Martin Raymond

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

나는 “알겠어”라고 말하고 굳이 맞서서 다투지 않는 법을 배웠다. 왜냐하면 때로는 오해받는 것보다 조용히 있는 것이 더 낫기 때문이다. 모든 상황이 반응을 필요로 하는 것은 아니다. 아무리 설명해도 모든 사람이 당신의 입장을 이해해 주는 것은 아니다. 나는 예전에는 내 감정을 증명하려고, 사람들이 내 마음을 이해하게 하려고 너무 많은 에너지를 쏟곤 했다. 하지만 어떤 사람들은 자신이 듣고 싶은 것만 듣는다. 이제 나는 내 평화를 더 소중히 지킨다. 나는 침묵이 항상 약함을 의미하는 것은 아니라는 걸 배웠다. 때로는 내 평화가 논쟁에서 이기는 것보다 더 중요하다는 것을 깨달았다는 뜻이다. 모든 사람이 설명을 들을 자격이 있는 것은 아니며, 모든 싸움이 계속 싸울 가치가 있는 것도 아니다.

@nabeelqu This is satire, right? Right?? RIGHT??!!

Honestly hilarious that Granta's response to the whole affair is asking Claude whether the writing is AI, a method I would not consider reliable, given that: 1) LLMs tend to 'both sides' these types of questions 2) The way you frame the question to the LLM matters

@tedgioia This is parody, right? Right? RIGHT!!!??

@DKThomp This is satire, right? RIGHT!!!???

appreciate irony as much as the next guy but writing a book called The Future of Truth that uses artificial intelligence to insert a false quote from a real book called Artificial Unintelligence is really putting in on thick

@billboard What’s the story with Burna Boy’s omission? Inquiring minds would like to know.

How Can BTS, Madonna & Shakira All Squeeze Into an 11-Minute World Cup Halftime Show? billboard.com/media/podcasts…

@diplo @bts_bighit Please and thanks!!!😊

should I do these for the other songs we produced? @bts_bighit #BTS #ARMY

@TheAndrewNadeau Yep 💯- too obvious. Great marketing strategy though!

“Lupita Nyong’o can’t be Helen of Troy!!! 😡😡😡” Oh really? Cuz it made you super mad and ready to fight over her, and that’s kind of Helen’s whole thing.

@amlysbang 🔥🔥🔥

all the rap fans, if yall wanna cleanse your ears with a good 2026 release 👇

@yworpd @bostonradio youtu.be/XZGiVzIr8Qg?si…

@bostonradio This scene has to be totally made up - Michael was huge and his video premiers were must see events

It was a perfect spring afternoon outside today, but I spent it indoors with “Michael.” Surprisingly, very entertaining. It fades out in 1988, which I assume means sequel. 9 out of 10 stars. Mike Myers is unrecognizable as a CBS records boss pushing MTV to play “Billie Jean”.

@nhefter @StevesThrillers Yes! We want to know!! 🤷‍♂️

@StevesThrillers Oh my goodness. Good excuse. What’s the status of attic kittens??

I had things to do this afternoon. For the last two hours, for some reason I’ve not been able to move my right arm. It has been unusable. It has all the symptoms of Skippy- induced temporary paralysis, otherwise known as Skippy-itis.

@ReadReadBks @DrNeilStone #TheHotZone - one of the scariest books I ever read. I don’t think people fully appreciate the threat imposed by a virus in the age of international air travel. Covid should have been a serious wake up call

@DrNeilStone Have you read THE HOT ZONE by Richard Preston? It’s an old book. 1994. It is nonfiction and details an Ebola outbreak in Africa. I believe there’s a follow up book with it. It was a hard read but everyone should read it. It predicts other virus outbreaks too.

I wasn't worried about Hantavirus I'm damn well worried about Ebola

@saniyafatma1278 Amazing when they learn their names!

It has only been one week since I brought him home. His name is Finn. And every time I say it, he looks at me in a way that feels almost impossible to describe. As if the sound is still new to him. As if he is slowly realizing that this word belongs to him now. That someone is calling him with love, not just noticing him in passing. He is no longer just a cat waiting to be chosen. He is Finn. He has a place. He has a home. He has someone who means it when they say his name.

