The last time I did an AI music article it was my own lyrics that I used. This time I thought I’d see what the AI would come up with from just a prompt. There are two variations with where the AI used the same refrain for the chorus, but that was a phrase provided by me in the prompt.
Prompt 1: A punk song about Glibertarians.com news links twice a day, stories about The Hat and The Hair, Trumps hat and hair as his advisors. Articles by contributors on liberty and daily life. STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX.
Prompt 2: A punk song about STEVE SMITH, a bigfoot who is a prominent forest lawyer and rapes hikers. STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX.
The 3rd prompt was the first of these I generated. I was showing the AI to my 13 year old nephew and wanted to make him laugh.
Prompt 3: A country song about butts.
Didn’t care for the screamers, but I did enjoy the tailgate trouble song. And the image is spectacular.
That one wasn’t bad.
The image is spectacular. How long before Q experiments with AI image generation?
Isn’t that the chick from NCIS?
Tom Cruise is the last movie star.
https://x.com/i/status/2069450422532895164
Dude promotes his nee movie by just saying “I’m Tom Cruise, and I am in this movie”
Like John Wayne or Humphry Bogart.
Are there any other real movie stars? Anyone else who sells tickets by their mere presence on the poster?
He even thanks the fans instead of lecturing them on intersectionality and their own prejudice.
There was a dark period in our nation’s history when Tom Cruise was deeply hated. Jumped on a couch and mouthbreathers out there couldn’t appreciate his greatness. I’m glad those days are over.
I’ve never hated him. I have always thought he was a weirdo, though.
To be fair, he’s a Scientologist. It’s normal to hate Scientology.
I was thinking this. No one mentions the Scientology any more, do they? And his “ethics” talk was around this time.
He is *the* movie star. I also don’t think he’s a ‘real’ person underneath it all. I’m sure the money and constant business soothes the turmoil, but he’s a fairly supreme example: it’s impossible to have a normal life. I’d have my own gated island, too.
He’s always been a competent actor, and I will give him this much: he’s a hard working motherfucker. From what I’ve been forced to learn of him personally through media saturation he seems like a twat, but I can’t really think of a single celebrity that isn’t. In an era where the entertainment industry has gone full USSR socialist realism, his willingness to churn out popular shlock that people actually want to buy is admirably subversive.
He’s a great actor, and the second guy is a cult.
He has actually forced me to acknowledge he’s talented. I have to give him props for doing most of his own stunts. The one where’s he’s outside of the jet as it takes off in one of the Mission Impossible movies is incredible, mostly because it’s not bad CGI and this is evident when you watch the scene.
I’m fairly convinced that he made that shitty “Mummy” remake solely to do a single stunt in the air. Dude is fucking nuts.
I was impressed with him in “Valkerie.” I had dim hopes for the movie and went only because it was free and I was stuck on base. But he and the assembled cast did a very good job with the von Stauffenberg assassination plot.
It is still a recommend.
Valkerie was good.
I love it. Can you do a Steve Smith song in the style of a 1970s Toho Godzilla movie theme song?
-1 Blue Oyster Cult
Dude.
Really? Not a Steve Smith, The Round Mound of Hairy Sound type song?
You know that is what is needed in these troubling times!
I’m sensing why the “creative class” hates AI so much.
Our creative class has been using AI as soon as it became available because they are mostly lazy frauds and nepo babies with nothing interesting of their own to say in the first place. They have no life experiences. Many were casted for immutable characteristics they were born with rather than talent.
People talk about movie stars, but how many actors can actually act? And then how many actually have any real charisma? Guys like Arnold had presence that no one in modern Hollywood has. Stallone could do certain kind of performances well, but got by on the same. There’s B-movie guys like Bruce Campbell that just don’t exist anymore. When they remade Evil Dead into a “serious” horror movie I cringed. It’s like they didn’t even get the point of the series and doing it without Campbell is nearly impossible because he defines those fucking movies on screen.
The modern male actor is like a cookie cutter little twink that some gay casting director got the best blowjob from who attended school to learn how to act.
