TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on How does one learn or start to manage thair life better? 10 hours ago:
That sounds like exactly the sort of thing therapy is for. I’m no kind of expert, but it’s very likely there’s a lot of deeper things keeping you from developing achieving the kind of skills you’re wanting. And it sounds very much like it’s a problem in your life that’s causing you a lot of anxiety and pain. I think if there’s any way you can do talk therapy, that’s the place to start.
- Comment on How does one learn or start to manage thair life better? 11 hours ago:
Wow. Huge topic. And it depends on a ton of things. And I definitely don’t feel like I’ve got it all figured out myself.
If you’re young and just for the first time having to manage your own affairs rather than depend on parents to help with that, then self-help kind of stuff might well be a fine place to start. (Just avoid Jordan Peterson.) If you’re older and feel like you’ve had the time needed to develop those skills and still don’t have them, it’s likely there’s something deeper going on that might benefit from therapy.
I personally cared for my ailing grandmother for a long time. And that shit’s hard work, and takes a lot of time. In the process, I let a lot of things go by the wayside like yardwork, home repair, and organization. Now that she has passed, I find myself with a lot of remedial work to catch up on. I feel like I’m making progress. It’s frustrating and slow, but it is progressing and that’s the important part.
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 1 day ago:
Send help.
- Comment on [AI] What time is it again? 2 days ago:
Behold: The current state of LLMs. The pinnacle of human achievement.
- Comment on Ridiculous 5 days ago:
- Comment on Is Louis Rossmann a fascist like futo? 1 week ago:
Depends how he responds now that that article came out, I’d say.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 1 week ago:
My major in college for my BS included all but 2 credit hours of a physics minor, so my final semester, I took Thermal Physics to complete that minor. I’ve never met a physics course I didn’t ace, so I figured “easy A”.
I’m quite certain I was the highest scorer in the course and was a solid B+ before the final. I took the final and felt really good about how well I did. I thought sure they’d curve and I’d be the one that threw off the curve.
I got my grades back. I got a C. My only C ever, in fact. An A (what I expected) would have gotten me summa cum laude.
The same semester, I took a statistics class. Paid exactly zero attention in class. The class took place in a computer lab for no good reason other than I’m guessing the other classrooms were booked. I played a fast-paced Quake-like FPS every class all class. Got an A in that course.
But that fuckin’ thermal physics class.
Years later, a coworker of mine who was an alum of my alma mater told me that they’d taken the professor who taught that thermal physics class off of teaching permanently due to his completely unreasonable grading practices.
- Comment on Wendnesday 1 week ago:
Why can’t we just pronounce it “wed-nes-day”?
- Comment on This is called an oopsi 1 week ago:
Grandpa?
- Comment on Arby's steak bites 1 week ago:
Damn. In concept they sound good. Except for the whole “Arby’s” part.
- Comment on Anon thinks it's over 2 weeks ago:
So, my mother is pretty hopelessly addicted to shorts, right? (Facebook reels, Youtube shorts, Tiktok, etc.) And the other day she calls me over to watch one that had just come up on her feed. It was a kitten and a parrot playing. The parrot was talking and the kitten kindof batted at and nuzzled the parrot.
Cute as fuck. Sickeningly so. But something was definitely off. The parrot’s voice was wrong somehow. The cat was a little too… smooth. The way they moved just wasn’t quite right. Clearly an AI generated video. (The audio was probably a human speaking, pitched up and made a little squeakier via simple audio editing. But my point is that no cat and parrot had ever existed in front of a camera doing quite what this video depicted.)
My mother never considered it might be AI-generated until I said it was.
And… what’s the harm? As I said, it was cute. Who cares whether it was “real” or not if it made the dopamine squirt in my mother’s brain?
We’re kindof living in a post-truth world. It doesn’t matter whether content is “real” or not. If it feels good great. If you completely disengage your critical thinking skills and just assume it’s real (or even worse, define real/impactful in terms of what makes the dopamine squirt and not in terms of truth), it feels even better. Produces more of that sweet sweet dopamine.
