sarker
ketman hetman
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
ketman hetman
8hr ago
I find the "discover weekly" recommendations not bad, and "release radar " sometimes has something I want to hear. Totally agree that radio is dogshit though.
Until recently the shuffle algorithm was also totally fucked and would get stuck in loops - literally play e.g. 20 songs, then go back and play those same 20 again. I don't know what the fuck kind of shuffle algorithm could result in that, but it rinsed several tracks so bad I can't listen to them anymore.
Now they are trying to push Spotify as a video platform so sometimes I open the app and see some ridiculous TDS thumbnail. I'd probably jump ship if there was another platform with good music recommendation algorithms. I don't know what the eight thousand Spotify employees are doing all day, but I'm not sure it's making my life better.
sarker
ketman hetman
8hr ago
Among ten thousand dimensions of the latent space, there's always one along which the user can be glazed.
sarker
ketman hetman
8hr ago
A sufficiently advanced intelligence can glaze without direct sycophancy.
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ketman hetman
9hr ago
It's remarkable that he somehow didn't mention that the transients were almost entirely in patches of the sky corresponding to areas outside of earth's shadow at geostationary orbit at a crazy level of significance. That is sufficient to completely dismiss any discussion of plate contamination as far as I can see.
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ketman hetman
9hr ago
Wow, an LLM told you you had unique and discerning taste? Incredible!
I had Claude write a simple set of scripts to interact with my Spotify library (fetch playlists, create playlists, look for songs) and set up a directory for it to keep track of different musical threads I asked it to help me explore. It updates files in the directories with my feedback on each playlist and creates a new one with the next batch of recommendations. The files let it maintain state and focus on particular themes and expand the "frontier" in directions I'm interested in. I've had some success with this setup.
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ketman hetman
12hr ago
I also sometimes look at similar-artist tools to find new bands from obscure gems I find.
I've had a bit of luck using the Spotify API for this. Any other good sources for connections like this?
sarker
ketman hetman
13hr ago
cleaning and correcting metadata is a neverending labour :(
I've had a lot of success fetching data from musicbrainz with something like https://beets.io/.
I have a script to trawl the youtube API for long playlists with certain criteria that indicate curation of obscure music; when I find those I rabbit-hole down them hunting for gold. I am sometimes active on Soundcloud/Bandcamp and make connections with artists there. When I find a great obscure single, I rabbithole the artist and their label/connections to find more.
I guess you are mostly ripping from YouTube/downloading from Bandcamp and SoundCloud then? What kind of criteria do you use to find playlists?
I've found that as I've gotten older I've had less time to explore new music. When do you find time to listen to new tracks?
11:49:31 I Think In a Minute or So I'll Explode by Flashbulb
It's by The Flashbulb. Downvoted and reported to the RIAA tip line.
What's your process for discovering and acquiring music?
sarker
ketman hetman
16hr ago
The clashing, sometimes (often) overtly ugly nature of a lot of visual art produced over the last century is often more interesting.
I find myself getting bored of contemporary art much faster, when I visit museums, than I get bored of classical art. It's not like you can't be bored by ugliness.
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ketman hetman
18hr ago
I think you're excessively negative on mainstream science in this case. The VASCO survey people put out a study of pre-Sputnik glints around geostationary orbit. These are respected scientists and it's a finding that is, uh, hard to explain without invoking aliens.
sarker
ketman hetman
19hr ago
The more classical, traditional way is that the elite should help civilize the masses, moderate their excesses, keep them in check, set them good examples and bring out the better side of them.
The idea that the elites need to make the masses miserable "to spark the activist fire in their hearts" (presumably against the elites) borders on parody.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Avocados have an association with urban liberals because they like to use it as a butter substitute to add fat to a sandwich or toast
It's not really a butter substitute, you wouldn't have that amount of butter on a sandwich unless you are @Tretiak. The appeal is the flavor and creamy texture.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
How did you come to a place where you look at Angelus Novus as an "authentically beautiful" work? You imply that it's the result of transforming your sense of delight, possibly repeatedly. What did that look like?
It shouldn't be surprising that the types of people who dedicate their lives to becoming artists or art critics would also tend to converge on certain idiosyncratic aesthetic tastes, naturally and of their own accord, due to whatever shared underlying psychological factors drove them into art in the first place.
This seems to prove too much given how wildly the aesthetic tastes of those people have shifted over the past one thousand years.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
What you provided was evidence of nearly every stake holder involved saying "this is a bad idea" including PTs themselves.
Are you really trying to equivocate between some PTs being opposed to it and PTs generally being opposed to it? Can this possibly be an intellectually honest claim, when the paper includes a survey of Indiana PTs that reports a supermajority of PTs being in favor of direct access, a survey of final year PT students reporting 85% support, and only five of 29 chapters surveyed reported PTs opposing direct access in legislative hearings? Can I possibly be understanding this line of argument correctly?
