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Continue reading →: Making Music with AI
LALALS I used AI voice conversion. This raises a lot of questions about how all of this technology affects musicians and creatives. These days you can make almost anything with a laptop. Live? That’s a different story. But in the studio, or in your living room — sky’s the limit.
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Continue reading →: Solo on Ice
Here’s the TL;DR. A few weekends ago I went camping and cut my stay a day short partially due to a gathering of a white identity/separatist/preservation/(?) group. For a minute, it felt like I was about to star in a Jordan Peele movie, but it was uneventful, and I want…
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Continue reading →: PSA for Nissan Owners
I think this applies to any modern cars, but your mileage may vary. Pun. Intentional. Here’s the short version: If your car suddenly starts acting like it’s possessed by automotive demons, ghost in the system, there’s a good chance it’s a battery issue. If you try to start the car…
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Continue reading →: Rest easy, Uncle Barry
I don’t see my father’s side of the family as often as I should. I saw Uncle Barry and some of the crew at my sister’s wedding in late August. Here they are. That’s him, second from the right. Here’s some prime Dr. Barry Keith Young-ness for you. In one…
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Continue reading →: PSA: Fart Molecules are Much Smaller Than Viruses
In case you were wondering. About a hundred to a thousand times smaller. Then there are the respiratory droplets that are an order of magnitude bigger than a virus. “Well, CH3SH is a rather small molecule with a diameter around 4*10^-10 m (0.4 nm, about 1.6*10^-8 inches),” Makal continues. “By…
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Continue reading →: The Darkest Sky
Beneath the Galactic Core I want to see stars. I want to see the Milky Way so bright it casts shadows. I want to see galaxies and nebulae. With my own eyes. I need a dark sky. Darker. I went into a cave once. Whitings Neck. Everyone turned off their…
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Continue reading →: History Has Its Eyes On Us
When our children and grandchildren look back on this era, the Coughin’ Twenties, what will they say?
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Continue reading →: American History MMXX – Communal Violence
It’s possible for a house to be flooded to the ceiling and on fire at the same time. On social media, I see a lot of white folks posting news articles and photos of little black kids who were killed over Fourth of July weekend. Either they or the commenters…
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Continue reading →: My Presidential Address
Obviously, I’d be voted out of office after my first term for being too centrist. I. My fellow Americans. We live in troubled times. America is at a crossroads. Rarely, have we faced bigger challenges. Our mettle and our ideals are truly being tested. And yet, rarely have we been…
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Continue reading →: Lungs on Fire
Here come the drums I. Am. Enraged. Raw. I try not to watch the news, but inevitably get caught up and it’s brutal on the psyche. There’s so much appropriately righteous anger and so many are breathing fire — frustrated rage, a bloody trail of history, atrocities never punished or…