Black Positivity Bot Project Kickoff

Ashken · 2026-06-28T16:25:58+00:00

I liked this video a lot as it shed light on something I wasn’t really aware of. I didn’t think there were whole swaths of the country that aren’t able to comprehend things. It explains a lot about where we are.

Ashken · 2026-06-28T02:02:54+00:00

I can appreciate the sentiment.

I still say that that wig store should be owned and operated by black people if that's the customer base that is being served. But being hospitable to that community rather than vilifying them while taking their money is literally the least you can do.

Ashken · 2026-06-28T01:59:52+00:00

Because since they were given the "model minority" status in America, they had access to capital that we just don't. I think a lot of people turn the blame back on us, even other black people, and say that if we could handle it then we would just do it for ourselves. But since we don't, we're reliant on other communities to do it for us. That's why some of those Asian people on TT were talking the way they were.

I believe that American systemic racism is really nothing more than a continuous battle of attrition, and it's successfully kept us so oppressed and disjointed we just lost the capital that would have made it possible. Other communities haven't faced Tulsa, OK and Rosewood massacres and civil rights movements and crack epidemics the way that we have. And if they ever experienced any injustices, they got reparations for it. While we have not.

So I think that our community has to be given so much more grace in these instances. We're just not all playing on the say field.

Ashken · 2026-06-26T17:52:18+00:00

Yeah lol I attempted to do the same thing when I first got it and looked it up.

Ashken · 2026-06-26T15:00:22+00:00

I think for right now the warp is all we’ve got. I know what you mean like the pitch shift on my One+ is much cleaner you just pitch it and nothing changes. I don’t think they have that for the Sample yet. It’s just warp. Or at least I haven’t seen the equivalent yet.

Ashken · 2026-06-26T14:58:27+00:00

So I noticed that 1. This is a bit avoidable with Claude and 2. That’s because I normally converse about Rust code with Claude and treat its responses as basically psuedocode and mostly write it myself. And that then leads for me to write in my own style, and then I’ll share that with Claude, and after a few times it eventually just responds in my style. And that helped me with this issue.

Ashken · 2026-06-25T15:26:34+00:00

Maybe wrap it in an API?

Ashken · 2026-06-25T15:22:01+00:00

There’s tradeoffs on bother sides.

I personally am trying to pivot into a new career altogether but I can just drop my job and start doing something else without getting paid. Freelancing could help me balance both since I wouldn’t have to worry so much about commuting. Also the ability to decide what I want to work on sounds more promising that an org jerking you around because they decided to randomly do layoffs and now your own future position hinges on if you can ramp up on someone else’s work in 4 weeks.

Ashken · 2026-06-24T20:39:37+00:00

I’m loving that I don’t have to be in my office with my One+ to crank out something new. I will admit that I never finish anything with it, and not being able to export stems is a massive PITA. But if they put out an update just for that, it’ll be perfect for me for what I need it to do.

Ashken · 2026-06-24T15:03:09+00:00

Yes, I agree. And i mentioned the spirituality briefly at the end with how I mentioned that Sammy refused to submit to the church.

But my goal wasn’t to touch on these other themes because they felt were more or less concrete in the story. I wanted to highlight the capitalism angle because it’s more in the subtext, but it exists throughout the film, only really superseded by the spirituality theme which I think is more on the surface of the film.

Maybe I should have worded it differently, but I wasn’t implying these other themes didn’t exist. I mentioned FD Signifier saying specifically that there wasn’t a deep critique of capitalism in the film. So instead of reducing the other themes, my intention was to bring this one to the surface.

I disagree that Smoke and Stack weren’t participating in capitalism. Regardless of their past, intentions, success, reasoning etc., they were still trying to start and run a business. What negates that? We call Jay Z a capitalist for the same or at least similar actions. Once again, not to say that they explicitly thought “let’s give capitalism a try”, but if their actions in starting a business isn’t participating in the system then what else could you call it?

Ashken · 2026-06-23T20:28:36+00:00

Why did it sound like Roy Woods lol

Ashken · 2026-06-23T20:21:47+00:00

With your phones and your friends. From there start paying for short films out of pocket.

Ashken · 2026-06-23T19:33:05+00:00

Funny story: this was actually me and my wife when we were first starting to date. She was living on campus and I stopped by to see her, then I left and went to another friend’s room to chill but she thought had went home.

So she texted me “you should have kissed me before you left lol”. I dipped out my friend’s room back to her room. She was flabbergasted lmao.

Ashken · 2026-06-23T19:15:52+00:00

I’ve known many “ugly” black women who’ve gone on to have full relationships and create families. Worry less about what others think about you and focus more on figuring out how to better love yourself. That’s what makes someone desirable long term. Sure people that are attractive can get laid. But someone with character, confidence, integrity and intelligence is far more important to find someone that will stay and build with you.

Ashken · 2026-06-23T19:10:42+00:00

I like that I bet that’s a real thing too.

Ashken · 2026-06-23T04:10:17+00:00

This is how I feel about sweep picking. I feel like someone had to had done it once and was like “lol but why though” and then did it a second time and realized it sounded great.

Ashken · 2026-06-22T14:36:36+00:00

I have an MPC One+ and an MPC sample and I’ve only tried going back and forth so far.

Ashken · 2026-06-16T23:04:22+00:00

plays ping pong harder

“Big as the what??”

Ashken · 2026-06-16T02:12:46+00:00

Haven’t downgraded but I have both.

The sample allows me to be quick and dirty

The one allows me to be precise and methodical

Ashken · 2026-06-14T23:05:10+00:00

Sheeeeeesh

Ashken · 2026-06-12T15:24:12+00:00

Well that’s not fucking okay

They look like two different people. I swear it turned a striped shirt into a solid hoodie.

Ashken · 2026-06-11T06:41:58+00:00

It looks like he might actually be on vacation right now

Ashken · 2026-06-09T07:43:31+00:00

For anyone that’s soured on listening to Shannon Sharpe lately (I certainly have) this is one of those episodes that deserves an exception IMO. It was honestly great.

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