#tin foil hattery

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Hard Rock Essentials 2000 Hard Rock / Blues-Rock / Arena Rock / Hair Metal / Pop-Metal / Heavy Metal / Adult-Oriented Rock / Progressive Rock / Pop-Rock

God, classic rock really has to be the most over-entitled and over-represented type of music in America, man. I mean, can you think of any other non-contemporary stuff that has a radio station solely dedicated to it in virtually every nook and cranny of this country? It's pretty obvious why it's managed to own so much radio real estate over the years, though—because it's pure catnip for nostalgic white boomers—but if you zoom all the way out and think about all of the music that's come and gone since the 50s, there's really no justifiable reason for this stuff to get so much more airtime than any other type of music from the past. I mean, classic rock is fine for what it is, but it's definitely not leaps and bounds better than everything else.

Take a song like Foreigner's "Hot Blooded," for instance, which is just one of multiple tracks to appear on this triple-disc compilation of so-called Hard Rock Essentials here that happens to deal with the complex subject matter of, *checks notes*, being extremely horny. "Hot Blooded" was a hit in its day, sure, but so were literally tens of thousands of other songs too. And I guess, at the end of the day, I just don't really understand why this song, and so many other ones that are featured on this comp as well, has earned its keep as a fixture of constant classic rock radio rotation. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, is "Hot Blooded" really all that remarkable of a song, so much so, that we need to keep continuously hearing it on our radios year after year? No way!

But, folks, I have to admit that it is actually far too late for me on this front. I am by no means a boomer, but I was, at one point, part of another segment that, like clockwork, fell prey to classic rock radio too: the insufferable tweenage boy subset who grew exasperated with the mindlessness of his own generation's contemporary top 40 fare and decided that "Smoke On the Water" and other songs of its ilk were actually the best shit in the world. Little did we know at the time, and some of us still refuse to see it, that a lot of this shit was actually every bit just as dumb as the stuff that we were trying to so actively avoid. God, how embarrassing.

But I really just cannot help it at this point. As much sense as I've tried to make at the top of this post, I really did have a substantial classic rock phase, and now that shit is just hard-coded into my own DNA. Quiet Riot's "Cum On the Feel the Noize" is not a song that deserves to ever be heard by anyone ever again—it's so fucking bad!—but God damnit, I can't stifle the smile that starts to plant itself on my face whenever that stupid thing comes on. And it's much the same for the vast majority of the other tracks that are on this comp too.

So, while Hard Rock Essentials might be revered as a biblical classic rock sampling for both a certain type of tweenage boy and white boomer alike, for me, personally, it's nothing but security blanket rock. This is music that served me well years ago, and I've clearly outgrown it too, but there are also times when I just love to go back and swaddle myself in it as well 😊. And if I'm with someone who swears by this kinda stuff, I'm obviously gonna fully rock out to it with them too, but then maybe, afterwards, I can make their heads explode with a piece of Philadelphia shoegaze from 1996 that only has 26 YouTube views 🤯.

And I'm not gonna really get too much into it here, but we also really need to have some kind of deep reckoning with this whole propped-up and closed-looped classic rock industry that serves itself with all these nearly identical radio station playlists, cheaply produced TV countdown shows, and countless 'greatest of all time' lists on tons of different websites. I'm not trying to do conspiratorial tin foil hattery, but this whole apparatus really needs to have a stick thrown into its spokes, because it's been dominant as an unchallenged authority on classic rock for far too long. Rather than yet another spin of "Rock You Like a Hurricane," a much more thorough exploration of this vast expanse is indeed possible; I can promise you that.

Highlights:

CD1:

Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever" Great White - "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son" Quiet Riot - "Cum On Feel the Noise" Warrant - "Heaven" Judas Priest - "You've Got Another Thing Coming" Loverboy - "Lovin' Every Minute of It" Blue Öyster Cult - "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" Scandal - "The Warrior" Living Colour - "Cult of Personality" Mountain - "Mississippi Queen" Argent - "Hold Your Head Up"

CD2:

Foreigner - "Hot Blooded" Bad Company - "Feel Like Makin' Love" INXS - "Need You Tonight" Damn Yankees - "High Enough" Ratt - "Round and Round" Skid Row - "I Remember You" Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell" The Doobie Brothers - "China Grove" White Lion - "Wait" April Wine - "Just Between You and Me" Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It"

CD3:

Whitesnake - "Is This Love" Golden Earring - "Radar Love" Joe Walsh - "Rocky Mountain Way" Scorpions - "Rock You Like a Hurricane" The Allman Brothers Band - "Whipping Post" Uriah Heep - "Easy Livin'"

#hard rock #blues rock #rock #arena rock #hair metal #heavy metal #metal #progressive rock #prog rock #prog #pop metal #metal pop #pop rock #pop #classic rock #classic pop #music #60s #60s music #60's #60's music #70s #70s music #70's #70's music #80s #80s music #80's #80's music #90s

[cucamonga-springs]

Brain Activity Decoder Transforms Thoughts Into Text

From the Tin Foil Hattery Dept.

'Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a semantic decoder that converts brain activity into a continuous text stream, according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience. This non-invasive AI system relies on a transformer model and could potentially aid individuals unable to physically communicate due to conditions like strokes. Participants undergo training with the decoder by listening to hours of podcasts while in an fMRI scanner. The decoder then generates text from brain activity while the participant listens to or imagines a story...

'Unlike other language decoding systems in development, this system does not require subjects to have surgical implants, making the process noninvasive. Participants also do not need to use only words from a prescribed list. Brain activity is measured using an fMRI scanner after extensive training of the decoder, in which the individual listens to hours of podcasts in the scanner. Later, provided that the participant is open to having their thoughts decoded, their listening to a new story or imagining telling a story allows the machine to generate corresponding text from brain activity alone...

'The result is not a word-for-word transcript. Instead, researchers designed it to capture the gist of what is being said or thought, albeit imperfectly. About half the time, when the decoder has been trained to monitor a participant’s brain activity, the machine produces text that closely (and sometimes precisely) matches the intended meanings of the original words.'

Read more here.

#mind reading #artificial intelligence #tin foil hat #biohacking

[thesherlockexperiment]

Interesting Fact

The Director of TBB is named Euros Lyn...

#the fucky problem #tin foil hattery #tbb #euros #tjlc

[mikabee]

tinhatters be like

(i love u guys!!)

#i wish i had more time besides school to tinhat #sherlock #asib #tfhc #tjlc #tin foil hattery #tin hatting #original #video

[heimishtheidealhusband]

Okay so I'm reading the guardian article on Ian and Mark. (https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/feb/01/mark-gatiss-and-ian-hallard-sherlock-we-met-online-back-when-that-was-odd) (sorry, I'm on mobile) A few things: 1) they were considering titling the episode backlash? What? This implies that they knew the public would hate it. Their argument that they knew the public wouldn't like anything they did because Sherlock is popular and that's what happens to all popular things makes absolutely NO sense. Im sorry, but if this anecdote is true, it adds evidence to the show getting reichenbached. 2) Mark states that series 3 of League of Gentlemen was initially panned but is now seen as a masterpiece. As a LoG nerd, let me say: I wasn't around when s3 initially aired but I literally can't imagine it getting bad reviews? I loved it the first time I watched it and loved it more with each rewatch? Certainly there was no drop off in production quality or writing. And I did just a bit of digging and I don't see any evidence whatsoever that the series got the reviews that Sherlock is getting. Which leads me to: 3) Just gonna put this out there for the tin foil hat squad. The plot of s3 of LoG was that each episode appeared to be a stand alone, but when you get to the last episode you see that every episode's plot is actually intertwined via a car crash at the very end. So. That's a thing.

#tin foil hattery #of the utmost degree

[housmania]

A Study in Conspiracies

Fandom: Well, this has been VERY interesting. We look forward to complaining to the BBC.

Mofftiss: Just before you go, did you figure it out? Whether it's a real episode? Gay or trash? Genius or dumpster fire?

Fandom: ...

Mofftiss: Come on. Play the game.

Fandom: ...

Fandom: *sighs*

Fandom: *puts on tin foil hats* WE DIE LIKE CONSPIRATORS.

#sherlock #johnlock #tjlc #tfp #tin foil hattery #hope #soe

[fishfingersanddeanmons]

GUYS I FOUND SOMETHING

 I don’t know whether this has been done already but I haven’t seen anything on it so I decoded it myself. You know the solveme code on thelostspecial.com? The dancing men? 

It translates to this: “I see you stand like greyhounds in the slip-straining upon the start” Right, so I looked it up, and i found out it comes from that “once more unto the breach dear friends” speech at the end of Shakespeare’s Henry V, 1598.

It literally means “I see you anxious and ready to depart”. Back to this speech again? What does it all mean?? 

