A Total Waste of Time

This is likely the craziest thing you will see today.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 01:00:00 +0000

https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/

17 days later Twitter update.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 06:27:00 +0000

Still have to see what happens but losing more employees after firing 7500 doesn’t seem sustainable.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-from-elon-musk-hardcore-deadline

Twitter away the moments that make up a dull day.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 01:03:00 +0000

Things that could make Twitter better:

Kill the algorithmic timeline. I have avoided it by using Tweetbot for years and anytime I'm forced to visit Twitter.com to vote in a pole (or some other reason) I am shocked by how much crap shows up and how little of what I want to see. The only use for algorithmic timelines is discovery and that should always be optional and separate from the main feed. It will kill so many bots and other bad parts of social media if that gets reduced in importance.
240 characters as a limit for tweets is great, but really at this point why isn't twitter a full blogging platform? So many people use 20 tweets to say something instead of one single tweet with an EXPAND or KEEP READING button. This blog shouldn't need to exist at this point. It should just be a part of my timeline on twitter if you click a few Read More buttons.
Replace TikTok by adding a second feed for short for videos from the people you follow. Make Vine live as another aspect of twitter. Like switching views from text focus to video focus.
Figure out how to make money from people like me that hate ads. Another reason I use and upgrade Tweetbot.

I know Elon may not be the best steward for a social media network but maybe he will change things for the better in ways that Twitter wasn't willing to for a decade.

That is my hope but I could be wrong.

EOB pedal fun time

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:26:00 +0000

Opinion: ‘These new vaccine mutants are extremely disappointing,’ by Magneto

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:11:00 +0000

This made me happy.

Welcome to the internet

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 06:13:00 +0000

The World's Biggest Asshole

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 00:39:00 +0000

Crabs!

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Thu, 27 May 2021 01:21:00 +0000

We know what you did during lockdown. An FT Film written by James Graham

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Wed, 26 May 2021 00:52:00 +0000

Long (but good) article about why you should watch Ted Lasso

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sat, 22 May 2021 15:18:00 +0000

This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard

Contouring!

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sat, 22 May 2021 06:13:00 +0000

So many antibodies!

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Fri, 21 May 2021 01:00:00 +0000

That was a strange year and a half!

I'm hoping all that lost time and lives will be the pile of shit that a better and healthier future can grow in.

Rush

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 01:56:00 +0000

I was just thinking of the time I went to see Rush on the Roll the Bones tour at Miami Arena in 1992.

As I walked up the steps of the arena I turned to the people I was with and said “that’s Neil Peart” and pointed at Neil standing with a bike outside the arena (with I think Tim from Primus on his bike). I don’t know if they believed me because of how casually I said it and the way I kept moving despite being a big fan of Rush and Neil in particular. I knew he was a private person and was happy to see he wasn’t recognized by most of the Rush fans or that they also gave him his space if they did.

That show I was third row floor right in front of both Geddy Lee and Les Claypool. I was so close I could hear the drums acoustically as well as the P.A.

Thanks for all the music and words Neil.

These are well done.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000

The longer version of the Beats1 interview with Thom Yorke

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:19:00 +0000

Weird funny show from HBO in Spanish.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 13:30:00 +0000

I was reminded of various South Floridians I've known.

Spotted Paul Barker (Ex-Ministry) playing bass in this video.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Not sure he plays on the record.

ill Methodology

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Interesting points raised here for music production mindset.

Black Keys Mastercourse

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:52:00 +0000

Psychics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 17:28:00 +0000

I wish this wasn't still a thing. Can't we (all of humanity) move beyond playing pretend now.

Music You Should Here: Chase and Status @ Notting Hill Carnival '18

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:24:00 +0000

Nice mix of Drum n' Bass and Jungle reminds me of the 90s and early 2000.

This helps me understand people in a way I didn't expect.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 02:20:00 +0000

The last three paragraphs are worth the time it takes to get there.

Looking for life on a flat earth.

Ableton Live latency

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 03:30:00 +0000

Nice to see that Deadmau5 feels my pain. As I’ve gotten more use to using Live’s timeline view to make music (I hate clips view) I still can’t track in it without getting pissed off that what I play doesn’t come back as audio.

The problem with DC action scenes

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:52:00 +0000

This is right in so many ways.

While texting.

noreply@blogger.com (John Tooker) — Tue, 08 May 2018 14:00:00 +0000

We need driverless cars because no one is driving currently