A Vtuber Built on Community, Not Virality. Iām a music artist, VTuber, and radio-style host ā and more importantly, I act as a voice and gathering point for a community I call Cyber City Underground. My work lives at the intersection of music, conversation, and community: original songs, live radio-style streams, and spaces built around listening, dialogue, and shared humanity.
A core part of what I do is creating places where people can slow down, talk honestly, and feel connected ā not optimized, not farmed, not reduced to engagement metrics. Through my music and my live conversations, Iāve heard the same sentiment echoed again and again: the current internet feels fragmented, hostile, and engineered to divide.
Thatās why seeing UpTrust launch genuinely means a lot to me.
A platform that puts trust, dialogue, and human connection at the center aligns deeply with the values Iāve been building toward ā resisting algorithm-driven outrage and instead amplifying voices, nuance, and real conversation. This feels like the kind of space where creators and communities can show up as people, not products.
Iām here because I believe in a better internet ā one where trust matters more than virality, and where communities are built through intention rather than manipulation. Iām excited to be part of this early wave and to contribute however makes sense as things grow.
Glad to be here ā and hopeful for what this can become.
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On the Turntable: Air Supply āAir Supplyā 1976. On the Turntable: āAir Supplyā by Air Supply, Columbia Records (Canadian import), 1976. Rating: 6/10
For a few years in the early 80s, the Australian duo of singer-songwriter Graham Russell and singer Russell Hitchcock was carpet-bombing American airwaves with one great big easy listening ballad after another, from āLost in Loveā to āEvery Woman in the Worldā to āMaking Love Out of Nothing at Allā, each one featuring boatloads of strings, ethereal choral harmonies, and Hitchcockās signature stratosphere-scraping vocal climaxes. If you loved this sort of thing (and I did! and I do!) there was no one doing it better than Air Supply at the time.Ā
But their story started several years before they scored their big hit. In 1976, the band - then a six piece featuring a third lead singer Jeremy Paul along with future Divinyl Mark McEntee on guitars - debuted with this self titled record that went unreleased in the U.S. The Air Supply of āAir Supplyā was primarily a vehicle for Graham Russellās songwriting, and while they knew their way around some grand ballads - āLove and Other Bruisesā was a Top 10 hit in Australia and would get recycled as the title track of their U.S. debut two years later - the sound is a bit more rock oriented throughout. Songs like āThe Weight Is My Soulā (one of my faves) and āAināt It a Shameā could easily be mistaken for the Little River Band. āFeel the Breezeā rides along an easy disco lite groove and the artsy āSecret Agentā tries a little too hard for Steely Dan. Youāll hear some spacy synth solos scattered about and why not a few pub rock guitar licks. āWe Are All Aloneā goes off on an ill-advised Caribbean detour.Ā
Other highlights include singles āEmpty Pagesā and āWhat a Lifeā, the latter sung by Jeremy Paul - both would get re-recorded for the American āLove and Other Bruisesā album but Graham Russell replaced Paul as lead on āWhat a Lifeā. Not a bad choice honestly, but it basically ended Air Supply as a vocal trio. Considering how popular theyād become as a duo, it was good for their career. But I miss what might have been, especially when I hear the haunting and proggy three part harmonies on āItās Not Easyā: gorgeous and sad.
What cool new technologies are you seeing emerge? How do we know we can trust them? Curious about all, but I'd especially love to see non-AI versions, like:
Even though a lot of what we share won't make it, for a variety of reasons, I always find get an overview of the cool stuff humans are creating really inspiring and hopeful.
Have you heard the controversy surrounding Sabrina Carpenter's new album? For a taste, check out this article on the album art or this twitter thread.
What do you think of Carpenter's work, the public's reaction? Does it even matter?
I donāt know if I am doing this right. . I had the urge in my car to start singing an improvised song (inspired by my relateful camp experience at Annabethās Vocal Flow and Kedarās bonfire jam) and it was in that exploration that I had the epiphany that I am allowed to write bad poems! This really excites me and now Iāve started to write a bunch of things that I feel poetic about. The permission to be bad has been crucial in my permission to try, and now I am wanting to maintain my permission to be bad and try in front of others.Ā
I havenāt posted on UpTrust because I question whether or not I am really ātrustableā on any topic. I donāt feel qualified, or justified, or certifiably ātrustableā, apart from maybe my honest attempts at honesty. But my honesty =/= truth. I could speak honestly about what I think a Beef Wellington is and still be wrong. Ā
But I can write bad poems, and I can be wrong, AND I can do that publicly. And in doing it publicly, maybe my poems become better and my honesty becomes truer.Ā