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1·2 hours agoFell back into the Octopus Project discography after stumbling across this semi-recent (3 years ago) video of them doing an old favourite of mine, I Saw the Bright Shinies on the Moog Etherwave Theremin.
They were probably the best live show I ever saw. They were moving around the stage and exchanging instruments among one another during songs in a hypnotic dance. It was really impressive and I’ll never forget it. Also, Yvonne is probably the best and most accurate theremin player I have ever seen.
I saw them with Man or Astro-Man? and since both bands had theremins, the show ended with Dueling Theremins and the fella from MoAM set his on fire during the peak.
212·13 hours ago3B
That’s one more than 2B so she must be really hot!
/nierjokes
AMD knew what they were doing.
28·18 hours ago
Uh oh.
12·18 hours ago- Cosmos
- Blade Runner
Vangelis, enough said.
Exactly. The point of all the forever wars and having the CIA overthrow legitimate governments was all in service of bread and circuses.
Even ostensibly “liberal” people are still sucked way more into their personal lives and their “dreams” than they are what is actually happening. I said to my mother recently that she has been “playing house” while the country has been falling apart around her for decades and that all she “did for her kids” was for nothing because she never stepped up to make sure the country didn’t fall apart, thinking that as long as she made enough money and got her kids a good enough education it would “save them.” She spent her life making me feel like her stupid fucking six-bedroom house with a pool that she lived in alone was more important than my life, especially with how much she bitched at me to get a job, any job, any time I was struggling, including when I got fucking cancer. I pointed out that she herself could have been in a much better financial position if instead of selfishly living in it alone she could have been renting out rooms or the whole damn basement to others at reasonable prices and helping alleviate the homeless problem instead patting herself on the back for giving a homeless person ten bucks. All I got were excuses and explanations and no accepting that maybe, just maybe, she could have been more involved in politics or more compassionate in opening up her home. She even balked at the idea of me suggesting that she ought to be getting ready to Anne Frank this shit and prepare the house to house people who need to hide from Trump’s fucking goons. I said cool, so you’ll be remembered as a Nazi because you’re complicit in being too fucking selfish to share your house with people who literally might be murdered or deported. Your ass would have kicked Anne Frank and her family into the street. Needless to say, whole conversation did not go well. The boomers were so privileged and coddled that they literally got to achieve their dreams while choosing to ignore things like politics entirely. Making sacrifices of their dreams for others is literally not in their interpersonal vocabulary.
These people are out of touch and fuck-nothing is going to wake them up. It’s going to take fascists on their doorstep coming for them and by then it’s way way too fucking late.
Lemmy users reading this:
It implies that that’s a quality you should be judging people on, even if their looks have no bearing on the situation.
That certainly shouldn’t be how it is, but there’s a lot of evidence to support that it is how it is. Just because we don’t like it being that way doesn’t mean it doesn’t impact people’s perceptions.
Forbes article about the phenomenon:
Harvard study about the “Beauty Premium”:
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3043406/mobius_beauty.pdf
Beauty and the Labor Market (1994), referenced by the Harvard study:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117767
To quote Eddie Izzard from her special Dress to Kill:
https://guykawasaki.com/remarkable-people/
He has a podcast, seems pretty good.
37·2 days agoanti-cancel-culture
They’ve always been fine with cancel culture as long as they’re the ones doing the canceling.
Their entire political philosophy can be boiled down to an Uno Reverse card.
They don’t care about being seen as hypocrites because hypocrisy is merely a display of power. “I get to do this, you don’t.”
Something something in-groups law protects but doesn’t bind something something out-groups law binds but does not protect.
It’s fine, you’re doing great, don’t let that make you believe you’re not a worthwhile artist.
You go back to like the 1950’s and everybody was doing each others songs. A lot of the top singers of yesteryear weren’t penning their own lyrics.
A valid point.
Makes good business sense. Keep everyone on your shitty app and monetize it. I wasn’t for it but understood the greedy fucks behind it.
Not understanding how greed and control are different manifestations of fascism is still on you. Corporations always align with fascists because a corporation is essentially a small kingdom where a handful of Lords make all the decisions for the peasants (workers/consumers).
Plenty of us saw where this was headed because of the API drama.
Don Hertzfeldt made some amazing short films with a really, really simple art style.
The message sometimes matters more than the quality of the art. There is still a level of high quality to it despite the seemingly simple art style.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admits-its-based-on-mastodon
Trump’s Social Media Site Quietly Admits It’s Based on Mastodon
Mastodon had originally threatened to sue Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ site for allegedly violating its open-source license.
I mean, yeah, but it’s where they would actually find conservatives…
OP should try Truth Social, I hear it’s technically a Mastodon fork…
I’d say those SMART attributes don’t look great…