The artist Panda Bear has a music video from this time called Crosswords. Uses deepdream about halfway through. I thought it was pretty groundbreaking when it came out a decade ago. Seems much more tame now, by today’s standards, but still gives me the feels

Edit: link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2EXslhx989M&pp=ygUUcGFuZGEgYmV...

> - GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising

They tell me the economy is booming

Wow, flashback to 2017. This was a narrative back then, and it led to the creation of (and eventual demise of) the bcash fork.

Perverse incentive structure

They didn’t even share names in the case of the OP

Not surprised that someone who loves the sycophant machine thinks that someone disagreeing with them means they’re being oppressed

Trump is a headline generator. The media undoubtedly supports him.

Epstein headlines are big engagement vectors, yet haven’t seemed to bring about any sort of accountability. They can report on things that make him look bad, and he remains in power, with his supporters still supporting him despite the evidence presented.

> Trump is a headline generator. The media undoubtedly supports him.

Isn't this like saying "doctors are pro heart disease because it keeps them employed"?

> Epstein headlines are big engagement vectors, yet haven’t seemed to bring about any sort of accountability.

True, but accountability for who exactly? There are a few people who are known to have been on the island - Prince Andrew, Bill Gates. No real accountability for them so far. Then there's a lot of suspicion around political figures like Trump and Bill Clinton, but no hard evidence. The fact that the Biden administration took no action here either suggests that either there's not enough evidence to actually do anything or prominent figures from both parties are implicated. I'd love to know the truth but I suspect that Epstein is going to be our generations JFK assassination and people are going to be spinning conspiracy theories about the situation for decades while the truth remains murky.

> there's not enough evidence to actually do anything

The fact there isn't enough evidence for a criminal conviction does not mean the public does not have a right to full transparency from the government. There is such a thing as public opinion. If Clinton is credibly implicated, we deserve to know so we can form a better opinion of him. Same for Trump.

For the past year or so, when I have tried to point out the risk of this kind of thing on places like HN, my comments have been aggressively downvoted.

Ignore the writing on the wall at your own peril.

I’m pretty sure the person who said that quote about non-professional musicians who purchase Eurorack modules was Paul Schreiber, who passed away about a month ago.

Gonna look it up, and I’ll edit this post when I find out.

Edit 1: Didn’t find the quote from the film yet, but did find [1]this video (unedited interview from I Dream of Wires) where Paul explains how he himself is not a musician, but rather an engineer.

[1] https://youtu.be/6ixv4F4XD4Y

Edit 2: Still haven’t found it.

I have the film at home, but I’m traveling in Europe at the moment, so it is out of reach for me currently.

HN has a lot of immigrants that work in the US. What is happening right now is relevant to many users of this site.

Maybe think about this before knee-jerk flagging

Why do you assume it was knee-jerk? The spirit is not now relevant a story is but the value it has. These stories are everywhere and there is little nuance in it. The comments of such a story also add no value and are a low signal tribal us vs them.