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I have been obsessed with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20, 1st movement, lately. The weaving between the epic parts and the delicate parts is crazy.

If you need to play historically accurate music, however, you still need the historically accurate instrument. It is a pain to find a maker, then wait the time it takes to have it made only see if it gets damaged in the mail.

The worst thing about owning multiple instruments is the upkeep. I spent an hour cleaning and oiling all of my woodwinds. I usually opt for the cheaper, but still okay quality instruments, like ones made from resin or ebonite.

So I was checking the price of the book "Trattado de Glossas" by Diego Ortiz--that was translated into English and it was like $300. I still don't understand why books are so expensive. I guess I'll have to learn late Renaissance musical ornamentation somewhere else.

I mean, what's next, having to pay extra tax on books, legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards? I understand buying American as an American, but if it's a product that is heavily associated with a foreign culture, I think import taxes should be waved if purchased from that country.

The cost of the tea was about $72. I also had to pay import duties for the first time in my life. The total after the duties was around $100. This makes each cup of tea around $18. I feel like having to pay extra taxes on teas is something that has lead to wars.

I organized my tea shelves, today. I have all of my teas on one side of the pantry and my tea ware and tea cups on the other. I feel like I need to find more space for them, though. I ordered some more Sencha Fukamushi and some Gyokuro Karigane because I'm curious. I bought 200g of each.

Tough weekend. My special needs dog just decided she would stop eating solid foods for 2 days so I had to liquefy some chicken. Good news is that today she had solid foods again. I think she had an upset tummy.

Maybe I can just treat it like the tamagotchi I had as a child and keep feeding it garbage until it eventually gets bloated and dies. "Eat some more, fatty". I hated A.I. as a child and I still hate it now.

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Since they are just using the images and not plot, voice acting, or setting, it is devoid of context and individuality. This is what A.I. does, only it fucks up hands and fabricates writing.

The amazing art is considered outliers and are scrubbed from the datasets. The mediocre art doesn't have context to make it less cookie-cutter when shat out of A.I. It's like that meme about how all the male anime protags look the same.

Machine learning DOES have a place in model prediction, but I don't need an LLM giving me advice on things that even the people in the datasets it was trained on gets wrong. I don't need Generative A.I. for art and music because it's all derivative from pools of mediocre art and music.

What happens to the city that finally outsources their work to another country because power and labor are cheaper there? I don't really have a problem with A.I. per se, just how it is being exploited into areas it has no place being.

This might seem alright on the outside. That city is getting x number jobs. It'll stimulate the local economy blah blah blah. What happens when the model for A.I. changes? What happens if there are no breakthroughs in the theory and all the models become essentially the same?

But then it leaks into politics. Politicians are starting to tout A.I. as much as the businesses because of lobbying and funding their careers. What was that Ross Scott quote? "I can't tell you who'll be the next president. Money. That's who". "We're investing in A.I. and creating x jobs!"

But these people hear it from other business owners and so on, all the way back to the Googles and Microsofts. The Googles and Microsofts just want as much invasive user data as possible to sell for their profits and exploit using marking and keeping tabs. A.I. is just a tool to harvest your data.

They don't even need to use A.I. to support it. They just regurgitate what everyone else is saying about it. If they DO even implement it, they can turn a blind eye that it isn't doing what they expect because they can blame employees for not utilizing A.I. more if their profits don't go brrr.

Businesses hear from other more "successful" businesses that A.I. will work miracles for productivity and increase revenue. The "successful" business owners are seen as visionaries because they make more money than others.

A.I. is the new fad in business--like blockchain. It doesn't really have anything to do with making work more efficient or easier. You see, the corporate business world is a pyramid scheme.

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The grapevine has recently made me aware of the Kawaii-Unicorn.exe malware. I think I need a sample of this. Apparently is spawns a bunch of similarly named executable to obscure itself. Cute girls doing cute things, I suppose.

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If a site asks you to upload an ID, don't. You don't need that stored into any databases it already isn't. If a site asks you to take a selfie for verification, don't. Use fake photos. Use AI to fight AI. Use a photo or video poisoner when posting content. Please poison AI every chance you can.

Sometimes, I expect Windows and Linux functionality to be the same at certain, arbitrary, times. Like I *feel* they should work exactly the same in this instance. I then remember that Microsoft and [insert what ever Linux distro parent company] don't care about feelings. They have their own agendas.

Microsoft To Stop Using Engineers In China For Tech Support of US Military - Slashdot Microsoft will stop using China-based engineers to support U.S. military cloud services after a ProPublica report revealed their involvement, prompting backlash from Senator Tom Cotton and a two-week ...

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Ahahaha. This was a thing? You think that they would just have internal experts in the military to handle military problems. I have a friend that does tech support for a college for when the people there need help.

Ahaha, I can't believe this exists. "Train by battling your favorite character!" Yuria. You get to box Yuria.

Some phrases are just descriptive nouns for something, because no one can be bothered to call it something else. When that happens, it really irritates me, no matter the political leanings are. Just make up another phrase for it.

But then it becomes a fad for the public and you hear everyday people use it. But the best is when the fad ends and you hear that one Representative still using it--what was that Penny Arcade quote? "Like a baby elephant fondling the bones of it's dead mother"?

Now, I understand that each party will rally around itself, so if a charismatic Senator in party A will say something, then a representative will use that phrase, then governors, mayors, etc. will start to parrot it. Obviously, everyone wants to back their golden child.

It is also why I pay attention to everyday phrases. After a while, I start to pick up on the patterns in phrases. This is especially true in various political settings. I'll hear a certain phrase, and without any other context, I'll know which political party that person leans.