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Midterm elections are here! About 2,400 years ago, Plato quoted Socrates in The Republic (347c)... "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” Most of us are constituents, not candidates; but the message is clear: VOTE 🇺🇸

Someone might need a bath this #Caturday ....

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I just rebuilt a DIY #Wingtsun dummy that I started over a decade ago. #KIMI AI helped me to correct the proportions to fit my tall frame. I learned Northern #Shaolin #Gongfu in the 90s. But I have always wanted to learn some Wingtsun. Now, I just need a beginning form! 😃

I am discussing #Taiji 24 Moves form with #KIMI #AI. Having fallen out of practice, I want to relearn this form, and so far, I am impressed with KIMI 's level of detail and understanding of the form!

I was sitting on my porch, today, journaling. But then my cat started crying, so I tried to take him outside with me in a plastic bin that has a hole in it for air. But, he couldn't see and get enough fresh air so, I decided to cobble together this Cat Crate!

I decided to try something new: I just got my first undercut! 😀

Insomnia struck, so I tried playing a solo AI RPG adventure. I used my charm to recruit my first two opponents as allies, and then defeated the third with an extremely cacophonous chord, played on my lute. Because, I was a Bard, of course 😂🎸

After having Claude AI program my MVave MIDI Footswitch for Ableton, I decided to go out on a limb. I gutted my old broken Faderport and am going to try building a custom metal mini #Ableton Surface Controller from the remains! I got my Pi Pico today, and ran the Blink test in #CircuitPython yay!

I'm learning how to set up a template in #Ableton! It's so interesting to see how some songs lend themselves to recording all the parts live, and other songs are impossible to perform live without some pre-recorded clips 🎸

I found this cool #Discord #Alternative -> fluxer.app It has a comprehensive & transparent #privacy policy that actually intersects with online safety concerns in an appropriate way. While still in beta, it appears to be more functional and better maintained than Stoat.

Claude.ai helped me finish programming my MVave MIDI footswitch for Ableton. Now, I can use it to: 1. Launch the next scene 2. Arm/Disarm the selected track 3. Toggle Mute between a NAM AC30 Clean channel & a NAM AC30 Gain channel 4. Toggle Mute between On/Off Tube Screamers on a return track 😃🎶

I am learning double (inverted) #counterpoint - what have I gotten myself into?! 😂🎶✍️ I went so nerd on this over the weekend lol - I surely downloaded about a dozen old timey music theory book from archive.org! 📚

#MVave Chocolate, #MIDI Footswitch Update! I decided to have Claude AI write a custom Surface Controller script for me in #Python, which I then installed in #Ableton Live Lite 12.3.6. Btn D Arms/Disarms selected track Btn C Launches Scene Btn A & B are free for guitar and stuff! Huzzah!

@aprylknight.bsky.social Here is what my setup with TranzPort looks like!

M-Vave MIDI Footswitch Update: I've unboxed, charged the unit, and connected it to the laptop via BT. I also downloaded software from the manufacturer and found some YT videos on setting it up!

T-shirt find 😆

Does anyone have any tips on how to achieve a good stretto in more than 2 voices? (I am #composing my first fugue)! 🤔🤔

@artsyneurotic.bsky.social BTW, is The Quest on the bad movie night list? I have a hankering to see that gangster pull up his car next to Van Damme and say: "hey clown-boy, I thought I told you to get off my street!" - and yes, Van Damme is a clown on stilts, on the curb w/ his band of orphans 🤦‍♀️

It has arrived 😃 (now for testing with Ableton!)

*sigh*

Today, I decided to add to my own style of cursive writing, which doesn't lift the pen, except between words: Serifs (from cursive miniscule) on lowercase: m, n, w. Sans Serif on lowercase: u, a. Serif to replace the dot on the lowercase 'i.' Keeping: looped x, t crossed at the baseline

“I’m not up against the pop girls. I’m not up against the R&B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy." www.nme.com/news/music/s...

As a part of my new foray into #composing in the #minimalist and #postminimalist styles, I have started to think about using vertical cells as melodic units! This is so different! What is happening right now?!?! 😂

Why I am not a fan of Effective Altruism for #Philanthropy I learned: 1. The Blue Sweater (Novogratz) - arbitrary giving can cause damage. 2. One Economics, Many Recipes (Rodrik) - removing the biggest structural nodal bottlenecks is priority. EA: a good heuristic; a poor ethical compass

I just ordered this #MIDI Footswitch! Let the #Ableton Live experimentations begin! 🥳🎶

Having some coffee while I do my Artist's Way Morning Pages! ☕🌞

Why everyone interested in the ethical dimensions of AI should read Dan Simmons' Hyperion series... claude.ai/share/3650eb... (My question; analysis by Claude.ai)

Hi! Come and work with me!

I made some more progress on the postminimalist piece I am working on for Flute, Cello, Piano & Horn! It's predominately 7/8 meter and eighth note pulse gives the feel of riding a bicycle through the countryside in a bit of a hurry. & The Horn reminds me of Barrington Pheloung on Endeavor 😃🎵

If anyone is interested in #postminimalist music, PBS has Doctor Atomic available for streaming from composer, John (Coolidge) Adams! nm.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/doc...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

I've experimenting with a little postminimalist texture 🎵😃

This looks pretty cool!

Happy Black History Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com

NEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.

Cozy, cold weather vibes today!

I'm preparing to do some string orchestration practice on part of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 11 in B♭ major, Op. 22 😃 I have little more notation to do and then I'll be ready! 🎵

Great article from @rboyle31.bsky.social on mysterious Little Red Dots and how they might represent a class of objects we've never really seen before: a stellar atmosphere powered by black hole accretion. stay tuned for a spicy alternative take that should appear on the arXiv later this week! 🧪🔭

@artsyneurotic.bsky.social I've missed a few bad movie nights - did you watch Excalibur or Flash Gordon (Queen soundtrack) yet? 😃