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I am happier knowing of this wonderful cow! All Hail Viva la France the wonder cow!!!
I need to watch this immediately.
I do think that convention center in particular is especially plagued and always has been. I am casting a spell of fortification on your mask. 🙏
That actually is what started this! I listened to some of that because of this thread: bsky.app/profile/amyh...
For my own edification, here is one of the most iconic bossa nova albums of its era. Most people will be familiar with the first track, Girl from Ipanema, but the whole album slaps. Please enjoy the excellent vibes this Sunday afternoon. 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxd4...
This one has a Kraftwerk song on it, which after listening is TECHNICALLY correct, but misses the vibes. lmao youtube.com/playlist?lis...
After listening to AI cha cha of the pretend 1950's, I went on a quest for some better sounds and found this nice playlist with cited recordings (still going through and verifying, tho, lol). @amyhoy.bsky.social may be of interest! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
100% in agreement. Bottom line.
Yes, that is more precise and a better descriptor than my "conservative" *nods*
I dunno, maybe my brain just always wants to come back around to "LLMs are just badly dressed conservatives" It isn't a direct 1-to-1, but the idea that we absorb the history of our culture and have a sense for what works based on it. The semiotics of dress is closely tied to music too, after all!
Yeah, I would love to get a resurgence of actually great bossa nova with fun concepts! I wish I'd worked on composition basically at all. 😢 Regarding patterns etc. it did remind me of this fashion thread (absorbing culture and having a feel without maybe knowing specifics) bsky.app/profile/diew...
Yeah, especially because you actually like cha cha/bossa nova music, so you have a good feel for it. And I think most people that listen to music will have absorbed at least some of that because it is such a human thing, and we absorb the cultural history of the composition by experiencing it.
Yes, I think this is exactly it! And that lack of sense of memory is really uncanny here too, because I think it is true—it has no memory for this song, even though the structure demands that you return to the top and repeat refrains. It does it, but it doesn’t know when to do it.
Oh, good. Nice to see MIT press is still the hot take machine. /s Not sarcasm, excellent breakdown here from Gabrielle Schwarz.
Boy the people that followed me for helpful browser tips are going to be sorely disappointed when they figure out that I am just over here posting about dinosaurs and cello practice. Hi and welcome anyway! 😆
And, I guess, bonus. It still got memorized over that time. XD But truly, I think that there are ways to break down practice into a more precise science that can be taught much more effectively, and I would like to work on breaking it down further. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
It's 500 more steps and 1000 times more work. Practicing is a lot more tiring and takes a lot longer for the same amount of play time. I'm still playing the solo piece I am working on right now worse—after all, I spent three weeks throwing myself at it, overwhelmed. But I think it is getting better.
So, I have been experimenting with listening to a recording multiple times and focusing only on a specific element for each listen and taking notes on that. Then practicing just those notes, recording again, repeat. This would work without recording as well—same principles of focus.
It was impossible for me to hold all of the things I noticed in my head at once. I would forget things that I noticed in tone, or dynamics/expression, intonation, as I encountered new things to note. Instead of trying to incorporate every note at once, I needed to focus on one thing at a time.
2. I don't think many people are very good at breaking down and teaching the principles of practice. For instance, you might say, "record yourself playing and listen back for areas to improve." I did this SO MUCH, but I think that I was just trying to account for way too many things.
Then, I'm practicing worse technique overall. And because I'm generally dedicated and will keep throwing myself at a passage for hours at a time, this can actually be so counterproductive—practicing errors just makes those errors unavoidable. It is a deeply distressing cycle.
First, working memory: I didn't know I am Autistic and an ADHDer then, but now I'm a lot more familiar with my issues around working memory. With how lessons and practice typically go, I am trying to incorporate way too many elements into my playing at once, and I crash out. I literally play worse.
I'm experiencing a worsening of my playing with practice, and this used to happen to me a LOT growing up & entering undergrad cello performance. At the time, I was mostly self-taught and didn't have tools to really work through why that is the case, but I've been thinking a lot about it now. 🧵
Then, only a few bars later, we have a sax solo. This is very wacky and sounds very off to me. So even though technically the thing is playing the "right" notes and it sounds mostly like Bossa nova, it still sounds very wrong to me. I could go on a lot, but this feels like way too much already.
The instrument solos are a good example (though the phrasing for these is so weird)—the clarinet has more space than the saxophone. BUT the clarinet solo is so short, and the song returns to the top of the progression even though we were further along in the phrase.
There are other things like runs in scales having too many notes—using too many half steps along the scale (for my taste at least) so it sounds less intentional and like they are just running through notes. Reminds me of the jazz joke—the point is to hear the notes they aren't playing. Well...
