The Dink Network

So, there's a news story going around about how you can throw a book at Google's NotebookLM, and it'll generate a decent podcast about it.

And I thought, hey, I know of a book to try.

So I uploaded both volumes of Crazy Old Tim Plays All The D-Mods. And it worked! Ish!



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Timestamped thoughts:

• 1:40: Mike Snyder's D-Mod contest shoutout.
• 2:10: D-Mod callout #1: Dinkopolis
• 2:45: Mike Snyder's Timeline discussion
• 3:35: they pronounce 'redink1' as 're-dink-one'. Not surprisingly, but gosh darn it AIs
• 4:00: The Dink Network discussion
• 4:35: D-Mod callout #2: Quest for Dorinthia
• 4:44: They also mispronounced Milder - uh, wait. WAIT. His name is "mill-der", right? Not "mile-der"? Or have I been pronouncing this wrong for decades!??
• 6:25: wow - GNU FreeDink is pronounced as something like "jewfrednk". Ok, I will stop complaining about re-dink-one now
• 7:25: oh AIs, the Dink community has been dying since like 1999, this isn't new
• 8:10: D-Mod callout #3: Chores
• 9:00: COTPATD and Tim, a decent acknowledgement
• 10:10: The future and past of Dink, it feels very wistful
• 10:44: Some interesting insights about the community and communities in general, I don't think that's in the text directly, I don't recall Tim (or I) writing that. It's kind of an interesting takeaway.

Surprisingly zero mentions of very notable people (SimonK, SabreTrout, etc.) or other notable D-Mods. I don't know why it chose to call out Chores, Tim didn't seem to care for it too much. Also no mentions of Tim's contributions outside of COTPATD (like his bad D-Mods or Malachi).

Still, though, better than I thought it would be.