andrewparker.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Sampling is incredibly prevalent in music. The difference between chatbots stealing and musical artists sampling is that when Doechii samples Somebody That I Used to know, Gotye actually gets credit and gets paid for that. The VCs backing chatbots admitted they can’t be profitable if they do that.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

“I was not the target audience for this movie therefore it made a mistake” writes middle-aged white dude.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What baffles me is that people can see claims like “China is the second-largest holder of US debt… China holds $761 billion” and not have a sense that doesn’t sound right with a national debt measured in the tens of trillions of dollars.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of bad national debt takes tonight. Let’s handle a few. 1. No, China doesn’t own a majority of the national debt. It doesn’t even hold a plurality of the debt held by foreign countries. 2. No holder of US debt can simply “call in” that debt. It’s not a revolving line of credit. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It’s difficult to express how fucked up it is to be able to obtain a warrant to search for evidence of a crime could not have occurred unless she was an illegal immigrant. ICE’s argument is essentially that being declared deportable by Rubio made her immediately an illegal immigrant.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There’s plenty of criticism to level at the seemingly performative aspect of Booker’s speech, but “OMG and then they had the gall to try to fundraise off of this major media event” ain’t it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There may be some correlation between seeing Gavin Newsom as “a fucking hot alpha who can sling it” and being someone whose only heterosexual romantic prospects act like sexual harassing misogynists.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In case anyone was worried that the DOJ’s flagrant disregard for court orders and deadlines would lead to any sort of consequence.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“Ah but you see they only incidentally stopped a genocide while stupidly trying to stop world conquest when there was only evidence of conquest of certain regions”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Banks, especially well-capitalized ones, can take advantage of economic upheaval. Throw in that Dimon et all are still salty about the stories about workers being able to demand better conditions in a low-unemployment economy and they’re not going to lose sleep over it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Why does a dude who chooses to look like he came in fifth in a George Lucas lookalike contest showing up to argue for discriminating against people based on their appearances?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Dear @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, Is being free media for a censorious Nazi part of “accountability journalism”? Or was this just for funsies?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In the spirit of leaving the door open for Elijah I also welcome gentiles to buy some kosher wine. Try some Mogen David It’s 11% ABV and tastes like sweetened grape juice without a hint of alcohol. Get blasted, l’chaim.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Other than removing his hands I’m not sure what the fuck “help” there is for a dude who simply can’t keep them to himself. Groping women isn’t like having anxiety attacks. There’s no medication for not respecting consent.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“Nonono, it’s not Jim Crow… it just allows state legislatures to set up Jim Crow barriers to voting which I assure you we won’t do in my state so like… whatever right?”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Motherfucker has a literal brainworm and he’s out here deciding it’d be better for more kids to die than for more kids to be anything other than neurodiverse.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Worse than that, I can identify about 8,000 “magic computers” spread throughout this country which can “create money.” They’re called banks. That’s how fractional reserves work.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s assume for a second that the measles vaccine did increase the rate of autism (NB: it fucking doesn’t) Let’s assume a quarter of the current rate (2.8%) is the measles vaccine (0.7%). Preventing measles deaths is worth it. Also fuck the ableist idea that death is preferable to having autism

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

History will remember Trump was responsible for America’s liberation day? That’s not the gotcha you think it is. Goddamn, Charles, hire a better social media person. Or, better yet? Resign.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

But I was assured by @schumer.senate.gov that if he knuckled under and voted to allow Trump’s budget bill through it would stop the defunding of healthcare.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s almost like your gym buddies aren’t really your buddies, huh?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

What’s fucked up is the memo isn’t wrong about the statute. 8 USC § 1227 allows deportation under the same standard for inadmissibility found in 8 USC § 1182(a)(3)(C)(iii) which allows deportation even for “statements, or associations [which] would be lawful within the United States”.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

There’s obviously some semiotics to “people who shower at night” that he meant and I didn’t understand. But by god I do shower at night so he’d damned well better listen for some reason.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’m l one of Crow’s constituents and fairly well informed. I couldn’t tell you his “instrumental role” in “effective committee oversight”. What I can tell you is that as someone who showers at night (a criteria of his for who should be heeded) Democrats need to be anti-Trump first and foremost.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If only there were a way for a minority party in the senate to have leverage over the White House by blocking its spending bill and refusing to allow it to come to a vote. Oh well. I’m sure feckless tweeting will do the trick.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments