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Goredho

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  1. An ambient piece with me on guitar and @sidis on everything else.
  2. I read Malcolm Gladwell's "Revenge of the Tipping Point" last October and it freaked me the fuck out. Grok going off the rails yesterday reinforces some concerns I have. Building a racist, subversive AI into Twitter/X is basically Elon trying to hijack the overstory that influences our society. If you are familiar with "The Tipping Point" or "Revenge of the Tipping Point", Grok is simultaneously a super-spreader, connector and maven embedded into a widely-used social media platform. It will control the way people who use the platform view the world outside of their direct observation and lead them towards a tipping point. Your imagination will have to provide what sort of tipping point is the aim.
  3. And he wants to plug into your brain stem.
  4. Grok now reads a lot like Elon. What are the odds Elon's content is overly weighted in Grok's training set?
  5. Fuck if I know, but they are posting memes like this today.
  6. If all the west Texas people from my hometown are an indication, the average MAGA voter isn’t happy.
  7. So if Elon goes through with making a 3rd party, is it going to be right or left of Trump's MAGA party? Like, is it going to be tree hugging clean energy stuff, or nazi salute sieg heil stuff?
  8. Goredho

    Led Zeppelin

    Your post reminded me of one the things about When The Levee Breaks harmonica that I love. That’s just how big and raw it is, matching up to how big that beat is. Much different than how typical blues harmonica is rendered. Plant played it into a mic and through an amp and they recorded that so it had some saturation/overdrive to it. It was also recorded a half step above and then taken down through tape manipulation to give it more of a deeper resonate timbre. One of Zep/Page’s many clever production choices.
  9. This does not surprise me in the least. Most of the counselors were former campers, and the development campers receive at La Junta is the kind of stuff that would make them capable of this as young adults.
  10. I think he realizes he got used. I doubt he realizes he can't really do shit about it.
  11. I generally agree, but I think you left out one culpable party -- voters. People that vote for the leadership who say they are going to keep government expenditures as small as possible. The leadership that decided $1 million was just too much for an emergency warning service in Kerr county. You can say that leadership is negligent and the guilty party, but really, they are just carrying out the desires of the majority of their constituents. The people in these areas putting this leadership in place are ultimately to blame for the leadership you all suffer under. This is an uncomfortable conversation that needs to happen with people you know that vote for that leadership. Otherwise, you're just gonna keep getting underfunded incompetence at the state and local level every time shit gets real. Or you can avoid places like Kerr County and Texas as a whole and go to where the majority of people value funded competence in their local and state government. I wish it was different, but it is what it is.
  12. The outro solo on this is maybe my favorite of all time. The last chord in the progression is out of key and Knopfler uses that harmonic context brilliantly.
  13. 🤷‍♂️ We'll see.
  14. Exactly. This is fundamentally different than Uvalde. Kids from the wealthiest & most powerful families in Texas were in grave danger and some died. It shouldn't matter, but it does.
  15. Well, obviously not everyone at Mystic has Hunt money, but there is a dead Hunt kid at Mystic and if that family wants real answers, they will get them. Knowing some of them personally, I think they will.
  16. Maybe, but my experience with such families is that they generally don't have a price when it comes to their own. The Hunt's have 25 billion dollars. Money means very little to them.
  17. A 9 year old from the Hunt family died in this. It isn't going to just be swept under the rug.
  18. Those camps are definitely like the greek system tailored to kids. They do a great job of providing coming-of-age experiences and connectivity for the next generation of Texas bankers, businessmen, socialites, politicians, etc... And the families of means looking to move into those circles. You can view that as cynically as you want, but the last names of campers there read like a list of surnames of those with power and influence inside the state of Texas. Cost insures its exclusivity. This is one reason I don't think this will all be hand waved away like Uvalde. When people with last names like Hunt or Kroenke or Kerr have questions, they will get answers. I come from some privilege and went to La Junta for 4 summers in the late 70s/early 80s, and it was an absolute blast. For me personally, it was a great growth opportunity and I got a shit ton of confidence out of the experiences. I never parleyed it into any sort of adult status, I spent most of my 20s ripping the silver spoon from my mouth, but for those lucky/connected enough to go, they are better for the experiences they had at these camps.
  19. This is a sub $500 guitar (used), nothing to envy, but it’s a solid mahogany/spruce dread that sounds and plays really good. It’s gonna replace my cheap, old black Takamine that was my only guitar for a long time while kids were little. The one I put them to bed with. My daughter asked if she could have it and I’m giving it to her.
  20. I think that’s a significant point. You see it all over Colorado, too. The rural, non-resort areas have very low taxes, very few services and three out of every four people that live there likes it that way. The right (wrong?) wildfire event would play out in much the same way in these areas. These local government officials are mostly guilty of providing the local government that locals want to pay for. So who is negligent and responsible here? That’s a debate for a different part of this site, but maybe people who disagree that emergency services are a cuttable cost should look to different areas for a sleepaway camp for their kids.
  21. I’m in Denver this weekend for family reasons and fucked up and stopped at guitar store. A used Guild D-140 that spoke to me is coming home. Seriously good guitar for what I paid for it.
  22. This is a horrific tragedy, and I feel for everyone affected. I am compelled to post, but what is there to say? Word's haven't been invented to capture or convey the horror of an unknown number of dead kids. I went to La Junta until 13, and the memories I have from there are among the best of my childhood. My brothers did, too, and my sister went to Camp Mystic. Had timing been different, it could have been one of us who was swept away in a flood, leaving behind grieving parents and the lingering, unanswerable question of why. I guess the one thing that might give some solace is that in the worst of tragedies we often see the best of men. It won't be from a politician. It will be from people there, doing what they can, at sacrifice or peril to themselves. You are already hearing allusions to it. How some of the counselors managed to guide their campers to safety. How posters here will be on their way to help in the recovery. Keep those stories coming, because they are the light in a time of darkness.
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