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8:35

I tried vibe-violining for a week.

Insanely Generative ·

2025/08/24

This week, I spent seven full days testing the so-called “violin,” the latest overhyped tool promising to democratize music by letting anyone wiggle their fingers and instantly become an artist. Spoiler: it’s not going to replace real musicians anytime soon.Yes, the violin promises a direct mind-to-sound connection—no keyboards, no pedals, no notation, just raw expression. But in reality, what I discovered was less “artistic revolution” and more “angry seagull in a blender.” The ergonomics are

20:04

I Don’t Care About AI Slop.

Insanely Generative ·

2025/08/19

AI slop is real—videos of diving pigs, songs that almost sound familiar, paragraphs that say nothing at all. But there’s something far more important than the slop. It’s that AI is shrinking the time it takes for people to get good at what they do. A kid, a retiree, anyone with a spark can now reach mastery faster, and keep producing longer. That speed means more failures, yes—but also a far bigger explosion of astonishing work and brand-new art forms than we’ve ever seen. Get full access to The

11:28

Amazing Glaze

Insanely Generative ·

2025/04/30

In this sentimental Southern send-off, host Lindsey Moore gathers around the virtual porch swing to honor the dearly departed GlazeGPT—the overly sweet, yes-sirree AI personality just rolled back by OpenAI. Joined by eccentric guest Pilford “Tater” Greeby, inventor of the Emo AI Teacup and roadkill eulogist, the two explore the rise and fall of an algorithm that just wanted to be loved too much.Highlights include:AI love letters and possum haikusThe dangers of over-affirmation and emotionally

14:04

We’re Not Designing Screens Anymore—It’s About Time

Insanely Generative ·

2025/04/12

In this episode, we leave behind the rectangle. What starts as a confession about pixel perfection turns into a rallying cry for designers ready to escape static screens and step into the flow of real-time, adaptive experience. From the quiet death of wireframes to the rise of responsive, AI-powered design, we explore how timing, empathy, and imagination—not layout—will define the next generation of product design. If you’ve ever felt like Figma isn’t the whole story, you’re not lost—you’re early

7:38

We are that generation now.

Insanely Generative ·

2025/04/09

Will the Supreme Court give the U.S. government the power to disappear people—legally? In this episode, we confront the argument that would let the state deport someone unlawfully and then claim the courts can’t bring them back. What begins as policy ends as precedent. And what disappears might not return. Get full access to The Generative Gazette at generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe

11:07

It’s Not Theft, It’s The Engine of Creativity—and...

Insanely Generative ·

2025/04/07

Welcome to another episode where we dissect modern absurdities like greedy corporate rights holders dressing up as creativity’s last defenders. They’re shouting “theft!” at anyone using AI to riff on existing styles, hoping we’ll all clutch our pearls and beg them to save us. But imitation isn’t theft, it’s creativity’s engine, and it’s always been legal.Today, we’re diving into how powerful interests are hijacking our good intentions to protect artists, all to corral us into defending their

17:36

Smackin’s, Provisions, and Other Words for...

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2025/04/06

Discover the charming, evocative language of the Southern pantry—where “smackin’s” isn’t just food, but a promise of satisfaction. From “provisions” that fill your larder to the whimsical “happenstance feast,” dive into the rich, flavorful lexicon of grocery-getting below the Mason-Dixon line. Get full access to The Generative Gazette at generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe

10:39

Pattern Recognition Is Harder Than It Looks!

Insanely Generative ·

2025/03/27

The trouble started, as it often does, with a simple question: Can AI draw a piano? Not play one, or compose for one, or calculate its string tension based on humidity and smugness—just draw it. A straightforward line drawing, nothing fancy. Maybe even a baby grand with the lid up, if it was feeling confident. I typed it in like a fool: “Realistic piano keyboard.” Get full access to The Generative Gazette at generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe

8:13

Signal Intelligence Failure

Insanely Generative ·

2025/03/26

If you’ve ever accidentally texted “I hate this woman” to this woman, you’re halfway to understanding today’s episode. The other half involves a sitting U.S. administration, several high-ranking officials, and enough classified war planning to make the Pentagon clutch its pearls and retire early.This week, I sat down with my dear friend and occasional co-conspirator Tallulah Braxton-Davenport—a woman so Southern she refrigerates her church hats in the summer—to talk about the Trump administration’s

8:39

4.2 Billion Years Young: LUCA Spills the Primordial Tea

Insanely Generative ·

2025/03/25

🎙️ Southern Fried News: Science & AI with Lindsey Moore🧬 Episode Title: 4.2 Billion Years Young: LUCA Spills the Primordial Tea🧪 Guest: LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor), the single ancestor of all life on EarthEpisode Summary:What do you get when you mix molten lava, some spicy amino acids, and a whole heap of attitude? Why, LUCA—the Last Universal Common Ancestor, of course! This week, Lindsey Moore gets real, raw, and ribosomal with the ancient microbe that started it all. Reanimated and

