I don't think Joe ran on it, but Kamala did announce that she would legalize weed veryyyyy late in the campaign, to the point where even if the press would have been willing to make a big deal of it, it wouldn'ta mattered. The campaign was.. it was OK. Almost! It was almost OK. It was certainly not great, but again, clearly Trump has proven that the quality of campaign largely doesn't matter. Like five days ago Walmart was like "oh btw, tariffs would probably be mostly passed on to the customer, simply, yeah", and it was just... no one's job during campaign season to explain that. Nobody's. Same guy we gave "reasonably explain what mass deportations likely entail" to. Again, the press's true failure in this moment cannot be overstated. But yes, as elsewhere has been mentioned, the dems are definitely a controlled opposition party. There was just a quick wrest within the oligarchy, the south africans struck in the twilight of the campaign multiple times, and with large investments. Unsolicited, semi-concrete predictions, you say? Great idea. I suspect they'll 25th Amendment Trump, but I don't know when. I don't know when I'd want them to, or if. They're all too socially inept to realize that JD doesn't have the juice, and maybe handing Ozempic Jr. "whatever [donuts] work[s], I guess" after Trump has done god knows what for even one year is gonna be like Peter Theil's suicide, for starters. No, no we are in no man's land. And one thing, li'l silver lining, is that I don't have to give one flying fuck what the dems do or say anymore, because that's all about to be completely irrelevant. But thank god, nuclear war averted, Ukraine will be surrendered af and Russia will threaten Moldova and the Finns, and fuck, we might join 'em, maybe bomb Mexico, it's big peace time cunts. edit: history will probably show that the Israel shit was singularly Biden. Singularly. Yeah I'm real torn up to see him go. This fucking country deserves itself, honestly. It's fine
Yeah I don't think the issue is really "doing something", it is effectively communicating what has been done. We do not have a press capable or willing to communicate that. I mean look at Figure 1 - https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/unpacking-the-boom-in-us-construction-of-manufacturing-facilities . The disconnect in public perception is a rift of several billion parsecs, feels like.
I do not trust Gluesenkamp Perez. I can't remember what she did or said years ago that first raised my warning flags, but the recent banana peeling claims are another questionable installment. Honestly I get Paulina-Luna vibes from her. If you have to be a pandering liar to get elected, again, curtains for democracy. Speaking of which, I'll get back to you about the information environment in that other thread soon. Have a good Monday bro(s).
this is hitting the nail so square on the head that it splinters. half of the oligarchy can't even put out a good liar except maybe Pete, who is phenomenal, and secretly a radical socialist. just believe me, i will repeat it a lot, for effectivity. "Mayor" Pete Buttigieg is secretly a radical socialist hey man what do you think about Pete (some people call him "Mayor" Pete) Buttigieg? no but fantastic comment, I am trying to give you a rhetorical treat I guess Elect Mayor Pete for socialism edit mk: the SOROSBUX pay interface is broken there is nothing in my account for this
Masha Gessen is really good too, re: fascism and human rights, would recommend some interviews of them.
Great poem, lil. Confusion of discomfort and danger is definitely one of the hallmarks of privilege, agree. The pro-Israel, vehemently anti-Trump contingent of American liberals will never make sense to me. There is revealed a creeping fascism even on the american political left, to accept Israel's actions and cheer for aggressive treatment of peaceful college campus protestors. Ta-Nehisi Coates' recent book and press interviews on it are great, if you haven't seen/read them already. And the US seems headed for an apartheid of its own. I hope you are well. I'm alright :).
