What kills me is how many otherwise normally intelligent people simply BELIEVED HIM when he said there was a CEASEFIRE. — and that those of us who didn’t believe him had TDS or were loony or something. But I see it as 1) recognizing that: Israel doesn’t keep ceasefire agreements, ESPECIALLY IF somebody TOLD THEM to have one and they never agreed to it. 2) Trump does wishful thinking. Out loud. I didn’t want him to be wrong because I don’t want to be involved in someone’s war and make it ours too. I don’t care that it’s ‘trump’. It’s the USA now so I want whoever makes these decisions for them to be smart ones.

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Music making algorithms have been around for a few years; in music theory (anybody who took piano lessons as a kid) learns that Western music follows certain predictable rules and so it was ripe for computers when they came along. Still, I wondered if anybody had made lengthy generative music or had one that could make it live. All the ones I found that would do it live had me sign up or pay or whatever so forget that but this one has it like a radio that plays ones they already did. Good enough.

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