KydiaMusic

KydiaMusic, 4 days ago to animals

Toots m’Doots

Happy Dootsday, and Happy Toe Bean Tuesday!

Doots’ toe beans are coffee beans, which explains why he has so much energy for Zoomies and gusto in his complaints to Management.

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Dootsday #DootsToots #ToeBeanTuesday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Catstodon #Cats #Cat #ToeBeans #LynxPointSiamese

KydiaMusic, 5 days ago to ai

“Humans are a social species down to our core; the more modern life erodes our opportunities for actual human companionship — whether it’s by interposing technology as an intermediary into every interaction, or sucking up all our time with the capitalist/consumerist grind — the more desperate we’ll become for friendly-sounding volleyball substitutes.”

https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for-intelligence/

#AI #TuringTest #AGI #OpenAI #LLM #ChatGPT #AGI

GIF of Wilson, a white volleyball with a face painted on it in red, anthropomorphized by Tom Hank’s’ character in the movie Castaway, because he was so lonely he created a companion for himself. The bananas have very little to say about this.

KydiaMusic, 5 days ago to memes

This is a pretty good playlist, ngl

#MusicMemes #Memes #Music #MemeMonday #MarvinGaye #Funny #Humor

KydiaMusic, 6 days ago to Musicproduction

It took me nearly all afternoon and ALL of my drug-assisted Executive Function, but I finally have my music up on Mirlo!

https://mirlo.space/kydia/releases

#Mirlo #MusicProduction #ADHD #ADHDMusicians #ArtPop #BaroquePop #Pop #PopMusic #Folktronica #ElectroPop #NewMusic #IndieMusic #IndiePop

KydiaMusic, 9 days ago to random

“It’s full of crap. I’m not a Democrat. I’m not a Republican. I vote for the person. This won’t change my mind because I don’t think he broke the law,” she said. “Trump has always been an open book. He has nothing to hide.”

-Says the person who is definitely going to vote for Trump after learning he definitely broke the law b/c he had something to hide.

Just goes to show how ignorant most people are about the details of this trial:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/nyregion/trump-guilty-verdict-voters-react.html

#Trump

KydiaMusic, 9 days ago to random

I haven't had a drink in months since I am doing an elimination diet to figure out why I keep coughing up phlegm every morning. BUT

I MIGHT NEED TO HAVE A CELEBRATORY MARGARITA TONIGHT.

#PhlegmBeDamned #TacoThorsday #Trump

GIF of David Rose from the TV show Schitt's Creek saying "I feel like that needs to be celebrated."

KydiaMusic, 9 days ago to animals

You’d have this much swagger too, if someone told you every day of your life that you were a very pretty boi.

Happy Thorsday!

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Thorsday #ThorToots #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Catstodon #Cats #Caturday #RagdollCats

KydiaMusic, 10 days ago to random

Errbody loves parfaits

#Parfaits #Shrek

KydiaMusic, 11 days ago to random

“Space could be filled with vampires, but we would never know because all our telescopes use mirrors.”

KydiaMusic, 14 days ago to animals

Happy Caturday!

I can’t remember who, but someone on here was asking if Thor had a mighty voice like his namesake. And…he does not 😹

He is a pathetic whiny baby and this is how he sounds most of the time.

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

Video of me approaching the bedroom door, where my fluffy half-Ragdoll cat Thor is peeking under it and crying because I wouldn’t let him in while I was folding clothes because he is not a very good helper.

KydiaMusic, 15 days ago to random

Art is in the execution, not the idea.

KydiaMusic, 16 days ago to random

My spouse: “hey, are you gonna get up early with me tomorrow?”

Me: “I can’t predict the future, dear.”

KydiaMusic, 16 days ago to random

I’m sorry if you started following me because you thought I was a criminal mastermind. I’m a criminal dumbass.

KydiaMusic, 16 days ago to animals

Thor was originally given the name Rocky when we adopted him as a baby, but I think he’s rather squishy.

