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ttpphd, to music
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Welcome to a Saturday Morning #FediListen

It's where I go to the #music tag and I find the first three songs, listen to them, and give the songs a collective tarot reading.

The criteria:

-must use the music tag
-must include some way to listen to the music
-must include the title and artist
-must include some description of the music in the body of the post. Literally any attempt at description will do.
-must be only one song (not an album)

It is time! Let us commune with the Fediverse!

ttpphd,
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Here are our musical tarot toots (English translations in alt-texts):

@3jackdaws sends us "Low Life" by Crobot (2019).

https://mastodon.social/@3jackdaws/112498421651541332

@buru5 sends us "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" as covered by The Cardigans (1994).

https://mstdn.games/@buru5/112497446948221983

and for our final pull,

@musenhain sends us "Mama" by Genesis (1983).

https://friendica.andreaskilgus.de/display/f016db04-1366-50d9-e5ea-3d1688744700

toot by forrest @buru5 i've always found pop covers of metal songs fascinating as they clearly draw out the original creator's intended melody and reveal the pop underpinnings of metal (standard verse-chorus song structures, for example), and The Cardigan's cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath comes close to being one of my favorite renovations. anything else come to mind? #music
Andreas Kilgus Ein Paradebeispiel dafür, mit wie wenigen harmonischen Variationen man auskommt, wenn das Arrangement was kann. Außerdem wusste ich zuvor nicht, dass derlei in Phil Collins' Stimme steckt. Nicht zuletzt war natürlich auch für einen synthesizerbegeisterten Teenager etwas geboten: Genesis - Mama A prime example of how few harmonic variations you can get away with if the arrangement is good. I also didn't know that Phil Collins' voice could do that before. Last but not least, of course, there was also something for a synthesizer-loving teenager: Genesis - Mama

ttpphd,
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Open the third ear and receive the wisdom of the spirits.

The Reading!

Set name: Emotional Rebel

Pairs:
Hair / Bald
Metal Guitar / Vibraphone
Carefree / Troubled

Themes:
Rumors
Propaganda
Rebellion
Change
Abandonment
Insight
Intention
Reputation

Toward:
Trust in your intentions and resist being swayed by rumors. Reinterpretation is rebellion.

Away:
Deliver harsh messages softly. Those who are not ready, might not stay.

ttpphd, to random
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A humble suggestion that PIs take a haircut to pay their laborers a living wage was meet with fierce and immediate opposition.

ttpphd,
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If the pie is too small, are you actively working to make it bigger? What have you done to challenge the exploitation of younger/newer researchers and researchers from non-WEIRD cultures?

I don't want to hear that PIs have their hands tied. I want to hear what PIs are doing with their privilege.

paninid, to random
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Be documentarian

Write your observations, your thoughts, and feelings. Your written legacy is what future historians will use to interpret what happened into the past. Writing is the evil twin of thinking.

http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/24/be-documentarian-2/

ttpphd,
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@paninid

Writing does feel evil sometimes...

ttpphd, to random
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Please do not use LLMs to do literature searches. Please please please.

ttpphd,
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@normen

Vector embedding is not synonymous with generative LLMs.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Y'know...I really used to think that the weight of being wrong in light of bulletproof evidence would change people's minds about pretty much anything.

It doesn't. It really doesn't.

And I think that's because on some level people identify so deeply with the things that they belive that to change their mind in light of new evidence feels like some sort of betrayal instead of a logical step.

ttpphd,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

Yes!

The marketplace of ideas isn't an algorithm for truth. There is no inherent bias for reason or empirical evidence to prevail in a contest of persuasion. Even scientists who debate each other fiercely, with highly technical evidence, rarely change each other's minds about really big questions.

smolwaffle, to random
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Yes

ttpphd,
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@smolwaffle

Hmmm are you sure?

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Hmm, when does anger become an issue? When you act on it? If you act on it in societally unacceptable ways? If things that shouldn't make you angry do? If you have intrusive angry thoughts?

(Not really asking just thinking about how any expression of anger is generally considered problematic in some way these days.)

ttpphd,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

What to do with my angry feelings has been a main topic of therapy for me in treating my PTSD. On my journey I've learned that anger is important for drawing boundaries, but when society doesn't want those boundaries it punishes expressions of anger. As you are well aware, society only lets certain kinds of people be publicly angry.

jordan, to random
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It's apparently a Handsome Boy Modeling School kinda day

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=i1GZhvLhRpI

ttpphd,
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@jordan

I need you!

eeyam, to random
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Fellow doctors noting that cases are up again!

(There's is no reliable data monitoring from the Department of Health anymore)

ttpphd,
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@eeyam

What a depressing reality

ttpphd, to random
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Here is something I need white people to stop doing. Stop taking the critical rhetoric of Black people and playing bullshit word swap mad libs games, replacing the subject of the rhetoric (Black people) with some other group.

That is not how arguments work. That not how history works. People are not interchangable parts with interchangable oppressions.

Stop abstracting away Blackness!

Figure out how to co-struggle. Learn from Black people how to fight anti-Black oppression.

ttpphd,
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Sorry for getting a bit heated here but it happens so much and it just really got to me this morning.

Lana, to random
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Technically speaking, nipples are straws.

ttpphd,
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@Lana screaming.

No.

No no no no no no no no no

philipncohen, to random
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Control group says what now?

ttpphd,
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@philipncohen

Cureus strikes again.

KatM, to random
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This is an honest question with only sincere interest behind it, but as a straight, white woman I understand my motives may be suspect, especially if you don’t already know me. So here goes…

“LGBTQ2S+” as a descriptive word to include lots of different people is unwieldy (sorry, English major here). Is it bad form to simply say “queer community” now? My favorite cousin came out in the 80s, so he’s an older gay man and may be out of touch. That’s the word he uses. Is it no longer acceptable?

ttpphd,
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@KatM

There is no shared hive mind, so whatever answers you get (including this one) are not universal. That said, queer community is generally ok imo. Might also try gender diverse people if that's the group you are referring to, or people with diverse gender / sexual identities is another phrase that is both banal and encompasses most of the LGBTQ+ alphabet.

ttpphd,
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@KatM Thanks for your thoughtfulnes!

Very rarely, I have run into people who object to the word queer because it has a history of being used as a slur. These folks tend to be older or more conservative in their views.

To be honest these days I've had more people object to the word lesbian (instead preferring "queer woman") than to the word queer. So the word queer or queer community is probably your safest bet.

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