Things You Just Don't Care About

1. What other people are ordering at the restaurant. I don't care.

2. Waving my hands in the air.

3. Care Bears (there is an internet community for this, right?)

4. The Jimmy Saville thing that's going on at the moment. I don't care, sorry.

Sport. Got stuck at one of 2 tables people sat at from my course on Monday night and the rest of the table proceeded to talk about hurling.
I sat there thinking it was rude to leave, for several minutes, then got up and moved to other table and instantly found conversation interesting.

Does mean I'm less fit than I should be probably though. Used to dance quite frequently until I moved too far out of town to get home easily from wahtever clubs

I think I have a thing in my brain that just tunes out sport talk the moment it happens. If sport comes up in conversation or on telly all I hear is "blahblahblahblah" MAybe if I didn't have this handy cerebral device I might learn something, but sadly it's there to stay.

music criticism.

5. new radiohead album announced

ill-informed opinions, maybe just opinions
fashion
other people's private lives
most TV
superhero movies

sorry, that was 6-10

there's loads more tbh

11. whether something is real
12. what genre something belongs to

13. what a work of art is about

14. the Beatles and its members

who is president (unless eric b)

16. whether somebody used an apostrophe correctly

17. Straight White Dudes and their Straight White Dude problems.

18.

19. king and queen of country-x visiting your city soon

20. martin scorsese working on several potential future projects with leonardo dicaprio

21. Justin Bieber being sick on stage

22. best chocolate-covered wafer

23. record charts

24. relatively distant family member is having a baby. a babay!

25. what's in fashion

26. this thread

27. meta

28. whining

29. your cynical opinion

30. awesome lifestyle pictures you took with your expensive camera

31. dating website horror stories

32. grizzly bear not rich enough

lolled for truth

33. a list reaching 33, the age that Jesus was allegedly crucified.

34. "Why do YOU care?"

35. people who feel oppressed by things being popular

36. Married people
37. Their fucking spawn.

38. twitter

So?

39. giraffes

that's just wrong

adherence to a rigid midfield formation

european football

40. people moaning about cis-gender stuff, as if it was an inherently bad thing to be. Is it? I dont know.

41. the pathetic howls of my victims

42. foreigners diving

41. the pathetic howls of my victims

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43. Any of this shit.

44. Any of your shit.

45. what goes on a pizza

46. online gaming

I think there are too many types of podcast to make a blanket statement about the form. Accepting Tracer’s list of 4 basic types, you end up with 65 or so possible combinations! I haven’t done that type of math in a while so sorry if I’m off.

I think the scripted/edited format is definitely akin to a NPR show. The talk radio style ones are overall less for me, but it’s interesting how there are parallels, all the way down to people who conflate the views of the podcasters and those of listeners — sometimes those same listeners where consumption is shaping their own views.

I’m in the “something to listen to while doing something else” camp, but I think it’s useful to hear how others speak on topics without necessarily being a participant. Like overhearing a conversation, but without feeling the need to interject or be emotionally involved? There’s a level of context in conversation that doesn’t translate to writing.

I think conversation can be an art (what is My Dinner With Andre otherwise)? Dialogue is THE method towards truth, right?

ha yes I was thinking abt that movie as I typed the question

My Podcast With Andre

At one point I vaguely thought about "My Dinner with Andre the Giant" but I see it's been done by one of those shows I've not watched and don't care about (swerving madly to stay on topic)

As a life-long listener and creator of music; I do not care about music theory. I _want_ to care about music theory! I can't make myself. The minute I start digging into it I get sleepy. I'm slightly more interested in composition, but still haven't managed to make time for learning it. It came up because I recently had a conversation with a guy I knew who I didn't know had more than a passing interest in music and he dropped some serious knowledge on me, and the whole time my inner voice was screaming, "Don't caaarrreee!"

I mean a little theory isn’t a bad thing. You don’t have to drown in it.

So they say.

I find that music theory people are often of the opinion that if you don't understand music theory and/or can't play an instrument then you can't really truly appreciate music and your opinion on music is therefore of less value than theirs.

