This has really be the ultimate version of telling customers what they want instead of listening to them, what a wild ride.

The Airwindows plugins are all available for Linux and are some of the best dynamics processors, just not so pretty. https://www.airwindows.com/

Another casualty in the short sighted quest to make money instead of working honestly. I wonder when pirate ships will start sailing again.

I like a lot of pop music, mostly synth pop, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Hall and Oates, Billy Ocean, Howard Jones, Michael Jackson (yea). I listened to the album, it’s definitely well produced and catchy but I didn’t hear anything new at all, it’s very formulaic, which is fine for pop music of course but she’s definitely not doing anything new or exciting so I don’t get the hype at all. It’s good pop music sure, but filling stadiums? People flying around the world? I dunno. It’s more a cult of personality.

Well easy answer is Taylor Swift, she’s a fine singer but not amazing, samey lyrics, like the McDonald’s of music. Is she a band? Idk. Agree with KISS.

Well, I hope they also vote.

Today they do, at least.

Ah thanks, that’s interesting. I feel like they go back and forth as far as features being “inspired” although I do have more faith in the GIMP team than Adobe going forward, as far as adding features I’ll actually use.

Thanks! Always good to hear about useful Linux software, I didn’t use it a lot in Photoshop but still nice to have. I had so many go-to places to learn about new Windows software now gotta find the same for Linux.

Yeah I mean if that’s what people enjoy I’m not going to yuck anyone’s yum (to a point), as long as they are not pestering people around them. Unfortunately that’s what gets clicks a lot of times, so you have these people creating these situations, harassing people at home and in foreign countries, creating all this fake drama between themselves. Yes I just wish more people would be happy with what they have and appreciate the things and people around them more (myself included.) All the flaunting and celeb worship is gross. Also the whole grind mindset, that’s great if you enjoy it but I certainly don’t have that energy and when people belittle other people for being lazy or whatever, it’s not even like that, I work very hard when I need to.

I absolutely hate it. I just want to BE but that is impossible because we’ve turned modern life into an insufferable game.

Sure thing! It closed down quite some years ago but I’m sure there’s still some info about it.

Sounds like the old Underground Gamer which I still miss after all this time. Good luck!

Yesterday I offhand suggested not using so much soviet imagery in order to make communism and socialism more attractive to people, they really didn’t like that. I mean I understand the symbols have a rich history but so did the swastika. Eh.

I think once you are banned that’s it, the appeal process that they say isn’t automated is certainly automated and I doubt anyone looks at that stuff. You are a number.

We don’t need AI, we have the answers to most of our problems already, we’re just being kept from implementing them or they are just too inconvenient for us.

Before every game: A SHOWDOWN FOR THE AGES, TWO TEAMS ENTER, WHO WILL WIN, WITNESS HISTORY AS THESE TWO LEGENDARY TEAMS BATTLE IT OUT IN THE GAME OF THE CENTURY

Thanks for the deep dive, yeah that seems really suspicious, the pdf of that study definitely looks like it was paid for by someone with an agenda, seems to be the opposite of what I suspected, going towards alarmism. I feel like anyone who’s up for taking a survey on AI is already into AI so it’s pretty skewed. I suppose one thing from that study did make some sense:

Many people who are using AI relationship technologies report that they prefer AI communication over engaging with a real person in a genuine relationship.

Sure, everyone loves a sycophant who hangs on their every word and agrees with them all the time… for a while at least.

One in five are you god damn fucking serious? I keep hearing about this, it’s feeling like astroturfing to make it seem/feel normal. If people don’t even need each other anymore it’s over we’re fucked.

I guess it was the WIRED POLICE.