You may notice that if you followed me on social media that I am no longer there. I think their a few straggling social media accounts that I have. Mastodon, Nostr, Gab, TruthSocial, Minds, Blurt, Hive and Facebook. Tbh, I think those are still there because I’ve used them so infrequently over the last several years. The only one I was really active on daily for the last year or two has been X. And I deleted it back on the 18th. The only social media I am “active” on is Matrix and the currently extremely rare irc chat. I talk with friends regularlly in dm’s on Matrix. I do stil have the Discord account and am in several rooms. But I treat it more Matrix and just use it for dm’s. I really cant stand to use discord. I feel like I need to take a shower everytime I have it open. I am now fully 5 days into abandoning social media entirely and I feel absolutely wonderful. I get up in the morning and dont watch any news. I sit drink coffee and think about what I want to accomplish between the end of the dayjob’s workday and I go to bed. My head is clear and I can actually think about me, my life and my family. My brain feels as clear as it did 30 yrs ago.
AI Music
You know that recently Ive been pretty heavy into creating AI generated music. During the month of December 2024 I wrote lyrics and produced 30+ songs and created 4 AI personas on SunoAI. I will have those all released on 20 music stores by Feburary 1, 2025. My original plan was to then spend the month of February writing and producing a group of songs to release during the month of March. One each day. But with the new found clarity I’ve gotten in my head I went ahead and started writing and producing this week. I ended up with 7 new Byte Rebel songs and 5 new Mira Nocturne songs. It’s actually 8 Byte Rebel songs but one is borderline slander against Elon Musk so I probably won’t release it. It’s titled “The Musk King” so you can let your mind go to where you think it would go. But since I’ve taken such an interest in the music stuff I’ve decided to seperate it from Liberty Bytes. I’ve created another web site for the ficticous record label I created to house all of my AI music. If you notice on all the digital stores the music is release by Rebellious Bytes Records. You can find it’s website and follow along with it here. I will be posting all music related content (blogs, podcasts) over there from now on. The reason I am doing this is because I feel like its taking away from the attention that of what I wanted to do on Liberty Bytes. The Liberty Bytes podcast wont stop and I wont stop making content on other subjects such as Linux, BSD and other open source topics. At least it wont slow down any further than it already has. I figure the seperate site would help to keep things nice and tidy. You also know that I didnt start the music stuff as an effort to make a profit. Its just a project and something fun to do. I really dont think it will go anywhere or expect any of the songs to take off. Come to think of it none of my projects that I’ve ever done has taken off or gotten anywhere near “viral” or popular. Most likely thats because that I make what many consider to be “boring” content. Do you know why my content is boring? Because I make it for me. I’m not faking a passion or acting like I’m really excited about something to get you interested in it. I’m making it for me. Yes, I really am that fucking selfish, lol.
Whats to come?
I am planning on recording an episode of Liberty Bytes Podcast soon talking about why I gave up on all social media and news and you should consider it too. In that episode I will explain my reasons. But I want an even more clear brain from all the fog of the last 30 years of the internet. I’m also planning a lot of videos and blog posts on how I created the AI personas and their music. The workflow I use, the Reaper templates I use to mix and master them, how I create the artwork and how I release them to 20 music stores using Distrokid and getting them for free on Blurt.Media. And I want some really cool music to play as well.