
Well lets all hope they stay good and like us ....
Oh plus AI self loathing... huh