Posts by MattMerk@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AjVKNGeSEixDbmBXVo by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T21:15:58Z
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@angiebaby @_L1vY_ Perhaps not the love of, but the fixated and psychotic obsession WITH! 😉😂
(DIR) Post #AkgMxWogzkXrFHiKLA by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-08-06T06:45:08Z
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#VFX #AI Just had someone sincerely suggest that the SynthEyes user manual could be re-written by Chat GPT. 🤣 I am still laughing!
(DIR) Post #AkgOMgKkqbYlxLGiwK by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-08-06T07:09:46Z
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@aral Same! I even got the propaganda fueled argument that technologies always emerge that disrupt the current system, and those who embrace and adapt will survive … all stated as though this was their own original thought.I’m trying to remember that I often sounded like that in my 20s and even 30s. That’s all that keeps me from leveling this poor schmo, though maybe back then someone should have leveled me! 🤣
(DIR) Post #AlTTUp1iQnbbkY6J3A by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-08-29T21:12:03Z
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YouTubers saying, "So, let's jump right into it ..." is today's version of people one hundred years go saying, "With no further adieu ..."
(DIR) Post #Anpt9Hdul3qbRZHSfQ by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-08T14:43:26Z
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@aral This is painfully accurate. It describes the many decades where the U.S., a purported country, has been at war with communism, a philosophical idea.
(DIR) Post #AnxHZtDRRWGMVfpyMa by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-12T04:20:36Z
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@historyofpunkrock Le Tigre will always be in rotation on my personal playlist.
(DIR) Post #AoCy0w4K3QtWcfY9NA by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-19T15:46:40Z
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And so it begins. I’ve learned to trust any agreement that states “we reserve the right to change the agreement without notice, and your continued use of the thing we made indicates your consent.”What I trust is that the agreement WILL be changed, not benefitting me, and that I won’t like it.Count on more Bluesky changes, folks.
(DIR) Post #AoI8L48niq1kmXgKWm by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-22T05:33:18Z
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@lazysupper You are saying it is not good? I think I just set it up on my Linux box. I'm curious to hear more.
(DIR) Post #AoI8oxndraiTno2bwm by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-22T05:48:04Z
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@HaikyonekoLOL! Any suggestions for alternatives? I honestly don't see myself using an email client much on that computer, but a not-sucky alternative would be nice for those just-in-case moments. @lazysupper
(DIR) Post #AoNWaYwmpwxjMMmgAC by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-22T17:44:46Z
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Honest question: Why do YOU think people want Mastodon's user base to get bigger? You may even be one of those people, and if so, why do YOU want Mastodon's user base to grow?Full disclosure: I don't really want or care for Mastodon to get bigger. But I also get why some people may want larger audiences for their art, or their observations about a topic, or any number of reasons.I'm simply curious why larger social network platform size is viewed so broadly as being good or desirable.
(DIR) Post #AoNc2oNTYlud5zYblg by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-24T21:12:22Z
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@futurebird I was just chatting with someone else abut this very issue, and there's something going on that I don't understand. I could speculate that Mastodon is perhaps a microcosm of the society at large, where things like racism are truly invisible to swaths of the population. Not ignored, but just insulated from, and then blind to. I'm i straight white guy, and I honestly don't see blatant racism, or homophobia, or other bigotry here, but I know it exists.
(DIR) Post #AoNdPxib66UsgD2W6C by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-24T21:27:48Z
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@futurebird I', 100% with you on everything you are saying here. Definitely, more diversity would be nice. This place has a homogeneous blandness to it. (I'm part of that. 😆) And for those posts you occasionally see and then block, I literally never see any of that, but I believe people when they say THEY see it. That is a moderation issue that I have no idea how to address.More diversity would be great here. More interesting people to follow! Yes, yes, yes!
(DIR) Post #AoNdpM03xJi9EBJgqe by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-24T21:32:21Z
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@futurebird Good points. I may just need the "Lighten up, Francis," talk. 😂
(DIR) Post #AoRwP8e6wtW3Jtb5Ps by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-11-26T17:10:12Z
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(DIR) Post #AodSWAJyThLYLMOMJE by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-12-02T12:41:01Z
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@futurebird Thank you for all of this, but especially the focus on right-wing hypocrisy and the tendency of liberal politicians to pretend their colleagues on the other side of the isle are sincere. The same goes for the liberal electorate.For years I have called this #WeaponizedHypocrisy, and always point out that right wingers wield it like a cudgel to get anything and everything they want; they know exactly what they are doing.
(DIR) Post #AoiYmZYQ082okc9chc by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2024-12-04T23:44:46Z
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@futurebird In music parlance, I’d say it lacks swing. It lacks all the “flaws” that imbue text with emotion.
(DIR) Post #AqKwGTjmTnKrPWHyEK by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2025-01-22T09:19:11Z
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@HeliaXyana “There is a real danger in wanting to turn your passion into your profession, it can genuinely murder it.”Wow, did this hit me right in the gut! 😆From my own profile:“I currently work in the movies, which was a childhood dream, but now is just a job.
(DIR) Post #AqKwGV6rNTOHfO5uqG by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2025-01-22T09:36:24Z
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@HeliaXyana No apologies necessary at all, whatsoever. It was just a sentiment I don’t think most people really get. Sure, they can love being a doctor, or an accountant, or an auto mechanic, but I think it a bit different to an artist who’s achieved even a modicum of notoriety.I can’t watch movies or TV for simple entertainment. For me it becomes an exercise in breaking down every storytelling decision to the point that all emotion is lost to analysis of the craft. That’s all.
(DIR) Post #AqKwGVfxGzSnQEVwXo by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2025-01-22T09:40:00Z
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@HeliaXyana BTW, I’ve worked on the Star Trek franchise, so the theremin is a historically relevant musical instrument of joy to me. Now were I to become a renowned theremin player, that would probably rob me of some of that happiness too. 😂
(DIR) Post #AqKwGYwN8PNVY1Db3A by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2025-01-22T09:52:51Z
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@HeliaXyana Post, post script: I’m presently writing my second novel, which you are correct, is quite enjoyable!