Julien ✨

girl in a black button-up

i looked cute though

Might start taking spiro again just to clear the pimples from my face

How i arrived on Bluesky

I had that for maybe a day but recovering at the beach with both my girlfriends is hard to beat

Before/after CT scans showing a chunk in the middle of the brow which was removed, reshaped, and bolted in place

Profile before/after CT scan showing a much flatter brow

Julien immediately post surgery, Maddie and Kathryn in the background

Julien done up in makeup for post-surgery photos one week after

I'm 3 weeks out from surgery. Recovery was quite easy; once I left the hospital I felt fine and was just on ibuprofen and antibiotics

New face who dis

The fact that this good copyright policy is now being exploited to protect AI slop is deeply upsetting to me. Tech continues to find new and innovative ways to screw artists. I'm so glad I don't work in tech anymore 7/7

So basically the creators of these songs pay a few cents to the original artist once per song, but get paid for their low-effort cover per stream. As we know, streaming revenues are quite low. But if you can pump out thousands of these all the sudden you can be making some money 6/

What sucks is the mechanical license is a good thing for musicians. It allows artists to perform covers in public without worrying about retribution from the original artist. It avoids a lot of the mess we see with DMCA takedowns for example, often used maliciously 5/

The grift exploits the mechanical license, which pertains to covers. Unlike copyrights of recordings, which pay royalties per performance (e.g. stream), covers pay a royalty per recording (i.e. song). In the US, the fee is low and does not require permission from the rights holder 4/

Basically any song that charted in the last 40 years has been done at least once. Regardless of source or destination genre 3/

Usually the vocals are clearly synthetic, either vocaloid or completely AI generated tracks. Often the instruments, particularly the drums are just sample packs, but sometimes (especially in the jazz ones) seem to have been played by humans 2/

One thing I've heard a lot of while in Spain over the past two weeks is AI slop covers of well-known songs. They tend to fall into genres like bossa nova, jazz, or electronica and are extremely formulaic, always at the same tempo with minimal instrumentation 1/

girl in the sun

girl in the sun, again

sunny side up~

“I can’t do a cute girly sneeze because it would blow my face off” - @okaysure.cool

Good luck, you got this!!

Yep!

Julien's legs in cutoff jeans propped up on a table, on a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in the distance on a sunny day. On the table is a cup of coffee and a bouquet of Valentine's Day flowers from my girlfriends

There are definitely worse ways to spend surgery recovery

"Bedridden" implies the existence of a bed rider

I lived

Taco tongue!!

in the middle seat of the taxi. i look right and @kathebooks.com is dancing to the radio, i look left and @okaysure.cool is reading a wikipedia article about executions of royalty throughout Spanish history

Ooh I should have put Geomorphology instead of Audio Engineering

never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Analog Circuits for Music Synthesis
Public Policy and the Internet
Audio Engineering
Graphic Novel Lit.
Computer Vision

Lawrence Krauss was my first thought too

I tried to make these on my phone

Booty shorts with an arrow pointing down reading, “my feet are down here”

Forecast: probable

Y'all look how cute my gf is 🥰