Rob Manuel

I like that it's clearly half full - if that.

maybe there will be a fire and everyone will die, and although we can't admit it publicly, we'll be on whatsapp going "lol, serves them right"

I just don't enjoy the implicit "why bother, AI could do something like this" message. As the answer is, I get something out of stretching myself to make a thing to be best of my ability, and I believe I could make something that would delight someone like me. And an AI version wouldn't delight me.

Following you because you made a dictionary.

It's a great way to work. It was why I was able to get that Longwave thing done, as I had a format to pour it into "a day of radio, from wake to sleep, but LP length". I knew what I was aiming at.

I like they're Men Without Hats but they've had to draw a man in a hat in the ad is it's tricky to illustrate an absence.

Anyway. I hope you all like the thing. When I get it into the world. I've currently made 36% of the first draft. Not saying what it is yet, but it's actually quite handy to know exactly how long you want something to be before starting it. You definitely should all do that, it's quite a mind hack.

I'm working on a thing, every word & pixel by me, and I showed it to a friend and replied with a screen grab of a AI prompt that produced something instantly and was crap. Not sure what my point is other than AI has degraded people's ability to engage with actual human stuff.

I long to see a filming of a single sentence being slightly edited, 17 times, until the joke falls in a way that makes a satisfying flump.

What the US is doing is the equivalent of me going fuck it, and using the channels to post nothing relevant and just endless crypto scams. I could do it, and maybe it would make money in the short term, but I'd alienate everyone who is broadly "yeah, let Rob do his thing, give him a hand sometimes"

America perpetuating war with "no stupid rules of engagement" makes me think about running my own projects. I publicly commit to look at submission (b3ta/fesshole etc) & pick interesting things out. It's not perfect, but there's rules I follow & people can judge whether they want to take part or not

All 1980s adverts at once. Including the skinhead Weetabix.

To be in a wanker, at some level, they have understood it all perfectly well. Hollywood makes content that plays to both the ape smash and the thoughtful brain: it goes rooty tooty gun shooty whilst offering a critique at the same time. They’re tuning into the dominant frequency in this stuff.

The Simon & Garfunkle reunion show from the time they did start to make an album together, then fell out again, and Paul Simon removed Art's vocals and released the LP as a solo one. But there is this gig - this wonderful gig.

You have a phrase, maybe like “oh fuck, what now?” which you mutter to yourself when seeing whatever terrible news is happening. What is yours? Do you even know you're saying it to yourself?

I keep seeing news that people say is important and will be in the history books and be poured over for all time and I don't think it's true. There's just so much of it, and it everyone stops talking about whatever the fuck it is, in about three hours because something else momentous happens.

You've got this Stephen King.

I'm reading the ZX81 programming manual and highlighting sentences that are a bit funny. This is an easier task and quite enjoyable.

Watch this clip and promise to yourself you'll read at least a chapter of a book today.

I think, if you want to imaginary Nepo Baby him, make him the great-grand-nephew of Alan Turing. Not music, but computer fuckery.

Why would be want to make him a nepo baby?

Yep totally. I'm v familiar with his work and even went to a gig. Absolutely delighted for him.

I was like no, nonsense, then I looked again, and could see it.

I'm just excited we're sending someone who I saw do a gig for 100 people and than exchanged a few words with - that he thought I was Weebl was fine - close enough - he knows our corner of rubbish internet.

I genuinely don't give a shit about winning. It's that we've sent something interesting and someone interesting. That's the point. Also I don't agree in the slightest, once you start trying to pander and second guess to please judges, you're creatively fucked.

When the memory fills up odd things can happen; but they are not usually fatal.

Ah that's ok then.

This is entertaining. We are sending someone interesting to Eurovision with an actually fun track. A small ray of sunshine.

When the computer gets full. Odd things happen.

Words to live by

🎶Don’t give up because you’ve got friends🎶