gr0k @gr0k@gr0k.net

@gallaimage agree, tho there is always a context for your work, even if it is unspoken. This is sometimes in your control, but not always. The context isn't "in" the work but is both inherent to it - as in, the context from which you created it, as well as outside of it - as in the context it is received physically, and the mental context of your audience. Totally agree tho that wordy explanations of a work usually take away from rather than add to.

"If you are given responsibility without the power to make any changes, then you have just become the scapegoat" (via https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/02/13/broken/ ) - yep...

@senanthic have the couches and white walls, but not sure about the dignity 🤣 Also, still broke... Tho I do have a decent set of speakers 😂

@machinesbleedtoo I have been screamed at and physically assaulted for proposing things that are now recommended in NYTimes front page articles. I'll never engage with a self proclaimed leftist ever again (or anyone who comes across as one) and I'm an old hippie with strongly leftist values. The left are their own worst enemy, and are doing an incredible disservice to the very people they proclaim to be protecting. Thank you for helping correct course.

@marimo 🤣🤣🤣 you seem to have missed the "as a rule" and "almost without exception" parts of my toot. Don't worry tho, as a rule my friends know where they stand with regards to my opinions as our exchanges are just that, exchanges. Thanks for the presumptions and bad vibes tho 😘

@TrexPushups @lolennui the best way to avoid propaganda is to seek out primary sources and ignore clickbait shock jocks. I know everyone learns differently, but reading encourages reader participation, you're actively synthesizing what you consume, whereas being spoonfed an opinion via video is passive consumption. I know no-one is immune, but passive consumers are far more likely to have a partial understanding of anything.

@lolennui also if said news article came from a friend, it is almost without exception one of my less intelligent friends. As a rule people who consume primarily via video seem less intelligent to me. They rarely refer to primary sources, and are almost always regurgitating opinions instead of fact.

This is the inside of a cello - via https://www.architectureinmusic.com/

@etherdiver I've done this for my next set - all produced inside my Digitakt. It took me ages to get there, and it is a huge compromise (I can't use modulation on my Blackhole or LFOs on my Juno, nor adjust the drums in realtime (at least not in the same way) but I have simplified the process, and only need to carry around one box. I can also focus... I need that.

@mmasnick wired lost the plot a long time ago. These days I only read their articles if I want to be disappointed or worse.

@lowqualityfacts yep. Wouldn't hurt if most of these people looked in the mirror occasionally too. Stopping at calling them hypocrites would be polite and very restrained.

@Bearhouse also in markets, the most communal of places. Certainly we've built more relationships with market sellers than we have the constantly rotated (and exhausted and overworked) shift workers on the checkouts at supermarkets.

"First in/first out is not a strategy, it’s an excuse." https://seths.blog/2023/02/whats-next-2/