Matt

Tylenol gave me autism
Advil gave me depression
Alieve gave me ADHD
What's giving me these headaches?

LAPD wouldn't have to maim and blind peaceful protestors with rubber bullets if not for the terrorists in the crowd using them as human shields...

@xkcd.com Actually, you could fix the comic by just adding a flat symbol to the line of the higher note.....

@xkcd.com I'm sorry to tell you that you erred on the Baker's Octave. And octave is 12 semitones, so a Baker's Octave of 13 semitones would be C to C#, but your drawing shows C to D.

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YouTube video by More Perfect Union What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades

youtu.be/u--se25_px8?...

That's a helluva long way from a MAGA endorsement.... You're reading in too much. The point is clearly "corporate influence is bad & and the Dems can't be trusted to fix it" and not remotely anything like "Trumpism is good". 🫤

PSA: We Need All of our Empty Spaces to House Our People When I started digging into chronically empty buildings in early 2023, I found local officials basically unhelpful and useless (they are all more than welcome to prove me wrong), so I started digging ...

An Empty Los Angeles PSA: We Need All of our Empty Spaces to House Our People.

"This is NOT the time to leave habitable spaces sitting empty when thousands of people have been displaced. So what are our elected officials going to do about it?" www.emptylosangeles.com/p/psa-we-nee...

Can't wait to find out the exact (inverse) correlation between # of synths owned and # of partners... 😂

How OpenAI o1 Went Full Maverick and Broke Chess As We Know It In a development that feels like a plot twist out of a science fiction novel, OpenAI's latest artificial intelligence model, o1, shocked the world...

How OpenAI o1 Went Full Maverick and Broke Chess As We Know It | YourStory yourstory.com/2025/01/open...

Depends on your definitions of "completed works" and "devices" which could give an answer ranging from a Polyend Play+ to my Schecter Guitar to my modular rack....

Real punk rockers are mediocre musicians because instead of listening to music for inspiration, we're listening to Noam Chomsky audiobooks. 🌈✨

Irish Unification happened temporarily on November 6, 2024, when everyone in Ireland and Northern Ireland simultaneously agreed that America had gone batshit crazy.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan PSA - Musicians Are Being Misled Out Of Their AI Rights

Musicians, this is probably the most important message I have for you this year.

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

Headline from a rich person who writes: "Don't replace the culture war with the class war"

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I'm trying to figure out if the mix was really allowed to go out in such poor condition, or if the theatre I was in was just misconfigured. Speech and lyrics were frequently unintelligible. (but not always!) Only really a problem when there was dense stereo music & effects. Anyone else?

Is it just me, or is autocorrect decidedly worse since Android 14?

Whenever I see someone say, "nobody know," I read it as "I am ignorant of"...

Hard truth: if you're performing original music professionally, then your JOB is to sell tickets. Your talent at your instrument or songwriting or whatever has basically zero *economic* value. The way you *get paid* is by hustling to get your fans to show up and buy tickets.

I critique because I care. This is important research that people need to understand. Anyway, Just drop the unnecessary words and it's vastly more readable & more accurate, IMO.

This is a terribly written sentence by all measures, but especially for engaging in the sadly common practice in tech journalism of using unnecessary technical terms to establish unearned credibility. I don't believe for a second that you understand what a "software development kit" is.

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

When bsky gets overloaded (i.e., more people posting than their current number of servers can support), there are going to be delays between when you post something and when it is visible. These delays will be fairly random, and should diminish as the larger AT-protocol ecosystem matures.

5 things needed to make money from your music: 1. Good Music 2. A good show 3. A good network 4. A good attitude 5. A good business plan

By joining Bluesky, I'm hoping to be able to skip the TikTok era entirely. Will that work?

Los Angeles live music promoters check in!