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Meandering Through YouTube Whilst Awaiting the Winter Apocalypse

Photo: Sunset as view from a hilltop in Marble Falls, TX
Just another boring sunset in the Texas Hill Country...

Searching the obscure corners of YouTube for choice gems, just so you don’t have to.

Published Wednesday, 21 January 2026, 16:44
Categorized as AI, Faith, Music, Uncategorized Tagged Adriano Celentano, AI Music, Nick Peterson, Robert Johnson, Roberto Bolle

Fire Ant Flickers (#13)

Meme: donkey at a hummingbird feeder
What species of hummingbird is this?

The rattlesnake in American history; the musical geniuses of Vulfpeck; a past president’s boat; huge spider webs and more!

Published Thursday, 6 November 2025, 14:18
Categorized as AI, History, Music, Wildlife - Invertebrates Tagged ChatGPT, data poisoning, LLMs, model collapse, Vulfpeck, wooden boats

Creating a “Name That Tune” Radio Program
I built a thing and it was fun.

Collage of scans of 45 rpm record covers from the Sixties and Seventies

I created a “Name That Tune” countdown game for our Sunday School class. Want to play?

Published Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 17:11
Categorized as AI, Contests..., Music, Television & Radio Tagged Name That Tune, radio station

Scrollytelling: Another AI Coding Experiment
My second attempt at coding with ChatGPT was more challenging than the first.

AI-generated image of computer coder (pixel art style)

ChatGPT makes a really good unpaid coding intern, as long as you know how to manage it.

Published Monday, 7 July 2025, 6:00
Categorized as AI Tagged AI, ChatGPT, coding, scrollytelling

Coding with AI
I'm a lousy coder. But my good buddy, ChatGPT, isn't.

Photo: Ernest Hemingway's Underwood typewriter, lightly processed
Yes...this is Ernest Hemingway's Underwood typewriter (lightly edited for obscure purposes)

I asked ChatGPT to help me with a computer coding issue, and the results were impressive.

Published Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 14:26
Categorized as AI, Technology Tagged ChatGPT, coding, Javascript

Happy 22nd Blogiversary to The Fire Ant Gazette!
I aspire to be artificially intelligent. This natural stuff isn't working for me.

AI-generated graphic depicting...well, I have no idea, to be honest.
I asked an AI to generate a "happy birthday" graphic for the Gazette and this is what it came up with. 🤣

It’s the Gazette’s 22nd birthday, and I asked a couple of AI bots to take over for me while I celebrate.

Published Friday, 8 November 2024, 11:40
Categorized as AI, Navel Gazing, Uncategorized Tagged AI, ChatGPT, DreamStudio

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