I recently watched “Send Help” and there is a picture of Bruce Campbell in the boss’s office during a small scene. I actually had to look up that it really was him.
Isn’t that how all the Hemsworth’s got jobs?
Hemsworths are “power bottoms” I believe.
It pays well in Hollywood.
Also, they got rid of Weinstein and all the straight male casting directors, so now we get beautiful female stars like Zendaya and Supergirl and the Snow White chick.
Agreed. It’s creepy how good it is, especially with ‘catchy,’ ‘poppy’ stuff. For personal and professional reasons, I’d be really fucking upset were I a pretty actress, celeb or just an attractive passerby. I’m sure many test cases are being prepared to suss out the details, cuz I really think something should be done.
Or a politician. Someone doesn’t like you, well, now you’re on video fucking an infant donkey at a flaming cross ritual, so there.
The post-Max Martin era of pop music is so rigidly, scientifically fucking formulaic that it’s hardly surprising. But even outside of that, it’s basically just doing pastiches of every song ever recorded for a particular genre/niche. Pastiche isn’t all that difficult even for a human musician of unexceptional talent. We’re still a long way off from AI doing anything truly inventive though. It will probably obviate the need for new pretty faces to sing the same formulaic slop churned out by the same 5 producers every new decade – and good riddance. With any luck, that’ll free up some space for the kind of musicians, producers, and engineers who end up creating new production techniques, defining new sub-genres, and discovering things that our ear holes don’t even know they like yet.
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords. Prompt 2 is a goddamn banger.
I’ve seen this dog eat things that’d kill a grown man.
He is currently trying to fit my whole shoulder in his mouth.
Stop rubbing peanut butter on yourself.
I can’t get the little fucker to eat peanut butter. When he was little just opening the jar would make him go crazy from the smell. But he won’t touch the actual product for whatever reason. Peanut butter flavored treats and pup ice cream? Loves it.
There was a CBD peanut butter I wanted to put on a lick mat for him that was designed for dogs, but if he won’t touch the regular stuff I don’t know if he’d bother with it.
Both punk songs are at least 1 minute too long*, and the “country” song is a pop song with twang.
*good punks song last 90 second 2minutes tops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFd0Lcol5U
I like to see the lyrics to help me better understand the song but to no avail.
Hearing/deciphering is a problem with ears that are too experienced.
That’s been literally every country song since about 1996, to be fair.
Ok, so it’s “New Country”.
The punk songs are too 90s for me, they need a model trained on late 70s-early 80s punk.
‘Country’ songs ARE pop
Songs with twang.
To go with the site, the last song should have been about cat butts.
Big day: FedEx confirmed with me and I’ve got an in-person interview this Friday. System Admin-1, kinda bay Secretary, methinks? Mon-Fri 3-9pm, so part time. Haven’t heard official pay, yet, “$17-$23, so I assume on the low end. But, big company. Hrm.
MOST shockingly, the local title service company called me today and I’ll have an in-person with them, as well. I called in to get someone I could send my shit to, and I was able to give it directly to the VP /attorney /part-owner. “Escrow processor, $20-$22.” I think that one looks kinda glorious. And damn, they got back to me within 12-hours. I was at work and didn’t know, but the dude left a message for me to hit him up tomorrow morning for an appt. I’ll also have some face-to-customer interactions during closings, apparently.
FedEx, after I asked if I should bring or prepare anything, suggested I read up about them and the job. I’ve got learndin’ to do!
I haven’t had one of these in a long while. I would greatly appreciate any one’s info or knowledge of either job. Things or places where I can read and learn up, or just general things I should be aware of.
As much as I loathe reddit, if you google/startpage “site:reddit.com *job description*” you’ll usually get some great results, particularly if you want to learn what the whiniest whiners think of a particular job, and why it sucks. A lot depends on your individual disposition and preferences. Sysadmin for FedEx may have more advancement opportunities, but you’ll have to fit into their corporate culture if you want to move up. I’m playing that game currently with the company I work for, and frankly I hate it. Escrow processing at a smaller company would be way more my speed, but YMMV.
