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@cloudhop@equestria.social as a composer I am no longer constrained by how fast I can play the piano
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Life Substitute:
Livity de Leon:
UBI is going round again I see and here's some real life perspective from me, some person with a disability check, sure being disabled is disabling but that doesn't make me useless. I do stuff, some of it is just my art but I also do stuff for other people, I do lights at concerts, I do video at concerts, I film concerts, I mix concerts, I make album covers, and vinyl and CD masters, I restore the audio of old demotapes, I produce and mix records, all for the benefit of someone else, often strangers. All free services that require some technical and artistic knowhow. I have been told many a project would simply not have happened but for my input. Input which at market rates is simply not viable. Just now I was contacted by a German synth band that is about to release a new record and they wanted a video for the single and perhaps one other song, I don't know them, I will likely never meet them, they said they would send me some records. I'm making a little microfiction animaton about an astronaut dying on Mars for the first song. It's not Pixar but it's fine, free assets, an ancient copy of Lightwave and way too many hours of my time for it ever to be a viable commercial project. I'm enjoying myself, I'm broke, disability isn't much but it is just enough for rent and food, I'm worried about the state of the world but I'm not worried about making rent. It's liberating not to worry about making rent. Like probably UBI would be. So many people do pointless busywork, I know, I've had jobs. One of them was typing computer printouts into a different computer. That's not adding anything to society, 12.000 people in Norway had that job. One time I had a 20 hour a week job, doing something actually useful, it was nice, I never felt exhausted when the weekend came around. It was easy to give the job my all 4 hours a day. But it wasn't viable. I was too broke so I had to take on more hours.
I don't think everyone will want to be an artist if UBI ever comes around but like, shit, y'all would get to do y'all thing and not be exhausted in the process, I know it won't be watching TV all day but even if it is, that's fine.
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@cloudhop@equestria.social now the AI makes songs in thousands of BPM's, soon - millions of BPM's will be within reach, eventually the songs will become sentient and rule with an iron fist
rewiring the studio made me think about how we invented BNC, jack and XLR and then we [gestures at everything] I have a jack cable that's older than me, it's in regular use - I'm over fifty, never serviced it, wholly expect it to outlive me. My SM58 is forty years old and I can still club a fascist to death with it and it'll just keep on trucking, it'll probably improve. The design is what? Sixty something, years old? Can you imagine the mountains of waste we wouldn't have if all our stuff lasted out lifetimes? I sure can't because my mind boggles at the prospect. That's just too many garbage mountains and they're all too big.
But who am I kidding, 90% of the microwaves thrown in the garbage in the EU are fully functional but you know, they're not fashionable anymore. The buttons have the wrong colors on them. so, never mind I guess. In Norway everyone remodels the bathrrom and kitchen just before they sell the flat so it'll look nice in the pictures, then the buyer remodels the bathroom and kitchen because they're out of fashion now. You gotta remodel every season these days.
There's too many men, too many people
Making too many remodels
And not much love to go 'round
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?
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@EthicalProfessor @aesthr we all have to make sacrifices in this new and vibrant business paradigm, even the air
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I heard all that in the voice of Edna Mode from the Incredibles
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@lina Down in the P ark https://youtu.be/u4EMmvP8rWo?is=6aQSVdSMhbqqOlWB
Gary Numan - Down In The Park
movietime, it's another Paul Verhoeven classic - Total Recall, time to get my ass to Maars
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@thegarbagebird @Louisa @Taweret I've directed a few shorts and a couple of ads, I'm Scandinavian and I'm depressed. You want bleak? I've got bleak, I'll have the actors up for forty hours straight watching Trump speeches and then do a shot of them looking directly into the camera for ten minutes. No score, no lights, no colors. Just the sound of a mechanical clock on the mantle ticking, takes a big gulp of vodka directly from the bottle, Helen enters. It's a flashback to when she gives her daughter to the orphanage. She already knows she'll be killed by her violent ex-husband. We can see it in her eyes. The orphanage is a dilapidated building, bare wood walls, deep in a fjord that never sees sunlight. The social worker puts away the bottle, hands Helen the paperwork. They say nothing. The social worker lights a cigarette. The orange glow the sole color on the set.
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@Catvalente@wandering.shop in Norse mythology we have Hel, she is more a ruler of the underworld than a person walking about Earth but it's as close I can get here in Scandi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(mythological_being)
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@zeblarson@hcommons.social well there went the last newspaper on the planet
@alice@lgbtqia.space @catsalad@infosec.exchange Prioritizing radical self-care and intentional recovery today to optimize long-term sustainable performance. 🛌✨ Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is hit the reset button and invest in your mental well-being. #SelfCare #BurnoutPrevention #WorkLifeBalance #sustainablegrowth
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@sa this is the future they took from us
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net oh wow, haven't thought about Strata for a long time, it was my first 3d software back in the 90's, good times.
I'm not sure this is an improvement
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@film_girl got this on my ancient Motorola g30, guess it's not so bad though about ten of the colors had no separation on it
tfw when venture capital bought my DAW and drag and drop instacrashes it
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@jwz@mastodon.social first and only meme I saw in real life before I saw it on the internet. It was scrolling on a LED sign in an Amsterdam coffeeshop.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt had a go myself
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apropos nothing, I watched the Alien 3 "Legacy Cut" today, a fan made version trying to do a best of the theatrical cut and the famously incomplete directors cut. I have seen both of those, I'm enough of a fan to have the box set but I'm not enough of a fan to tell exactly what the Legacy cut is doing. It is significantly longer and the pace is slower, but this feels like a good trade-off because it feels coherent, probably the most coherent version. I think, next time I watch it - I'll be watching the Legacy cut again and if you're into Alien movies it's definitely worth a go. Available on torrent, in high bitrate video with 5.1 sound, or less. There's even a commentary track where perhaps the nerds explain themselves, might listen to that someday.
writes Al Jazeera
"The European Union will expand the criteria of its Iran sanctions to include those responsible for blocking the Strait of Hormuz, two unnamed EU diplomats tell Reuters."
Finally! Sanctions against the US!
Only Time
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@ingrid if only there was a way to replace the ethernet card on my desktop, won't somebody invent this crucial technology so I can
I can
ah
I can, stream twenty 8k videos at the same time?
Oh wait, this must be for the surgery the surgeon can do with the 5g modem, just a sec I'm going to pop right out and buy the remote controlled surgery robot and oh, call the contractor to convert the garage into an operating theatre
Man I'm missing out on so much productivity. I don't even need surgery.
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@bruces now I want to hijack an oiltanker
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@catsalad@ohai.social I used to eat a lot of cars but I had to cut back
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@bruces they must have read my blog from thirty years ago
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@skaverat@skaverat.net wait, do you mean my actual birthdate or the one I put into online forms?
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NOTGLaDOS: Electromagnetic Spectrum The Musical
@bruces they forgot the Mad Max reference
#Monsterdon it's orbin time
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@chad@mstdn.ca that's hilarious
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@susankayequinn Case took the pink handset from its cradle and punched a Hongkong number from memory. He let it ring five times, then hung up. His buyer for the three megabytes of hot RAM in the Hitachi wasn't taking calls.
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@herr_irrtum thanks 🤗
#Monsterdon get a suntan? sick burn
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haven't laughed that hard in a good while