Trump is a deep cover leftist. He’s trying to get people and the system as a whole to stand up and tighten the system and show why right wing policies and authoritarian policies are bad. But no one is stepping up!
I really want to start planting this idea in conservative spaces.
The Gemini one is the one I find interesting. Protocol to put up pages that aren’t indexed by Google? Well now it’s harder to get information about.
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy either. It’s just interesting.
They softened it from horse and sparrow. See, if the horse eats enough there will be a lot left over for the sparrow that passes through undigested.
Basically, eat shit, commoners.
I’m not racist, but I do think peanut butter is delicious.
It’s literally valve reaching out to correct that.
I was stable release male but now I’m no longer supported. So I’m no longer secure, I don’t have the latest features, and I’m something most people don’t want to mess with. However, there’s a certain demographic that thinks I’m pretty great so I’ve got that going for me.
Yeah, felonies are more complicated and on a per state basis. A lot of media has flattened it into this binary thing.
I think it’s wild (and honestly I love it) that Rick Astley went from being this massive pop star to entirely forgotten to punchline and now he’s kind of a beloved guy. What a rollercoaster of a fucking life.
It’s also so that someone can’t weaponize law enforcement on their political opponents. So let’s say you’re president. You come after me on a bogus charge. I’ve now got a record. I can no longer run against you.
Morally, I agree entirely.
I lifted that straight from the interview. Dude is funny.
Half a bald eagle wingspan.
Not the person you asked.
Gass made a birthday wish during a concert that the next assassin wouldn’t miss trump back when that dude shot at him during a rally. Black publicly said he would “never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form”. They cancelled their tour and went on temporary hiatus.
While I disagree with Black, I do understand why he would say that. MAGAs were itching to find someone to shoot at the time. If I were an entertainer I would not want them showing up to my show shooting at my fans.
The most recent interview with Gass has him saying this: “Somebody called my mom. My poor 95-year-old mom. It hits close to home, and you want to be brave and courageous, but I’m not a congressman. We’re just entertainers. And it just bespeaks the insanity of the times. It feels almost vindictive."
But both Gass and Black have said they’ll be back as Tenacious D. Black said he loves the D and everybody has to take a break sometimes. Gass said they’ve hashed it out.
Friends go through shit sometimes. And these two have been friends for like a thousand years. Their friendship just happens to be public and people take sides when they see it happen.
Edit: took out a sentence that I had in there twice.
It’s not that I necessarily disagree, I just refuse to give it my energy and don’t understand the folks who make it their whole thing. I can watch older Futurama. Old King of the Hill. Read WoT (the show was fine, I don’t have strong opinions about it except that the timing kind of fucked them with the covid restrictions, it’s unfortunate but I get it). I don’t have to watch the Dresden Files TV show.
You’re out here with well reasoned examples. You’ve said your piece. I bet if I go into your history (I won’t) that you won’t have 50 posts today bitching about it. Those are the folks I’m talking about. Not people who are disappointed and looking to talk. That’s natural and human!
I always feel the same way about shitty TV and movie adaptations of books I love. If I don’t like it I can just not watch and go read the book again. The movie/show won’t get the numbers to continue. I never really got the people who are like “new/adapted show/movie ruined X!” then run whatever they can to complain about it like it’s their whole personality. Naw man, they fucked up an iteration. And except in the case of Star Wars and ET they didn’t change the old media you loved so much. No one hired the Pinkertons to break into your house and rewrite your books.
I remember the Wheel of Time adaptation. You had the camp that enjoyed it. The camp that thought they strayed too far from the books. And very obvious racists.
I saw more repeated posts and comments about it on my feed from the third group than anyone else, maybe combined. Like the same guy spent half his day just posting about how much he hated it. Cool man. Go read the books again. There’s gotta be healthier hobbies than shitting on things you don’t like.
Like all the screaming and crying.
And they’d get extra copaganda out of it! Look, we’re just fun loving guys playing with kids!
