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politically ambiguous session drummers telling it to you straight somehow not the worst section of drummer social media

"people are so fake and sensitive in today's society they won't even say gene krupa sucks"

you really gotta take a break if you ever start talking about this for over a minute

politically ambiguous session drummers telling it to you straight somehow not the worst section of drummer social media

until my sister asked "did your boss say anything mean on your last day" I realized I have literally talked to her *once* since I gave my FIVE WEEK NOTICE, and we only talked that one time because one of the two replacements for my position(s) showed up and I didn't know for which role to train her for.

so no, she did not say goodbye or anything on my last day lol. I only gave her a five week notice since she really wanted me to take another role and so she forced my hand into telling her I was leaving

mangonetics

Dogs serve as a kind of virtue eater for Americans to pour all of their kindness into without the risk of improving society or being nice to someone with any agency

#lmao

matty-boops

ah...it's time for my annual charity raffle entry with the million dollar prize...

matty-boops

goddamnit didn't win again

going to have a three-week "sabbatical" and am looking forward to seeing if I can consistently hit 20-30k steps a day

paxamericana

if you're of a certain age, a really important thing you'll do in your life is spend a moderate amount of time/money setting up the best way to emulate every single video game made prior to 2006. you'll spend maybe three hours actually playing the games and then forget about the whole experience. for some reason you will do this basically once every five years until you die.

damn i love having found a running shoe I like and just buying an extra pair whenever they are on discount >:)

just bought a pair for 50% of the cost I bought my first pair of them like three years ago

thevulturesquadron

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

rudjedet

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", but it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

good album, also very good for driving

#Bandcamp #ex-oxbow