My robot mower and this toad have established a cohabitation agreement, in which the toad has taken up residence behind the robot.

ChatGPT: “I’ve seen people move countries and suddenly discover” Bitch you have not seen anything. This is how dangerous AI can be to people who cannot delineate actual observation and human emotion from the AI itself. This is not a person. Stop building these responses into this tech.

I’m spinning records & displaying all sorts of fabulous photos & stuff www.nashvillescene.com/tncms/asset/editorial/dbf3c9bb-1121-4ba1-9152-0299d1d543ef

There’s a showdown happening. Who will be first to make their move?

The Economist can get fucked.

Good production day for solar and today roughly 68% of all our consumption was powered by us and we’re not done. Batteries still at 54% and still producing 600kw. Tell me renewables aren’t the future.

Touted as one of Apple’s best AI features…never once used their recommendations. I mean jfc.

@dieworkwear.bsky.social when I lived in Singapore, I started wearing Uniqlo undershirts, to wick sweat and keep me cool/protect my clothes. Now I live in Italy (less humid), I’d like to switch from synthetic materials to natural, maybe cotton…but which brand or shirts are light enough and fit well?

Fuck all of you. You are the worst people. You’ve violated everything it means to be an American. You will be wiped out at the next election: “Justice Department Opens Probe Into Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll”

AI development infuriates me as someone who wrote a book on database design, & designed them for large corporations/manufacturing. We could teach average folks the value of how powerful this could be in your daily life, but instead we get the power to do this. I mean, it’s pretty epic but still.

Billionaires are essentially emotionally stunted people who never grew out of their toddler stage. They constantly throw tantrums about paying more money or sharing with others, and I can’t believe we have lifted these people up as icons.

How does this work actually, someone who lives in New York City or has business in New York City, gets diverted to where exactly? And then has to what catch another flight or a train or something? These people are actively fucking stupid or purposely destroying America or both.

Tony Blair has lost his fucking mind. He needs to go away and stay gone.

Lovely night.

When I was building technologies for the creative industries, I used to think a lot about how we got here, to understand how we fix it. And one of the pivotal moments for me was when YouTube founders (and investors) decided that hyper scaling for growth was more important than creator rights.🧵

Question: if social media didn’t exist, and our devices were just utility based and not entertainment based, how would you be filling your time each day if you had that time back?

Such a betrayal for poor Farage, who has been nothing but a staunch admirer of Vladimir Putin all this time. This has gotta hurt.

I’ve had people I know tell me that because of AI, they’re not hiring any more entry-level people. Now I think this is all a folly and it’s gonna turn out to be a disaster at some point for businesses, but the interim disaster is what it’s going to do to a generation of unemployed young people.

I’m in the 2%. I grew up poor in a poor farming community. It was pretty ironic that we had a dairy farm and we still got government cheese. And in my early 20s when I started my first company, I was so poor I needed food stamps. I recognize the value of social safety nets. Tax billionaires more.

One thing that drives me crazy is people use AI to transcribe their videos, & then never go back and make corrections when the text-to-speech is wrong. Which means that all of this gets re-ingested into the collective AI brain as misinformation. Because one wrong word can change the entire context.

So one of the things I did when we moved here was I bought two robot lawnmowers, because I didn’t wanna spend my time constantly mowing all of this grass. And while they are not perfect, they do a pretty remarkable job and get it about 90% of the way. I still have to do some edging and trimming.

Is shoe quality getting worse? I’ve had three pairs of shoes in the last year separate from the sole because the glue has failed. Meanwhile, these Zegna I bought in 2021 I’ve been using as outdoor work shoes, and they have been through some shit and are still holding together.

If you’re interested in his music and his life, you should also definitely dig into his marriage with Mexican film star María Félix.

My wife is currently in Mexico City for a holiday with friends, and she asked what she could get me and I said if you pass by any record shops, could you buy me some albums by Agustin Lara. If you aren’t familiar with his work, he famously reinvented bolero music…and it’s just remarkable stuff.

In my 20s in the 90s, I started a company where we built six figure digital video /animation system systems for films and tv. And one of the early things we were pioneering was being able to use digital video editing gear to review/work with dailies live on set. 1/2

Oh, for fucks sake both of you?

There’s a fly buzzing in the room and Mr. I’m So Brave is trying to leave.

It hit 32° here in my pet of Italy today… but the nice thing about having a 200 year-old stone farmhouse with 3 foot thick walls, is that the celler and the ground floor stayed 20°.

It’s kind of funny the administration spending all this money to build this top-secret White House Bunker that will be the absolute first thing nuked in any conflict. Not to mention how not a secret it is.

If there’s a better opening to a song than this, I don’t know it.

As I mentioned before, my flavor of ADHD means that my mind never stops playing music. There is never a moment where a song isn’t playing in my head. There is one song above all others that returns again and again, which is John Coltrane‘s Blue Train.

By the way, the current track on repeat in my head the past few days has been the intro theme of the first Deee-Lite album. “From the global village, in the age of com-mun-ication. NEW YORK CITY!!!” Just popped in several days ago out of nowhere and it’s just on repeat.

She’s ready…might pop in today for a swim.

Some of my favorite blooming plants in the garden right now.

Was diagnosed with ADHD about 25 years ago, & I don’t medicate it, but I did learn something interesting about some people who do. I had no idea that people didn’t just have music playing in their heads 24/7. Like there’s not a moment of my waking day where I don’t have a song on repeat in my head.

Dog is my copilot.

All is forgiven.

I warned the music industry about this back in 2015, when I gave a talk at MIDEM to a room of industry lawyers. No one believed me or my predictions, but now we’re here. Keep in mind one of my previous companies was designed to protect artists against this, but major labels essentially killed it.

In case you’re wondering where the state of the music industry is, I was in a wine shop with some friends, and one of my friends liked the song that was playing and Shazamed it. It couldn’t be identified so I tried it, and then I went over and looked at the music playing, and it’s motherfucking AI.

This fucking princess went over to an empty water bowl and then looked up at me, so I got up to go fill it, and as soon as I did, she stole my chair. That’s how she operates.

Lots of necessary foreign workers and young British people are leaving the UK to work abroad, to which the right wingers will end up saying, oh, we didn’t mean you. But they’ve made the UK so toxic that people don’t want to be there anymore.

I’m about to start some shit.

Maybe my favorite room in the house, media room. Cambridge Audio stereo, speakers, additional Spendor speakers, 85” TV, surround, Xbox/PS5, surrounded by records, CDs, books, art.

Do you remember when there was this condemnation of people texting and driving, so we passed all these laws to bring that to a close? Now I constantly see people recording videos while they’re driving of themselves, talking looking at the camera, so I guess that was a failed social experiment.

Mental health break…at least for me…we put our vegetable garden and orchard in last week. Your standard vegetable garden fare, and 12 fruit and nut trees.

I find it really annoying that more brands haven’t left X and migrated to platforms like this. There are quite a few positive interactions I’d really like to have with products and services that I love, but of course I can’t, because you’re still hanging out with bootlickers.

To this very day, I am still mystified by pro Brexit supporters, who believe they can get a better deal negotiated than just simply being in a the single market. Do you really think after pissing off all of Europe you’re gonna get a good deal? That there’s still a good deal to be had?

So it turns out that the US government CAN do reparations, but just for white people who were “unfairly” persecuted for trying to overthrow the government.

Just a regular reminder that Spotify etc, major labels, and foreign tech companies basically control the entire music industry as gatekeepers. UMGs CEO Lucian Grainge’s 2025 remuneration was $45M. Average UK or US musician's working wage was roughly $30,000–$35,000 annually.

One of our big windows for the guest house is in. Everything has to be custom made because there’s no standard: I’ll take one window for a 200 year old house please.