Oooh, I always need reminding of reddit. I never use it of my own accord. *thumbs up*
The escrow gig seems much more up my alley. Much more. Being smaller and local helps me a lot, in my thinking. It’s also several new things I’m gonna have to learn and adapt to, but I also have to remind myself, uh. Ev? That’s kinda sorta what you’re best at, oddly. I’ve never worked in a real office, that’s one funny bit.
The toe into Big Corporate is interesting for its own reasons, yes. After years of meaningful search, with only one real interview, suddenly I get two in two days? Note: Getting help with Gemini. Just makes resumes and cover letters easier, and (sadly?) better. AI is going through ’em anyway and it catches certain phrases. Luck and timing, for sure, but I’d be foolish to ignore AI’s help.
So, duh, use AI with/ against itself. I’m onto you, Modern World. But sometimes you’re a mister poopy poop face. I like much of what you do, McPooperson, but you’re so damn convenient.
Heh, I just updated my resume about 2 weeks ago to make it more ATS-friendly. Being a privacy schizo, I don’t have a personal Google account (and my work account will be going away shortly when we fully transition to MS/Outlook/Sharepoint), but I did use a free ATS validation checker to make sure it parses OK at least. I’m not in love with the modern world…
Reddit won’t let me look at its site anymore. Wants me to download some damn app.
Good luck, Evan, a change of pace and easy on the physical aspects.
There are times I miss work but not many. Then I do a review of retirement and enjoy that a whole lot more.
Of all the fast food joints, Taco Bell is probably now the worst. Their new “special” is a cheap knock-off birria style taco that you dip in their shitty red sauce. It’s $5-6.
They use to just throw food at you for like a dollar.
Quality of all these places which was never incredibly high in my lifetime to begin with keeps going down with prices going up.
Now I want a crunchy taco. Next time I go to the city I’ll try to remember to hit Taco Bell and make my own evaluation.
Thanks for the reminder
Their shitty tiny little taco is like $4 now.
Double decker. Don’t know why they don’t have those anymore. Or didn’t. Whatever. Their chicken quesadilla was revolutionary, way back. I should scope them out. Fast food in Carmel is well done. Except the KFC. DAMN. Mom won’t go there. It’s seemingly run by DEI hires from Indy’s southside. A completely different vibe than everything else nearby. Much more like the neighborhood my plasma centers were in, the one with the fatal shooting two days before I started there.
One of the things that makes me realize how completely out of touch I am is when people discuss their fast food gripes, and I realize the only fast food restaurant I’ve visited in the last 15+ years is In-N-Out Burger when I lived in Nevada 3 years ago.
When I was in high school, 3 crunchy tacos from Taco Bell for 3 bucks was my weekly dinner on Wednesdays after church worship rehearsals. CPI calculator says that’s the equivalent of $5.27 in today’s money.
I like cooking and I have gotten pretty good at the stuff I make. I’d do it far more often if it wasn’t for the current living arrangement I’m stuck with through September.
Frozen meals only get me so far.
Yeah, I can’t remember the last time I went to a fast food place of my own volition and got food for myself. Occasionally my wife brings home In-n-Out or Raising Cane’s, and I go to McDonald’s sometimes to get the 2 for $5 chicken sandwiches for my younger son, but that’s about it.
I’m not entirely sure whether they (i.e. every fast food outlet) are trying to undercut inflation and that’s why quality is in the toilet or are other factors (taxes, regs, union agitation) are involved.
Yes.
At the risk of sounding a bit like a Bernie bro here, it’s kind of hard not to point to corporate greed at times. When prices rise, they don’t come back down. When they see that people will pay more, why the hell wouldn’t they keep pushing the envelope? Fear of raising prices in the past has seriously diminished for most of these corps and it’ll stay that way until they take a massive hit.
