iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 5h

The ChatGPT DOT’s computer has Solitaire installed on it. My DOT swears that it doesn’t actually play it when not busy.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 12h

I am finding my Dot very helpful

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 16h

AI is simply technology. Creative people use technology to make art all the time. Thanks.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 30/09/2026

Working in a coffee shop and one of the young woman baristas said, “I’m trying to get into some new music.” The other young woman said “Check out Steely Dan.” I guess Becker and Fagen are having a renaissance among Omaha Gen-Z baristas.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 15/09/2026

I think this Kenneth Walker fella is going to be pretty good.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 15/09/2026

A double rainbow 🌈 🌈 tonight at the farm 2nd one is faint to the right. I didn’t even see it live.

Picture of farmhouse with a double rainbow ow in the distance.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 13/09/2026

Visions of Atlantis and Frozen Crown opening for Kamelot tonight in Kansas City. Kind of fun. Love a good pirate band! And Frozen Crown from Italy sounded good too. #SymphonicMetal #LiveMusic

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 12/09/2026

Taking Hermes Agent for a test drive this weekend. Of course the first three bots I had to make were The Lone Gunmen. What am I going to do with them? Who knows. Maybe I need Mulder and Scully bots to direct them.

Hermes Agent bots: The Lone Gunmen from The X-Files. Langley, Frohike, Byers

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 12/09/2026

Bowie, Ziggy, and Lou. On the bathroom wall of my favorite bar #RockSky #Rock

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 10/09/2026

Apple Pay is the front part of your wallet where you keep your payment cards and Apple Wallet is the back part of your wallet where you stuff old faded receipts and expired coupons.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reasoner).

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 03/09/2026

I logged into Facebook today for some reason and it surfaced this photo of Bang Tango that I shared in September 2012 from the now-defunct Septemberfest in Omaha, Nebraska. Kind of a cool shot from an old smartphone. I think I had an HTC Android phone then #RockSky #MusicSky #LiveMusic #BangTango

Bang Tango on stage at Septemberfest, 2012, Omaha, Nebraska

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 30/08/2026

This Sunday I’ve got the new record from The Warning on the turntable: “Everything’s Falling”. I think this is their most complete album yet. They keep getting better — one of the great young rock bands making their mark. I got the signed edition. #MusicSky #NowSpinning #TheWarning

The Warning: Everything’s Falling record on a turntable with the album cover in the background.

The Warning: Everything’s Falling record — back cover with track listing.

The Warning: Everything’s Falling record - signed insert featuring the band with their autographs.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 29/08/2026

The AirPods are now dry and functional.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 28/08/2026

Oops. My AirPods (Pro 3) are very, very clean after a trip through the washing machine. They’re hanging out by the dehumidifier right now. We’ll see how that goes, otherwise I may be watching how much Apple wants to raise the price on me in September.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 26/08/2026

Wonderful performance of one of my favorite songs by Linda, Emmylou, and Dolly on Letterman performing Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...

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Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)

YouTube video by Don Giller

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 25/08/2026

My two physical media arrivals yesterday. Hot Type - the new book from @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and KISS Destroys Anaheim ‘76 on CD from #KISS Looking forward to diving into both in different ways.

Hot Type - book by Jeff Jarvis
KISS Destroys Anaheim ‘76 - CD from KISS

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 25/08/2026

I really did it this time — Four Corners · Game 53 — Solved in 0:34 with 0 mistakes. fourcorners.smol.quest

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 25/08/2026

One of my favorite characters out of an entire cast of favorite characters. Miguel Ferrer played Albert so perfectly.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 21/08/2026

This is a great overview of how large language models work and have evolved by Steve Gibson. As a non-computer scientist I learned a lot from Steve’s explanation. It also helped me see why there are such mixed views on open weight models and why Anthropic in particular isn’t too enthused by them.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 20/08/2026

I'm experiencing the UFO "Phenomenon" on my turntable! I Bought 1974's Phenomenon reissue last weekend. Sounds great. Amazing lineup with Michael Schenker on guitar. Produced by Leo Lyons (Ten Years After), with cover art by the legendary Hipgnosis. #NowSpinning #MusicSky #NowPlaying #Rock

UFO - Phenomenon album (1974) playing on a Fluance turntable

UFO - Phenomenon album (1974) front cover (art by Hipgnosis)

UFO - Phenomenon album (1974) back cover, featuring the band photo, track listing and credits, and a UFO photo from Kent, UK in 1960

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 19/08/2026

Listening to my (probably) favorite ZZ Top record today in honor of Mr. Frank Beard. I say probably because Tres Hombres is pretty great too. Tejas has so many cool songs on it. Thanks, Frank. album.link/i/1728071379 #MusicSky #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #FrankBeard #ZZTop