So, you will get a B natural (instead of flat) at an odd place in the chord progression that feels pretty divorced from what we instinctively know of Bossa nova (kind of how you talk about AI programming being divorced from a knowledge base and tradition—the same thing is happening here)
I've only listened to the 1st 2 songs, and there are a couple of things that I noticed just on cursory listen. 1: "accidentals," which are notes that are written outside of the key (in this case A flat major) which create discord that does not have the right resonance or come to resolution.
I am glad so many people are finding this useful! The notifications are a bit overwhelming at this point though, so I have muted the thread.
This is so sick omg
It is one of my comfort shows. I am a big ol' sucker for Joan and Sherlock's relationship. ☺️ Sounds like my kind of Saturday, tbh!
I take it back, this is my first choice. The more I think about Hannibal being Samwise and Will being Frodo, the more I cackle.
Unironically, I think Hannibal is Samwise and Will is Frodo lol
I will have you know that Mulder and Scully would have been my first choice had Amy not already made her excellent selection. Though, I almost go real wacky with it and posted these two:
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Good call! I just set my IP blocker and went about my day. lol
A post has escaped containment. I will proceed to disappear into the ether until it passes. 😶🌫️
you can become your own “I know a guy” Guy! the secret is SMALLTALK with EVERYONE i got a great handyman recommendation from a lady i bought a chair from last week bc i complimented some work in her house
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
It's almost persimmon season. ☺️
This is the best. 💜
It comes in PURPLE It is embarrassing how much weight this has on my purchasing decisions.
How novel! XD Thank you for this, I was talking to some people in discord that had the Harvest Right machines, but having functioning customer support is definitely worth a LOT to me.
Me 🤝 the evangelical preppers I grew up around 😭
I do not eat meat, and I have strict health-related dietary restrictions. At this point, I am really starting to feel the urgency/pressure to buy a freeze dryer. Calling all those with freeze dryers: do you have recommendations on machines/where to begin?
Still scheduled a follow-up full panel for him. He is getting older, and I would just like to make sure that he is doing alright and that nothing is masked by cat behavior (not showing pain or discomfort, etc.)
Cat update: it was 1 million percent his old food. After confirming the company sold and the recipe changed (with no indication on the packaging etc.), I immediately switched, and over the past several days he has been improving. He is almost back to 100%, and I am very relieved.
He wouldn’t be the first authoritarian to stage pictures to subvert the notion that anything is wrong. 😌 Keep ✨manifesting✨
And much like monocropping, it has disastrou effects. Biodiversity is essential for survival, not to mention to thrive.
www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-culture-of... Essential read. Be sure to boycott Microsoft (and therefore, Xbox) to support the workers risking their jobs to fight against Microsoft's complicity in the genocide
I think about this James Baldwin quote a lot, especially now. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
Onto the most fragmentary of the Kem Kem theropods so far, an indeterminate dromaeosaurid known from some teeth and claw material! Size comparison and some thoughts below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart
I keep remembering Spicomellus and then vibrating with excitement.
lol T just started saying THINK OF THE ALS dramatically and then hooting like an owl. The confusion compounds!!!
Every time I see "Chat with AI" or something like that in a sans serif font, I feel like it must be very difficult being named Al (as in Albert etc.). Think of the Als!
I feel like people that have this turned on are a different sort of people. I could honestly never. Not that I don't like the people I follow, just...that is a LOT.
About 50% of the time. 🫠
Hey, friends! Please take some time to do this today, and as many days as you can. 🙏
Took my niece on a Barnes and Noble date and then to lunch. I highly recommend hanging out with the five year olds in your life. Very cool way to spend the day.
This recording the classical music station is playing has someone in the audience coughing a deep, rattly , mucusy cough and it is really triggering my misophonia. 😡
It does get a bit frustrating when literary references become a sort of superficial pattern recognition game used to avoid actively engaging with the current moment—I saw the pattern, therefore I have done a thing. It really limits the scope of fiction as a tool, and, I think, misses the point.
Fiction has been a huge part of my life and has truly aided me in being able to move through this world, but that came through critical thinking and also engaging with the world around me. Even a framework of fiction as alternate history requires rigorous analysis and comparison to work!
At some point, you have to realize that you are an adult—it’s time to stop looking for the helpers and instead be one. It’s about adults modeling behaviors for children. Deflection and avoidance is a disease, and it’s how we wind up with no helpers & a bunch of half-baked references instead.
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
I am very curious what split ergo you use (because I am a split ergo enthusiast lol)
I am still reeling from them thinking that admitting to pirating the book would somehow help their case?
