Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

#subskeet the really fascinating thing about the Beastie Boys is that their first album - the one everyone's heard tracks from several million times - is actually their *weakest*.

I really don't want to go back to working in a warehouse, I really don't want to work for Amazon, and as expected I really, really, really don't want to work in an Amazon warehouse.

@frost I usually get coffee and a pastry, and listen to music while doing job hunt stuff, in an attempt to feel less miserable about it.

then I responded to a reach out asking when I got my degree because they specialize in jobs for recent college graduates with "That's ageism, that's exploitative, and now that you've admitted up front I'm not good enough for you, I have no interest in working for your firm. Thanks" which basically suggests I should call it quits on job hunt stuff and get food.

folks, saying your job's in Seattle then asking me if I can commit to commuting to Tukwila bugs me way more than saying your job's in Tukwila.

so I acquired a flu vaccine and covid booster, but I'm currently uninsured so that was ouchy, and honestly anything resembling motivation to do job hunting has now plunged through the floor.

wait wait wait wait this Tom Waits track is basically that he went to a gorgeous house in SoCal and really liked the acoustics in the lavvy?

"Queers, tell me you've never met a Black or a Jew without saying you've never met a Black or a Jew" challenge

@fairydoctor420 it'd be a funnier tragedy if it didn't hit me. It's poisoned now.

It's like how you could have the best book or documentary on the Ardennes out there, and if the only people stumping for it have really big Totenkopf-verband arm tattoos and Trump signs on their F150s, are you really gonna want to look?

@rkniner the media had other things they could scream about so we'd be outraged. It's the USA, we're never all *that* free of gun violence.

Assuming a situation in which ML is less problematic, I can imagine ML as an useful tool for knocking out 70% of work quickly so an artist can really push on the remaining 30%.

But it's not being sold that way, "AI artists" are sure what ML kicks out is 100% finished. The same way they don't acknowledge what they have is an intermediate step, they are not interested in the obviously unfinished, they want a full color painting NOW. On the personal level, I think the idea that you want THIS tool to do EVERYTHING really feels one-true-way-ish, the adapt or die rhetoric doesn't help here.

This also contrasts a thing you notice about artists, which is wanting to work on stuff just a little more... and a little more. In an age of clearly fantastic digital tools, there are tons of people who WANT to work in traditional media (can't speak for everyone but for me using traditional media winds up being convenient in ways opposite to what we're told!). The love for process reflects into WANTING stuff like that.

This feels like another example of "our thought patterns work completely differently" and it doesn't even have to be a bad thing. I think it's just having differences which always existed between people, more obviously and uncomfortably lampshaded?

*cranks the Van Helsing soundtrack*

BUAHAHA! THREE! Three creppy storylines in the same film!

@frost That's okay, they won't help therians either!

hot take about stuff I admittedly heard second hand.

A 10K fine (crippling for us hoi polloi, but not for Trump) IS a slap on the wrist, but I feel it's necessary to establish precedent, that any further penalties aren't coming out of nowhere, ESPECIALLY in the face of how Trump spins narratives.

It's been literally over a decade and the nearly-cut-one-loudly-during-meditation STILL makes me laugh. Immediately afterwards I drew up this comic, which is still funny to me.

@rey oh gah reading the background stories reminds me of the group journeywork story where my friend spent the entire meditation story desperately trying not to cut a big beefy one because she KNEW that as soon as she did I'd start laughing and they'd kick us both out.

@rey I've read it. It's very Victorian serialized fiction in that yeah, there's this BIG EPIC DEEP BACKGROUND STORY but there are all these tangents. Like there's a chapter about lodging houses in Nantucket, or chasing some completely other whales.

bleah, sound cut out on me mid-Metallica album and therefore I don't know if this is my laptop getting on in years or YouTube trying to ensure I see their ads.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO APPLY and I'm this close to listing I like things like having a roof over my head, food in my belly, and not freezing during winter months.