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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 03/10/2026

Louisville so far. More to come tomorrow

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 02/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

I had a 5 minute “phone call” with my Dot on the way home yesterday and this is about how it went. When I got home everything we talked about was waiting for me. Such a good product demo and a great makeup for the on-stage fail.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 01/10/2026

I am finding my Dot very helpful

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 01/10/2026

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 · 16/09/2026

This will be very useful to me.

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

I wrote a post on this a while ago, but when I started my small business 5 years ago there were all these YouTube videos on how you could feed a spreadsheet full of text into Canva and have it automate hundreds of social posts or videos in minutes. 100% human-grade slop before ChatGPT.

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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 · 31/08/2026

Wow. I bought a Compaq Presario in 1998. Tim was even selling me computers back then and I didn’t know it.

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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

I prefer to think that my human psychosis has been vibe coded.

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

We certainly need to get better at how we bring kids into this new AI-enabled world. I think that will happen. We’re in a weird transitional time right now.

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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 · 21/08/2026

Conversely I believe that AI can also accelerate good ideas and quality content. We can take good ideas further using technology. That’s amazing. Anything like a watermark that could impede that progress may not be good. The question remaining is if, and how much, it really matters. Time will tell.

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

I think I’ve come around to agreeing with you this week. I use AI a lot. Not much for writing. It is clear that humans are the purveyors of slop and they were producing it long before AI accelerated it. LinkedIn is the prime example of that as you mention in your post. Substack is example 2.

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

So are we saying that Phil Lynott and Robert Plant were both born in West Bromwich, England on the same day, one year apart? That’s kind of incredible.

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

A lot of great records here but I have to give Selling England By the Pound some more representation in these replies - for Firth of Fifth alone. I could listen to this album forever and not get tired of it.

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

Doctor Doctor by UFO is one of the great rock songs and it has been used for a long time by Iron Maiden to launch their live shows. Phenomenon also has the distinction of having a track named for a popular sugar-free drink mix (Crystal Light). I didn't fact check that.

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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

I read this and feel a correlation vs. causation thing happening. We were talking about a “sea of sameness” in marketing a decade ago, before algorithms took hold in a big way, and certainly before LLMs. Does tech accelerate homogeneity? Probably. But once again, seems mostly human nature to me.

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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 · 16/08/2026

That is an incredible album. I got to see his unplugged solo show in Sioux City, Iowa not too long before his passing. Chris was magical.

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Mark Dauner @rockandrollreclaimed.com · 15/08/2026

Per your ATP ep from a few weeks ago…that icon is really striking. I keep stopping and looking at it.

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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

And the pictures are vegetables from our garden. Seemed as good as anything.

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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...

riffs.rockandrollreclaimed.com

Slop is people | Mark Dauner | Offprint

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

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