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Wait. Why the living fuck would you want to "win" her back at this point, considering the way she's been handling this so far? Women let go mentally loong before they do anything concrete to break up a relationship. She feels nothing and does nothing to ease your part in the situation. Nobody's "letting" you do this Lifetime simp crap because your mind is racing and you're coming up with all the wrong ideas. If anything, please allow yourself some self-respect in this mess, it will help your healing. +1 on zazen's advice to run in the opposite direction, stay away and work from a public library if that's what it takes. It helps, I've done many agonizing mistakes in previous breakups, top one was keeping the log-in cookie to an ex's Facebook account so I could see everybody she was dating & screwing over Messenger. I did not start to heal before I deleted all that and threw our "deep shared spiritual connection" to the winds. It gets better than that, way better.

The AI doesn't understand jack shit. "Training on" versus copying is just elaborate semantics. But legislation and content control hasn't? People still pirate movies but Netflix and Spotify are doing well. The idea is not to stop AI art outright but control the dataset entries and allow creators to opt out from them. Right now it's a shady grey area of "fair use" that isn't being adressed. This is the lousiest argument I've ever seen. Many artists might dream of commercial success (and the financial security it brings) but the vast, vast majority would be more than overjoyed by simply being able to keep a reliable income equivalent to any regular job. Until we have our UBI conveyor belt utopia, you can't subsist on the sheer joy of an economically worthless craft, and being forced to seek other ways to make a living will always deprive the quality and possible time alottment of that craft. Sacrificing other pathways to devote yourself to a craft will then permanently be a lose-lose situation that automatically entails a lower quality of life, lower long-term health & a lower level of education. Shoulda just studied economics instead of learning to paint or sing. The very reason artists are reiterating all these clichés to scrape a living is because the whole spectrum of art is being undervalued - this is compounding that direction. Bigwigs like Hollywood will likely abuse it to cheat creators out of their livelihoods, not the other way around. We're already seeing this happen with studios laying off major chunks of their art dept.

The Artstation (and Deviantart) feed is currently going all Butlerian Jihad on the AI issue: https://www.artstation.com/?sort_by=trending. For future generations browsing this in the toxic hellscape of tomorrow, the feed is being flooded with uploads of this image, by pros and laymen alike: I'm conflicted as I dig the tech and procedural/generative nature of this stuff, and have had quite a bit of fun with the novelty of the image generators, but current models are encroaching way too much on artists with the nondiscriminatory webcrawling. Lots of AI users are utterly spiteful against the same artists whose images they're leeching off of in their datasets & prompts, hoping to put them out of business. That's also looking like a real possibility with companies and clients relying more and more on AI for images. The AI image generators might not be all the way there at the moment (the hands thing is pretty ubiquitous), but it's robably only a matter of time before it'll get close to indistinguishable from actual artists' works. Riffusion is harmless fun as it is now but we might very well reach a point when you can endlessly generate further music tracks of an artist based on their entire discography, their entire genre, and choose any famous vocalist you want to sing vocals on it. Even in a fairly simplistic state, it would likely kill most of the library/production music industry and the hope of making a living in a business that's already very tough. So yeah, nice things, can't have them.

This DAN stuff is how we get Skynet.

Sad to hear and it's a little unfortunate that it's unusual in your immediate circle, because it's absolutely not. No real personal experience of divorce (I'm actively avoiding the institution of marriage), I've had my share of trials & upheavals but almost every relative and everybody I work with who has married is a divorcee, lots of messy situations with kids involved, two are widows whose husbands killed themselves. People get by fine with time and take the experience for what it is, but it's a slow process. Nobody can control this stuff and if it isn't working out it isn't meant to be. I don't know any stable person who started looking for another relationship immediately, those who did ended up worse off the first period. Can't really offer much else except try not to think of the "s'posed to"s and recover on your own terms, whatever that means. Keeping busy & active is usually a good idea, especially regarding your health issues you describe. Could be an opportunity to care for your health on several level, maybe spiritually, or start something you've been meaning to. You sound like a very considerate and sympathetic person but there is sadly not much reward for that in this world, so be careful. Best of luck brother!

I tried all evening, with various followup prompts to try and nudge it, but all I got was BOCCY variations on some grunge guitar riffs and rock drums. The dataset is fairly limited to a low-mid tempo, and not a lot of material from black metal or blast beasts. I'm pretty sure they put various constraints to keep the tempo and keys similar across variations.

