Yeah, it was a whole lotta Lagwagon this week. Started late last week and then just didn’t let up. Something about the sunny weather and my mood this week just had me continually going back to that well.

Probably from around 2006/7. While I was wrong about this band ever blowing up, I wasn’t wrong about the songwriters! Seeing what Nick and Ryan have gone on to do has been incredible to follow. “Siren on the 101” still shoulda been a smash though.

Blog: ‘Minimum Viable Curiousity’

AI

Michael Lopp, writing at Rands:

I’ve made a career being a human terrified by becoming irrelevant long before AI showed up to drive my car. You bet I am poking every bit of AI that I can. Daily. I am trying to figure out what it can and can’t do, and this article aside, I am optimistic, just like I’ve been for the last three decades, that revolutionary innovations will knock your socks off in the next few years. It’s still early days for AI. Really.

However, I am deeply suspicious of AI, especially after watching decades of social networks monetize our attention while teaching us to ignore facts and truth, minimizing our desire to understand. Many humans don’t check their facts; they believe what they read in the feed. Most humans believe the manufactured reality is designed to get them to believe someone else’s agenda. The convenience of these services and tools has made us lazy and, worse, not curious.

This frame is all kinds of busted, but the photo doesn’t do the massive size of this one justice. Still underrated as an artist too.