He’s definitely a lover, not a fighter.

Happy Thorsday!

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

KydiaMusic, 17 days ago to random

FYI no streaming service pays more than US $0.01 per stream. And that’s at the very top end, with a premium paying customer in a premium market.

I found this article explaining how streams are calculated helpful:
https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts
Lots of variables like country, service tier, content pool & user engagement factor in, making the "average" per stream unpredictable.

Tidal & Qobuz pay more per stream b/c they have less streams overall--making every stream more valuable. 1/

KydiaMusic, 18 days ago to random

I’m enjoying everyone’s posts on the various #Fedivision entries. I wish I had the spoons to post about every entry, but maybe nobody wants my asshole opinions anyway. Especially since I have no skin in the game. I couldn’t even get it together in time to enter. :AAAAAA:

#Fedivision2024

KydiaMusic, 18 days ago to tidal

Just started free* trials of Qobuz and Tidal. They both offer up to 24-bit, 192 kHz streaming. Even so, I think I prefer Qobuz's quality.

The drawback is that Qobuz does NOT HAVE LYRICS. This is a major drawback for me as a hearing impaired person and also a songwriter (I want to know for sure what the lyrics are)! Qobuz is slightly cheaper if you pay annually rather than monthly.

*free but you give them payment info and the subscription kicks in if you don't cancel

#Qobuz #Tidal #Streaming

KydiaMusic, 18 days ago to Spotify

Spotify is finding new ways to weasel out of paying artists.

Now the MLC (Mechanical License Collective) is suing Spotify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfzrpCxlM0k

#Spotify #MLC #WeaverBeats #YouTube

KydiaMusic, 18 days ago to animals

It’s Dootsday, YEEEAAAAAH!

Have you listened to the entries for the #Fedivision contest yet? There are 72 entries this year, lots of talented Fediverse musicians to discover and follow, and lots of new music to enjoy!

https://fedivision.party/

You have until next Sunday to listen and vote, and this year you get 3 votes!

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Dootsday #DootsToots #Fedivision2024 #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #FediCats #Catstodon #Cats #Cat

KydiaMusic, 19 days ago to random

If you’re using generative AI, you’re not a prompt engineer or an artist or even a collaborator—you’re a client. You’re trying to get the Entity That Generates Things to generate Things to your specific parameters.

KydiaMusic, 19 days ago to random

I was going to review more songs but I’ve run out of spoons.

#Fedivision2024

KydiaMusic, 19 days ago to random

Really appreciate how evocative @bittersweetdb track, "In the Wind" is for #Fedivision2024. It's got a kind of ethereal Mad Max vibe, with the otherwordly womp-y droning bass drum and trance-like vocals. Well done!

KydiaMusic, 19 days ago to random

Fedivision is a song contest among musical artists here on the Fediverse, in the spirit of Eurovision, but the countries are made up and there are no prizes for the winner, just bragging rights.

The entries just became public yesterday, so you have a whole week to listen and vote! https://fedivision.party/

I didn’t enter, but I have been enjoying listening to all the tracks and am having a hard time deciding which to vote for. You get 3 votes this year!

#Fedivision2024 #Fedivision

KydiaMusic, 19 days ago to random

Welp unfortunately I have to refine my criteria if I ever hope to narrow down my list of #Fedivision2024 entries to vote for only 3.
First additional criteria will be the artist (composer/songwriter) needs to be actually present/active on the Fediverse. For me, one of the points is to strengthen community among #FediverseMusicians

KydiaMusic, 19 days ago to ai

I do not feel bad for these miscreants.

“The leak is a reminder that customers of nonconsensual porn makers are sharing their personal information with people who by definition don't respect other people's privacy, and that platforms like Patreon have their information as well.”

#AI #TechBros

https://www.404media.co/nonconsensual-ai-porn-maker-accidentally-leaks-his-customers-emails/