@inevitably-johnlocked

#sherlock #bbcsherlock #thelostspecial #solveme #tin foil hattery #acd canon #decoding #once more unto the breach

[conspiracybeardisawig-blog]

“Surprise. You didn’t think I’d just disappear, did you?”

This came on AFTER the behind the scenes footage AFTER what is known as the final episode! What’s the point, if not to hint at something to come?

#the conspiracy lives #sherlock #moriarty #tin foil hattery #s4 #tfp #the final problem #mofftiss #surprise #conspiracy #fourth episode

[sockenpuppe]

#sherlock #sherlock s4 #tin hatting #tin foil hattery #YES! #I KNEW this gif would come in handy some day #TFHC

[reticentral]

What would you do, then?” “Engage a special.

The Final Problem, Arthur Conan Doyle

#tin foil hattery #tjlc #the final problem #TFP #Sherlock #Engage a special #the lost special perhaps? #even if there is no extra episode planned #which I doubt #you can't deny that the stage is set Perfectly

[may-shepard]

If tfp is John's Mind Bungalow, and he's lying on the conveniently blood-coloured rug on the floor of Euros's office, then maybe he really is on the verge of death, and he has to pass through the purgatory of Mary's final voiceover to get to the heaven of the dream of the rest of his life spent with Sherlock and Rosie.

#sherlock s4 #extended mind bungalow #the final problem #tin foil hattery #ish

[heimishtheidealhusband]

It doesn't make sense because it's not real

Shout out to Moriarty for explaining s4 for us

#tin foil hattery #heimish shit posts

[laughitout2k17-blog]

WHY ITS A SECRET

as I was running around with my business today an incredibly unbelievable yet curious thought made its way into my burnt sad brain. so tptb are keeping a presumable ep 4 a secret?? why? I'm putting a lot of faith into moftiss here but listen. what if they want to do it for us? for the fans, but tjlc band and those who believe in Sherlock in particular? bc they know we will smell the fakeness and solve all their puzzles even if we're half dead sobbing rolling in tinfoil? so when it's out, we are the ones to find it because we're looking for it, and we'll be the one to spread the word and to partially take credit for resurrecting Sherlock. sound lovely but it's just my scarred imagination

#Sherlock #johnlock #tjlc #bbc Sherlock #tin foil hat #tin foil hattery #tinhatting #tfp #the final problem #meta

[housmania]

The url tin-foil-hat-club isn’t taken. SEIZE IT, PEOPLE.

#tin foil hattery #tfhc #tfp #soe

[withthekeyisking-blog]

it was Bollocks, a meta

They did something terrible to our community and I hope they apologize. Even if they try to make it up to us later this heartbreak can’t be undone. 

That said, I can’t just erase this feeling that it’s ALL wrong. So spectacularly bad, that I can’t even handle it.

My tin hat feels so comfortable. It’s hard to leave it. Even though I’ve been offline forever I still couldn’t stop. If for your own mental health you don’t want to hear any more theories, I respect your decision and please don’t read beyond this point.

So my actual meta theory is that

What we saw in The Final Problem was Bollocks

We were sent to Hell in The Final Problem.

We were sent to a place of dream logic and delusion.

We were given bollocks.

Isn’t it strange that Sherrinford reminded you of the labyrinth of Appledore? A secure hidden place where the world is actually controlled. 

But what do we find out about Appledore? It is all made up. It is just a place in someone’s mind palace. 

The Fucky Hell:

1. Moriarty (The Devil) is telling the story. 

2. Inside Sherrinford, the static isn’t like normal TV static. It is like a waterfall of rain.

3. Hudders, who is always right!, is talking about the beast. 666. 

4. “I Love You” is put on a coffin. Basically saying Love is Dead. 

5. Sherlock is calling Lestrade “Greg.”

6. The skull is still discolored.

7. The Patience Grenade.

8. Mycroft says he is doing a performance. The performance is of a woman who is a conservative.  

there’s so much more i just can’t let it go. 

I’m not sure who is interested/still wants meta. So I’m just tagging some people that I think are okay listening to tin foil hattery speculation. If you didn’t want to be tagged, I’m sorry.

@jenna221b

@heimishtheidealhusband

@ebaeschnbliah

#tin foil hattery #still #they were wrong #they shouldn't have made us wait like that. #I'm sorry if this is false hope #I'm still guarding my heart on this one #maybe it will just be part of our fix it theories #please don't read if it is still too painful #It was bollocks #meta