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33. Autistic who hates computers and math.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · Feb 25

I have terrible grammar, both from inadequate education and a weird quasi-dyslexia that means I often read, write, and especially revise/edit crosswise. A blanket explanation

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 10h

nobody in America wants to understand how crime actually works, thats its largely a white supremacist construction that treats poverty and/or PoC existing the same as "crime", that "law & order" and aggressive violent responses provoke aggression & violence not order, or that its fully intentional

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 7h

let's do the fuckin news

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 13h

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 13h

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

I just think it's funny/sad that these guys hear an algorithmic mashup of stuff they've been listening to their entire lives and their first reaction is 'where did that come from? how did it know?'

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

It's very Plato's Cave-ish

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

It's not forming the instruments/music/voices from first principles, but I think even with otherwise technically astute artists, they still all too often seem to think in those terms, which the tech people are all too happy to encourage

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

I first noticed this with Vernon Reid professing to be shocked by the 'authenticity' of the (terrible) Suno Delta blues in the Rolling Stone article on it - the reason it sounds uncannily 'authentic' or 'appropriate' is because it's summing existing human data together

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

Looking up a question on an insufferable music gear forum when I saw this was the current most-read topic - this kind of thing is all too common of course, but I wanted to point out the weird criti-hype I keep seeing accompanying it www.thegearpage.net/board/index....

Already lost a gig to AI.
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It was just a favor, so no big deal. A friend had wanted some music for some lyrics he’d written. I’ve been slammed, and he mentioned there was no rush. So I didn’t get around to it for awhile. Then he sent me a version he did, himself, using AI. It perfectly fit the vibe he’d mentioned wanting. Sonically and production-wise, it sounded spectacular. It sounded real. It basically sounded like something you’d hear in a truck commercial. So, a bit generic. But again, it’s what he was looking for. And keep in mind this is an older gentlemen with absolutely no musical skills. Not really much for computer skills, even. Cool that it cleared a favor from my plate. But the implications became more concrete.

There is absolutely no upside to this. So many of the generic, good paying, corporate gigs for songwriters are going to be hit by this. I was also just thinking about the problem of white noise in the market, too. The biggest problem, for me, has been that with the digitization and instant worldwide disto model of music, the number of uploads flooding the market from people that were formerly just hobbyists makes it near impossible for my newer projects to even get heard. Now I’m realizing that that impossible situation is about to get a lot worse. Now you don’t even have to be a hobbyist musician to put something together. Just be able to type prompts. The number of songs to compete with on the digital market will go from 60,000+ uploads per day to an incalculably high number.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h

i am hoping the blue jays come back and win this in the bottom of the 9th, for the record and in case these posts ever come up in potential asylum or citizenship related hearings

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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 9h

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 9h

Hey you swells, /r/tubi informs me that channel just added a bunch of Vincent Price films for October & if you haven't seen him in Corman's Fall of the House of Usher & Masque of the Red Death you better get on that, it's the people's streamer, do I have to remind you of everything around here.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 10h

The answer is we all have to become more French

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

Relevant to the Dick Tracy talk and the previous 'Disney is sinking with various demos' talk - I think they would see reviving Touchstone as an admission of defeat

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · Jan 9

Which is sort of a story in itself, because in three decades Disney went from constructing a whole 'adult' front (which was flexible enough that films would be shifted right before release depending on desired audience, like Roger Rabbit) to abandoning it as they no longer needed adult films

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 10h

One reason it might be remembered as less than a hit: It was judged against the metric of "Batman" the year before, and Jeffrey Katzenberg wrote a notorious memo citing the expense of "Dick Tracy" relative to its gross as a sign Disney needed to change its business model. sriramk.com/memos/katzen...

Here at Disney, our biggest effort to compete in blockbuster terms, “Dick Tracy,” is a case in point as to how the box office mentality is affecting the moviegoing experience. “Dick Tracy” was in the works for nearly ten years. But by the time it was ready for release, we were upon the summer of 1990 and we knew that its success would be for the most part judged by its opening weekend box office performance. So, we did everything that we could in order to get the film the audience and recognition we felt it deserved, including the unheard of notion of “clothing” our opening night audience.

The result was a film that did very well, a film we were rightly proud of, a film that was critically acclaimed… and a film that is still being savagely disparaged as “having failed to achieve Batman-like success at the box office.”

This is not a healthy situation. If every major studio release must aspire to repeat the 1989 success of “Batman,” then we will undoubtedly soon see the 1990’s equivalent of “Cleopatra,” a film that was made in the hope of repeating the 1959 success of “Ben Hur.”

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

I think it was definitely greenlit partially because of it, but Roger Rabbit probably played as much of a role (and a closer one, obviously)

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

Until reading Scott's recent piece, I hadn't realized that they not only restricted the palette to just seven primary colors, but that they were all the same shade throughout to imitate old comics printing bsky.app/profile/scot...

Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 11d

Today in The Reveal, I recall the incredible feeling of seeing DICK TRACY before the public shrugged at it. And why I mostly in the right about it 35 years later. thereveal.film/the-enduring...

The Enduring Beauty of ‘Dick Tracy,’ Hollywood's Least-Cool Blockbuster

Disney considered 'Dick Tracy' a disappointment in the summer of 1990, but 35 years later, it looks uniquely ravishing.

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

Woke up this morning with Knowing Me Knowing You in my head, only to suddenly realize that, as a breakup song, it was completely inappropriate (and thus perfect) as the title theme for Alan Partridge's chat show. AH-HAH!

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 11h

that's the funniest thing I've encountered about an Aronofsky film since this

DEADLOCK Without The Wrestling (Deadlock Podcast Compilation)

YouTube video by Sweetz

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William Bayfield @williambayfield.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently, the full Warhol quote was actually “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, then disgraced.”

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 11h

One of my favorite interview openings

KP: I’m doing well. Is this still a good time for you?

MURPHY: Yep. I’m just sitting here watching The Fountain.

KP: Ah…

MURPHY: Everybody’s reaction is the same! “What are you doing?” “Well, today I’ve got to screen The Fountain…” They say, “Ah.”

KP: Well, it’s not exactly a happy-go-lucky, springtime film…

MURPHY: Well, for Aronofsky, it’s a romp. It’s a lark. It’s a spree.

KP: It’s a celebration of happiness and light and the power of love across the centuries.

MURPHY: It’s true.

KP: For everyone else…

MURPHY: It’s the Bataan death march on film.

KP: Have you made it a good chunk of the way through it?

MURPHY: Oh, I just got started. He’s a conquistador and his movie gets invaded by the cast of Apocalypto. Then suddenly finds himself in a sort of outer space Zen monastery, and that’s where I am right now.

KP: Is this recreational viewing?

MURPHY: It goes into the realm of research. First of all, you’ve got to keep on top of these things. Hollywood keeps whipping these things out, and you have to keep your eye on the thing. I’m always suspicious of Darren Aronofsky, so I need to make sure I know what he’s doing at all times.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

this sure feels like a crucial point

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 18h

finally finished writing about seeing Elvis Costello earlier this week & what it's like to witness our favorites aging in front of us, as we do the same: jukeboxgraduate.com/elvis-costel...

Elvis Costello & the Imposters featuring Charlie Sexton, Royal Oak Music Theatre, October 9, 2025

They leave him half way to paradise They leave you half way to bliss

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