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My response to the whole “AI can replace musicians now” is while AI can now create music, and maybe someday it could create good music, it’s never going to create *my* music.

I create because I have something to express which is specific to me, not because I need something to eradicate silence.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 7d

Introduce yourself using one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

🤢 Asparagus
🎥 Cats - my expectations were low, but holy fuck
🎶 the Kevin Unger remix of Céline Dion’s “Unison” - I have PTSD from hearing this every single weekend for two years

JohhnX @johhnx.bsky.social · 7d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

🤢 Liver
🎥 Dirty Dancing
📻 "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits

Joe Nielsen A/K/A “XAB101010” @joenielsen10.bsky.social · 7d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

🥦 Grapefruit
🎥 Ad Astra
🎶 “The Rib,” by Jeannie C. Riley

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

Unsolicited Schick pic

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

“Be sure to like and subscribe to see more, & for just a few dollars a month*, you can be part of the community we’re building here! Join others in engaging** with like-minded people blah blah…”
* which gets you nothing. More $ gets you almost nothing.
** there is no real engagement on social media.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

But… what do I do for those 15 minutes? Smartphone dependency has obliterated my ability to cope with boredom!

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

I think I’ve finally run out of shit to doomscroll through. I have no idea what to do now.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 10d

No, it’s Trudeau’s fault.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 10d

I’m at a roadside Tim Hortons and they’re SOLD OUT OF DONUTS. Who allowed this to happen? We used to be a proper country.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 11d

Hope you feel better soon!

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 11d

Enduro?

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 12d

It is EVERYTHING I expected it to be.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 12d

OH GODDAMMIT!!!

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 12d

Shit, did I just unwittingly bring that into existence with quantum snark mechanics? “Any concept created as a wild exaggeration for comedic effect will already exist unironically”

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 12d

If I had a dollar for every time someone said to me “I’ve got a surprise for you, I’m not gonna tell you what it is, but you must hear this, you won’t believe it!”, I’d have $2.

Sorry but it’s just stupid. Might as well have been a dubstep take on the Teletubbies theme.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 12d

One nice thing about the present is how stupid novelty tunes are mostly confined to social media where they belong.

Compare that with BITD, when people actually paid money for crap like this, or the Sesame Street theme remix, or the jingle cats album, and the stuff would chart and get radio play.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 12d

I live near Berczy park.
Nobody can agree on how to pronounce it. “Burt-see”, “bear-see”, “burr-see”, etc.

And there’s no point in pulling the “well, in the original Polish/Czech/Hungarian it is…” because the guy for whom it was named after made it up so people would think he was more worldly.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 12d

And yet the producer (Jordy’s father, naturally) was also the producer for notable French space-rock group Rockets.

IIRC, the French courts ruled that Jordy was being exploited and put a stop to the whole thing.

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