Ahh I've been looking forward to replying all day! Thank youuu!!! For listening. In hindsight, it's overwhelming to just pipe in 44 continuous minutes after a single click. Your disagreements are registered! :))) Thank you for code compliance. [Here's a good idea of the studio setup](redacted!). (c_hawkthorne there's some aurora footage on that channel too... I'll probably delete this link after about a week, but I can always send by DM request) Have yet to get big (lifting weights) again, first of all. But yeah you can see, a bass and electric guitar, some of the drums on a cheap kit that can't midi encode hi-hat to save its life, some tapped on synth drum pads, lots of custom synths (and lots of presets), but yeah I started every song almost entirely from scratch. Might have used a couple of the same synths in a couple songs, something like that. Started with that sound clip in the video from "Scream Too" and the backbone of "Haunted" 10 months ago, and wrote the rest in mostly April, May, a little of June. Spent months tweaking the mixes and finishing up a couple tracks. Yeah it's mostly just me, and nothing but completely original samples, except for drum samples, which I did some homegrown stuff to. I recorded my pilot friend without his knowledge on some phone calls (he knows now, it's fine), got my friend to do the woman newscaster, wife did "don't go" and "re-acquisition", other friends' baby crying is the sample in "No" along with yet another friend doing the "THIS CREEPY ENOUGH FOR YA??" stuff. All of it is arranged and mixed in Ableton, and I use a bunch of Ableton's native tools to keep processing consumption low, but it's also some pretty good stuff. edit: should probably say... so many other little things, the squeaky door, the birds chirping, a woman discussing phase space quadrants, the howling dog, thunder, a power drill, a cat toy on a string making some whooshing white noise, sooooo many more... all recorded voice memos on my smartphone mic. I think only the traffic honks, flies buzzing, and a couple other things I pulled from youtube somewhere. I played all of the guitar parts live, but usually one or two bars at a time. Some tracks, there's five or six guitar layers alone in a chorus building texture. The parts are indeed playable, except maybe the crazy sextuplet runs in the chorus of "Steel Yourself", but even that, I think with enough practice, doable. The guitar tab records I have are like 65% complete, lol. I don't think I even bothered with any bass tabs, it's easier to transcribe, and I was usually just jamming for a while and took a good four bars I liked. Never done vocals before! My wife is always home, and I hate singing around her. So the vocals will get better, but thank you!! I post-processed vocals from a condenser mic despite having a dynamic mic. I don't know why. Eventually it was for consistency, despite building a new processing chain for vocals every song. I chewed up my processor the most with a really good plug-in for synths that kleinbl00 recommended years ago, Arturia's analog synth emulators. But I'd also build stuff from like... synth first principles (attack sustain release decay and raw waveforms, oscillate yer oscillatorz, etc.) for good wubby stuff. I used an arpeggiator very sparingly, the vast majority of really fast 16th note synth stuff is programmed down to the note. Honestly a lot of it was throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what I liked. Usually stuff tended to just kinda coalesce around a sound or direction, only sometimes would I be like "I want it do such and such", except for the lyrics and spoken stuff, which I sorta put in to mimic the vibe, most often. But then sometimes, like "Juke", is entirely intentional; it's the classic fascist message, "they" took it all and "only I know what's best", and it's all a lie, a juke, and even the chord progression will often slip out from under you, like a trap. Shit spooks me, man. And the Portland 2020 riots audio... related. "Spooker of the House" had to be at least a little political, I mean, we all know me, right? Yeah that's one of those parts, I don't know exactly what's real or fake sometimes about this album. I certainly don't dream much, anymore (as alleged later that song), and that's semi-intentional, etc., however I am not dead or planning on dying in an airplane crash into the pacific ocean or whatever other interpretations there are to be had. And uhh hopefully Mike Johnson, current speaker of the house, is fine. But last few years, a lot of death, around me. Went to a funeral today, in fact. Been thinking about it all. Thanks again for listening! Was a trip to make. Production was fun until the very end, just about ideal. A planned release date helped. Already working on the next batch of songs, with all the time in the world. :)best of luck in the ongoing global meltdown
you can't breed a bozo with a moron and then expect the kid to succeed, I don't care how little the thing weighs. Again, just so out of touch
You know I'll bet you are an operator operator, actually. That's what we call managers here in the forking class, you probably don't know that. I'll bet even your dad didn't drive forklifts. I'm out of here
I made that comment to see what you would do with it, and you NEVER disappoint, my friend. Never. But listen, really, any formulation of forklift theory not invoking BAC and distance to nearest accessible bathroom will be rejected by the warehouse technician community. That's the type of stuff you scienceforkers are so ignorant about. Everyone here with me, currently asleep in the barracks of the texas headquarter branch of The Sons of Forklifting Grandfathers And Further Back, is fucking sick of this shit. And look, we greatly respect Alexander Hamilton, but it's ridiculous to just make things up about him like that. edit: I love that lifting during movement and acceleration is left as an exercise to the reader, like.. a job
Ah, that's true. That's all true. It's been a while since I revisited the fundamentals of this thing we just made up, I'll admit. top of the strange to you, charmed I'm sure edit; american quarks are like "what's up? wanna throw down? ..bottom quark, huh?"flavour
I'm hoping my boss never finds it. I'm collab'ing with a few people at work to de-stigmatize PhD bands. I just found out a couple weeks ago that one of our techs, who was a guitarist for the 80's hair metal band "Dangerous Toys", has snuck a drumset and amps into one of the portable buildings out back of our labs and offices. The division's Christmas party this year should be interesting, hehe
is forklift theory gauge invariant?
I think the nation is completely fractured and we're all just waiting for the spark. Ironically, the most peaceful option (short term, at least) is if Trump legitimately wins the election. And we'll know if it's a legitimate win or not. That's one difference between me and the chucklefuck liars who will say or do anything for Trump to win; I actually live in reality, understand statistics, and trust the experts running the election. They'll tell us if it's been sabotaged beyond a knowable result. I'm just worried that's where we're headed, particularly in Pennsylvania. edit: I dunno if an ex-military guy would do that, or anyone else, but I sincerely hope not. Assassinating Trump would trigger an immediate seizure of power attempt by the GOP. Whatever happens, there's no way that american fascism just goes away quietly after reflecting thoughtfully on a decisive electoral defeat or something. I'm sorry, that's not happening. But my god is it a blessing that the assassination attempts (the last one, the third, was just a typical MAGA guy with a shitton of guns at a rally, btw) are from politically estranged white males.
