My other 2025 Washington Examiner Magazine articles

In lieu of linking to paywalled pieces, I’ll post PDF screenshots from the magazine’s print format: 1. Pennies, an early Trump second term target, rival marbles and 8-track players as American artifacts 2. Tech shifts right, somewhat, but minus the Old Guard’s views on trade 3. San Jose mayor cast out as apostate by fellow […]

Assorted ai parodies, originals and mockups III

Using Google VEO 3, Ideogram, Grok, Stable Diffusion, ElevenLabs and InShot:

Assorted ai parodies, originals and mockups II

Using Google VEO 3, Ideogram, Grok, Stable Diffusion, ElevenLabs and InShot:

My piece on Ghost Kitchens for the Washington Examiner Magazine

Syndicated link here.

assorted ai parodies, originals and mockups

Utilizing Ideogram 2.0, Stable Diffusion and InShot:

The amazing fake podcast generator

The above podcast was generated using Google’s new NotebookLM, and inspired by my feeding the LM the original “Beetlejuice” script, obtained via Moviepedia. Saved with Google Docs, the pdf source material came to 50 pages. From that, a ten-minute podcast came to life! The two professional-sounding hosts speaking in natural language are entirely synthetic 😮. […]

Assembly Ai for speech diarisation

I’ve begun taking advantage of the speaker identification features of Assembly AI’s transcript generation capabilities for use in making my podtube shows readable, not just listenable. YouTube’s own transcripts are useful enough for Ctrl-F purposes but are otherwise insufficient. Assembly AI detects the number of speakers, and gives them “A,” “B,” “C”…designations. (It’s solidly reliable […]

Voice clone showcase (elevenlabs AI)

Via ElevenLabs and Fooocus (Midjourney/Stable Diffusion).

Data Analysis: popular film directors’ movie lengths

Popular movie director film lengths. I would have included 2023 favorite Greta Gerwig but she had only one popular film, “Lady Bird,” at the time this data was collected, which looks to be around 2020. Data via Kaggle.com and IMDB.

Data analYSIS: male/female longevity by state

There is no state where men outlive women. I naively thought there must be at least one. Nah. It’s just a truism, normative across the continent. (And life!) In any case, the state with the longest lifespan is 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐢. The shortest, 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢. There are zero states where men on average reach 80. There are many […]