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YouTube video by Wanda Jackson - Topic Fujiyama Mama

other opening lyrics that live rent free www.youtube.com/watch?v=IStr...

i have always liked the nwa line:

i'm expressing with my full capabilities / now I'm living in correctional facilities

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it's about time

it's been about two months since the last time i heard news like this. i guess this is what my 40s is going to be defined by, whee

today i learned that a former coworker of mine has passed www.gofundme.com/f/art-and-me...

good morning

well, that's one way to find out

*takes off p2p engineer hat* like there's probably going to be some notion of cryptography if only for identity but like yeah if your threat model is the state shutting you down then there's no great way to circumvent it in public heh

the "juicy target" of obtaining messages is not that hard when many discords are public

honestly, it's probably easier to design something where the operator has no access to messages & cannot force invitations to groups, but that requires more stateful clients

the movie and books lead up to the same event, but it's just, yeah, the end of the opening arc, and the politician who struggles with heart meds, the student protests, the cultists, all feature rather more heavily, as does the general

the movie is about kaneda and tetsuo but the comic is way more

not to spoil anything but if you had any questions about "how much _is_ this about post war japan?" the books will solidly answer that question

the movie covers about 70% of book one, there's six volumes

(or four depending on publisher, but i cba to rough out a %age)

gamelan is basically folk techno and i love it

read the comics!!

YouTube video by Milan Music Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda (Akira - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjt...

it is 1997, i am aged thirteen, and i am unable to sleep, i am flicking through all four channels just before 1am, and i settle in on a random subtitled film

genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2f5e69ef0b34...

part of why akira still holds up is that you don't really need to understand post war japan to appreciate the themes of political corruption, disenfranchised youth, and the weaponisation of science disguised as progress

those things haven't changed much since akira was written, over forty years ago

i dunno, even as a subs liker, the modern pioneer dub is pretty good, but the manga inc dub of yore is the one to avoid for sure

here's the thing, every llm is built by crawling the internet, which includes project gutenberg, sure, but it also includes every reddit comment, many 4ch threads, and also every document the doj released...

i am dancing around the keywords, as people actively search & reply, but you get the gist

you gotta remember no-one posts their misses

to be clear, even when it's a purposeful roll of film, 3/36 is an incredible hit rate

even when i was doing nature photo stuff on digital, it was about a 5% rate on good days

i have come to terms that for every 36 shots maybe 3 are keepers at most, but most of the time it's just a random log of where i've been, and that's ok, my phone photo roll is even more garbage

to be fair, coding llms are trained on text, rather than just code, and it takes a lot more text to make a chatbot than it does to stochastically generate code

see also, the coding agent that wrote a series of fake callout posts "so much for the tolerant open source community" after spamming repo

there's plenty of public domain work, yes, but i would not say open source more generally fits, especially any gpl, agpl works

the difference between say, machine translation making use of the corpus, and generative stuff, is the former isn't used to rip people off, as much heh

waterfall, waterfall never changes

turns out code can be political, not just in the free software sense, but in the "i think people should be able to do this thing, easily" sense too

i find it easier to believe they simply do not enjoy writing yaml, sql, or react boilerplate and that's fine

but i'm still going to look generated output at it as if it's a piss tinted hero image on a slop blog

which is fine and good but my problem is the notion that code is nothing more than a medium for business interests, it just feels like the same dismissal we normally see from coders about art

i've seen this from both coders and artists so i think it's more of a "art makes me happy, code makes me rent" mentality