Trucker Tom's Podcast

I discuss YuE2 Studio, an open source piece of software that allows you to create very high quality AI music right on your desktop or laptop PC. I also discuss LTX 2.5 Desktop, a high quality open source AI video clip generator. I play four songs I generated with it. Here is the link to my YouTube channel where these as well as my other AI music videos I've generated on my desktop computer https:/...

I talk about buying a new gaming computer with 16 gigabytes of video RAM which enables me to genrate both AI audio and video locally on my machine with the help of open source software.

If you have a gaming computer with about 6 gigabytes of dedicated VRAM you can run an open source LLM using Bionic from LM Studio for free and actually get very useful work done. It quickly changes the way you use and how you even think of your computer as a productivity tool. Agentic computing is the next wave of computing.

I explain the psychological/spiritual mechanism behind how a nation can turn into a cult and how you can protect yourself from it.

Teaching Machines to Sing: Prompts, Psalms, and the Power of AI

2155 A Nation Divided Join me on Suno https://suno.com/@tomwiles?page=songs

I perform three original songs: one on the nature of hope, another on the Pareto distribution (Matthew effect), and a final one exploring the dysfunctional US–Canada relationship.

I play a couple of new country songs that I generated with Suno AI music generator.

2152 Parkinson’s Disease/Trump Derangement Syndrome

2151 Morality Laundering

2150 Proven You CAN Change I talk about a study with Psilocybin on mice brains proving that the brain can be rewired. I have long believed and in fact proven to myself that the human brain can be rewired without drugs if one has enough sincere motivation towards wanting to change as opposed to simply paying it lip service or wanting to take some sort of convenient effort-free shortcut.

2149 AI and Eye Health

2148 The Camp of the Saints A discussion of the 1973 book “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail.

2147 Running AI Models Locally I talk about running “LM Studio” on Windows, LM Playground on Android, and Locally AI on iOS.

2146 One Year Retired

2145 Six Months

2144 Real Retirement Begins About a month after I retired from my job back on July 8, 2024, my elderly parents moved in with me while Mom recuperated from a compression fracture in her lower back. Now that she has made a rather remarkable recovery, I am soon to return them to their winter home in south Texas. When I get back, I’ll only be responsible for myself and my newly acquired dog Jake...

2143 Retirement Surprise Retiring is often seen as a time to relax and enjoy newfound freedom, but for some, it can bring unexpected challenges. Imagine retiring only to find yourself, a month later, taking on the responsibility of caring for your elderly, infirm parents who have moved in with you. This sudden shift can be overwhelming, as your time and energy are now devoted to their medical appo...