A person who cares whether something is true/real/authentic may fall for it anyway and still be manipulated thereby. But one who doesn’t care, you don’t even have to manipulate. They’re already living a fantasy.
That’s how you get “alternative facts” and of right-wingers claiming “we white, cishet, christian, men are the ones who are really oppressed.”
Enjoying AI-generated music knowing it’s AI-generated is a red flag. Enjoying it and not realizing it’s fake is extremely concerning. Worst of all is enjoying it and not caring.
When my mother showed me that video, I felt sick to my stomach. Not because it was “too cute.” (Ok, a little bit because it was sickeningly cute, but mostly…) Because she’d been so easily manipulated. And because there were a few seconds before I realized it was fake during which I was similarly manipulated.
My mother also has a problem with blindly trusting Google AI overviews and it’s been a problem a few times.
Every AI-generated bit of media or information I consume makes me feel like I’ve been “tainted”, poisoned, unclean. I’m sure despite the care I’ve taken to verify sources and such, I’ve fallen for it in some ways, but it’s hard to know where/how specifically and what negative effects that will have on me at a later date.
And no, this problem didn’t start with AI, but AI certainly hasn’t helped the situation.
But to bring it home, what you asked wasn’t about AI-generated fake news or cat videos. It was about jazz.
Before AI-generated music like what’s referenced in the OP existed, we had autotune. And I think that’s similarly problematic for the same reason as AI-generated cat videos are. I think people using autotune blatantly to where they weren’t trying to hide it’s use but rather used it as a cool distortion effect was a hugely positive development specifically because it revealed the fact that it wasn’t real.
Maybe someday we’ll end up with an equivalent for AI-generated music. And if so, maybe I’ll be cool with “blatantly AI” music. But so long as we have music that fools people into thinking it was made by flesh-and-blood humans on physical pianos, upright basses, saxaphones, etc, it’s concerning as fuck.
If I ever fall for that shit, please slap me. And if I say I don’t care whether it’s real or not, shoot me.
- Comment on Feed a crab for a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
I was here for poop holding.
I was here for beans.
I was here for stroganoff.
And I’m here for crabs.
- Comment on Metal bands 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only bought one game from GOG. It was Morrowind and I’m playing via OpenMW. Good experience over all. Though I didn’t use the installer or the executable that came with the game.
I really want to see more FOSS reimplementations of game engines come into existence. Wine is fine and all, but I’d much rather have a native FOSS engine.
- Comment on Have you ever been shown the "clarity"? 2 weeks ago:
There’s not all that much more to tell, really.
Normally, particularly when it’s really dark, I have a lot of little blotches of a lighter, gray shade that fade and shift constantly across my whole field of vision. Until it abated temporarily, I wouldn’t have thought it possible for it to abate. But when it did, I got to experience a more potent experience of “darkness” than I had before probably ever. But it wasn’t just darkness that was amplified. My vision definitely felt “clearer” of… the ordinary sorts of visual artifacts I see pretty much all of the time.
It was a very calming and pleasant experience for sure. Definitely the sort of thing I wish could be the case all the time.
This has only happened to me once. It came on while I was meditating (so that may not particularly qualify as “spontaneous”, but anyway) and lasted until I fell asleep maybe an hour later. By morning, my vision was “normal” again.
I’m not saying my experience was (or wasn’t) the same as the experience you’ve had. I don’t disbelieve your account, though. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the same sort of experience I had might sometimes be experienced spontaneously by some individuals.
- Comment on Have you ever been shown the "clarity"? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had some wild experiences for sure. Total loss of visual snow. Synesthesia. Major time distortions. Stuff like that. (Meditation is a hell of a drug. For realz.) Particularly during a period of time about 9 years ago.
- Comment on Anon thinks it's over 2 weeks ago:
The whole point of
generative AIplagiarism laundering machines is to make it harder to tell you’re consuming a soulless regurgitation of legitimate talent. - Comment on My body is a roadmap of pain 3 weeks ago:
Wait, what’s the one labeled “jackass”? I will pay you an upvote if you tell me.
