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It was supposed to be "be gay do crime", not "be gay be crime". Magneto was right

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Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · Aug 8

Unpinned my post on preparedness and resiliency.

Apparently the prevailing strategy in the US is to just shrug and say it is what it is. You're all going to die, if you're lucky.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 12h

"Nightmare Before Christmas is all the rage with the goth girls, right now, and making me a lot of money. Make it again." - I have no knowledge of the production, but I guarantee that was the brief for Corpse Bride.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

I've never been able to loosen up enough to stop any acting, much less improv. I don't have the ability to just let go and do whatever I imagine. Imagination isn't the problem, I can think of a hundred ways through any scene, but the chasm between thought and action is Springfield Gorge to me.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe there’s an element of “you either have it or you don’t”, but even people who have it have to hone it. Giving a tightly acted performance as directed, precisely, and really selling it with improv on loose direction are probably tied for “hardest jobs in acting”.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

I watch the Beard Bros’ let’s plays, and they are all firmly members of the improve cult. Grown up stoner theatre kids, who are great at yes-anding eachother. They all came up through the improv, theatre-sports circuit in LA though, and I think one of them teaches improv, so it’s totally a skill.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

I dodged needing chemo, myself, but I’ve heard mixed reports on the experience. Some say it’s not so bad, for others it’s the very definition of “the cure is worse than the cancer”. Everyone says that they’re bored out of their fucking minds during the infusions, though. Take an iPad.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

Question, SB497: if it’s illegal to comply with out of state, or federal subpoenas, but also illegal in those jurisdictions to NOT comply, what’s the result?

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

Out of genuine understanding, or political expediency, a win’s a win, but I think it’s mostly that he’s realised that playing the centre means you’re not left enough for the left and not right enough for the right, and if you have a mixed bag of left/right polar opinions, then everyone hates you.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

For that matter, though, studio contracts are probably going to (I think some already do) include clauses that explicitly allow the studio to license your voice for AI models, and if that becomes the industry standard, well, there aren’t enough boutique studios to employ everyone who refuses.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

If they start with a non-me voice, and tweak settings until they land on a reasonable facsimile of my voice, they haven’t used my voice, even if it sounds uncannily like me, and even if my voice were explicitly the goal. I don’t know if that would be unlawful for them, even if it’s wrong.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

If I were a VA, I wouldn’t license my voice for AI use, and I’d feel violated if it were cloned, but I’m not sure if legally I’d have a leg to stand on since impersonation is still legal (and I wouldn’t want it to NOT be legal). I just don’t know where a facsimile would differ from an impersonation.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

I can even to an extent understand VAs selling their voices for AI sampling, a gig’s a gig, but ”ethically sourced” AI voices are definitely in the minority, and not the direction the industry wants to go. AI voice tech’s purpose is to NOT have to pay actors.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 1d

I can understand apathy. I’m at a negative-apathy to it because the tech is here and there’s no stopping it, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. Open support, though, is a whole other matter. Particularly among artists. Like, why would someone support the tech that WILL ruin their careers?

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 2d

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Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 2d

That's gonna be a reaction image. I'm not sure what reaction, but it's gonna happen.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 3d

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 3d

My position on criminal justice is too complex for a few short posts, and would have the right, left, forward, backward, underground, and skyborne wings of politics all roasting me for going too far and not too far enough and what the fuck really, all at once.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 3d

Can my lane be as a radical left wing Grima Wormtongue, whispering the secrets of resistance into the ears of others?

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 7d

They don't scare me. They clearly have never left their houses.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone care to explain why the Apple Music app on the mac is absolutely fucking terrible?

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 9d

How wild is it that our muscles will just sometimes say “hey, dude, I think I’m just gonna try and rip myself in half for a minute. That cool with you?”

And then if it’s a bad one you wake up biting off a scream so you don’t wake anyone else up.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 10d

You're a monster! I don't even terminate my SSH sessions!

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 10d

Does Deep Blue Sea count? Jurassic Park meets Jaws, on an offshore platform. It has a few deliberately funny moments. It's mostly by the numbers, possibly a bit dull, but it at least doesn't take itself too seriously.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11d

My small donation may only amount to a dinner order, but I'm glad to help. I had the benefit of Aus's Medicare system, so I never paid for my treatments, but not working for two months, and not having the energy to cook still cost me a fortune. Did you know Doordash and Uber don't take Medicare?

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11d

Devil's advocate: weren't you diagnosed with ADHD early this year? (late last? What is time?) Could be whichever meds you're on are messing with you a bit and it's time for a change.

I don't get tremors from dex, but I'm always on the lookout for unexpected effects. I'm new to it, too, at 37.

Michael @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11d

Exactly. It's got to be either a strong "wink wink nudge nudge" vibe, or "WAP". Anything in between is just as dull as any song about the butt by anyone other than Sir Mixalot.

The man likes big butts, and he makes it VERY clear.