hollywood is COOKED something like this used to cost $100,000,000 to make and i just did it for free with one prompt 😎

Rural climate change deniers must be having a normal one today, Banks Peninsula has had 283mm (& counting) in 30hrs in the middle of summer. Anyone got a photo of the 'Paris agreement is killing our livelihood' billboards underwater around Little River? #ClimateEmergency

There are free DAWs, free VSTs, pretty much everything you need to make music on a computer, which they assume you already own, are available for free or very little. The only thing Suno is doing is stealing the rewarding parts of music-making from you. It's a vending machine, not a kitchen.

Funny and a bit on the nose that the ai meme still has the piss filter on it Sumo isn't 'music production ' but it is the audio equivalent of piss

Remember that these people make/do/produce nothing. Their productivity martyrdom, their bullshit asceticism, it’s all busywork nonsense in this empty edifice that exists to prop up a fake economy they expect you and your planet to die for haaa

This is a fucking early 90s album cover for a noisy alt rock band with some glam influences

This is fucking sick

liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Berylline hummingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berylline_hummingbird

This one rocked, like all the films in the series. boxd.it/d7WNtz

NW boxd.it/Sw9w

i often think about this review

Didn't they say this shit last year, and the year before, and the year before that

Better than Jurassic World but still bad boxd.it/d6GBhP

Time to watch something stupid boxd.it/KUeE

Domino's Thursday Thick One (1986-1987): A special 12-inch pizza from Domino's featuring pepperoni and double cheese, made on an *extra* thick crust, available only on Thursdays

Check it check it check it, this rocks

Hey check this out

Lol Musk would like that dogshit Rothfuss series

Listening to Slowdive's 2023 masterpiece, everything is alive slowdive.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...

Timaru, checking in

This really says it all. "AI" as currently constituted in LLM form is really about control: VCs/billionaires/govts want to control information, they want us locked into the tools they control and thereby control what we see, do, and think of as possible.

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Listening to that guitar luthier guy's band

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

Bay Area friends: Skólp shows on tap for April 11 at Lanesplitters in Emeryville and May 25 at Thrillhouse in SF. Stop by!

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

The threats from AI are the same as the threats from capitalism, namely that unaccountable owners and billionaires will use it to erode labor rights and flood the zone with propaganda, not that somehow ChatGPT will become self-aware or replace all white collar jobs in the next 18 months. Be real

Betty

It's technically impressive for the standards of the slop machine but (1) it's boring (2) it's lifeless (3) the backgrounds aren't static and don't make any sense and (4) it's again 15 seconds of regurgitated bullshit

Oh hell yeah

Functionalist approaches measure intelligence by how closely its outputs resemble the human mind. If you constantly recalibrate its outputs to resemble a human mind, you're not creating a thinking machine. You are creating a machine to trick other functionalists.

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

Thinking about record mixes for some current projects, and I think this is the best thing I've done so far in terms of mix. Also my friends Will and Ana knocked it out of the fucking park adzes.bandcamp.com/album/microc...

Gremlin mode

Startup culture in the bay area is just a series of weird diet and lifestyle fads to distract themselves from the fact that they are being ruthlessly exploited

going to start referring to all this no-caffeine, omni-spectrum sobriety, celibacy, 996, workout and diet focus stuff as "mormonism with silicon valley characteristics" because it's more polite than calling it "homeschool mindset"

Kid Rock is just another name tor Epstein Island, I’ve heard it said

congratulations to the Seahawks, who are technically named after the gorgeous Osprey — a great victory for birders everywhere! below is my rendition of an Osprey soaring to victory, drawn with full attention to detail. and no, this is not a photo!

Last Superbowl I watched was Manning and the Broncos getting pantsed by the Seahawks, this is great

Pats shutout would be one of the funniest outcomes here

Not watching (bass tracking and school board stuff taking over my day) but fuck em up Seahawks

Five songs to introduce myself Ulver - Lost in Moments Kowloon Walled City - The Pressure Keeps Me Alive Gang of Four - Ether Godflesh - Antihuman Medicine - Time Baby II

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings touring Aussie but zero NZ dates щ(°Д°)щ

“There’s no such thing as unskilled labor” is problematic because it excludes bassists in punk bands