It’s funny to hear the media spin the McDonalds and Taco Bell “strategies.” They’re trying to make their brands seem less cheap. Yet the quality of the food stays the same or gets worse. Outside the fries which actually are pretty decent for fast food fries, everything else they make is the same shit they’ve always had. Their other recent gimmick are these tiny little “street” tacos where they just use the chalupa shell they already had before. It really is the same 5 shitty ingredients mixed up a bit.
I did find the recent ad campaign from (I think?) Burger King interesting, where they admitted the food sucks (they’re right) and claimed it was going to get better.
I read Poor Charlie’s Almanac a while back, which is taken from various speeches and writings from Charlie Munger (Buffet’s partner at BH), and it almost fucking radicalized me into a Bernie Bro the way he talked about getting on boards and his first bit of advice would be “you should raise your prices”. Because you know, fuck you working class assholes trying to get a tasty taco for your kids, Charlie’s got numbers that need to go up.
I’m not a socialist because I believe people have the right to be dicks. I just don’t delude myself into thinking that they aren’t dicks. I’m under no delusions about my corporate overlords and too often people who are on the right get suckered into defending that class of parasite that so often can only exist at the scale they do is because of government to begin with.
I don’t consider what we currently have anything close to a free market in much of anything. And corporate America pretty much is on a race to the bottom with no real hope in site. Competition isn’t coming in a lot of sectors to save the day. It’s not possible.
To add to that – economic rights are real. They have ample moral justification. And most of the wealth people want to tax already has been taxed, but we’ve long since past the point where they really need any moral or philosophical justification for a new tax racket.
Claim: Anthropic was put on cooldown because it was able to breach the NSA’s system in a few hours.
This is one of the many other reasons I find the security theater so many engage in pointless. AI is going to destroy encryption at some point if it hasn’t already.
Sidenote – how does crypto survive when any and all systems can be hacked by advanced AI? I mean, if the AI hacking Armageddon comes about we’re all kind of fucked anyway. Paper money won’t be worth shit either. Bullets will be the currency of my choosing.
AI is a bubble at the moment, but it’s going to revolutionize the world. And I’ll repeat the thing that no one is talking about enough – we have the dumbest fucking ruling class in world history right at the moment when humanity is creating the tools that could make itself obsolete.
People think government regulators are going to keep this genie in the bottle? Get the fuck out of here. It’s a race at this point to develop it and for good reason.
This shit will get way scarier than the nukes ever were because how do you control access to shit?
Possibly, but probably not in the way most people think. The company I work for handles online chat-based communication for auto dealers. We’re literally the primary use case for generative LLMs. As it stands, we have humans running through heavily-scripted lines to generate leads, which is the job I started in. During the last quarter our AI chat bot handled 49% of our total chat volume. We’re not presently hiring any new humans, and probably never will again. But our chat bot sucks unimaginable amounts of monkey ass. If it were a human chat agent we would unceremoniously fire it tomorrow for failing to meet even a single one of our KPI metrics. It has no comprehension of context and bungles even the simplest lead routing better than 70% of the time. This is a technology our corporate overlord has spent tens of millions of dollars on so far, training it on well over a decade’s worth of human chat logs. Until we can get our LLM to determine that “I need an oil change for my 2015 Pathfinder” means “send a lead to the service department department for an oil change on a 2015 Nissan Pathfinder,” and not “send a lead to the sales department about purchasing a 2015 Nissan Pathfinder,” I’m not going to worry too much about Skynet putting engineers, attorneys, and air traffic controllers out of a job.
Jeebus.
Once again I am glad to be near retirement. The future for my line of work (corporate software development) is looking to suck ass. I’m playing along with the rah-rah AI love-fest only because I know I can tap out in a handful of years.
I’m stupidly considering spending 6-12 months running through some webdev training in spite of the shitty job market. Day late and a dollar short, as usual. I know I’m not going to be a candidate for a FAANG job, nor would I really want to be. But if I could make $25 an hour building websites and mobile apps for local small businesses as a contractor instead of punching a time clock, I’d be a pretty happy chappy. Failing that, I just finished up a bookkeeping cert with Intuit, and I’m running through their tax prep materials presently in anticipation of possibly picking up some seasonal work during tax time and seeing how that goes. Thank god I got a degree instead of going into the trades…
That or “quantum computing” assuming the promises are real and not horseshit.
