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Storyteller. Films, books, music, AI.
Jul 14 33 tweets 6 min read
What genre of music would you slopify with AI if all you wanted was money?

Hint: It's not lofi.

I used ChatGPT deep research and Grok to find the answer.

What I discovered explains why The Velvet Sundown, an AI band, took off on Spotify.

Thread🧵👇 First, a disclaimer:

I believe AI can make artistic music.

I make music with AI under the name Strange Aura.

But optimizing for art and for algorithms are two different things.

In this thread, we are talking about algorithms.
Nov 8, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
Time for a thread about my next book:

THE GODS OF AI

What are The Gods of AI? 🧵 Image The Gods of AI is art book (by yours truly) that visualizes Gods and spiritual concepts using an AI-image generator. Image
Jun 6, 2022 9 tweets 1 min read
Things that make my 9-month-old son laugh (a thread):

🧵 Holding him upside-down while asking in a silly voice "how did you get upside-down?!" when I am clearly the one holding him upside down.
Jun 6, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
@harmonylion1 I've considered writing a whole follow-up book to Children's Justice just on gender theory, so a full answer would be more than tweet length. @harmonylion1 The short take on that - which is in the book - is the question 'who is this for?' Is it for the kis, parents, or drag performers?
Jun 6, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
If you'd like a serious approach to this subject, the writing of John Keel is excellent. You might not have heard of John Keel, but you'd heard ideas from his work. He coined the term "men in black" to describe people who would clean up UFO sightings only to never be seen again.