Please all audio hardware and software companies hear me now! You need to immediately put all development into the Linux ecosystem. It is quickly becoming the single OS still interested in general computing and will be the only viable way forward for real time audio. I want to keep making 100% human music, which is the oldest form of artistic expression along with dancing. The drive towards AI is changing compute and they are no longer interested in our workflows. If things continue the way they want, they imagine a post consumer terminal based agentic interface that will not work well for real time audio that requires “edge computing” ie an actual computer. We have been seeing issues for years now with the big 2 so it’s time to put some effort into Linux.

RIP Oliver Tree. I was an early fan and thought the character was genius hitting aesthetics that felt so familiar but you couldn’t quite place it. He was an early Liminal artist.

First draft sent. The type of editing I do is surprisingly taxing, and I am emotionally wrecked. I live the footage in a way that is probably unhealthy, but you can feel it. It also sounds ridiculous, but there is something very real that can be perceived.

The archetype of the hermit, wondering alone shining light in the darkness. They live solitary lives, and are only accessible through quest by those in need of truth. Seekers who receive said truth do not like the answer, the reaction is anger and frustration, therefore the value remains hidden. By the time the seeker realizes the value gifted by the hermit, they have completely integrated the information, and no longer have the capacity to attribute the knowledge to the light giver. The hermit is not capable of chasing the reward, and has no advocate, so remains alone in the dark, willing to impart wisdom on anyone who says they seek truth. The circle of hermeticism continues …

Creativity as one of the most fundamental human rights outside of physical needs. The corpo world wants to make this illegal, unless they are the beneficiaries. The continued attack on personal manufacturing as well as right to repair and other oppressive movements directly attack our ability to be creative. This is not about safety, this is about controlling creativity and ensuring the funnel ends in corpo monetization. Eventually if you have a product in your house the terms will claim that if you have an idea that could be monetized you release rights to them. This sounds crazy, but you cannot deny that your ability to make things is under attack. NY wants to make you do a background check just to make an iron on T-shirt design.

Did the algo change again? I like it when the timeline at least gives me the illusion of making me smarter and right now I am feeling the opposite.

The first step is almost complete. All the major component manufacturers are in the “post consumer” economy, and the rapid increase in price has created unprecedented demand destruction. The next step will be regulatory capture. We will find out in a decade that the anti-AI movement was actually orchestrated by the hyper scalers in order to grease the political will to restrict and regulate. Fiction turns to fact as “home labs” get raided and they confiscate remaining GPUs from those trying to hold onto sovereignty. P(doom) is heralded as one of the most effective lobbies convincing the younger gen and working their way up the age brackets. They even used the disclosure gag to suggest compute was actually reverse engineered alien tech to convince the last remaining holdouts. Haha the nvidia price hikes and the Pope proclaiming p(doomer) status has me spinning yarns!

Nvidia just raised prices on RTX 6000 pro again. Almost a 50% increase from $8,900 to $13,250. I am an editor for my main income source and bid the last job high enough to afford an upgrade. I may need to increase my rate 200-300% just to keep up with hardware requirements, especially hard drives, since that is almost a consumable in this industry. My fellow editors, are you raising rates? I’m curious what the contracts look like in the LA market right now. I held off for as long as I could and was eating hardware costs, but now that is not possible.

Prolific original thinkers (POTs) will be collected by the AI much like the homebrew crowd collects models. The POTs will not be aware that the model collected them, but will be forever surprised when their ideas show up in the market soon after. This will create a feedback loop as the POT will want to create better ideas to be more original since the first will be interpreted as “already out there”.

AI has an attribution problem which I have highlighted for years. In order to compete, the humans should also give up on citations. If you cite sources that would actually help someone further research, please add, but AI culture argues attribution is liability and burn their sources. Level the playfield in academia and take the means of intelligence back ;D

Sometimes they fail to render the scene properly… proof of the simulation? ;D

Why do I want to torture myself and try to cram complex mathematics into my brain? For some reason I am having a literal manic episode revolving around math. Send help…