I feel like this story I posted is hype more than anything. But yea this shit is coming at some point.
What better way to hype up the favored AI of the favorite cronies than to say they broke into the NSA?
AI is helpful only in the sense that it has a massive knowledge base and can code stuff up in seconds. It cuts out manual labor and makes it easy to find the exploit.
Brute force is just as hard with AI as it is by hand.
Quantum could be a game changer, but it’s still in its “research toy” phase. They need to figure out how to get it working at scale without needing a cryovat the size of Rhode Island. Also, it’s much more susceptible to flipped bits (or qubits) than traditional silicon, so the error correction has to be on point.
Once quantum becomes commercializable, all the crypto has to change.
“AI” in the context of cryptography doesn’t really change much of anything — you can already automate brute-force attack vectors. Encryption is a time-buying technique at the level of a state actor. AI might increase the efficiency of the process marginally, but it’s not going to magically break encryption at the computational level. Quantum computing, on the other hand, will utterly destroy current encryption techniques if it becomes scalable. And then we’ll all be doomed… until skilled programmers, leveraging “AI”, devise a quantum-resistant encryption algorithm.
^^ what he said.
Post-quantum crypto is already a thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
The subtext is that state actors already have quantum computers that can easily factor large primes and break current cryptography, albeit not yet at scale.
“The creative class is lazy….”
Counterexample:
I never watched Full House, but I am aware of Uncle Jesse. I never had much regard for John Stamos as an actor. He always seemed to me to be the male version of “just stand there and read your lines like a piece of wood, your job is to be pretty”
I fully admit that this was based on a very small sample size.
And
I was wrong. John Stamos is one talented MFer. He made an appearance on Drumeo, and to my not-a-drummer ears, he knocked it out of the park.
Uncle Jesse writing his own drum part right before your eyes. Names taken, asses kicked.
https://youtu.be/PZhJo3ieZJA?is=l4xLOskPpTAXXhRR
I have no idea what Drumeo is but I have long thought that Full House is unwatchable for reasons other than the presence of Stamos – namely the writing and every other actor involved. But yeah, good for him.
This is all true. But in Bob Saget’s defense he is one funny MFer in other settings.
ABC can pay me a boatload of money and I’ll act however they want too.
I like how I didn’t know how filthy Bob Saget really is/was. I remember him being very funny in The Aristocrats. (I wanna rewatch that.) He kinda lucked his way into a well-paying, steady gig. That show was watched lots as a kid. Mostly cuz my bro? The neighbor was frequently mocked.
The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget was fantastic.
Finally submitted my piece on grading the standardized tests for Missouri! I saved a bunch of the kids’ submissions and I’m hoping to share them as well. They’re either really good, boring, or most frequently, revealing. One way or another. Yeesh. But always a good time.
I stumbled into a Reddit thread on welfare and was shocked to see someone buck back on the notion that there isn’t fraud and abuse. Claimed to be an actual case worker with experience, but they sure as shit brought numbers and knowledge of the system.
I chimed in a bit only for one of the dumber arguments I’ve seen for why we should have welfare I’ve seen put forward. The people on it would just steal if we didn’t have it. Like this is the 19th century and the wealthy at this point are worried they’re going to end up on the chopping block if they don’t toss the poors a bone or two. Welfare is supposedly cheaper than incarceration to them. I’d have to run those numbers to be sure, but I don’t care enough to do that.
I said various things, but also pointed out that we pay government precisely so we don’t have to worry about these sort of things. That the whole social contract thing is that we relinquish our ability to use force to protect our shit so that government will do it for us.
They think it’s ridiculous to only pay protection money to government apparently.
The people on it would just steal if we didn’t have it. – this is an extremely common argument in Europe.
Yeah, but it’s OK to be racist against gypsys.
I mean yeah
Pay tribute to the barbarians.
