What’s worse is stopping a great rocking set to do an acoustic set at midpoint. Takes all the momentum out of the show
What’s worse is stopping a great rocking set to do an acoustic set at midpoint. Takes all the momentum out of the show
The fabulous Sales brothers rhythm section energizes this whole record. Rock on, sons of Soupy!
Casa de Chlamydia
This is no time for Democrats to take the high road. Republicans have allowed Trump and his minions to run roughshod over court orders, legal precedent and private enterprise. A Democratic congress is essential to slowing and eventually stopping our slide toward dictatorship
William Burroughs said: A psychotic is a guy who’s just found out what’s going on…. Sounds applicable
At this point, anyone that’s at all interested in the Epstein files has to believe that anything “official” that comes out of Trump’s DOJ will be fiction at best. Odd thing is that he fought so hard to stop the release when he could have had them edited well before they went viral.
That chat with the dead boy AI was just nauseating. We are being sold a bill of goods by a tech sector that just doesn’t care about the capacity of AI to truly fuck up life on Earth as we know it. Work life, environment, social life, mental health…all so students don’t have to write papers anymore?
At this point, given the black box nature of large language models, it’s questionable whether Meta is actually able to control how its chatbots interact with users. Genie out of the bottle…
Never happen, John. As the prior commenter noted, there’s too much money in AI to allow millions of authors to (correctly) press for compensation. Breaking up the class will mean each case will drag on forever and die. Only legislation can change things for authors and that’s not on Trumps agenda
This makes me so sad. I can’t imagine the pain Joaquin’s father must be in to want a computer simulation to help him remember his son. This falls under the rubric of “things AI can do but probably shouldn’t be able to do”
There’s so much money invested in AI, they need a positive narrative to combat the daily news stories about AI gobbling up careers, encouraging suicidal thoughts in chats, etc. The scariest thing about AI is that if it f*cks up big time, there’s no way to know where to begin fixing the black box
It’s a pre-pardon move before she agrees to plead the 5th in any public or congressional hearing. A show of good faith from the Justice Department. She won’t live long afterwards, in any case
These are bots, Alex. They spew the same crap across all social media. Ignore them
So surprising…man from the second un-wokest state in America moves to a state run dictatorship instead of the un-wokest state in the US aka Florida…
An embarrassment for sure. Start with Melania and her origin story and continue with the Russians currently and previously residing in Trump Tower. These days, no reporter will ever bring these things up in a press conference but what a story if they did!
It’s not just race, John. ICE is having a ball picking up dishwashers on their way home or day laborers at Home Depot. The mobsters you mention are violent criminals who aren’t going to go quietly. I’m guessing ICE prefers the easy pickings to make their numbers
The Supremes are doing what they promised Trump they would do: judicially support his agenda while trying not to seem too obvious, as payback for their appointments. They don’t provide explanations because they’re not required to. They also can’t be fired. Not a great formula for transparency
Great shout. Later films are more of a blending of samurai and Western ethics, like Ghost Dog, which wasn’t a straight lift from a Japanese source.
Not quite. Article One gives Congress the power to create a US postal system. Unfortunately it doesn’t guarantee there will always be one or that it will continue to operate independently
You misspelled bot
I don’t believe today’s college student particularly cares about the implications of using AI to do assignments. Given the extreme cost of college today, it all about getting the grades, then the degree and then the job that allows them to repay their loans. Critical thinking is an afterthought
Stewart/Daily Show is next. No doubt
Healthy eating habits need to be ingrained early on, by parents. Many are too busy or just don’t care. The Michelle Obama initiative to improve quality of school lunches made many parents angry when Jr came home and said they weren’t serving chicken nuggets every day.
The Constitution was never meant to be static - that’s why there are amendments! Originalism is just a cheap excuse to try and dial back social progress, although the vision of society espoused in most cases never really existed…
That’s that…
I was just showing you where I got the info, John. Doesn’t matter to me at all whether he had it or not. Much greater probability Trump has it…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... “Abraham Lincoln told his biographer, friend, and law partner of 18 years, William Hearndon, that he had been infected with syphilis in 1835 or 1836.”
Al Capone got a dose as well and it killed him. Honest Abe himself had it too. Also Mussolini and Ivan The Terrible
Besides the best music is live anyway. AI will never surpass human musicians in person, with the crowd going crazy…
Great to see Moorcock’s name in the title. Co wrote one of my favorite BOC tunes, Black Blade.
Dennis Dunaway is my #1 underrated bass player in rock. Been playing his lines for many years. This is one of his finest, with Killer being my favorite Cooper record
Metallica actually did a very good cover of Astronomy (Secret Treaties) on their 2nd Garage Days record. Always wondered why this fan favorite didn’t make it to On Your Feet, but it did finally wind up on Some Enchanted Evening
Not to mention the general risk of screwing around with your body chemistry.
A Pearlman (RIP)/Bloom masterpiece, a mere smidge of the Imaginos saga. BOC at its live finest. From 73 to 81, they could outplay anyone in their league.
Combination of things. Realization that people have rights no matter where they’re from, heavy handed illegal tactics of ICE, economic impact on certain industries now short of employees and general distaste for Trump’s cabinet secretaries including Noem and Homan. My $.02…
He’s a dangerous lunatic w daddy issues. Will stop at nothing to “prove” vaccines cause autism, whether it’s true or not (it’s not)…
Can’t happen unless they change the rules. Constitution says: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
This is the best AI news of recent weeks. Cloudflare manages a ton of internet traffic. By protecting IP and copyrighted material, they are setting the bar for the internet infrastructure business. Bravo!
