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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 08:10:54 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   the music and film industries betrayed the creative classes after they bought themselves the Clinton admin and its Congress for the Mickey Mouse amendment.

   but it was artists following Metallica’s lead ―to encourage the MIC from using said music and film industries as cover to create the surveillance apparatus that exists online― that gave us to this techbro dystopia.

   it was a matter of time for techbros to their early actors and musicians investors:
   https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/

   🧵

   #AI #music

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 08:10:54 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • Jason Koebler

     now, imagine what @jasonkoebler posted here:
     https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/113821937016502088

     with SOFTWARE instead of music:

     "It’s not really enjoyable to make SOFTWARE now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at CODING... I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making SOFTWARE."

     so, basically, techbros know shit about the creative process, the actual art & techne, of building computers or making software… 🧵

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 08:10:54 JST jwz

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     @blogdiva This is not a great analogy, because I absolutely do not enjoy the majority of the time I spend making software.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 08:13:16 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • jwz

     @jwz @blogdiva
     /me taps the sign

     https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113822674222571806

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     Matt Weagle (mweagle@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 08:20:20 JST Matt Weagle

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     @inthehands @jwz @blogdiva Related…

     "I want to feel, I want to create, I want to invent, I want to think, I want to rest. I want to be”

     https://kindnessisnotdead.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-ai-to-do-my-art

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 08:29:28 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • jwz

     @jwz LMAO

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 10:05:29 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     ARS & TECHNE were never meant to be against each other; even less for both of them mean the opposite of history.

     as i like to remind people: GIT is the perfect example of how, to manage a software development project, you need to have a really good understanding of the basics of chronicling, tagging, version control and archiving.

     software projects are creative objects, as well as historical artifacts.

     and what’s weird about that asshat’s comment is that he fails to reckon: MUSIC IS CODE… 🧵

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:22:46 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark @blogdiva
     The irony of all this is that the RIAA thought Apple was their enemy — not totally wrong there — and then streaming music came along and made the iTunes Store of old look like a danged Eden.

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:22:48 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @blogdiva Yes, all of this.

     I've told people in the past that the power-move Apple made was to jump up and give the RIAA everything it wanted: format control, a very generous resource split, and encryption on the local files. They kept iTunes dancing to their flute until the alternatives had died.

     ... and then one day they turned around and took all that away, removed the encryption and changed the revenue share. And they said "What are you gonna do? Go to our competitor? Michael McWentBankrupt? You gonna build your own? With what talent? The talent we hired?"

     It was a coup. A huge coup.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:26:19 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jack William Bell

     @jackwilliambell @blogdiva
     “Software is *not* an engineering practice”

     I can’t agree with this. Application of sci & math to practical problems, scoping, prototyping, tradeoffs, risks, etc etc: all the stuff of engineering.

     Hillel Wayne has done some great writing on how software devs have a comically uninformed and unrealistic idea of what other engineering disciplines actually •do• in reality, and overestimate how different software is.

     But •craft•? Yes, agreed 100%.

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:26:24 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     which is why am going back to one of my hills: software developers are artisans, some are even artists.

     software developers and engineers are part of the creative classes; and by default, the working classes.

     it’s why they need, more than ever, to have their consciousness raised and radicalized 😉

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     Jack William Bell (jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:26:24 JST Jack William Bell

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     @blogdiva

     I've been saying this exact thing for DECADES now.

     Here's the first time I said it for publication:

     > https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/08/24/1327256/featureopen-source-as-an-ant-farm

     Software is *not* an engineering practice, except in extremely limited and constrained fields. It's a *craft* and, for some, an art form. Coding has more in common with cabinet making that it does with building airplanes that don't fall out of the sky.

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 11:26:25 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     back in the 1990s, in-house fintech groups at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs were notorious for hiring musicians as software developers, exactly because they already knew how to think in code.

     you didn’t have to have an engineering or compsci degree to get hired. what you needed was to show your code and prove you could learn on the job.

     you can tell today’s techbros are nepobabies & trust fund capitalists, with the money to hire others to do the creative work.

     creatives will create… 🧵

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 12:40:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jack William Bell

     @jackwilliambell @blogdiva
     Yes, building a bridge and writing a web app are very different.

     My friend who worked on avionics software? •That• looked a lot more like building a bridge.

     You should read Hillel’s piece:
     https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/

     Haven’t looked back at it now, but IIRC “all software is precious and completely unique, unlike bridges” and “real engineers are never told to cur corners or ship a prototype”* are both myths he touches on in his series.

     * I live in Minneapolis. Ask me about the I-35W bridge.

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     Jack William Bell (jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 12:40:32 JST Jack William Bell

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @blogdiva

     I have a whole riff about why building a bridge and writing an application are completely different for one very specific reason; it basically boils down to: You only build a new kind of bridge one time, after which you are simply adapting the basic design (and ancillaries like the schedule) to the context. Whereas with software EVERY TIME is the FIRST TIME.

     Then there's the separate issue of management: bridge engineers are never told to cut corners or ship a prototype.

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 12:55:22 JST GNU Too

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     I will never forgive Metallica for killing Napster.
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