I feel like Lake Superior is a bit of a try hard with its name and positioning 😆
✨️Original artwork available✨️ Back to reality with a resounding crash after a short break, and a bank balance that left me blanched. 🥲 Variegated Rose Study Watercolour, painted image approx. 95 × 115 mm. £200 + £6 UK or + £15 International tracked postage. Or please feel free to make an offer. 🙏
Adding casters to things is very easy, I just had never done it before. I don't know how I'd gone my whole life without needing to add wheels to something, but here we are. Now, to add some to my plant shelves for easier watering. 🥳
I am a DIY master! ...in that I added casters to the ottoman in my office so now, not only can I easily move it out of the way, it is finally at the correct height for my seating. 2.5" doesn't seem like. a lot, but it is hell on hypermobile knees. I have achieved comfort, which feels like an A+.
The flood of AI spammy fake publishing email is making email (an already stressful thing for me) so much worse. May they fall into the center of the sun. 🙏
Re the detransitioning trans person who shot up the school: individual crime does not beget collective guilt, but if it did it is always worth bringing up that the great majority of mass shootings are by (cis-gender) straight white men.
I don't begrudge anyone a good time, though all of you disrespectful clowns have made me loathe BSU football with a passion (whereas I was neutral before). Just please choose to not be losers.
Now that football season is upon us, I have a request: If you are going to games at BSU, be respectful of the surrounding neighborhoods if you are parking in them. Please stop blocking emergency vehicle access, accessibility accesses on sidewalks, strewing trash everywhere.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
Had to take emergency Benadryl again last night along with extra Zyrtec. I think the wasp sting is finally calming down, but I feel exhausted today. Can barely keep my eyes open. 😴
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
Please help this person find this cover because I would very much like to hear it as well. 😌
The roses pictured were at the cottage Orwell lived in from 1936-1940s and may be ones he planted. He took a bullet fighting fascism, did more against it as a writer, noted in a column, "last time I mentioned flowers in this column an indignant lady wrote in to say that flowers are bourgeois.”
The fact of the matter is the circumstances that led to this person choosing this path are very likely social and driven by precisely the people that will use it as a cudgel.
I wish there was any way to see this and not have every other thought about why this happens immediately buried in overwhelming fear about how this will be used against all trans people going forward.
wrote up a quick account of a trans teenager who was murdered by their father [allegedly] and is being treated as a cis woman by all relevant media coverage. hasn't been picked up by queer media even though he wrapped them in a pride flag after killing them eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...
Just watched Good Madam with the Deadlight Theater. Whew! What a ride. Excellently written and shot.
The thing is, it IS very important. To me, specifically. I just haven't figured out how to wrangle the ADHD into believing that is a sufficient enough motivator.
Independent study is weird because I'm sitting here creating a syllabus for the fall and then I'll spend loads of time trying to trick my brain into not remembering that this is entirely made up. Please, brain, believe these deadlines are very real and important. 🙏
"I am here to be rude because this is a rude technology." 👏👏👏
T just sends me things to get me riled up link: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Yeah, I think you are right! It does make the times that I need to apologize a lot more thoughtful, and I think I am more aware of my impact more generally!
When I say sorry to my therapist (less now, but used to be a lot), she would fully stop and make me answer this question: did you do something to cause me harm? No? Then why are you apologizing? It was deeply uncomfortable for me. 😅
Now more than ever, we need to be supporting our indie fiction mags, especially ones that feature bold, startling writing. Please give what you can! 💝
lexaprogrammer didn’t frame this as advice but it IS great advice. sometimes people truly do not want to be helped, but their complaints are worth mentally noting anyway bc more help-able people might have the same challenges AND want a solution
😂 😂 😂 Go go gadget venn diagram
Yes, this is how I understand it as well. I feel like I need to make a geometry proof of bbq lol
Yeah, generally I have found that letting go of pedantry is the best way in pretty much all cases. ☺️ As a person terrified of the California raisins as a child, I agree. No thank you.
But I do really like that we all have our own versions of hanging out outside, cooking over flame, and sharing it with people. It is a nice thing!
Yeah, I think that my curiosity about how people talk about it is rooted in the ‘tism. Because as a younger person, I would have been upset by calling it something “wrong,” and while I still am perplexed, now I am just curious. I am only insistent about bbq (food) vs. hamburgers called bbq 😆
BBQ sauce is just BBQ sauce. Common ground 🤝
Yeah that makes sense! My grill had a smoke tray built into it so you can kind of smoke your food and I didn’t have to have two expensive things in my tiny space 😅, so that also added to the grill/bbq/smoker crossover.
A true love language 🙏 😍 💕