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Billy Beck

@_Billy_Beck_

My kind of elitist does not grade on a curve and is willing to flunk the whole class. I'm looking for honest minds, not "open minds". No peace with communists.

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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
I am a Declaration American: To me, America consists mainly in the idea of individual liberty and found its most compelling political expression in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution was a counter-Revolutionary act, and Lysander Spooner was right.
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Isaiah L. Carter 🇺🇸
Isaiah L. Carter 🇺🇸@IsaiahLCarter·
How the hell do I have 189K followers, yet can't crack 35K impressions?
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Tim Starr
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Why are birth rates collapsing across the world? It’s not culture. It’s not biology. And it’s not that people suddenly stopped wanting kids. It’s because the path to a stable adult life has become more expensive, more uncertain, and more delayed. Housing costs have exploded. “Breadwinner jobs” have shrunk. Education takes longer and pays off less. And even when people delay having kids to get established, many never catch up. Children are the longest-term investment people make. When the expected return becomes uncertain, fewer people make it. I break down the full mechanism here from housing, to labor markets, to the “rationality trap.” freemarketsandfirepower.substack.com/p/the-fertilit…
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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
@IsaiahLCarter Rolling through the news as The Endarkenment proceeds apace, clearing my desk for more work, and about to get out a guitar. Nothin' to it.
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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
@RBuckshi @UnmitigatedAss To me, though, a lot of the fun happens only after competence. I enjoy the the work, but it comes first comes first.
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TheUnmitigatedAss
TheUnmitigatedAss@UnmitigatedAss·
Studying the top performers for years has taught me most enjoy themselves. They aren't working. They are playing.
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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
@Ur_a_Smartass_C Never again in his life will he be learning at the rate that he is right now. Everything he senses right now is everything there is in the whole world and he's getting all of it.
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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
"Mr. Simpson" The essentials never go out of style.
Billboard Chris 🌎@BillboardChris

🚨 BREAKING: Jessica Yaniv Simpson has filed a complaint against me with the BC Human Rights Tribunal. He says I violated his human rights by calling him a man, and by denying the existence of transgender identities. This violent man previously threatened to shoot and kill me, and pleaded guilty to uttering threats. I also had a restraining order against him for a couple of years. Jessica rose to fame several years ago when he contacted close to 20 female estheticians and demanded they wax his intact male genitalia. Most of these women were of Indian descent, and several worked from home with small children. Their businesses served women, not malicious men pretending to be women. When they declined his abhorrent request, he played victim and said he was discriminated against on the basis of his gender identity. Mr. Simpson filed complaints in 2018 and 2019 against several of these women with the BC Human Rights Tribunal, which agreed to hear three of the cases. He lost them all. Jessica Simpson was formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv, and he is a vexatious litigant with a long history of lawfare. He now has several criminal convictions and even assaulted an elderly man at his mother’s care home. The Municipality of Langley sent him a legal letter a few years ago declaring that their first responders would stop showing up at his home to help him out of the bathtub. He was calling them every day after he had his vaginoplasty for emergency help to get out of the tub, and he treated these brave city employees abusively. Never content to live his life in peace, he is now coming after me once again. Ho hum. Bring it on. Of note, this is the same Human Rights Tribunal which recently fined Barry Neufeld $750,000 for injury to dignity because Barry, like me, does not believe in gender identity ideology. Not only did the Tribunal fine Barry, they literally stated the following: “If a person elects not to ‘believe’ that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not ‘believe’ in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial. “A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.” The Tribunal has declared that all British Columbians must believe in gender identities. I do not believe in gender identities. I never will. And I welcome this fight with open arms. So my message to you, BC Human Rights Tribunal, is please accept Mr. Jessica Simpson’s complaint. I’d love to kill two birds with one stone and help take down your kangaroo court while I’m at it. Govern yourselves accordingly. (Here is Mr. Simpson’s email to me. Tribunal complaint is in the thread below.)

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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
I was modeling this ballroom in Blender for a working project. The first image is a photo of the real room. I could have painted the texture for those chandeliers but it would have taken many hours. I showed this photo to Grok with a prompt to make that texture map for me. It took ten minutes to output the texture you can see in the second image.
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Scott G@scttfrnks

I wasn’t clear in the OP. I didn’t want to have to learn Audition, but that *is* what I was using. So Grok just gave me what I needed to get in and get out with good audio for my purposes without futzing around all day with erroneous tools.

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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
@HowellJann84707 @scttfrnks That's because it sounds different with all the resonances inside our skulls, contrasted with nothing but the airwaves hitting the mic. It doesn't sound like us, to us.
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Snowstander
Snowstander@HowellJann84707·
@scttfrnks No one likes their own voice, especially not at first.
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Scott G@scttfrnks·
I’m working on a little video project and I need to lay down some voice-over audio and I want it to sound as good as possible, but I don’t want to have to master Adobe Audition (the interface is intimidating). So I described my project to Grok and he linked me to some tutorial videos on YouTube, one for setting up a recording session and another for applying basic audio correction filters commonly used for documentary-style VO. And then gave me a long, detailed step-by-step workflow for producing/saving the clips. Just tested it and it sounds great. I still don’t like the sound of my own voice, but the quality of the finished product is excellent compared to the raw recordings.
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Alex S.
Alex S.@Alex_94706·
@_Billy_Beck_ I've watched some of that trial footage, and man, if those deputies aren't the epitome of the term "local yokel" ... Now the case has terminated in his favor, I think he's got a better than even chance of getting a civil judgment against them for malicious prosecution.
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Billy Beck
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_·
A person has to sit around for hours hearing a flautist at work in order to appreciate just how fine the work is. In a new evolution, my Cindy has been playing hours a day nearly every single day for over a month. I have an entirely new understanding and appreciation of woodwinds.
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