Machine Yearning Model 🫠

Yo same. The 2014 World Series run was even more fun even tho we didn’t get it and I was like a kid turned loose at the arcade with a sack of quarters both of those Royals seasons because I knew it was a finite experience

Yeah, Chiefs fan of 35 years here and I’m shouting into a void “Don’t take this for granted, it will end sometime, just enjoy it and chill” and welp. We aren’t beating those “insufferable” allegations maybe ever. Inevitable like Thanos

Good GOD

The Triumph of Death (flipped), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Equal temperament is DEI, right there in the name

“did you girlboss too close to the sun” is a real line from a brand new taylor swift song i just don’t believe it lmfao

Welp now I can't watch a Chiefs game without thinking about Kelce's, uh..."redwood tree"

Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! Want rule of law? That’s premium.

this piece from last month continues to sum up my feelings about a lot of things www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

/5 This is not merely about indifference to the brutality against the least of us that is characteristic of our system; that happens under every administration. This is about brutality being the goal, because it makes evil people happy to see others brutalized.

In any other context, imagine hearing about an adult zip tying children to each other. No really, what would you call that?

...all that said, given the state of higher ed and the state of AA studies programs/topics amid "anti-DEI" crackdowns you probably couldn't pay me enough to want to be a professor again 😅

It's postings like this one that make me feel a pang or two of regret over walking away from musicology because this is my jam and my area of expertise and dag nab it all

Boy we are cooked aren't we

I have partnered with Minwax Tung Oil finish for a special limited furniture grease-scented edition of STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS and 100 numbered and signed copies are haunted with your many misdeeds

p.s. what the fuck

Falling down those stairs in their house

DOOM HOSE*

Flop sweat and broken dreams

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

In other words, "If you're in line for First Sergeant, STAY IN LINE"

Good lord what was I thinking making Pythagorean tuning/weather jokes that early in the morning

Screenshot of a graphic from the National Hurricane Center depicting the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, Mexico, and some of the California coast, overlaid with red symbols showing a Tropical Storm named Octave and a red blob protruding from an X symbol indicating the presence of an as-yet-unnamed weather disturbance tracking to the Northwest.

Missed opportunity here for Hurricane Diapason, roughly 1200 cents from making landfall

Haha I was thinking of Jars of Clay as another example of how it's possible, even that overplayed "Flood" song has that cool string quartet breakdown in the bridge, genuinely interesting songwriting

And it's not that religious/worship music CAN'T be like that - contrast with musical traditions of the Black church (or even Bach!) & you can be musically interesting on the path to religious ecstasy. CCM is like the Left Behind book series, high volume God-adjacent "art" the audience projects on

Christian rock is wild to me because it's not even about music, it's about signification. It's pasting a picture of Jesus on a vat of bland harmony, melodies that go nowhere and do nothing interesting, and dripping it all over the congregation so they can give it meaning. It has no inherent meaning.

Don't ever use the expression "short-armed," lest the Woke Trombone Lobby descend on your mentions