I dunno, it's helped me in my marriage that my husband can explain that he likes, predominately, songs in major keys ... i.e. it helped me not immediately go to "You don't like this song?! What's wrong with you?!"

xp i'm not a carpenter but i know a wobbly chair when i sit on one

Night of the music theory people

my problem is: i have probably read a million classical record liner-notes and booklets and histories and my memory of everything i have read is about...0%. it just doesn't stick. i have never played an instrument though. (third grade violin and guitar doesn't count.)

there are about a hundred ways to appreciate music and every one adds value, grateful to any critics who get this.

i laughed reading the notes to one of the most amazing southern indian carnatic dance music CDs that i own the other night - i love the sections that remind me of kurt schwitters and din daa daa - when they said that one of the sections in the performance is relatively new to the form because: IT WAS ONLY 700 YEARS OLD! haha. so, now i just read liner-notes for the jokes.

The TV ratings for the World Series. Every single goddamn year they mention how the network execs are quaking in their boots if there’s a small-market team or they’re breathing easy if there’s not a small-market team. You never ever hear this shit for any other sport’s championship. Like fuck off and let Arizona fans enjoy their moment.

Tbf, I think the execs also threw up their hands in despair when the Denver Nuggets made the NBA Finals.

Mr Snrub otm

time for mark s to start a podcast!

first guest: scott seward
first topic: the phrase “a new york minute"

I would 100% listen to this

whatever the hell this "Beatles' last song" is

I knew someone would chime in.

Rob otm.

I just don’t care about AI generated art. Maybe I should? But it’s so ugly and obvious at the moment I can’t bother caring about it’s ramifications

AI art sucks balls

AI art should not even be called art. It should just be called illustration.

Artificial intelligence? More like real stupidity!

Counterpoint is that the technology is advancing so fast this is kind of like saying "well THIS room isn't burning at all, it's totally fine right now, who cares". Not that I'm motivated to make an argument about it aside from pointing out that any posts about the current specific state of AI (ugly and obvious) are going to age really badly by like say next week or something.

any posts about the current specific state of AI (ugly and obvious) are going to age really badly by like say next week or something

Oh, is that the cutoff for when dipshits are going to stop typing in prompts like "the Mona Lisa, but with anime girl eyes and huge tits" and paying to have the results advertised on social media?

not at all, those images are just going to get 10x sexier by this time next Friday

Go f a GPU

the AI art was the worst part of the 2022 ILM poll

AI art should not even be called art. It should just be called illustration.

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As a human illustrator I kinda take offense.

Since you've got more skin in the game than I do — although as someone who writes things I care deeply about (record reviews, books) and things I don't care about at all (draft letters to health insurance customers), I can have some limited perspective — what do you think is the right term for AI-created or -assisted illustration to differentiate it from entirely human, artistic illustration?

“Imagery”

“Dumb crap nobody wants to look at”

“Bullshit”

I gotta give AI “dumb bullshit nobody wants to look at” credit though, at least it ain’t those cursed AI animations.

Also Omar otm. It’s not polite to complain about a small part of free work being done for your benefit, but now that we are a year removed, whatever. That AI art was the worst part of the rollout

Click below for some truly disturbing content
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxIcPi1ra08/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Or don’t

I have written a lot of things that are in the public domain (by design) and historically I haven't minded seeing my words floating about without attribution. Once I was pleasantly surprised to recognize myself translated into Spanish. That stuff was done by people.

Perhaps irrationally, I have a very different reaction to someone who uses an AI that takes from a corpus of work that includes mine, then passes it off as their own work.

The AI would have no fuel in its engine without the millions of squishy human people. It is entirely dependent on us and the stuff we have done so far and been brave enough to put out there.

This is, of course, all part of the AI debate, and it's such a losing battle that I may as well shrug and just try to adapt.

Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte

Any movie Ridley Scott has made since Blade Runner

(ope, sorry, since Thelma & Louise)

The director's cut of The Counselor is really good; otherwise, I'm with you.

the martian, american gangster and a good year are all year all worth catching

Hannibal is less boring than Blade Runner

I just got out of a Napoleon screening. It's fine if you think Phoenix should play him like Commodus.

he's only got one emperor in him, is that what you're saying?

Joaquin contains multitudes.

he's commodious, if you will

Andre 3000 new age spiritual jazz