Robert, Angie, Shayna and I hiked Bronson Canyon on Saturday. Too many people with speakers, but some great views of the city and the Hollywood sign. I took the first two photos and Shayna snapped the other one.
Ai-generated punk songs from daughter’s texts to her mom. The whole family was crying.
I too believe headless is going to be a thing (it already is for me).
It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way they can see the docs that you can see, and use the tools that you can use, and so what they want is not APIs (which connect webservers) but little apps they can use directly. CLI tools are the perfect little apps.
From Matt Webb’s latest post, Headless everything for personal AI.
I put up a Birdbuddy in our front yard this weekend. The most difficult part was figuring out where to put it, mostly to avoid squirrels, but I feel like that’s a nearly impossible task.
I’ve had this strong sense we’re nearing a point where physical media and local digital media are going to make a much bigger comeback than anyone expected. There’s going to be lots of talk about local everything. We’re seeing the beginnings of it now.
Praise the Internet gods. You can turn YouTube Shorts off!
We watched a few Coachella Couchella performances with the kids over the weekend. I ended up watching the Nine Inch Noize performance before bed last night and WOW! The production was absolutely stunning and the performance is, perhaps, one of the best in Coachella history.
Don’t you just love capitalism?
One company owns Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Reebok, Champion, Dockers, and 50+ other brands you grew up with. They don’t design anything. They don’t manufacture anything. They buy beloved brands out of bankruptcy, fire the people who made the products, and rent the logo to whoever pays. The stores close. The workers lose their jobs. The brand lives on as a zombie.
Found a great new (to me) newsletter that I instantly subscribed to after coming across this reddit thread.
Shadowy Rabbit Holes
Last night’s rabbit hole started began with Thom Yorke’s recent solo show at the Sydney Opera House. I love that it was made available. It was a great show, though I have to admit it was a bit weird seeing him play Radiohead songs without the band. The last time I saw him play solo (just him) was in 2002 at the Bridge School Benefit. I hadn’t heard Rabbit In Your Headlights in a while (great music video btw). It was the first single from Psyence Fiction, an incredible album/project from the late 90s that Josh Davis (a.k.a. DJ Shadow) and James Lavelle (founder of Mo’ Wax) put together. While I was on YouTube, I got served Zane’s interview with Josh from four years ago, which was one of the rare Zane interviews I watched until the end. Throughout the interview, I would pause and listen to tracks from Endtroducing….., which is one of the greatest albums in the history of music.