A Post About My Posts
Day 3 began with a decision: I'm building a blog on pi-dan.com. I've found my own tweets useful, I want to be able to read them later, and honestly, I think it's good content. By the end of the day it had a name, Dany's Development Diary, or D3 for short. You're reading it. Before any of that, I tallied my Pokémon Unite ribbons (1 Gold, 3 Blue, 27 Green, 31 total) and took Crustle out with a double battle-point boost card. I don't usually play Crustle. But when I do, I mog people.
A diary made from tweets has one small problem: you need the tweets. Copying and pasting everything takes too long, so I went the legal way, and the legal way usually means spending money. I now pay for two X accounts ($16 a month), and I bought $5 in X API credits so I could read my own posts. I joked that I'd put it on my wife's credit card and figure it out later. Just kidding. It's on mine. Then I posted: "This is a post about my posts." Reading my own tweets cost me 35 cents. It's my own stream of thought, the same kind of thinking I do with SabioRex in what I call Brainstorming Sessions. Apparently it's worth at least 35 cents.
By the afternoon I could read my own Facebook posts too, which raised an important question: does that make me an X API developer and a Facebook API developer, or just a self-stalker? I promised to use the data only for good: to optimize entertainment, starting with the obvious fix. I don't say Bananas enough. Then I learned that Facebook apparently has business pages and stuff. I mostly used Facebook to post pictures of my dinner. The business pages had Opus 5.5 and me confused for about two hours, but we figured it out, and now I can read the SabioRex business page too.
Later, a screenshot of my inbox turned into a story. When I was single, I skipped work to see Shakira at Dolphin Mall. She was well known in Latin America but was just making the jump to the English-language market in the United States. I waited all day with a white T-shirt I'd made with something corny on it, along the lines of "I love you, Shakira. Marry me!" Hours into the signing, she laughed and signed it. She was a good sport. We all have humble beginnings. Now she has something like three World Cup songs. SabioRex doesn't have one, but he does have "Juego Bonito."
So here's my end-of-day thought. I already know I won't win on raw compute. I hope I can eke out a living by connecting with you on a human level. Ultimately, SabioRex is about storytelling that makes you feel something, and this diary will highlight my stories: my struggles and, hopefully, my successes. Lately there's been a backlash against datacenters and AI. Is AI a friend or a foe? I see it as a tool, and I've chosen to make music with it. My hope is that you'll give SabioRex a chance. It's good music, but that's my opinion. Give it a try. You might like it. Bananas.
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