you’re saying that in jest like it isn’t obviously true. if checks and balances didn’t work we wouldn’t be playing this cat and mouse game, they would just go unchallenged. 

Federal judge accuses Trump administration of 'terror' against immigrants in scathing ruling

https://piefed.social/c/politicaloptimism/p/1797754/federal-judge-accuses-trump-administration-of-terror-against-immigrants-in-scathing-rul

of course nintendo would support the gays, gay luigi has been an open secret for years

cats are incapable of resisting the intrusive thoughts

welcome to the master race

eyyyyy, shameless self-promo, but i made a community a couple days ago called !politicaloptimism@piefed.social

i’m a little nervous about bringing this up since i’m the one of the only people active there right now, but we have a “Seeking Optimism” flair for people who are concerned about things happening and want assurance over the most sensational narratives over what’s happening.

i’ve been hearing from people in the vocal synth community getting called “slop” by people who don’t know what it is for using vocaloid. we live in the worst timeline. any kind of digital processing or tools are just slop now.

remember keyboard cat? pepperidge farms remembers.. 😔✊️

i was a vocal synth nerd before i was a fedi/foss nerd. we’ve been doing ai since before the ai bubble, and i think vocal synths are a good example of ethical ai.

vocal synths are still a creative tool where you compose the music, lyrics and expression yourself, but the ai engine makes the voice more realistic sounding. you purchase “voice banks” which are effectively training data for a single voice and this voice bank comes from a “voice provider” who is a paid singer that will record samples for the vocal synth engine. a lot of voice providers request to have the voice bank “characterized” to sound different from themselves, and the vocal synth company will do so. compare KAF to KAFU CEVIO.

this is a process based entirely on consent, something openai and the rest of them lack, they just send out an army of scrapers to take anything and everything they can get their hands on, consent be damned.

actually speaking of KAF, i was excited because KAFU was coming to synth v, since i don’t have CEVIO. but unfortunately, KAFU SV was cancelled because the synth v ai engine made her sound too much like herself, and most likely they couldn’t modify the voice bank to sound differently enough and they cancelled it. at least, that’s the prevailing theory.

if they like mealworms, then i bet they’ll like brainworms even more

Man Trains Crows to Attack MAGA Hats

https://piefed.social/c/interestingasfuck/p/1782761/man-trains-crows-to-attack-maga-hats

cook bacon in water. 

don’t drown it, but add just enough to render out the fat without the bacon being in direct contact with the pan, preventing sticking and burning. then once the water steams out the bacon is left to fry in its own juice, giving perfectly crispy bacon every time. 

it has elecrolytes

why do rich people ruin everything

go fasc lose cash

only for politicians and billionaires, etc. powerful people.

there’s a few leopardsatemyface communities out there that would be more appropriate.

many juce plugins don’t support a native linux version

JUCE patches black window issue when running in WINE

https://piefed.social/c/musicproduction/p/1776719/juce-patches-black-window-issue-when-running-in-wine

No Republicans to appear on ballot in 2026 New Mexico Senate election

https://piefed.social/c/politicaloptimism/p/1775926/no-republicans-to-appear-on-ballot-in-2026-new-mexico-senate-election

Political Optimism

https://piefed.social/c/newcommunities/p/1775490/political-optimism