I just typo’d myself into an interesting concept, Volktron, the giant Nazi combining robot. Hmm…
and I’ll form the death’s head
French temperature records only go back to 1947? No wonder the climate bullshit was so easy to sell in Europe.
Gotta love those trains
I do. they are very useful.
When the VRE switched to Positive Train Control trains sporadically stopped because of glitches in the system. Rebooting the onboard PTC system was the usual solution.
Morning frens.
☕️🌤️🥓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHHPGNCjFHM
🎶🎶
Morning, Sean.
Good morning, Sean, Roat, Ted’S., U, homey, ChipP, Stinky, and rhy, and good afternoon, Pie!
Morning, GT.
How are you today?
I need a vacation.
Being in the middle of mine, even without any travel, I highly recommend it.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Morning.
Too early to hit the road, not enough time to do anything useful before I go.
The good news is the universe will die a cold, entropic death, so, ultimately, nothing you could do is useful.
Sounds peaceful and things have been crazy lately…I’m looking forward to it.
Drop the performative nihilism.
This from the guy who yesterday hated all humans.
You added the word “all” to a statement of “I hate humans”, thus changing the meaning.
You were engaging in performative nihilism yourself yesterday morning.
No, Ted, I was engaging in misanthropy. I came nowhere close to “nothing matters”
doing nothing is useful. staring at a wall. clears the mind.
supposed to be a reply above…
Have you finalized your plans for when you’re stopping by yet?
I have not. I cannot until I get a visa. Either way the dates are set I fly to Toronto on 23ed of July. Whether I come done to the states 24-26 remains to be seen.
I hope it works out that you’re able to do so!
🤞
We keep saying you need to come visit. Ideally the paperwork goes through without further issue.
I should probably do a longer visit to the US at some point. But If I have the chance to pop doun a few days now I will, especially since the area is off the beaten track for a standard US holiday which takes one to the Grand Canyon.
Clean sweep of pro-criminal, communist Jew-haters in the NYC Dem primaries. Shocking. 🙄
Buckle up.
They don’t hate Jews; they only hate genocide.
Why do you like genocide, Rhywun?
It rids me of these meddlesome turks.
One of them joyfully attended one of those pro-Hamas celebrations the day after they invaded Israel. There wasn’t even a “genocide” yet but I’m sure they were saving it for later.
I am starting to seriously worry about my retirement. The way these evil shits ruin stuff, there will inevitably be a raid on the pension fund.
It depends on whether the GovSec unions maintain a majority or whether the NGO socialists take over. If it’s the former, you should be OK.
It’s those of us not in the government sector whose pensions will be raided.
Probably stepping on a story Sensei would post with a WSJ link, but
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260624_B1/index.html
Actually looks like NHK beat the WSJ here. Although this did pop up when I searched for it!
Launch of Ferrari’s $640,000 EV Erupts Into a Storm About Its Looks
An avalanche of online memes make fun of the Luce’s design, and the company sheds $5 billion in market value
It really does look like a Nissan Leaf including the color!
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/launch-of-ferraris-640-000-ev-erupts-into-a-storm-about-its-looks-ab3fe91c?st=78sFXV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“We hate our customer base – give us a different customer base”
“Sir, the customers you want don’t exist. We are now broke.”
“Waaaahhh!”
Jaguar was a warning not something to copy.
Porsche did it better
https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/taycan/taycan-models/taycan/
If you want an expensive 5 seat EV sedan that will depreciate like a rock that’s the one to buy. Ferrari knows this is compliance car for Europe. Given the way they operate they will force owners to buy this POS to qualify to purchase their more exclusive models. It’s an open secret that this is how you get access to more exclusive cars.
Jay Leno has been public that he won’t buy a (new) Ferrari for exactly this reason. He likes the cars, but I don’t believe he actually owns any or at most very few.
Good luck NYC
https://www.wsj.com/politics/brad-lander-ousts-rep-dan-goldman-in-new-york-house-primary-740ecb9b?st=kWNcrP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander ousted incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in a race that centered on Israel and the war in Gaza. State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez and community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier, members of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Democratic candidates endorsed by establishment leaders.