I'm pretty sure the article is at least mildly ironic. I don't think he literally believes that "nobody cares if music is real any more." Towards the end he talks about how AI music is not really art, and it lulls you into oblivion. The writer's a legit scholar with an academic interest in video games, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost
Sergio
joined 9 months ago
Those poor, poor academic publishers... they're actually going to have to do some reviewing? And maybe even some EDITING? ...nah, they'll probably just run them through OpenAI...
kinda like an... opium? ...of the masses?
Anime pillow gets the mattress.
To tie the bag shut, ofc.
Hispanics of any race grew to just over 65 million, an increase of 1.16 million (1.8%) from the prior year.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/population-estimates-characteristics.html
- July 4th events megathread (r$ddit interface): https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/comments/1lopwzc/50501_july_4th_events/
- another list of events: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
- lemmy instance: https://50501.chat/
- more social media links: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
Game on the couch til I pass out. Wake up halfway thru the night, throw self on the mattress, shedding clothes til I'm comfortable. (varies by time of year)
If this happened at a licensed event, does that mean this is canon?
Tournament's over! And I don't plan to post til the next one, tho you're welcome to post stuff if you want obv. You can search youtube and the web for fun sumo stuff til then, but I thought I'd recc some sumo movies and shows:
- @jeena@piefed.jeena.net recommended SANCTUARY, and indeed it's a great series. Looks like it's a Netflix-exclusive: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/129120
- SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T (1992) - pretty cool movie, about a college kid who gets involved in his college's Sumo team. this isn't available on a corporate stream in the US, but there's a youtube video where a couple Texas sumotori do a watch-through of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aij5PTNHdvY
- SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T (2022) - a miniseries that's kind of a "next generation" of the movie. Looks like it's on Disney: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22187310/
- HINOMARU SUMO (2018-2019) - an anime about a high-school sumo wrestler. Typical sports anime plot, but fun bc it's about sumo! You can watch most of the first two seasons here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CISA3X2cJw but I think it's missing the last episode, so if you get that far you can look for that here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10066026/
Another fun thing to do is check out local amateur groups. If you're in the US, you can look here:
- https://www.ussumo.org/map Most people I've met at sumo clubs were really cool, there's usually some mix of interest in martial arts with interest in Japanese culture. This post's image (via https://grandsumobreakdown.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/american-sumo-newsletter-february-2024/) shows a bunch of those clubs, they usually welcome newcomers, and they generally do local tournaments and exhibitions, so support your local sumo team!
Finally, it's a lot of fun to add some sumo-related exercises to your workout. Here are a couple of the basics that I like:
- Shiko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLvHesbDZUQ&t=30s
- Teppo (I use a punching bag against the wall): https://youtu.be/wN2GtAVYSpM?t=109
Hakkeyoi!!!
The best bouts that just happened last night in Japan! With post-fight sumo move analysis in English.
Here’s the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6C7RUswGwA
Here are the rest of the Day 10 bouts in Japanese:
- https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/p781bLebx4/bp/pqnmPDBoPw/
- https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/p781bLebx4/bp/p3gojQRX03/
If you're not familiar with sumo this is a great video to watch, it’s a summary of all the top action of the day and the commentary is in English.
If there are words you don't recognize...
- some words refer to the sumo wrestler's ranking: yokozuna, ozeki, sekiwake, komosubi and finally maegashira (which also have numbers.) These rankings change after every tournament. See the current rankings.
- the rankings are different from the tournament's leaderboard.
- other words like yorikiri and oshitaoshi refer to the techniques used. There's a lot of pushing, tripping, and throwing!
- finally there are various other terms bc this endeavor has been around for several centuries.
Here's the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iM96X4vFQw
FIFA put the full game on youtube, btw (availability may vary by country): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sbfskaTDQ
The beatdown starts around here: https://youtu.be/L6sbfskaTDQ?t=1453