If it's this easy to coerce the Magic Eight Ball, what chance do the rest of us have against DOOM?!?

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/23/chatgpt-ai-false-confession-interrogation-crime/

“If ChatGPT can be induced into a false confession, then who isn’t vulnerable?”

I don't have words for how stupid this is.

Ultex Jazz III XL, like the regular jazz III in tone but actually large and grippy enough to stay between your fingers and more durable than nylon.

Thin Ultex sharps for strummier and acoustic stuff.

I like tortex but it wears out too quickly IMO.

Topic adjacent, jazz musician/music theory youtuber Adam Neely has an 1hr30 video eviscerating Suno/AI music. Very high quality sneering with some wonderful Ben Levin animations.

Starlight Network No-AI List

why, the unlucky stiff

Yeah, I haven't been feeling great about having to nod vigorously and feign enthusiasm for slop on every damn cover letter and interview I've had recently. The best I've managed is saying I only use it in professional capacity and try to emphasize the personal learning angle as a defense.

It's brutal out there and I'm losing hope. I wish I had another industry I could pivot to await the passing of the bubble that gives me the flexibility to be a musician like remote work programming does.

I really wish this was my average experience trying to land another software gig in the past year...

I regret reading that in full. Really, read the opener summary, stop at "What if pee pee was poo poo" and you will be wiser and happier.

Insane that people got paid large sums to write this.

Commented [97]: if we simply imagine something that didn't happen,

"Intelligence Displacement" indeed.

Also, these are more targeted at beginners to programming, but Daniel Shiffman has a youtube channel and a free book about creative coding with p5 (The Nature of Code) that is very good. Depending on your background, it may contain a lot of remedial material, but there's some really great ideas on how to think about designing dynamic systems that make cool images and interactive art in there, especially in the later chapters if you skip around.

Processing and its descendants, p5.js, p5.py. Nannou for Rust.

vpype is a really powerful python library/toolkit for generating art for plotters (drawing robots).

Blender with python scripting is also widely used.

Some relevant keywords: "procedural art", "generative art" (generative AI is kinda killing this one), "creative coding", "algorithmic art", "plotter art", "pen plotter", "live coding" (for music with code)

The fediverse (mostly mastodon) has a decent presence of artists, usually tagging works with some of the above keywords.

Saw it linked elsewhere!