“AI can do this music/film/art thing better than humans now” Nobody gives a fuck! I can put a soccer ball on a conveyor belt that delivers it to the goal with 100% accuracy, but try selling tickets to that shit!
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
every single human that exists and ever has existed taken in this photo of the earth from the Artemis II
"You are special, in all this emptiness. This is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe. You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.”
Victor Glover, Pilot of Artemis II
we've come up with a system where you can demonstrate growth to shareholders by hiring more people than you should, but also you can demonstrate growth by firing more people than you should. we call it the economy and we think it's going to be great
A screenshot of Animal Crossing New Horizons showing Francine saying, "Abolish ICE! Yes! That sounds wonderful!"
As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
It’s Bandcamp Friday, and I would be remiss to not promote the game soundtrack I released just last week. Check it out if you’re into orchestral music with spooky Victorian steampunk vibes ☺️
Very excited to share that HUNTER'S MOON: A SOVEREIGN SYNDICATE ADVENTURE is finally out on Steam, and so is my soundtrack! Links below ⬇️
Zora's Domain from BotW but it says Zohran's Domain
"you're canadian this doesn't concern you at all" you forget that zohran also had the better fonts. a win for Graphic Design the world over
Canada-wide general strike tomorrow morning
This won’t impact audio
Canada and the UK formally "recognizing" the state of Palestine with massive terms and conditions that gives them no self determination is going to be the strongest example of the dangers of centrist attempts at appeasing everyone while appeasing no one; leading to the far right taking over
Are you really "not making enough progress" or is it just that your expectations of yourself outpace both what you'd expect of anyone else *and* the laws of physics
this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time
excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other
Special edition Criterion blu ray for Saving Face, a film by Alice Wu from 2004
First ever Criterion Collection purchase 🥰
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
Composer milestone - got my first ever PRO royalties payment today 🥳
love how these guys are all obsessed with toughness and hypermasculinity and yet post every single day about how small and afraid they are of absolutely everything
I wrote the music featured in this trailer for Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure! It's an upcoming deckbuilder RPG in a spooky Victorian setting 👻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9Y...
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.
Earlier this week I released my soundtrack for the short film JACKIE'S HAVEN out into the world! Catch it wherever you listen to music 🐠
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/23FEO7...
Apple Music: music.apple.com/ca/album/jac...
Bandcamp: danipinto.bandcamp.com/album/jackie...
Ahhh I love the whole vibe of this!! Looking forward to playing it and hearing the full score 🥳
SO excited to finally be able to share the first trailer for this game! go wishlist 👀👀👀
Hey Dropvbox users. If you've been using it for like... 10 years or something and haven't updated your privacy controls, sign in --> account settings --> privacy--> do not sell. If you want to see what you are sharing via links to do some clean up, go to home--> shared.
