James Nicholson

Checked in on the NDP leadership race and the future of the Canadian left with @LukewSavage With the centre-left vacated by the Carney's Liberals rightward shift, where should the NDP position themselves?

Fascinating to unpack the evolving situation with OpenAI, Tumbler Ridge, and Canada's approach to AI regulation with the inimitable @LukewSavage canadaland.com/podcast/1320-c…

I had a great conversation with @jamesnicholson about Canada's impulsive embrace of AI boosterism and the dangerous Silicon Valley ethos that's largely driving it.

First time hosting, time to reveal the "is this a cold war" take

Another banger (pardon the pun) via @CANADALAND Pride month might almost be over but nature stays gay all year round. link.chtbl.com/Field-Guide?si…

I played a very tiny role helping with the ads on this, but I got to check out the first 2 eps and they are jaw-dropping

Can confirm: new podcast coming from @CANADALAND is 🔥🔥🔥 Follow here: link.chtbl.com/Coming_Soon_Pr…

This intelligence , it seems… artificial?

@jaycaspiankang mdwbasketball is a standout

Stainless steel? I take that as a challenge.

@oatmellofi agreed. It's a great idea

@jamesnicholson I think someone needs to develop it

does a plug-in exist that sits on the system audio level and just normalizes all audio to a certain level? I would pay for that if so. sonnox listenhub is the closest I’ve found but it’s buggy and I can’t get it to work right

@oatmellofi So i tried it--while it might be able to work in theory, on the main output--the plugin totally glitches, so not an actual solution.

@jamesnicholson So it can, but then I have to route them both to the same plug-in. Is that possible?

@oatmellofi ya that's a good point. Maybe something like Metric A/B? (haven't tried it)

@jamesnicholson yeah I saw but not sure what plug-in I could run to automatically adjust volume to -14 LUFS

@20korg Sounds Like a Deal

@Gripsed @jedigreg Fire shades! 😍

New Profile Pic... whenever X finishes "reviewing my account" so that I can change it🙃 Shout out to @jedigreg for the absolutely incredible work!!!

@david_perell @readwise save

“The intellect is a great danger to creativity because you begin to rationalize and make up reasons for things instead of staying with your own basic truth — who you are, what you are, what you want to be. I've had a sign over my typewriter for 25 years now which reads: ‘Don't think.’ You must never think at the typewriter. You must feel. Your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway. You collect a lot of data. You do a lot of thinking away from your typewriter. But at the typewriter, you should be living. The worst thing you do when you think is lie. You can make up reasons that are not true for the things you did. And what you're trying to do as a creative person is surprise yourself. Find out who you really are and try not to lie. Try to tell the truth all the time. The only way to do this is by being very active and very emotional.” — Ray Bradbury (Credit to @bfcarlson for finding this gem)

Never realized that “Salt ‘n Pepa - Very Necessary” was basic cooking advice

These days we call them “Spelling Errors.” Back in the 90s, we called them an “Aaron Spelling.”

@JenESmith Damn! Congrats Smithers!!

Thank you to everyone who has been watching! #LoveAtFirstSight ✈️❤️🎬