And again, the restrictions seem to be reasonable and common sense, again as per your source.
So if I'm getting you, this isn't the AMA's fault, and actually it's a good thing?
Things like "if you try for awhile and it doesn't work you need to escalate the level of care providing therapy that appears to be ineffective."
Weird that at first accusing the AMA of this was a baseless slander but now this is an entirely good thing. Please pick one and only one.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Your citation is from 1991 - even with an atypical forum such as this one....most of our posters didn't exist at that time.
Of course, because that's when PTs were agitating for direct access laws that went against what the AMA wanted. By 1989 almost half of the states had a direct access law on the books.
Saying the AMA did a bad thing doesn't become a "slander" just because they didn't do it yesterday.
You are misattributing blame.
It's amazing how despite the fact that the AMA did this it's still misattributing blame to blame the AMA, I guess in this case because they didn't do it recently enough. I need to reaction one of those "women avoiding accountability" memes for doctors.
If the AMA is the villain can you explain why doctors, physical therapists, and even fucking chiropractors were on the same side of the lobbying?
Are you asking me why chiropractors would be opposed to easier access to their competitors? Surely that is obvious?
As for why some PTs opposed it, it's probably because PT training went from certificate programs in the early 20th century to mandated master's degrees in 1979 (and now DPT programs). Lots of physios in in the 80s would have had only a bachelor's degree (or even just a certificate, bachelor's degrees didn't become required until 1960) so it could have been a matter of credentialed physios not wanting physios with less qualifications to have the same patient access, or genuine concerns about the incompetence of the physios with lower qualifications.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Infinite didn't. It's just an example - there's Dishonored 2 (2016) and Witcher 3 (2015) (this one really was a nuclear family simulator).
Then there's God of War and its sequel, Yakuza 6, Death Stranding, seriously do I need to go on?
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Uh yeah I do think lower income people eat peanuts and beans. @hydroacetylene back me up as the resident lower income Hispanic knower.
hand wringing about "food desserts"
Well, the popularity of food desserts is definitely a big problem for obesity.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Interesting indeed.
One of the purposes of that sort of restriction is to prevent scams where a PT just bills insurance without doing anything.
What an isolated demand for rigor. What do we do about doctors billing insurance without doing anything? Or car mechanics?
Why does the law need to be involved at all? This is just between me and my insurer, right? If I want to see a physio on my own dime, that's none of their business, but I can't do that indefinitely.
the complaint is essentially baseless slander
Baseless slander, really? Then why did medical associations oppose the direct access campaign? What's your reason for calling something that happened a slander?
does not acknowledge the possibility of other sensible explanations
Please do explain why it's anybody's business if I see a PT for more than 90 days without a referral.
or the reality that the situation has changed in healthcare has changed
Changed how? Since when?
Conspiratorial posts about the AMA have low predictive value
The AMA, like other professional organizations, is literally a conspiracy that seeks to extract benefits for itself first and foremost. I don't see how this can be disputed.
The predictive value here is quite clear - AMA opposition means you may need to jump through some number of hoops to access a PT. So OP should check his local laws. That's it.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Boron is mostly found in fruits and avocados, which are generally "middle-class and up fare" in America.
Boron content varies with the soil where the crops are grown, but 1.5 oz of raisins have almost as much boron as half a cup of avocados. Two ounces of peanuts or a cup of refried beans have a similar amount. Raisins, beans, and peanuts are hardly middle class and up fare.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
That's extremely different from what you said before
Really? Let's double check.
doctor cartels have made it illegal to access PTs indefinitely without a doctor's stamp of approval in many states.
in many states it is illegal to see a PT indefinitely without seeing a doctor.
Are these the same claim? Have I changed my position? Let's get this straight before I respond to your other points.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
However, the player is still supposed to be the protector patriarch to this android, and is thus, according to the reasoning of Blue Tribers, designed to pander to the toxic fantasies of angry loser males who are otherwise mostly unfit to attract flesh-and-blood women and form families in the real world.
You're still just making this up as far as I can tell. As other commenters noted, games like BioShock have the same framing and everyone loves them.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
I knew I'd summon you with this comment. You've quite simply cherry picked some reasonable sounding lines and neglected to mention the other conditions.
For example:
"A therapist who has more than one year of experience supervises any therapists licensed for less than one year."
Wow, very reasonable, thank you AMA. That's Minnesota. What other restrictions do they have?
Therapy does not continue beyond 90 days without a referral.
So I stand by what I said - in many states it is illegal to see a PT indefinitely without seeing a doctor.
I just want a braindead "roll the dice" shuffle. Yeah, it might result in some tracks playing twice in a surprisingly short window, but you can do a lot worse (repeating sequences of 20 tracks) and you can't easily do a lot better in my view.
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