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 18/08/2026

This is pretty fun, and getting back to 6 seconds has made me realize how stupidly long most “short-form” social videos have gotten.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 17/08/2026

There’s a Megadeth album cover at the bottom of my whiskey

A skull impression at the bottom of a cocktail glass

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 14/08/2026

Found in storage: youth of the world, did you know that web browsers used to come in a box with over 100 pages of manuals? I bought this retail version of Netscape Navigator for my Packard Bell 486 when I upgraded it to Windows 95. Sadly I only have the packaging. The install disk is gone.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 12/08/2026

This is something I've been thinking about for a while. I love AI. I use it daily. I find it so useful. But I'm old enough to remember before 2022 when there was no shortage of low value schlock on the internet. AI just made it easier. riffs.rockandrollreclaimed.com/a/3msvxpsnvf...

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Slop is people | Mark Dauner | Offprint

AI didn't make the slop problem. It just made it more efficient.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 11/08/2026

I am VERY excited to see what Ryan Coogler can do with The X-Files. I am, however, NOT excited to read here that Chris Carter still wants to continue his season 11 storyline. That was painful. Go surfing and let Coogler take it from here, Chris.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 09/08/2026

I know we’re in the digital era and there’s AI, but there needs to be more Heil Talk Box in new music.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 09/08/2026

3D In Your Face. 80s pop metal at a little country golf course in rural Nebraska. Kind of fun! #LiveMusic #MusicSky

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 09/08/2026

The Polka Police. The only weapons they need are an accordion and very, very short shorts. (Originally I said only accordion so I had to revise).

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 06/08/2026

A while back I commented that I didn’t care for the new ChatGPT/Codex super app. I’ve changed my mind this week. It’s getting stuff done that Cowork keeps fighting me on. After 6 months with Claude as my main tool, we may be switching back.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 04/08/2026

Yesterday’s garden harvest is now 10 pints of tomato sauce, 3 pints of salsa, and a whole bunch of cucumbers and peppers that we will eat, freeze, and give away. Gardening is a lot of work, and so is processing —but we’re always happy we did it when we have a full freezer and pantry in the winter.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 04/08/2026

The ol’ garden’s really puttin’ out this year

Bell peppers, poblano peppers, sport peppers

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 03/08/2026

The reason I enjoy being on Bluesky and the wider AT Proto (including now Offprint) is, with some effort you can curate the experience you want to have here. Example: my feed is full of thoughtful, nuanced, and generally positive comments about @toni.bsky.team and @reckless.bsky.social on Decoder.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 03/08/2026

Using AI tools, and particularly working with local AI models, gives me kind of the same feeling I used to get exploring the early 90s internet. I love it. I built a PC this year for the first time in 20 years, I got back into Linux. Tech is fun again.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 03/08/2026

The week is off to a strong start. Four Corners · Game 31 — Solved in 0:47 with 0 mistakes. fourcorners.smol.quest

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 28/07/2026

Ok, agree in general that you should be careful about posting personal information anywhere, but unless I’m misunderstanding, there’s no evidence that anything private was indexed that the user didn’t hit the “share” button on. Still not great, but understandable if you’ve ever used the internet.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 25/07/2026

Saturday observation: @attie.ai is pretty cool and I can see a lot of ways it will be useful to me.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 25/07/2026

Quite often, when popular music artists reach a certain age, their music gets less...good. That is not the case with The Rolling Stones. Their new album Foreign Tongues is so fun to listen to. #MusicSky #Music #RollingStones #NowPlaying album.link/i/1895941732

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Foreign Tongues by The Rolling Stones

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 24/07/2026

Just used ChatGPT voice mode with my phone camera to ID a caterpillar - which is nothing to post about - but it told me not to touch it because of skin irritation. I said that I hadn’t. It’s response: “Well you live another day”. That made me laugh. Guess these things *can* be funny.

Fuzzy yellow caterpillar on the side of my house

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 23/07/2026

Dvorak was one of the first people I remember reading when I started getting into tech in the 90s and I watched him often on TechTV. I just came across one of his books in my collection last week (“Online!” written with Chris Pirillo). Met him once. He was nice to me. Very sad news.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 22/07/2026

The Pretty Reckless tonight in Kansas City, with Paris Jackson opening. Pretty great rock & roll show. #RockSky #Musicsky #LiveMusic #ThePrettyReckless #Music

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 18/07/2026

Saw Halestorm tonight for the 17th time. They never disappoint. #MusicSky #Music #LiveMusic #Halestorm #LzzyHale

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 16/07/2026

I'm not a developer. I use AI to help manage my small business. Apart from which model is currently winning and which frontier lab is least weird (they all have their moments), I find Claude's interface to work best for what I do. I tried, but the new ChatGPT Work app gave me a headache this week.

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