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Skullgrid, to 196 in That's the rules
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Imagine being an animal , living and dying just so some asshole can write a meme on your skin

Skullgrid, to 196 in [rule] of law
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sure, as long as his ass is in prison during the appeal process like joe schmoe

Skullgrid, to lemmyshitpost in I'm optimistic
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meanwhile,my southern hemisphere ass : šŸ„¶

Skullgrid, to 196 in No Rule frfr
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Yeah, people with a more natural haircut are more ridiculous than dudes with powered wigs and whatever dumb fashion GW and the guys in the 1770s had.

Benjamin Franklin had a skullet/mullet and creampied menopausal women.

Skullgrid, to 196 in Who dis rule?
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Iā€™m wondering that too

Skullgrid, to lemmyshitpost in Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer
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Why should I get a haircut? Heā€™s the one that killed all those people.

Skullgrid, to 196 in Starule valley expanded
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Who are the characters? The bottom one seems familiar

Skullgrid, (edited ) to 196 in Starule valley expanded
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Ask a German or British racist and see what their opinion is then

EDIT : My genuine belief is that thereā€™s no ā€œrace hierarchyā€ or anything like that, howeverā€¦

People in general are treated differently based on race, with white people treated as if theyā€™re at the top of a heirarchy. Obviously , itā€™s relative, for instance, a turk in poland and a turk in england are treated as ā€œnot whiteā€ , a pole in poland is treated as white, when compared to the turk in poland.

Somehow, the pole loses their ā€œwhitenessā€ when they migrate to the UK, and are treated with scorn and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

So, the desire for spaniards, and ā€œpalerā€ LatAm originating people to be treated as white is a fallacy thatā€™s trying to get them to be part of a privilaged group that may or may not get them in there, depending on the context theyā€™re in. A pale columbian is treated as white in LatAm, because they are whiter than Afro-Latinos. That same person will have a lot harder time being treated as white if they live in a border town in the USA.

Spaniards and other mediterranian europeans have the same thing happening to them. Oh sure, theyā€™re ā€œWhiteā€ in the mediterranian, but not so much if they go to places like germany or the UK.

Skullgrid, (edited ) to 196 in adherence to the rule is the 4th law of robotics
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This week, I spent a few hours listening to Dadabotā€™s Pho Queue stream.

I read the little prose they left in the stream description. And I found myself wanting to go back to it several times. Something about the screams of ā€œFA KYUUā€ sounds morphing into saxophones, being garbled, sometimes screamed, sometimes sung, the transitions that were talked about in the prose felt nice to listen to. sometimes it felt like it was coming up with genuine new ideas, for itself at least, that it didnā€™t generate before.

Then I started thinking of the level of art discourse we have in the modern world, especially visual arts, and ideas from Cage. And the nature of the music industry.

Jackson Pollock and his CIA funded splashes of paint are only worthwhile to people who actually like them. The AI generated saxophone warblings, the screeches that come out of it, the choppy, syncopated drum beats give me feelings. It is art to me.

There is a person behind the scenes, that curated the algorithm to bring out music in a certain way. Pho Queue doesnā€™t sound the same as a ā€œbach faucetā€ , because of the human creativity and curation that went into the way the music is generated.

Brian Eno and John Cage made music with procedural generation features before the current wave of generative AIs. Itā€™s an established perspective to have on music. Some performances use radios being tuned to frequencies just to add a new source of sound.

How is this stuff any different?

On the other side of the coin, does music made by humans inherently mean anything? The crap churned out by pop musicians that are flying around with private jets, composed by commitee with the end goal of generating another product for someone else to buy, is there any expression or emotion in there? What does the zillionth love song made by a billionaire have to offer that hasnā€™t been expressed a zillion times before?

Thereā€™s some more to be written , like if I make music myself that relies heavily on timbre, or effects that I bought, whoā€™s really doing the expression, and how? If the musical theory of what Iā€™m playing is simple, and contributes less to the aesthetic feelings of the music Iā€™m making than my guitarā€™s timbre, the way I set up my effects pedals; is the expression Iā€™m doing actually more in how I turned the knobs on my pedals to get an aesthetic than the actual notes I play? So then am I expressing something, or are the people who designed and manufactured my equipment?

But then we get into this :

I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but Iā€™m not sure where to go from here. I havenā€™t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.

The talk about AI is stupid. Itā€™s a tool.

The talk about the IMPLICATIONS of AI, and who uses it to automate what, at the cost of who, is the actual argument to be had.

If some metal band that can barely scrape together enough money to tour uses AI to generate an album cover, it shouldnā€™t be taken as a horrifying act of taking money out of an artistā€™s mouth. If BMG fires everyone they have on the art dept to only use AI art, thatā€™s something to be concerned about.

Skullgrid, to lemmyshitpost in Handy baseball guide
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I thought having at least Hu and Watt as their names would make the sketch make a little more sense

Skullgrid, to 196 in fuck you jeff. you could Rule this land with an army of mommy milkers and yet you do nothing
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Yeah, who else would want free big boobs bimbo surgery, a busty intellectual?

Skullgrid, to 196 in Trending rule
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Ok, but all you did was make more people pay attention to the trending panel which made people look at the slur.

Skullgrid, to world in Niger Speaker halts plan to marry off 100 orphans, accuses Minister of interference
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this news is so foreign to me I have no idea whoā€™s in the right or wrong.

this means itā€™s a high quality post, and not just more news from the US, Canada , Australia and Europe.

Skullgrid, to 196 in That's rich rule
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bueno, la gente de argentina, mas que nunca estan en una situacion de sufrimiento. Necesitan ayuda para las cosas mas basica, y la unica meta de Milei es para sacar lo que necesitan.

VOS creo no estas sufriendo de nada, asi que callate la puta boca o sobrevivete como estan sobreviviendo los de mas.

Skullgrid, to 196 in That's rich rule
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Great, now fix it without having over half the country go into poverty, you privileged piece of shit boludo.

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