Scratch Pad: Metrics, AI, Pan

I do this manually at the end of each week: collating most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I take weekends off social media. 

▰ The first spam call of the day is such a special moment.

▰ I was reading how the full line of new iPhones can output 4K DisplayPort video , and I started to wonder when I won’t even own a “computer” anymore. A lot of steps between now and then, but seems quite close.

▰ When I watched the preview for the upcoming Aquaman movie, my first thought was, “He’s fighting Deadmau5?”

▰ I fed the latest Disquiet Junto prompt into the Stable Audio web app (stableaudio.com) from Stability AI, and it’s been running for a few minutes. Either traffic is heavy, or it broke the neural network’s brain.

▰ I love details like this. It’s from Jon Pareles’ article about the new Rolling Stones album. The Watt mentioned here is the album’s producer, Andrew Watt. Can’t say I loved the first single, but I’m looking forward to hearing the rest of it.

▰ This next comment is solely for fans of Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men comics, but in Hickman’s world it would turn out there is only one Florida Man and he did everything ever attributed to “Florida man.” (I have been helpfully reminded by a friend that this is, in essence, the proposal offered by LaKeith Stanfield’s Darius in Atlanta.)

▰ This isn’t the first time, but I purposefully wiped clean my organized MP3s, stuck ’em all in one folder (mostly by album) and have slowly been re-adding them to Apple Music (I don’t subscribe to Apple Music but I do to iTunes Match) one at a time. Getting reacquainted is nice.

▰ I have quantified my sense of the profession:

▰ There’s metadata trainspotting, and there’s “What second of what minute did this album release appear in public?” metadata trainspotting.