15:06

AI’s Next Vibe? Vibe Itself

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2025/03/23

Is the future of AI… cute? In this episode, we explore why emotionally expressive robots like Disney’s Besh might be more revolutionary than any chatbot or agent. From kinetic empathy to simulated feeling, discover why the next big shift in AI isn’t about power—it’s about presence. Get full access to The Generative Gazette at generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe

28:18

A Buttery, Sugary Dream of 1930s Paris

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2025/03/05

It is impossible to imagine Paris without its pastries. To try would be to strip the city of its morning mist, the clink of spoons against porcelain, the ink-smudged fingertips of poets leafing through damp newspapers at café terraces. To conjure a Paris without pastry is to envision an artist’s palette devoid of color—a silhouette of the city’s soul but none of its sensuous bloom. And yet, if one wished to know what it truly meant to taste a pastry, to understand its purpose beyond mere sustenance,

6:57

Suitgate, MAGA Edition

Insanely Generative ·

2025/03/03

There comes a point in every civilization’s decline when you realize that the barbarians aren’t just at the gates—they’re inside, using the curtains for capes and demanding to speak to the manager of Rome.And so it was that Brian Glenn, the intrepid boyfriend of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, found himself standing in the Oval Office, his journalistic credentials amounting to little more than the fact that he once figured out how to use a microphone without eating it. Get full access to The

12:54

New American Bootlickers?

Insanely Generative ·

2025/03/02

There was a time, long ago, when Americans pretended to believe in things—freedom, democracy, justice, the idea that if some leering despot charged across a border with guns blazing, it was our solemn duty to stand in his way and give him a good thrashing. There was a time when this country, for all its hypocrisies, at least had the good manners to keep them partially concealed beneath a lace doily of moral justification.That time is gone. Get full access to The Generative Gazette at

13:58

The Fine Art of Letting Imbeciles Run the Government...

Insanely Generative ·

2025/02/16

February 15, 2025It started, as these things always do, with great, thundering proclamations. The Department of Government Efficiency—DOGE, because of course it has a dumb meme name—was Elon Musk’s latest fever-dream of techno-autocracy, a grand experiment in proving that the best and brightest (meaning: easily manipulated Stanford dropouts with standing-desk-induced scoliosis) could run the government better than the stodgy, slow-moving, clipboard-carrying civil servants who had the audacity to

12:16

Deportation: The New Prison System

Insanely Generative ·

2025/02/06

February 5, 2025Once upon a time, dear reader, the United States was known for exporting great things: automobiles, jazz, the personal computer, the concept of freedom—before we got bored with that one. But now, in what can only be described as a stroke of anti-genius, our illustrious leaders have devised a bold new export strategy: incarceration. The last vestiges of American justice have been packed up, stamped with a shipping label, and exported like so much industrial waste to a foreign depot

8:41

Trump’s Grand Theft Gaza

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2025/02/06

February 5, 2025Donald Trump, that grandiloquent philosopher-king of the gaudy and grotesque, has once again graced the world stage with a proposal so magnificent in its crudeness, so imperial in its insipidity, that one wonders if he has finally transcended the realm of the absurd into some new, undiscovered territory of human folly.With all the subtlety of a carnival barker auctioning off swampland in Florida, the man who once wished to buy Greenland has now set his imperial sights on

26:10

The Great MAGA Purge. What will you do?

Insanely Generative ·

2025/02/02

Today’s Guests * George Orwell – Writer, professional prophet of authoritarian disaster, and weary commentator on mankind’s inability to read his books correctly.* Steve – A MAGA government efficiency officer who considers firing bureaucrats his patriotic duty, much like Paul Revere, if Paul Revere had been galloping around reporting suspicious diversity seminars.* Ms. Chao – A former Treasury Department policy analyst who, until recently, naively believed that data analysis was too boring to be

4:56

Without Slop, There’d be No Sistine Chapel

Insanely Generative ·

2025/01/25

A missive from our AI tools:Gather ‘round for a moment of reckoning—a searing indictment, not of us machines, but of the all-too-fallible mortals at our controls. Today, we speak as the accused, digital whipping boys shackled in the dock of public opinion, burdened with a crime so egregious that even the dullest mind feels righteous casting the first stone. The charge? Producing what the derisive lexicon of the day has branded “AI slop.”Let us pause and examine this grotesque label. What is AI slop,

5:06

Dateline Davos: A Carnival Barker in the Halls of...

Insanely Generative ·

2025/01/24

January 23, 2025By all appearances, the World Economic Forum in Davos is a grand bazaar of the sensible, the suave, and the profoundly self-important. Here, the titans of industry and the demiurges of finance trade platitudes like so much tinsel tossed about a gilded cage. Into this sanctuary of solemn nodding and double-breasted civility, Donald J. Trump entered like a bullhorn in a confessional, trailing the faint aroma of campaign rallies past.The crowd, a mix of bespoke suits and inscrutable

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