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chipmcdonald.bsky.social

Musician, guitar teacher. Covid averse\vaccinated\pro-mask F1, politically jaded, LLM/ML/PyTorch TensorFlow curious. Suhr guitars, Marshall amps; GT86\BRZ\FR-S; Canon DSLR; goberian, GSD ftw. Waiting for that 70s A.C. Clarke 21st century to arrive.

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A SAMPLING OF GUITAR LESSONS THIS WEEK: Dave Burke does "Too Much" by Dave Matthews Band; Makeda Bostwick does "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2; Andy Debrosse does "Hey Jealousy" by Gin Blossoms; Jeramie Mcloud does bending integration; Jeremy Matthai does "Stairway to Heaven" contrary

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The rich telling the poor "there will be pain". The hypnotized MAGA cult made this happen. #Tariff #tariffwar

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A SAMPLING OF GUITAR LESSONS THIS WEEK: Asher Luckey does melody/lyric development on an original; Gabe Murphy does open chords; Carter Hayes does 2 octave triad sweeps; Jeremy Matthai does Tony Iommi blues; G Perera does Bob Marley vocal riddims;

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

I'm just a peasant, but reliable monolithic alignment without multi-cameral, cascaded discrete limited function (uhg) is never going to happen. It will always result in "schizophrenic" behavior. The "HAL" conundrum will always be there. $.10

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

A SAMPLING OF GUITAR LESSONS THIS WEEK: Dave Burke does "Pay For What You Get" by Dave Matthews Band; Chuck Thornton does 1/8 note subdivision; Amy Mcgee plays "Driver 8" by R.E.M.; Asher Luckey does Jeff Buckley voicings; Nikhil Madala does diatonic fingerings; and more! ->

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Actual real world goals for LLMs/ML: 100% confidence in math. Controllable hallucination. Confidence checking. The scariest thing to me about the frantic, out of control adoption of ai systems is that those 3 things are missing - but people don't seem to know or care.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Either aiding and abetting doesn't mean what I think it means, or we're now allies with Russia.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Signs, pink dresses, complaining about Trump on shows does NOTHING. The Democrats have no cohesive message, milquetoast "ideas" about how to "maybe" pursue legal means at some indeterminate juncture - when the Orange Reich obviously doesn't care about process. It looks complicit!

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Russia invaded America without putting a single boot on the ground.

submitted 64 days ago • 41 comments

The Social Media Gom Jabbar: I look to see if you have written replies. It doesn't mean you're not a bot, but that you might be a human. / Orange Catholic Bible = disciples of MAGA?

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Endless sock puppet YouTube channels of editorialized snippets of the regime's shenanigans DOES NOTHING. Compile damning video and pollute their search terms with MAGA friendly titles and thumbnails. But making jokes and insisting it will change is borderline grifting. #DNC

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

You're actually justifying your job to an ai. Which is funny, because they make a lot of mistakes, and are limited in scope the prompt. "Who are doing useful work?" = doofus results. Federal workers are literally pleading to their ai overlord to find them worthy.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Countdown to methylene blue being sold in Walmart, Tractor Supply: 10,9,8... Just look for the aisle with gallon jugs of apple cider vinegar and the horse pills. It will be great when the FDA/USDA are doged, and we can get back to electric belts, lead potices and heroin hydrochloride tinctures!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Do you not see? The only way out of this is to break the spell. Someone MUST start compiling clips that demonstrate the situation we're in, with no editorializing. And hope to put a MAGA enticing title and thumbnail on it. Cult45 has to be deprogrammed! #maga #cult

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Shitler and the Orange Reich? No, I like the color orange. Vice Chancellor Drumpf and the Dumb Reich? Yeah, the #DumbReich. #dictatorship #coup #Constitution r.i.p.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Truman, F-35, et al: reliance on networked digital systems is a delicious attack vector, in planes, or ships. Tuned high energy rf can wreck grounds, ruining clock timing. You can induce current across tiny gaps. "Something" is being tested, not just GPS, radar jamming.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Think about one thing: Trump learned, conclusively showed, for oligarchs/corporations LEGALITY DOES NOT MATTER. They're not thinking ONE MOMENT about the Constitution. We're a dictatorship! They know nothing will happen to them, acting 100% linear. We are on a well trodden path....

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Frakking frak, they're winning because I'm not working on music! I've got to get control of my doom scrolling, but it frightens me that it looks like people generally don't grasp what has happened. I keep hoping I'll see people switching to a consensus that yes, we are a dictatorship.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The brigands have: Judicial, Legislative, Executive; FBI, CIA being dissolved; Treasury Department; Department of Energy. DNC, people saying milquetoast things like "maybe we need an investigation"? Sock puppet Yt channels babbling. Cognitive dissonance, or shock? We have maybe a month.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

My old joke isn't a joke anymore. Idiocracy may literally have been prophecy. The Matrix via absurdity from Mr. Robot, mixed with gothic reality on Battlestar Galactica. We're in a movie. "Chip, in the 21st Century reality will be indistinguishable from comedy":

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Kelley Bundy misspoke at the press conference, big deal. You're diluting the gravity of our situation. 8 years of DNC sock puppets making videos about Der Orange Chancellor's idiocy brought us "here". It didn't work. Start reporting, stop editorializing, discuss ideas!

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

MUSIC. I play guitar, write and record music. I teach guitar for a living. Soc media sabbaticals are more and more difficult. So much change, and scarier and scarier when I return. ->

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment