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Greg Walshaw

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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Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 1d

LOVE the half railing

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 2d

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”

OROMOCTO, NB - A local man almost lost his home yesterday after his Amazon Alexa smart home device burst into flames. Lloyd Wentworth, 38, says the fire started as he was preparing dinner in his bunga...

www.thebeaverton.com

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 4d

Just for comparison purposes, how many prisoners could Treblinka hold at any one time?

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 8d

Well, if you've ever had involuntary care, you do typically need a drink.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 8d

How, I ask, do oligarchs benefit if nobody is driving anywhere to buy something? There lies madness!

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 11d

One is beyond theft possibility. The other is being watched over by house panthers.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 12d

Great Hampton ad.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 12d

I highly recommend both these items if you can get your hands on them.

A cigar, lit, resting in an ashtray, on an outdoor table beside a bottle of rum, a portion of which has been poured into a glass.

An unopened bottle of Cuban rum sits on a table, beside a tube holding a hand-made cigar from Havana.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 13d

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.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 13d

Katie's back, and she brought presents!

Picture of a bottle of rum from Santiago de Cuba

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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!

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 15d

The apocalypse will come by idiocy and not by malice.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 15d

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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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16d

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.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

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."

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 16d

I saw some cool things in my one afternoon in Marseille - may have to go back and see what else they have cooking!

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 16d

Jays fans are *constantly* surprised when a change in opponent leads to different results.

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 17d

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...

Greg Walshaw @gwalshaw.bsky.social · 17d

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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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 17d

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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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 17d

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

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 20d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW