Neat! I’ll have to remember to use that bot in the future.

I only recently started taking music theory/analysis seriously (after having been a no-theory knowing mfer even after decades of playing instruments) and it has been incredibly rewarding! I’ve got a long way to go (my goal is to be able to play songs by ear without needing to sit down and do analysis or trial-and-error), but it’s been so exciting to start seeing how songs are put together and finding similarities between songs that I never realized were there.

No worries, it happens!

This might be little pie-in-the-sky, but I’d love to see something like automatic OCR’d alt text for images containing text on Lemmy (with the option to correct/provide manual alt-text). Not only would it greatly improve accessibility, it could also be leveraged for repost/relevance detection.

Copy-pasting my comment from the previous thread:

(link to Tweet)

At first, I assumed it was satire.

Then, I went to his Twitter profile and it didn’t look like satire but I couldn’t understand how an editor for (what I assumed to be) a local newspaper could make enough to blow $25K/year on delivery.

But looking through the replies, I found someone link to this article

Jason Steen, the owner of hyper-local, digital media operations critics say sensationalize arrests that are minor, violent, graphic, bizarre or just embarrassing, is preparing for his own public brush with criminal and civil legal matters.

Steen’s former employees at Scoop: Clarksville claim he owes tens of thousands in wages, dating to November. He’s facing at least four pending civil suits. His next court date is scheduled for March 31.  

and this one

Rising comedian Josh Black has set his sights on Scoop: Nashville, the local outlet most notorious for posting mugshots of recent and embarrassing arrests. Black also takes aim at the site’s founder, Jason Steen, for recent disparaging comments made about Black women activists — and in response, Steen posted a since-deleted tweet that he would “restart” the practice of publishing victims’ names and addresses.

“For some reason, Scoop: Nashville likes to attack poor and working class people,” says Black in the opening of a new video, citing the mugshot-shaming that grew the website’s brand. He adds that the website especially targets Black people, people experiencing homelessness and those struggling with substance abuse. “He’s consciously assisting in the mass incarceration of Black people.”

Black also points to the shockingly high incarceration rate in North Nashville, saying, “Scoop: Nashville is handing out a hotline number … so you can get more of them locked up.” The comedian also mentions that Steen has a criminal record as well — a felony theft charge against Steen came up during his bid for circuit court clerk in Montgomery County.

The mugshot-posting has also been a source of profit — as Black notes, the site and others owned by Steen charged money for the removal of such posts. (The options no longer appear to be on Scoop sites, though Steen’s defense of the practice out of state remains online.) Steen is also pleased with the advertising he gets from bail bond companies.

and it all started to make sense…

If anyone’s wondering why this works so well, both Barbie Girl and Cruel Angel’s Thesis use a circle progression in their intro/chorus, and since the songs are only a half step apart (Barbie Girl starts in C# minor, Cruel Angel’s Thesis in C minor) shifting Barbie Girl down to fit Cruel Angel’s Thesis is fairly subtle and doesn’t sound obviously manipulated.

Normally I’d agree, but see my comment elsewhere in the thread–I think this is all too real.

edit: Link to Tweet

At first, I assumed it was satire.

Then, I went to his Twitter profile and it didn’t look like satire but I couldn’t how an editor for (what I assumed to be) a local newspaper could make enough to blow $25K/year on delivery.

But looking through the replies, I found someone link to this article

Jason Steen, the owner of hyper-local, digital media operations critics say sensationalize arrests that are minor, violent, graphic, bizarre or just embarrassing, is preparing for his own public brush with criminal and civil legal matters.

Steen’s former employees at Scoop: Clarksville claim he owes tens of thousands in wages, dating to November. He’s facing at least four pending civil suits. His next court date is scheduled for March 31.  

and this one

Rising comedian Josh Black has set his sights on Scoop: Nashville, the local outlet most notorious for posting mugshots of recent and embarrassing arrests. Black also takes aim at the site’s founder, Jason Steen, for recent disparaging comments made about Black women activists — and in response, Steen posted a since-deleted tweet that he would “restart” the practice of publishing victims’ names and addresses.

“For some reason, Scoop: Nashville likes to attack poor and working class people,” says Black in the opening of a new video, citing the mugshot-shaming that grew the website’s brand. He adds that the website especially targets Black people, people experiencing homelessness and those struggling with substance abuse. “He’s consciously assisting in the mass incarceration of Black people.”

Black also points to the shockingly high incarceration rate in North Nashville, saying, “Scoop: Nashville is handing out a hotline number … so you can get more of them locked up.” The comedian also mentions that Steen has a criminal record as well — a felony theft charge against Steen came up during his bid for circuit court clerk in Montgomery County.

The mugshot-posting has also been a source of profit — as Black notes, the site and others owned by Steen charged money for the removal of such posts. (The options no longer appear to be on Scoop sites, though Steen’s defense of the practice out of state remains online.) Steen is also pleased with the advertising he gets from bail bond companies.

and it all started to make sense…

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That comment from yesterday with Hitler malding about Himmler excavating and preserving prehistoric German mudhuts was . Text of the image:

Himmler had scientists undertake excavations of prehistoric sites. Hitler commented:

Why do we call the whole world’s attention to the fact that we have no past? It isn’t enough that the Romans were erecting great buildings when our forefathers were still living in mud huts; now Himmler is starting to dig up these villages of mud huts and enthusing over every potsherd and stone axe he finds. All we prove by that is that we were still throwing stone hatchets and crouching around open fires when Greece and Rome had already reached the highest stage of culture. We really should do our best to keep quiet about this past. Instead Himmler is making a great fuss about it all. The present-day Romans must be having a laugh at these revelations.

Some things never change.

Link to the first episode. Pretty cute!

It’s really frustrating they don’t have closed captions available, though. I find it so strange that many videos put out by big corporations have the auto CC disabled but don’t provide their own, making them consistently less accessible than videos put out by individuals (many of whom also go through the trouble of providing high-quality manual captions)…it’s just a big middle finger to HoH/Deaf people. I can understand not wanting to lean on auto subs if they say something weird that will reflect negatively on your brand or w/e, but professional closed captioning would be a rounding error for any of these professional productions. We really ought to expand the regulations to capture this kind of streaming-only content.

Thanks for this, first laugh of the day

I feel so grateful that neither of my parents ever got into social media

I’m not a crackpot connoisseur, but I enjoyed this video! Can’t say I absorbed 100% of it, but I think I could at least convey some of the basic observations if dark matter came up in casual conversation.

Also, that page for the dark matter rap contains the first instance I’ve ever seen of rap lyrics typeset in LaTeX…I love it.

Completely indistinguishable from satire

Sorry to get your hopes up! Well, you can be sure I’ll be posting his next video whenever it drops.

I’ve seen a few random videos from Displaced Gamers, but for some reason I’m not subbed! Thanks for rectifying that.

Now SwankyBox, I haven’t heard of–will definitely check out some of their videos. I do enjoy perusing TCRF and watching Boundary Break from time to time

I do watch some speedrunning content from time to time (e.g. Summoning Salt and AverageTrey) but I’m mostly interested in the glitches/exploits/tools so my enjoyment can vary pretty heavily depending on the quantity and depth of those aspects