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The Loneliness of Perfect Music: What We Gain and Lose in the Age of AI Sound

Dec

13

2025

I’ve been thinking about music lately—specifically, about the strange new reality where anyone can conjure a song perfectly tailored to their exact mood, their specific moment, their singular taste. With AI music generation tools (suno.com, udio, boomy, Riffusion ) becoming increasingly sophisticated, we’re approaching a world where each of us might have our own personal ...

most honest discussion about future AI consequences (DOAC)

Dec

2

2025

This DOAC (Diary of a CEO Podcast) with Steven Bartlett had an interesting guest.on a recent podcast episode x-Google Insider and AI Expert TRISTAN HARRIS had a broad and pretty honest conversation on how ChatGPT, China, and Elon Musk are racing to build uncontrollable AI, and warns it will blackmail humans, hack democracy, and threaten ...

Useful but obscure Websites 5

Sep

25

2025

The internet is full of hidden treasures that often fly under the radar, yet they pack incredible value for anyone who stumbles across them. Take Project Gutenberg, for example—a vast digital library offering over 70,000 free eBooks, from timeless classics to forgotten gems. Or WolframAlpha, a computational engine that doesn’t just search for answers but ...

Cool prompts for art styles in GPT 4o / nano Banana / Copilot

Aug

22

2025

One of the most interesting visual playgrounds that have come out of the recent AI art revolution is ChatGPT 4o & (Microsfot CoPilot) i& Google Gemini (Nano Banana) mage rendering. The Image render uses a different type of model that creates very distinct and engaging generated artwork. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the ...

Bucket List

Aug

15

2025

So I want to update my bucket list which I made a while back , you can read my old list here, some of those items are still on this list plus I added a new ones.. I’ll be updating this page as the items are ehcked off and completed. This list is no particular ...

Adventure Across Vietnam and Japan

Jun

21

2025

June 2025 After three back-to-back flights totaling over 20 hours (EWR ->SFO ?->TPA -> SGN) of flying, we finally landed in Saigon, Vietnam on June 2nd. Exhausted, jet-lagged, and immediately hit by the thick, humid air, we stumbled into a cab, already mesmerized by the chaos outside—a symphony of motorbike horns, humidity, and human energy. ...

clean and simple PHP multi-language app scheme 1

Mar

7

2025

Just a very short post on how to quickly and easily display multi-lingual web page content in basic PHP web pages or apps for a variety of languages. Of course you can run always webpage through a translation app, but this more often than not have unintended results as JavaScript heavy apps generally get corrupted ...

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