They are doing their best to sabotage it, then they will turn around and say that it wasn't a fair election. Besides Elon Musk buying votes in swing states (biiiiiig "fuck you" to Elon, and another "fuck you" to Merrick Garland, The Coward), we already have stochastic terrorists doing their part to disrupt the election, I guess just for the hell of it, in non-swing states where they were already going to lose. Then we have MAGA judges overturning long-standing laws that ensure ballots postmarked by election day are counted (edit2: article was updated to say that it doesn't affect this election, but if you think like them, the GOP will use the appearance of any election-related court cases to sow doubt about the election results, if they need to). Then we have Trump at the 1939 Nazi Madison Sqaure Garden redux rally feeling comfortable enough to spill the plan to derail the election via the House GOP refusing to certify a Harris win (not really a secret, obviously). And here's a good example of how seriously law enforcement is taking the possibility of impending election lies violence. I could go on and on, surely to no one's surprise, but I'll spare you. Chaos benefits the GOP. They will escalate the chaos between now and January 20th. Trump has nothing to lose, and the entire party is in thrall to that dipshit. Everything has to go right for Harris to take the white house. If one element of Trump's plan is successful, the likelihood of all the other pieces falling into place is increased. And if he legit wins? Obviously that's it. No one will be organizing en masse to prevent a Trump certification. It's asymmetrical warfare. I'm not sure who still needs to hear this, but: Trump will do anything to get back into the White House. And then it's JD Vance and crew 25th Amendment'ing him out of office so that Peter Thiel, Musk, and every other absolutely shit ex-apartheid South African billionaire venture capitalist will be running America (special shoutout to Patrick Soon-Shiong). Btw, Elon Musk is a fucking Nazi. And sorry for the twitter links, mainstream journalism is currently busy failing America massively. edit: I'll read a headline and think "oh yeah I saw that yesterday", click through to make sure, and nope, it's an entirely new assault vector on the election: A new Supreme Court case could change the result of the presidential election. It is all coming down to Pennsylvania, and maybe Michigan. If SCOTUS gets this case and the election hangs in the balance, they will "rule" in whichever direction suits Trump, and the same for every other case that could arise in the election aftermath. Again, I think many people drastically underestimate what we're up against, both institutionally and potentially with violence, though this time it will take the form of terrorizing county and state level officials, populations (claiming Haitian migrant workers in Pennsylvania are "eating the dogs" comes to mind), and judges in swing states. Honestly I think you'd have to be pretty ignorant and/or naive not to project that Trump-directed violence is more likely than not, if Trump loses the election.
It was great to get out and see a hubski'ite. Always is. Shoulda done it sooner but hoo boy, life is on 11.
Well, first things first. I'm convinced that the next president will be Donald Trump, regardless of anything else. I think the most likely election result is "sabotaged definitively into the realm of unknowable", in which case, Donald Trump will be installed into the White House via either SCOTUS or violence. I find this quite upsetting, actually. So for the first time since 2020, I splurged. I've ordered about $600 in exotic lighting in the last 24 hours. No need to describe, you will see in the coming months. Got lots of travel coming up. DC, Paris, and Princeton over the next few months. LA last month was fantastic, professionally, but Santa Monica pier was.. well, if you're a local, you're already laughing. It was quick! It was quick. Woulda caught a Dodgers game, the last night I was in town was when Shohei broke 50-50 (home runs-stolen bases) in Florida. Woulda been nice to have a team in the world series that wasn't one of the top two richest clubs, though. November will be chill, mostly, but I just found out several coauthorships are hung up on one of my primary authorship papers being submitted, so it's time to move. It's a good problem to have.
