Right—basically, ”nothing in this world is free”.

Stimulus checks during COVID are a big reason why inflation has gone up so much in the past few years.

There are much better, quieter, non-claustrophobic places to decompress.

Post-COVID luddites are a fascinating group.

There’s also the piece “As Slow As Possible”, by John Cage. Beyond the literal speed it’s supposed to be played, it was written to serve as a commentary on the fast-paced nature of life most people lead.

Same. I only occasionally use AI.

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There’s a Wired.com article from 1999 that has a very interesting prediction at the end, saying that we won’t witness the ultimate potential of computer science until around the year 4000. web.archive.org/web/20100911...

We need Frank Zappa-ass song titles to make a comeback.

Most people also didn’t know what cryptocurrency was before NFTs became popular. And they threw such a big stink that barely anybody wants to touch either now.

I think the hard truth is that, no matter what woman was brought into the studio, it would’ve caused conflict (They had a rule that no wives or girlfriends were allowed to enter).

A good way to describe it would probably be “reverse-ASMR for your tastebuds/mouth”.

They might be the same people who still assert “Yoko Ono ruined the Beatles”.

X to doubt

I’d call it “Slop till You Drop”

Oh lol, that’s how old I am also

You’re in your mid-to-late 30s, right (no judgment)?

You’re good—a lot of people don’t get diagnosed with ADHD until after graduating HS.

What did you try previously?

There was basically no freedom of speech under the 1st Amendment until 1925.

In Barron v. Baltimore (1833), Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that “Congress shall make no law” in 1A meant only Congress. States prohibited & banned speech, practiced religious discrimination, etc. until Gitlow v. NY.

This is the perfect opportunity for 95% of this site’s userbase to do the funniest thing imaginable.

saw someone respond to an LLM trained on Victorian-era writings with "by trained you mean stolen?"

some people are negatively polarizing themselves into intellectual property stances that would make Disney's lawyers blush

Most of the people complaining about AI usually don’t understand anything about the tech they use on an hourly basis, and are so dopamine fried that they couldn’t understand it even if they wanted to.

Doug Walker

Noise music, fully electronic/algorithmic music, atonal music, and even literal silence are all uncontroversially regarded as obviously being music by people who have degrees researching this stuff - but man, even laypeople who respect the avant-garde in other fields struggle to accept it in music

Oh no, she said the obvious thing out loud…

“Companys”

“Demonizing”

45 years ago, you would‘ve hated PCs.

Nature is healing.

I still think he’s a creep who got off too easy.