- Comment on Frog........right..... 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, there are frogs in all of the following images:
Frogging in crochet is the act of pulling stitches out of a piece, turning it back into yarn
And that’s not anywhere near a comprehensive list. People really like to call things “frogs”.
- Comment on scheming hot banana cookies 3 weeks ago:
Recipe by ChatGPT.
- Comment on Why do people hate reality? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t confuse condescension with reality.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 3 weeks ago:
Most Christians don’t really care what the Bible says, regardless of how much they like to pretend they do.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 3 weeks ago:
Anon is definitely lawful neutral.
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 4 weeks ago:
There are really touchy-feely workplaces where most of all that just aren’t an option. I’ve worked at such places and I’m still traumatized.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 4 weeks ago:
Charles Eisenstin’s book “Sacred Economics” (which you can read here) has a nice, simple parable in chapter 6 about that.
Once upon a time, in a small village in the Outback, people used barter for all their transactions. On every market day, people walked around with chickens, eggs, hams, and breads, and engaged in prolonged negotiations among themselves to exchange what they needed. At key periods of the year, like harvests or whenever someone’s barn needed big repairs after a storm, people recalled the tradition of helping each other out that they had brought from the old country. They knew that if they had a problem someday, others would aid them in return. One market day, a stranger with shiny black shoes and an elegant white hat came by and observed the whole process with a sardonic smile. When he saw one farmer running around to corral the six chickens he wanted to exchange for a big ham, he could not refrain from laughing. “Poor people,” he said, “so primitive.” The farmer’s wife overheard him and challenged the stranger, “Do you think you can do a better job handling chickens?” “Chickens, no,” responded the stranger, “But there is a much better way to eliminate all that hassle.” “Oh yes, how so?” asked the woman. “See that tree there?” the stranger replied. “Well, I will go wait there for one of you to bring me one large cowhide. Then have every family visit me. I’ll explain the better way.” And so it happened. He took the cowhide, and cut perfect leather rounds in it, and put an elaborate and graceful little stamp on each round. Then he gave to each family 10 rounds, and explained that each represented the value of one chicken. “Now you can trade and bargain with the rounds instead of the unwieldy chickens,” he explained. It made sense. Everybody was impressed with the man with the shiny shoes and inspiring hat. “Oh, by the way,” he added after every family had received their 10 rounds, “in a year’s time, I will come back and sit under that same tree. I want you to each bring me back 11 rounds. That 11th round is a token of appreciation for the technological improvement I just made possible in your lives.” “But where will the 11th round come from?” asked the farmer with the six chickens. “You’ll see,” said the man with a reassuring smile. Assuming that the population and its annual production remain exactly the same during that next year, what do you think had to happen? Remember, that 11th round was never created. Therefore, bottom line, one of each 11 families will have to lose all its rounds, even if everybody managed their affairs well, in order to provide the 11th round to 10 others. So when a storm threatened the crop of one of the families, people became less generous with their time to help bring it in before disaster struck. While it was much more convenient to exchange the rounds instead of the chickens on market days, the new game also had the unintended side effect of actively discouraging the spontaneous cooperation that was traditional in the village. Instead, the new money game was generating a systemic undertow of competition among all the participants.
The development of currency results in loans. The practice of loaning starts the practice of charging interest. Interest requires constant growth.
Individual companies have to grow to keep up with the necessary constant growth of the economy as a whole. Any company that doesn’t keep up dies.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 4 weeks ago:
You’re a ginger, Harry.
- Comment on Anal loving girl here 5 weeks ago:
Mark NSFW posts NSFW, please.
- Comment on Anon plays GTA V 5 weeks ago:
Achievement Unlocked: Dissociation
- Comment on We just need to label every port 5 weeks ago:
Definitely a coal roller.
- Comment on Who cares what it looks like? It works. 5 weeks ago:
Who cares what it looks like? It works.
This but unironically.