Wouldn’t it be great if so called Christians actually followed the teachings of Jesus, ie. love God, love your neighbors, be humble, give to the poor?
Had to end this way. Shari Redstone needs the merger to happen and she’s in control. Right and wrong were never part of the equation. Hilarious that both sides swear the merger had nothing to do w the settlement.
Be better if it just went away
Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle. Only stoner comedy worth shit since Up In Smoke.
This is a carbon copy of the Warner Bros/AT&T merger struggles from 2018. Trump hates CNN and tried every way possible to kill it, including DOJ lawsuits. Because there are TV stations involved in the Paramount deal, he can use the FCC this time, because he hates CBS as much as CNN.
I think Covid had a bigger effect on people mentally than we knew at the time. Take rejection of medical expertise, wrap it in “wellness”, season with “Christian values” and top it off with the very real fact that being a working mother is very very hard. There’s your formula for rejecting feminism
Women have been outpacing men in recent years socially, in higher education and financial compensation. This scares the shit out of a certain type of man. Thus, the movement to put women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, disguised as a “wellness” trend.
Tried that in 2005. Ended up with Hamas by doing so. Rockets from Gaza to Israel never stopped. Arab nations will never divert resources to Gaza for a forever “peacekeeping force” aka occupation. Next…
My guess is that Mom and Dad are doing the spending, since you have to be 18 or older to get a credit card
Thanks for naming your hero after me, John 😂😂😂. World needs more good guys named Ira 💪
Great tune,John. Joe’s signature atmospheric mysterious sound w your words mesh perfectly. Shivering men indeed…
Personal favorite of your BOC catalog is Heaven Forbid. Best songs, best playing and heaviest guitar sound of all their later recorded work. My $.02 only…
A great Buck Dharma tune, not played live for quite a while. You did almost all your BOC work with Buck, didn’t you, John?
You got me in a spell Trying to leave but you know damn well The heat from below can burn your eyes out… Joe’s best song. His early lyrical work (Hot Rails, Screams, Morning Final) was based on his impression of NYC as a youth from upstate NY. Quite the culture shock, as evidenced by his words…
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The book (Mickey7) by Edward Ashton is even better
Great shout on Sloop John B. That one and God Only Knows are two of my desert island singles
Trump pretty much said exactly what he wanted to do in term #2 many times in the run up to November 2024. It’s been his GOP since 2016. Plenty of time for those who wanted to figure out the consequences to do so…
And yet they name check women (in total) as a completely separate service category, even though there are women in every other community listed in the platform. Statistically, men these days need more support than ever, especially young men. Platform doesn’t acknowledge that.
Are you kidding? Have you seen the Who We Serve section of the Democrat platform for 2024? www.americansurveycenter.org/wp-content/u... Guess who they specifically don’t serve? Men! How can they possibly win without them?
I’d vote for a rutabaga before I’d vote for JD Loveseat. At least the vegetable could do no harm…
@smerconish.bsky.social the way to return men to the Democratic party is not found in UFC events. Instead, how about a plan that provides a path to a good job with decent pay, so men can afford to buy a home, get married and raise a family?
Correct, John. The video studio (Meat Dept) trained the AI using their own artwork. The track itself was actually created with audio glitches for beats and can't be recreated with real instruments. Gautier, mastermind of Igorrr, is a genius of sound and vision.
@smerconish.bsky.social i can’t believe you’re sad to see Musk go. He saved no money via Doge, dismantled oversight agencies affecting his business, data mined confidential info on all of us, and fired essential personnel in key govt departments. He was never serious about cutting costs.
The First Amendment provides protection from persecution re: public spaces. It does not give you the right to say whatever you please at a private university. If they say no political speech in a commencement adresss, be prepare for a negative reaction if you ignore them.
Why are we even discussing Biden at this point? Good, bad or indifferent, he’s no longer in office. Best to focus on the obvious cognitive decline of the 20 current Congress people who are 80 or over. Never mind Trump, who wants Springsteen and Taylor Swift to get off his lawn.
A little truth to power to close out the week…👏💪
The pace has also overtaken any consideration of the harmful societal, economic, environmental and psychological effects of full steam ahead technological change. The genie is out of the bottle and is not likely to be forced back in.
Paramount/Viacom is a publicly traded family business. The Redstone’s interest in securing this deal will take precedence over all other concerns. This is the sad result of dual-class stock structure, where a small ownership entity can control decisions through voting rights.
According to an interview I read online, he had at least a dozen book ideas sketched out by the time the Cal Poly cops raided his locker. No wonder he needed so many volumes.
I’m a big Gus Hasford fan, John. The over zealous prosecution of his book hoarding case most assuredly led to his untimely downfall. Never got to write his final follow-up to Short Timers/Phantom Blooper. Both classics.
My top 5 rewatchables: Full Metal Jacket The Godfather Super Fly For A Few Dollars More Enter The Dragon
“Intellectual curiosity”? Is Zito serious? The man is a sociopath that just charmed the pants off Bill Maher. Literally nothing he has done as chief executive has anything to do with intelligence or curiosity, other than actions that increase his personal wealth.
@smerconish.bsky.social once again, you lazily mischaracterize Sanders as extreme left. Bernie isn’t talking about bathrooms. He’s talking about rich guys running the show while regular Americans can’t afford their needed medications. If that’s extreme, call me extreme
Presidential signatures are part of the Federal Register and reproductions have been used for official documents since Nixon. There are currently 177 official Trump documents published by that register, all of which use a reproduction signature. How dumb are these people?
You said people like Fauci shouldn’t want pre-emptive pardons because they didn’t do anything wrong. I say they should absolutely take any pardon offered, if only to avoid spending their life savings on legal fees fighting made up politically motivated charges