My Favourite SNL Musical Performances

Yes, there are momentous things happening on the global stage. Yes, we are still recovering from an historic and impactful US Presidential election. But I’m taking a break from fretting about the world. Instead, today I’m simply going to list my favourite musical performances from multiple decades of Saturday Night Live.

Now, my list will differ from yours. My musical tastes are different from yours. But this is my blog, so I get to make the list. Feel free to add your list in the comments. NBC has blocked many of the videos from YouTube, so I’ve had to scrounge to find samples elsewhere…

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My Next Book: The Philosopher’s Tome

It’s a been a good year of publishing for me.

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I Made Two A.I.s Have a Conversation

Behold, gentle readers, the apex of procrastination. Today, I engineered a conversation between two Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models (LLMs).  What follows is a transcript between me, ChatGPT-4, and Google Gemini. The topic that unfolded was the current war in Ukraine…

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Memories of 2020

On Aug 1, 2020, I wrote a Facebook post that went a little bit viral. Remember, this was the 5th or 6th month of the acknowledged COVID pandemic, and still four months away from an authorized vaccine, and almost a year away from widespread vaccination.

I wanted to revisit this post, as it listed 33 thoughts about the pandemic, which I had just expressed as the guest speaker on a popular video podcast called, “Dave’s Digital Cafe.”

I’m curious about whether readers think any of this is relevant today. Back then, it’s clear I was concerned about IP issues constraining vaccine development, and the zoonotic extent of the virus. Neither of those has emerged as something we think about a lot today.

On the other hand, I think my observations about political tribalism, the failure of communication, and the importance of infrastructure investment are even more poignant now than they were at the start of the pandemic.

Hideous AI-generated image based on prompt, “create an image called ‘memories of 2020′”

In any case, let me know in the comments what you think.

Here are the 33 thoughts, reposted verbatim from four years ago: (more…)


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