Greg Walshaw
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Greg Walshaw
@gwalshaw.bsky.social
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Professional musician (organ, piano, composition, others on occasion), theological shit-disturber (semi-pro), and long-time fan of Canadian football.
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Netflix seems to have moved to subtitles on by default every time you open the app, and it's really fucking annoying.
They are absolutely needed by some, and enjoyed by others. It shouldn't be hard for an app to remember a user setting.
Doug Ford asking the US ambassador to apologize instead of something like "I'm recommending that the PM tell you to get the fuck out of our country, you fascist bootlicking fuckface."

Of course, I am also not surprised that current Republicans find Reagan's actual words insulting and outrageous.
Just for comparison purposes, how many prisoners could Treblinka hold at any one time?
Join ICE, you too can mess yourself while being so panicked you feel it is necessary to shoot an unarmed person in the face with anti-riot weapons.
This should be the recruitment poster.
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
Well, if you've ever had involuntary care, you do typically need a drink.
How, I ask, do oligarchs benefit if nobody is driving anywhere to buy something? There lies madness!
One is beyond theft possibility. The other is being watched over by house panthers.
I highly recommend both these items if you can get your hands on them.
Looks just like Tiananmen Square a couple days before whatever happened there.
I hope you're going to fucking win, but your battle hasn't even been joined yet. If you want to win, you can't just do this once a quarter.
Katie's back, and she brought presents!
Humans know the difference. AI doesn't. It doesn't know how to be transgressive, especially in pursuit of beauty - to risk failure while trying to please/engage/inspire.
So, 20 years later, I still do this in improv and in composition. The openness to "does this 'mistake' actually make something better, or provoke a new idea to be used?" does pay dividends.
Except, of course, when it *was* just a mistake that shouldn't be repeated or expanded.
I was telling people recently about one of my profs (William Renwick) whose advice on sight-reading *and* improvisation was this:
If you make a mistake, make sure to do it again.
For the audience, if it stood out and it happened again, it was intentional: it was supposed to be that way!
The apocalypse will come by idiocy and not by malice.
Except this is exactly how it is supposed to work. It is a language model, not a 'correct answer machine'.
Oh, did somebody hoping to monetize its use tell you it is a correct answer machine? And you believed them?
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You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.

Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
I saw some cool things in my one afternoon in Marseille - may have to go back and see what else they have cooking!
Jays fans are *constantly* surprised when a change in opponent leads to different results.
What amazes me about baseball fans is they seem not to know that the sport is no less matchup-dependant than any other, yet think every series against a team should, all things considered, result in the team's average over the season. Win 2/3 of games? You should win 2/3 against every opponent...
I think the only thing I can like about baseball is that a team that is swimming along can suddenly come up against a different team and be one of the suckiest teams that ever sucked.
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New "inventions" are not incentivized to solve actual problems as much as they are incentivized to attract money. If those goals overlap, cool, but it's not required (see NFTs). If modern society invented the wheel, it'd be accessed via a subscription-based proprietary plan with multiple tiers
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Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors
AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW