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It definitely elicited a deep groan within a pretty fun movie… I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. Went something like: “the patriarchy is to women like smallpox was to Indigenous peoples; they had no defense against it.” 😵‍💫

remembering when saint sinead wrote “IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY” in the comment section of her NYT profile. no one will ever come close

Ongoing beautiful work. This other side of neural nets - expressive, based on your own data sets. Live sets that bring you closer to the machine gesturally instead of further away. Playing, not automation. Decolonization. The opposite of a lot of what is trending.

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Flowers and Trees is a silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released by United Artists in 1932. It would later win the Academy Award for Best Cartoon Short Subject.

My comradely critique of the Eurodance pastiche that has been going around, written in partial denglish to promote universal understanding:

Lode Runner 2

Living the best life.. 😊

I honestly recommend watching the entire LOTR trilogy with swedish subtitles on, just for this beautiful moment

in hell but still can't stop serving💅

This! Yeah, use the bandcamp app and improve your mood by listening to music you chose instead of some algorithm trained on your darkest moments...

A good exercise is writing down all the things you want to do creatively. Then removing all the things you want to do because you have seen someone else do it. Then do those ideas.

Researchers at Northeastern U. Bau Lab (David Bau) have found a promising method for removing concepts from AI models. This is exciting research that may enable artists to opt out of already trained models! We are partnering to help collect a list of artists to remove in a study

Authors can now search the Books3 dataset with haveibeentrained.com and add their work to our Do Not Train registry! .Shawn Presser has offered to create a script removing opt-outs for model trainers We will monitor future datasets to opt-out any duplicates found

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I don't see how the majority of independent labels and artists could survive without Bandcamp today, so this news of Songtradr layoffs is dire. Distribution, record stores, and streaming all have their own complex issues that single-handedly can't sustain smaller independents.

Update on today's layoffs:

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary