Notices by Cat Lady Kydia Music (kydiamusic@mastodon.social), page 5

It's here! My new release, "Holy Grail" is available to listen to on all streaming platforms!
Thanks for giving it a listen!

#HolyGrail #NewMusic #MusicProduction #DIYMusic #Pop #ArtPop #BaroquePop #Music

https://songwhip.com/kydia/holy-grail

FYI you can leave notes on people’s profiles and it comes in super handy for reminding yourself when someone started following you, or when/why you followed them, or muted them, or blocked them. Especially handy in cases where someone seems to be following you only to get a follow back, or keeps following and then unfollowing you to improve their follow-to-follower ratio, as if that matters.

#FediTips #Notes

All of these are not retouched and taken from the backyard with an iPhone 14 Pro with a 3 second exposure. These colors were not nearly so visible to the naked eye.

#aurora #AuroraBorealis #SolarStorm #Seattle #NorthernLights

It’s like we’re summoning the Rainbow Bridge

#aurora #AuroraBorealis #SolarStorm #Seattle

It felt so weird coming back in from the cool air and night magic to a stuffy house where even just the hall light being on felt too bright. I wanted to keep the lights off and let my eyes stay large and dark to see the hidden mysteries. I wanted to just stay outside and bathe in the light of the Aurora Borealis.

I feel like it seeped into my bones. I’ve eaten food from the Realm of the Fae.

#AuroraBorealis #aurora #SolarStorm #NorthernLights

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE FLOOF!

Happy Thorsday

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Thorsday #ThorToots #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfActivityPub #FediCats #Catstodon #Cats #Cat #Caturday #RagdollCats

@ElleGray ooh what a great theme for the Met! Can’t wait to see the pics of people with Very Large Pockets and Grandma-Issued Tote bags!

Wow I didn’t expect this to blow up. Y’all boost some of my most random thoughts. If you liked this post, please check out my SoundCloud raps. 😂 😉

https://kydiamusic.com/

In light of AI scraping every available piece of content, every artwork, picture, and song, every answer to a question, and every social media site, I guess it’s shitposting from here on out.

#ShitPosting #AI

Just a semi-quarterly reminder that my name is pronounced

KYE-dee-uh.

"Ky" rhymes with "sky."

He said he can tell when someone uses AutoTune, and my vocals sounded fake as a result.

I don’t use AutoTune. I don’t have AutoTune. I do use surgical pitch correction software (Melodyne) which is great for tuning up individual words/notes as needed. Because for me, the vocal quality, the enunciation, the expression, and the emotion are more important than being precisely in tune. Plus, being half-deaf, it’s hard to hear my own voice AND the backing track correctly to keep in tune.

3/

I was stunned, then hurt. But there are a few things I’ve learned in all my years on social media, and that’s GET RECEIPTS. So while I was mulling over how to respond, I took screenshots of his messages.

He accused me of using AutoTune, and bragged about how important it is to do vocal comping to get takes that are in tune instead of “taking the easy way” of using AutoTune. He said it takes more work, but it’s worth it. 💀

2/

Saw a post on here recently in my feed from someone that I no longer follow (it was a retoot) and it reminded me that the reason I no longer followed them is because they asked if they could give me some feedback on my song, and I said sure, and then they sent 3-4 PRIVATE messages telling me my voice sounded fake, my drums sounded dead, and proceeded to give me pointers on what vocal comping was 💀

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"To some, the prospect of collaborating with the sum average of all artists is[...]an attractive prospect. Maybe you feel you are below average in some areas and the A.I. will therefore raise the quality of those areas. But every percent that you hand over to the A.I. is a percent less of your unique voice, perspective, and intention. And for folks who use A.I. generations wholesale, that comes out to a 100% loss of anything personal or unique that they might bring."

https://www.muddycolors.com/2024/04/the-a-i-lie/

I highly recommend reading this post; it articulates a lot of what I've been mulling over recently with regard to all the AI bros' arguments that AI is "just a tool," and "it's just doing what humans do."

1. Tools don't produce the art FOR you.

2. Humans do not operate like algorithms. Computers do not "learn" like humans.

The AI Is a Lie:

https://www.muddycolors.com/2024/04/the-a-i-lie/

How many of these talking points have you seen used in the wild?

#AIMemes #memes

Let me tell you about the time I met a dude at a party who told me he was a real estate broker, and I immediately busted out into the Lady Gaga tune,

🎶“Can’t read my, can’t read my
No he can’t read my broker face” 🎵

He was not amused.

Throwback Thorsday:

Boots with the fur

(with the fur!)

After Thor’s procedure last year, he had a shaved front leg, revealing that his fur coloring was also his skin coloring.

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Thorsday #ThorToots #Low #BootsWithTheFur #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfActivityPub #Catstodon #FediCats #Cats #Cat #Caturday #RagdollCats #ThrowbackThursday

I am legit angry at rich people who have no taste.

“I’m sure they’d have an excellent taste with enough seasoning.” —My spouse

What inspired the conversation was this soulless monstrosity:

https://redf.in/z4WvwF

#BadSpaceDesign #EatTheRich #TechBro #HustleCulture

As you can see, Doots can barely contain his excitement.

Will he rule with a velvet paw, or an iron claw?

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #DootsToots #Dootsday #catsofmastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #FediCats #CatsOfActivityPub #Cats #Cat #LynxPointSiamese #OneEyedCats