Subscription fees plus the double dip into selling bulk licensing of your thin client to companies who make computers.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere in East Texas as well, probably an hour and a half into Texas from Shreveport. I can say this has been true since at least the 80s that I’m aware of. It’s not “lol, can’t train 'em gotta put 'em down!” and more “I guess I could call the sheriff and he’ll come out and maybe accidentally shoot my dog along with this pack of aggressive, possibly diseased animals who may be gone in the half hour it’ll take him to get here or I can make sure my dog and kid are safe.” I guess there was also “I’ll go ahead and risk my life and start the treatment for rabies and try to catch this pack of feral animals and take them to Dallas where I’m sure the second I turn my back they’re going to be put down because they’ve been out here killing and that’s all they know.”
We had wandering strays that never caused a problem. We did have a problem with meth heads dumping failed fighting dogs. The only time it got to be a real gray area was when you weren’t sure whether a dog had a disease that caused balance issues or if one had just tangled with a wild animal and was hurt. But a hurt dog is also a dangerous dog and you’re still running up against waiting half an hour for a sheriff that might show up blasting every animal in sight whether it’s gone or not and possibly having your family hurt.
Life is complicated. And it sucks. And some of us are just out here doing the best we know how. Except Kristi Noem apparently who hated that dog and didn’t care for it or train it properly, blamed the dog for her failure, then decided she also hated a goat, missed the kill shot, and had planned so poorly that she had to go reload and come back for round 2. That’s fucking incompetence and spite, not protecting her kids and her neighbor’s chickens. Luckily she surely won’t bring that kind of incompetence and hatefulness to any job she might do with the government. Surely not, no way.
Tl;dr - in my opinion, a world where machines make our art is a smaller and sadder world.
I make music as a hobby so I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. My hot take is that a lot of music has been manufactured for years. My problem with AI music or art in general is not that it’s manufactured, it’s that they’re going to do their best to make it so that art isn’t something people make because an AI songwriting machine will be cheaper and never get tired or burnt out or messy the way a person will.
What has happened for years with manufactured acts is that someone finishes some music. Then you give it to a top liner or a writer’s room who play madlibs with whatever they’re writing about until the prosody feels right. Then you give it to a talented and entertaining person to perform. So you can sneak in new techniques, ideas, thoughts, feelings, performance nuances, whatever and legitimately move art forward. Not every song will and that’s ok. Not every artist and that’s ok.
When you have a machine doing it, first you’re going to get blatant propaganda like this often and they’re going to put it in genres that are usually subversive (punk, they’re coming for you again like they did when Nazis tried making punk). Second, you get nothing new. Machines know what has been, not what will be. They don’t yearn to add emphasis on just the right spot to make a song touch you in your soul. They don’t see that clever phrase in an otherwise unremarkable song and say “yeah, were making that the centerpiece”. LLMs will resolve a story. Suno and similar will use the same instruments the same way every time. They’ll cold open songs with just the barest difference in notes from the last song. They’ll make the exact production choices Rick Rubin or Butch Vig or Max Martin or Pharrell Williams make instead of taking inspiration and learning taste.
AI music, once it hits its stride, won’t be terrible. It’ll just be flat. And it’ll be everywhere. Acceptable at scale will crowd out excellence at the margins. And the only people making human music anymore will be people with enough money not to care that they don’t get paid or underground artists that people never get to hear because no one will elevate the subversive until it’s gotten too big to ignore. Rap had to elevate themselves. Punk, same. “Grunge”, as much as I hate that for a label for the conglomeration of everything from alt metal to post punk to updated standard rock just because they all wore flannel, same.
It’s up to the listener to accept or reject it. A lot of folks don’t care where something comes from as long as they enjoy it. And that gives people making music a hard row to hoe. There’s already enough hurdles to making music (and not just deep, thoughtful stuff, but people doing dumb, fun shit because it’s dumb and fun) that others will hear. Adding the Nashville, New York, or LA machine behind AI music just makes it harder for someone to feel like what they’re doing is worthwhile, which means fewer people do it.
They should be working on AI football teams. At least then there would be less CTE and gladiator fights in the world.