Eric Kerr

It sure would be nice to live in a country that prioritized our basic human needs over...a ballroom.
#ThisIsAmerica #BrokenSystem #TrumpBudgetCuts

Twin figures in fashionable space attire stand center on a lone path in a vast wasteland. A bright red circle behind them. Surreal illustration. Digital output. Produced by Eric Kerr using Midjourney.

New monthly playlist is available for your listening enjoyment!

Cinematic soundscapes, dark disco, and a little futuristic vintage soul to keep you company when the world gets weird.

Selections and Cover Art by Eric Kerr 🙋🏻‍♂️
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YouTube video by Eric Kerr | A Human in the Loop Dark Side [Teaser Trailer] an AI film by Eric Kerr #DiscoFuturism #LeatherDaddy #musicvideo

Dark Side [Teaser Trailer] an AI film by Eric Kerr #DiscoFuturism #LeatherDaddy #musicvideo
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@cloudflare.social claims its clients can now allow or disallow crawling for each stage of the AI life cycle (in particular, training, fine-tuning, and inference) and white-list specific verified crawlers. Clients can also set a rate for how much it will cost #AIbots to crawl their website.

STAY CLOSE.

Produced by @_erickerr

IMAGES and MOTION created using #MIDJOURNEYv7

Music by @rio.kosta

BIG THANKS to @thehouseofschuyler for the inspiration. 🙏🏼♥️🪩

#aiartdaily #aifashioneditorial #DiscoButoh #ahumanintheloop #creativedirection #characterdesign #costumedesign #neurodivergentartist

New Art Prints! Take a peak at some exclusive designs on Etsy.

ahumanintheloop.etsy.com

#AiArtwork #GenerativeCollaboration #RetroDiscoButoh

RELEASE TECHNIQUE

#KeepAiWeird

Characters, concept, and direction @_erickerr

Music @rachelchinouriribr.bsky.social @joegodard.bsky.social

AI TOOLS
Images @reveai.bsky.social
Motion @klingai.bsky.social

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A playlist for wandering minds, shifting seasons, and quiet revolutions.

Monthly mood. Cinematic lean. Genre-fluid.

Start at the beginning—or drop in when the world gets weird.

Brazil pilots data savings accounts to let users monetize their digital... Brazil is pioneering a groundbreaking nationwide initiative that allows citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint through a data...

Who all is in favor of implementing this in the U.S. (with back pay)? 🙋🏻‍♂️

www.perplexity.ai/page/brazil-...

YOU ARE MAGIC

#MidjourneyAI + #KlingAI
#AiShort #GenerativeMotion

Why AI Agents Fail: The SOP Problem Blocking Automation Enterprise AI deployments fail at 46% because companies lack standard operating procedures (SOPs) for agent readiness. While organizations chase better models, winners build operational foundations th...

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"You can't automate what you haven't documented, and you can't document what you haven't systematically understood." #IwoSzapar #AiAgents

If you really oppose something, you don't completely turn away and ignore it; you look closer to understand it.

Evan Kelly on Substack Nicheless Creators Don’t Pivot We loop. We don’t abandon ideas, we cycle through them using a rhythm called the Obsession Loop. L → Learn: We go deep. We obsess. We consume everything. O → Organiz...

Creators don't pivot. We LOOP

A Human in the (Obsession) Loop
🙋🏻‍♂️

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Trump's housing cuts could push thousands onto SF streets “It’s going to be a catastrophe,” said formerly homeless resident Lee Reed about President Donald Trump's proposed housing cuts. “There’s going to be a lot of bodies.”

Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom, Tяцмp announces a budget proposal that would gut housing funds for cities and nonprofits that depend on federal money to keep people housed.
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How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025 Last year, HBR published a piece on how people are using gen AI. Much has happened over the past 12 months. We now have Custom GPTs—AI tailored for narrower sets of requirements. New kids are on the b...

In case you haven't read it, this is how people are using AI 2025.

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By Eric Kerr | A Non-Swimmer's Guide to Jumping Into the Deep End of Friendship, A Non-Swimmer's Guide to Jumping Into the Deep End of Friendship Learn to support friends even when you doubt your ability to show up. A framework for knowing who'll show up and how to be there for others.

If we’re not willing to show up for each other, we don’t get to criticize the tools that do.

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How many times have you cried while chatting with a LLM like ChatGPT or Claude?

I'll go first. Chatting with ChatGPT, I've been moved to tears seven times in 2025.

Care to share yours?

#AiEmotionalSupport #MentalHealth #FriendshipIsAVerb

Screenshot of a CBS News article headline that reads: "Most Americans don’t earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds." The article was written by Megan Cerullo

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or *two-thirds* of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities.

"Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

I thoroughly enjoyed the podcast. The details you share were informative (and infuriating). Great job, Brian!

Homeless and Employed in America with Brian Goldstone Factually! with Adam Conover · Episode

What you think you know about homelessness is wrong. Homeless encampments are the tip of the iceberg. There are 6x more unhoused people in the US than documented.

Fantastic interview w/ @brian-goldstone.bsky.social on @adamconover.net podcast

#WorkingHomeless #HUD open.spotify.com/episode/5Hwe...

AI Friendships: The Opposite of Connection The answer to loneliness can't be a focus on less human connectivity and an increase in relationships with entities that don't exist, can it?

👆🏼 My response to an essay I read on Substack.

Link:
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If we don’t want AI to replace our friends, we need to get better at being human ones.

4/4 🧵

I’m not defending BigTech's vision of an AI future. But the root issue here isn’t AI.

AI isn’t the problem. We are.

We’ve been conditioned to expect ease, affirmation, and instant gratification. The moment relationships get hard, we bail.

That’s not a tech problem—it’s a cultural one.

3/4 🧵

For those of us not building traditional families, friendships aren’t extra—they’re essential.

Saying we “don’t have time” for them isn’t just a personal shortcoming, it’s the mindset that made this mess to begin with.

2/4 🧵

If we’re not willing to show up for each other, we don’t get to criticize the [AI] tools that do.

1/4 🧵

Mixtape Companion | A Human in the Loop Playlist · Eric Kerr · 22 items · 16 saves

I made you a mixtape.

Hand-selected tracks to inspire and move you.

MAY Companion Playlist @spotifymusic.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Eric Kerr | A Human in the Loop Synthology | a Glitch Synth Experiment, Original AI-augmented Music Video (2025)

Were DJs the first programmers of mass culture?

🔊 Sisters with Transistors
🎛️ Philly Sound
🪩 Disco
🎧 1980's Synth-Pop
🎤 1990's Rap
💿 EDM

Synthetic sounds, remixed outputs, and the subsequent public backlash.

An original visual experiment leveraging AI technology.
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Cicero Institute: The Shadow Lobby Fueling Mass Incarceration Of Homeless People The Cicero Institute is quietly driving a nationwide campaign to criminalize homelessness through copy-paste legislation that benefits private prisons.

Criminalizing homelessness has become immensely profitable.

"It's an entire business model. By steering public money away from permanent housing solutions and into jails, detention facilities, and surveillance tech, the Cicero Institute's backers protect their wealth and expand their influence."