@KarenJohnstone Former Grenadian Primier Eric Gairy once tried to have the issue discussed formally at the UN.

Barbados has an official CIA report on UFO sightings from back in 1987??!!! With Grenada, St Lucia, Martinique and a LIAT Pilot also cited as seeing the UFOs?! So the Caribbean been an alien hotspot from long time then! cia.gov/readingroom/do…

@anishmoonka “A guy named Louis Johnson” 🤦‍♂️ Easily one of the top bassists in world at the time. Not just some guy that Quincy hired. Great writing otherwise…

A woman mailed Michael Jackson a gun, her photo, and a letter telling him to kill himself at a specific time. The song he wrote about her is sitting at #1 on Spotify right now, 43 years later. It started in 1981. She began sending Michael letters claiming he was the father of one of her twins. He had never met her, so he ignored the whole thing. The letters kept coming anyway. Then one day, a package showed up. Inside was her photograph, a gun, and a note instructing him to kill himself at a particular date and time. She planned to kill “their” baby afterward, so they could be together in the next life. The Jacksons later found out she had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. That is where the line “the kid is not my son” came from. The bass line you hear in the first eight seconds is one of the most famous in pop history. They almost didn’t find it. The bassist Quincy hired, a guy named Louis Johnson, walked into the studio carrying every bass guitar he owned. Michael made him play the same line on each one until they settled on a Yamaha. Then they layered a synthesizer playing the exact same notes on top, which is why the bass has that thick, almost glowing sound. The drum sound took even more obsession. Quincy Jones told his engineer Bruce Swedien he wanted a sound so distinct you’d know the song from the first three drum hits. So Bruce actually built a wooden platform for the entire drum kit. He put a flat piece of wood between the snare drum and the hi-hat cymbal to keep them from interfering with each other. He also built a custom cover for the kick drum, with a small slot for the microphone. Michael had programmed the beat on a drum machine when he wrote the demo at home. When it came time to record the album, drummer Ndugu Chancler walked in and played the same pattern on a real kit. He nailed it in three takes. Then came the vocal. Michael sang the entire main vocal in one continuous take. For the extra harmonies and adlibs on top, Quincy made him sing through a six-foot cardboard tube rigged up in the booth. Michael was also getting vocal training every single morning while they were making the album. The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1983 and stayed there for seven weeks. Yesterday it hit #1 on Spotify Global with 6.02 million streams in a single day, the highest the song has ever climbed on the platform.

@HexagonKri33900 @heynavtoor Careful! You might get reported to the Society for the Prevention of Unnecessary Tuesdays…

@heynavtoor Our modern world is turning into a Jorge Luis Borges short story.

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

@SaraBangtan07 I think @01rkive really needs to clear this up @BTS_twt_RMJOON

Respect

@Narahaadel @teeheehyung Chart performance has no bearing on the Grammys fyi. Great album though!

ARIRANG is the only album in history with all its tracks charting simultaneously on the Billboard Global 200 for 7 weeks, making it a strong contender for Album of the Year at the Grammys

@ThatEricAlper Queen, Maple Leaf Gardens 1982. A friend convinced me not to go because “there was no way they could do Bohemian Rhapsody live”. Saw Elton John there the week before (2nd greatest concert of my life).

What is the one concert you missed that you will regret for the rest of your life?

@gregarizona @DrNeilStone @MeghanMcCain Don’t know where you heard that. Back In early 2020 a researcher friend based in Singapore said, “You have no idea how scary the idea of a NOVEL virus is. This is like saying aliens have landed.” There’s still a LOT we don’t know about Covid and are finding out the hard way.

Pretty much EXACTLY what we heard about Covid in March 2020. "Not a big deal, its just a flu", then after it spread around the world it was "well, we cant just lock people in their homes if they're sick"... Then it was "everyone is dying and we have to lock everyone in their homes for two weeks to slow the spread"... Then two years to slow the spread. You don't mind if I just completely ignore everything you "experts" say do you?

Can someone who is an expert in this space just keep it real with me and tell me if I should be worried about Hantavirus or not? I've got 3 kids and the youngest is 4 months old, I don't know what to believe.