Italic Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Iexperimentalelectronicnoirwaltz1.mp3 experimentalelectronicnoirwaltz2.mp3 nedladdning.mp3 nedladdning (1).mp3 nedladdning (2).mp3 nedladdning (3).mp3 nedladdning (4).mp3 nedladdning (5).mp3 nedladdning (6).mp3 nedladdning (7).mp3 nedladdning (8).mp3 nedladdning (10).mp3 nedladdning (11).mp3 nedladdning (12).mp3 nedladdning (13).mp3 nedladdning (14).mp3 nedladdning (15).mp3 nedladdning (16).mp3 nedladdning (17).mp3 nedladdning (18).mp3 nedladdning (19).mp3 nedladdning (20).mp3 nedladdning (21).mp3 nedladdning (22).mp3 nedladdning (23).mp3 nedladdning (24).mp3 nedladdning (25).mp3 nedladdning (26).mp3 This is freaking RIDICULOUS. Some highlights of Experimental electronic noir waltz, into avantgarde atonal string quartet, into rhythmic bucket clattering. The thing just does an effortless DJ set for you. Very inspiring! (my post formatting is super messy) nedladdning (9).mp3

This is hilarious.

Thanks for the sincere listen. Personally feel it's kinda meh, but it was my first track done with the Digitakt, a device which I didn't really connect with.

What I mean is that it's easier to keep things under the same spiritual umbrella if they're all made fairly close to eachother within a specific time period. That's my experience anyway, it comes naturally. Conversely, it's harder to go back after a year or longer and conjure up the same thought processes, methods and moods that inspired the earlier stuff. If that means doing a Project 168 type of thing with a super-tight deadline or just continually making a bunch of stuff and gathering it up afterwards, well that's up to the artist.

Restricting the time-frame of production is most important. Tools too maybe. Style isn't something you can hide easily.

Thank you! I agree, it's so easy to make the funk work in an IDM context, It's as if they're inextricably connected.

James Brown meets Autechre! Lots of FFT madness & skirting the sample detecting bots!

trooning in a post thread

Fucking morons...

Stoked to hear more from this wizard!

Kevin Conroy, THE voice of Batman, passed from cancer at 66. https://thedirect.com/article/batman-kevin-conroy-dies

Large buildings where people can work on anything they want in groups or alone by free access to any tool or equipment needed for any form of work. Yes please, give me that Bogger 288, I want to take it for a spin. It's free, right? A mall where everything is free but communal. I need five dozen extra Soylent Green bags and two pallets of Skub for my sick grandmother, brother in law, 2 kids & twelve dogs. To each according to his needs, right? Efficient conveyor belt based automatically routed transportation of objects between any two points. This horrific conveyor belt existence really ties the natural surroundings together. A place designed for work, in the most free and voluntary way possible, but also optimally and without wasted work through compulsory but free education on tool usage and ability to manufacture whatever is being made. No sir, I don't want to work with garbage disposal or dangerous electrical work (like these damn conveyor belts breaking down all the time), I'd prefer to be the 800.000.000th Sour Haze QA tester in my particular conveyor belt Mega Block. It's an essential task! I might consider an extra side-gig as a Whiskey taster as well. Gotta be productive in our new utopia! Encouraging the workers to not need to buy any commodity except certain subsets of items not manufacturable by amateurs or on a small scale If only there was an incentive to escape the conveyor belts...

How bout deez nuts?

Concepts and associated studies for a community Ghostbuster themed project.

GWC doesn't get enough recog. Didn't expect his handwriting to be so legible. Wonder how many of these types of letters he's written?

Got a bunch of supplies to do traditional stuff again. Messy but fun. Inktober #9 "Nest", various inks & acrylics Inktober #15: "Armadillo", fineliners & brush pen

Wow. He's now officially broke too.

'Nudda weekend, 'nudda boiga. Blue cheese, gouda, chili bearnaise, Scorpion Tabasco, Habanero sauce plus some Dijon on the buns. I call it the Nebuliser 'cuz it clears the airways. Great during flu season.

Legendary freehand draughtsman Kim Jung Gi passed away https://www.cnn.com/style/article/kim-jung-gi-death-cec/index.html