I may be small, but I still have rules! I dislike bad timekeeping! I love a strict routine! I dislike things left in my way! I hate being told what to do! And that's just a few! Best4bunny.com featuring a photo of a bunny on a blanket
happy valentine's day
thinking about ostinato
using a bit of lightly coffee stained rachmaninoff sheet as an impromptu mousepad this morning in a pretty damning tableau of my professional life-course
i think that mary oliver poem sucks and you do have to be good. you also have to Get good.
the reaction against "craft" that gripped certain left-aligned literary circles in the 2010s has not held up well in the language-deskilling LLM universe of the 2020s
ICE are an existential threat to you to your family to your neighbors to your city to your state to your country.
not the Figure It Out Editorial Office
it's nice belonging to a demographic that's collectively so prolific. really absolves you of a sense of personal artistic responsibility
but i've been trying to stick to playing as written & have been finding it quite rewarding, it's also greatly improving my articulation with those fingers, which has been in not great shape since my health issues last year. anyway. great piece, very important to do things that are hard
a lot of performers go out of their way to avoid playing the mordents with 4-5 (maybe the right call when you need total confidence?), even though the piece is p clearly written as a study for those fingers. like you see people playing only the top voice of the second measure above w the right hand
the triplet ostinato is teaching something about endurance and evenness & bars like this are teaching something about patience and the value of playing things as written and not finding an easier workaround
i'm about two-thirds through the prelude from ravel's tombeau de couperin—by which i mean i'm able to play that far into it reasonably close to the indicated tempo with reasonable confidence—and that piece is really teaching me something. very important to work with pieces like that
aside from obfuscating what's actually a pretty complex feedback-relationship between thought and language like. if you didn't care enough to write something idk why you expect anyone to care enough to read it
one issue with students, writers, etc. rationalizing LLM use by claiming the "thoughts" behind the text are their own is that, like, people can't read your thoughts
2026 might be the year of aksak rhythms in the club..............
Experimenting on some actually pretty exciting stuff with one of my girls who is a very talented producer 👀
We’re in such good company!!
like idk What's going on in there
one thing i'm learning about photography is that it's not really possible to photograph anything but the operations of your own mind & this is attended by 2 unnerving realizations, like, (1) the mind requires some object to operate on and (2) the mind itself is always a black box, eluding capture
GoFundMe for Kaden Rummler, the young trans man blinded by ICE agents this week.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
loves it 🤩
jumu'ah mubarak divas 💅
An "AI Ambassador" for Adobe and other companies tweeting: “Make your own prompts” isn’t advice. It’s basic integrity. I’m honestly fed up. Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesn’t make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously similar. And no, this isn’t about one or two people, and it didn't happen once!!!! I’m not mentioning names because I don’t want to hurt anyone, but please… stop. Creating your own prompts is actually easier than copying someone else’s work! Try it
As soon as ChatGPT came out, I knew this "you plagiarized my unique AI prompt!" thing would happen lol. Wrote a short story about it (section 3) even: countercraft.substack.com/p/algorithm-...
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