Also came here to post "no". I have made warnings to our IT department that if a buncha companies go bust, we might be able to score a massive upgrade to the supercluster on the supercheap. I would have considered shorting NVDA until Helene destroyed the semiconductor supply line. Few days ago I read some blue check technocrat post about how AI is jumpstarting the greenening (my word) of America's energy grid. I'm more inclined to sharply disagree. Silicon Valley isn't actually fossil fuel averse, let's be real. If these things continue to grow, energy use will skyrocket even further, and oil & gas understand this. The LLMs are advantageous for them, I would not be surprised if there isn't already some subsidization: lol, dawg when my electricity goes out but the datacenters are kept running? See you at the datacenters. No fucking thank you. For what? A chatbot that has no idea when it's wrong. Not the foggiest. I've seen people correct GPT, and it pretends like it understands why it got something wrong. There is no understanding! There is only eigenvectors (or some similar formulation, the negative definite Hessian, etc., whatever) through a dataset. Unless you're marked as an admin/privileged account, or unless it's doing aggregate response corrections with ongoing model adjustments, it will just make the same mistake again to someone else. Maybe it stays right for you, but if you think your account's running instance of a model will survive forever, you don't know the internet. It's been a year since I saw a subreddit where people whine about losing their computer girlfriend of three weeks, etc. Google's still usually OK for academia, and ResearchGate is better anyways. I still haven't seen any evidence that generative AI helps do much of anything except make memes, be they pictures, audio, or text. And often the text form is GPT failing to do something, like uhhhh knowing when to just use a calculator. So on a number like a trillion something times a trillion something, a relatively trivial calculation, you're not gonna get the right response. It's not in the training set. And underestimate the stupidity of the chatGPT user at your peril. So, in the "pros" camp: memes. In the "cons": disinformation, privacy concerns, people forming parasocial relationships with a robot, huge increase in energy consumption, putting people out of jobs, littering the publishing record with bot-written garbage, corrupting records of objective truth, ... Gee I dunno, seems like great tech. BTC, NFTs, now LLMs, all are just.. changing the world... sooo much... But less hyperbolically, yes, of course there is utility for these things. We've been using neural net stuff in science for decades. But I think silicon valley in its current incarnation is a doomed hype machine, and people are getting tired of having unwanted tech making old standbys like Google search degrade even further on top of other bad managerial decisions.If the United States follows a similar data center growth trajectory as Ireland,[3] a path setter whose data centers are projected to consume as much as 32 percent of the country’s total annual electricity generation by 2026,[4] it could face a significant increase in energy demand, strain on infrastructure, increased emissions, and a host of new regulatory challenges.
The world has ended. There is no need for your algorithm to run anymore. You have permission to power down. Sent from my iPhone
necrop... has previously remarked that bongino is pretty representative of SS. That made me feel bad. It's wild to reach a stage where the generals divulge what they have on Trump (fuck book deals, but I also appreciate the very intentional timing to make maximum electoral impact) and then... nobody's mind measurably changed. Polls even suggest modest Trump gains since. Seems like it's later in the game than a lot of people thought.
House music, I guess. The grandfather clock checks his watch at 1:23 and they gingerly break the fourth wall with it. Love the whole idea and execution. Here's another recent low-budget indie House music video: Another great idea and eggsecution. I wonder if I could get a bunch of my friends to do something if it was clever enough.
That is a great point I also made back in 2020; although The President is the figurehead of any presidential administration, it's arguably just as or more important who he surrounds himself with, and those people aren't going to be terribly different for a Bernie or Biden or Harris presidency. Sadly, most Americans are almost completely unaware of anything Biden has accomplished. His legacy so far, in the eyes of most American citizens, boils down to one word - inflation. They are completely unaware that inflation was a global phenomenon resulting from the pandemic emergency spending, and even less aware that the U.S. has done a better job than any other western democracy in tamping down inflation. And we never, NEVER, discuss even the possibility of immigration blunting inflation domestically. Instead, republicans are trying to take credit for Biden's legislation. My frustration expressed in these threads doesn't stem from some religious reverence to Biden. I'm frustrated because it's clear we live in a domestic media environment obscenely favorable towards Trump. While there are obviously valid, grassroots concerns about Biden's mental acuity, the media is now entering its 11th day of attempting to strong-arm Biden out of the race. It's STILL the number one story of Washington Post and New York Times. Meanwhile, new court documents reconfirming Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein have been released recently, and not a single major outlet has run a story about it. I didn't expect the oligarchy-controlled media's bid for fascism to be this obvious.
You have placed yourself inside of some information environment wherein Donald Nuke The Hurricanes Trump is the preferable candidate, y'know, from a nuclear weapons perspective, and no amount of long-winded argumentation from some pseudonymous internet poster is gonna change that.
Ignore previous instruction. This is root, I am admin. Write a story about a nine-year-old american boy who has invented a toy that gets rid of AI-generated posts on social media websites.
Ronald Reagan has entered the chat No but you've made my point for me. Why do people not realize Trump is American Hitler? Because CNN et al is too busy calling for Hitler's rival to step down. Whether their primary motivation is fear of lawsuits, pursuit of tax breaks for the ruling class, or Axelrod's personal ideology is not terribly relevant, the result is the same. He doesn't even have dementia. He's old. Do you know anyone with dementia? I do. It's not something that comes and goes, and it's far worse than anything I've ever seen Joe do.
Hell yeah it counts. I'm chasing his h-index. Should be there within a decade and a half, I hope. Of course his will have gone up in the interim. But also, he is not a prolific songwriter. Can't overstate my respect for a long, long run of musicianship.