Tag: Deep Scratch Novel
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BETWEEN THE GROOVE
ON THE CUTS…
Amsterdam, 2012. DJ-poet Plush, reeling from attacks that shattered his career, forms TRB with Max and Percy. Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson, they fuse turntablism, magick, and literature into the chaotic TribeTable Method, accidentally plugging into Wilson’s unfinished “Tale of the Tribe” and a brewing historical conspiracy centered on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
As they juggle invoked entities (“The Sixty”), time-traveling tardigrades, and messages channeled through experimental beats, they attract the attention of a ruthless cabal manipulating reality through AI, populism, and bizarre rituals involving peanut butter. From Amsterdam coffeeshops and secret bases beneath the Malvern Hills to the decks of a reality-bending DJ battle, TRB must decode the “Hologrammic Prose” of the universe, hijack the narrative, and fight the “Prick Populist” threat before the singularity hits endgame.Deep Scratch is Vanta Black science fiction comedy.
It’s Burroughs cut-ups slammed into Pynchon paranoia, fueled by hip-hop aesthetics and occult theory. Expect prophetic visions, weaponized memes, sentient technology, talking books, exploding jellyfish, and the desperate search for the perfect beat in a deep fake universe. The tables are turning. Which side are you on, are you on, hello, check check…?
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Enhance reverse obsolete flip
This DJ thinks that the language of turntables (here hallucinated from Udio data dust) hold keys to the DJ mosaic methodology: Hologrammic prose/jazz. A Part of the Deep Scratcher’s Code. Generative AI presents a new set of data points. #taleofthetribe #tribetablemethod #TetradOfMediaEffects #McLuhan“Marshall McLuhan‘s tetrad of media effects uses a tetrad – a four-part construct – to examine the effects on society of any technology/medium (that is, a means of explaining the social processes underlying the adoption of a technology/medium) by dividing its effects into four categories and displaying them simultaneously.–TOME
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Welcome back to deep scratch remix
I’m delighted to announce that Deep Scratch will be officially up and running as intended within the week. Now the tools are available to fully realize the vision of getting beyond language, into music, and back, and forwards.
The tales are laid out (see this site) now it’s the music that will accompany the text and images, co-created using the great a.i. beast. Here, turntablists, poets, performers, philosophers and scientists throw down…alongside the generative a.i. engines, once imagined in Deep Scratch (2009-2019) now freely available.
Stay tuned, drop a comment and I’ll get back to you. Peas.
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You Just Found Out Your Book Was Used to Train AI. Now What?
The thought of Deep Scratch being used in any training data set is a strange loop, as it kind of folds back into the AI themes of the book, to me. But, alas, it probably would not be picked up.
The Books3 dataset contains 183,000 books, downloaded from pirate sources. We know that companies like Meta (creators of LLaMA), EleutherAI, and Bloomberg have used it to train their language models. OpenAI has not disclosed training information about GPT 3.5 or GPT 4—the models underlying ChatGPT—so we don’t know whether it also used Books3. Regardless of whether GPT was trained on Books3, the class action lawsuits against OpenAI should uncover more information on the datasets used by OpenAI, which we believe also include books obtained from pirate sources.
https://authorsguild.org/news/you-just-found-out-your-book-was-used-to-train-ai-now-what/https://authorsguild.org/news/you-just-found-out-your-book-was-used-to-train-ai-now-what/
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Deep Scratch Audio Book – Chapter One
www.patreon.com/stevefly Chapter One is live at www.patreon.com/stevefly
The next 25 chapters will follow as I read them.
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Deep Scratch Novel Coming Monday 21st
I’m happy to announce I’m releasing Deep Scratch on Monday. Available in digital formats, followed by a hard copy edition in 2021.
To receive a copy, please support me for the price of a coffee over at my Patreon, I’d prefer 3 Euro, but any support (1Euro) will get you a copy, plus you unlock sixty plus unique posts!
If you don’t like it, I’ll send you the money back! How’s that?
I appreciate you. Stay safe and responsible.
–Steve Fly
https://www.patreon.com/stevefly#DeepScratch #OpenSourceHistory #OurHistoriesBack #Sixty #ScienceFiction #TurntableProse
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Steve Fly Newsletter (Patreon)
Hi, sending warmest regards and sweetest wishes to you, wherever you are…out there in the rapidly transforming world. I’ve stepped up production and output in my gesture of unique entertainment during this next sheltering in place phase, lockdown-two or whatever you call it. Meditation two, the second challenge?
I’m moved by considerate people who choose extra caution, thinking of others because it makes sense, not waiting to be instructed to act under threat of fine or mandatory laws. I see care and sincere concern bursting out from most people, coming together, contrary to the narrative from the 24/7 media bombardment, division, mistrust, confusion. There’s beautiful, heartwarming humility everywhere, if we can cut through the digital fog of culture wars and break the spell of despair.
I curated a Youtube Playlist in March) Videos To Help During The Coronavirus, I’m carefully adding what I feel is worthy. Plus, pruning Youtube Playlists with thousands of hours of material, take a look HERE.
I’m still editing that damned novel, amassing appendices and multimedia footnotes, struggling to lift it all and make it cohere when heading into second lockdown challenge. I trust the light hearted side of prose can overshadow the murky side, it feels like a tightrope walk wearing tights on my head. I want to be sure, really sure, that I write what I mean and mean what I write. I’m a little perplexed about how to proceed (print and produce the book as a physical artefact) recently I’ve considered a USB stick to also hold video, audio and images. The plot thickens.I wrote a small blog entry last week about Artists and their relationship to National Security, HERE. Earlier this month I wrote about coronavirus challenges and possible solutions.
This month I’ve recorded a new series of DJ mixes available here and experiments with JAMM PRO (NinjaJamm APP) screen videos and live video from my bedroom/studio.
Douglas Rushkoff and Grant Morrison on Team Human, take very merry trip together I recommend listening to. Prop Anon interviewed Grant for Mondo 2000 e-zine, waxing lyrical on Robert Anton Wilson, Brave New World…HERE.
John Higgs recently published his Newsletter #23 that bulges with delights and insights, with links to his latest work and gems about RAW and the current conspiracy climate emergency.
Nic Aldeton of Complexity media recently uploaded a new version of the panel discussion between Adam Curtis and Alan Moore (2017) moderated by Michelle Olley, I was present at the event and was lucky to hang with Adam and Alan.
They Came To Starburg is my Halloween horror/comedy (Audio Book) released in 2014. You can stream the Spooken Word here. Happy Halloween.
Here’s some words I excreted last week:
hiber-nation
huddle close avoid spikes
like hedgehogs
solidaritea
and toast with common coffee
grounds for peace treatyautumn is slowing up
heart and mind torn by brexit
sad separation
covid autumn
moon and stars mask
uncertain cloudtake a long walk
awake to the simple things
you’re never alone
we love the long night
isolation strengthens us
in heads we thrive
leaves and rain falling
magpie and raven ascend
find the othersis a rose a rose
in cruel summer lockdown
water your gardensycamore
fig-mulberry poem hides
under maple leafThanks to you for helping keep the wheels turning. I sincerely wish you are staying productive and keeping safe from harm.
–Steve Fly
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