Rick Pecoraro

How do you feel about the “state of the airport”

Will wait for “Dog In The Sand” 30th.

A photo of a dog sitting on a deck while it is snowing.

Good morning ❄️

These machines are amazing if you want every soda to have traces of lime and vanilla.

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“AI is amazing”

Update: Meta spokesperson Liz Sweeney confirmed to me that the bots are old, from 2023, part of an "early experiment." They're taking them down to address the issue of users not being able to block them. Full update in the story below:

If we all sneak out the back and start blogs maybe the closed internet can turn into a fenced-off AI content society that just repeatedly feeds into itself while the rest of us are out enjoying humanity amidst the open protocols.

The podcast equivalent of Jay Thomas telling the Lone Ranger story on Letterman (this is a high compliment).

Every podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food

From IN THE LOOP: "It's difficult difficult...lemon difficult"
youtu.be/7mAFiPVs3tM?...

Maybe Jarmusch can ride this sudden wave of popularity to “Patterson 2”

For more than a year, I devoted myself to answering these questions. I spoke with former employees, reviewed internal Spotify records and company Slack messages, and interviewed and corresponded with numerous musicians. What I uncovered was an elaborate internal program. Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, provide Spotify with “music we benefited from financially,” but also a team of employees working to seed these tracks on playlists across the platform. In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the percentage of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform. The program’s name: Perfect Fit Content (PFC). The PFC program raises troubling prospects for working musicians. Some face the possibility of losing out on crucial income by having their tracks passed over for playlist placement or replaced in favor of PFC; others, who record PFC music themselves, must often give up control of certain royalty rights that, if a track becomes popular, could be highly lucrative. But it also raises worrying questions for all of us who listen to music. It puts forth an image of a future in which—as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely.

Outstanding investigation from @lizpelly.bsky.social into how Spotify is relentlessly replacing artist-driven music on its most popular playlists with anonymous Muzak harpers.org/archive/2025...

Cc @kelslewin.bsky.social 👍

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Consider….

Dude, what if the Switch 2 is just like the Switch but, y’know, a little better in some fun ways?

A category from Netflix called “Retro TV” which shows “How I Met Your Mother”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, and “Lost”

I am quite old, it seems.

Finally dove in - so much to read!

I’m in!

sorry to give you hope for the future but 2025 will be the first time since 1996 that new Mission: Impossible and Paul Thomas Anderson films are both released in the same year.

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As someone who had a kid at an MNPS school that had been decimated by the flight of (able) kids to a nearby charter, it seems like 5 measly protest votes is not a big deal.

Why?

good morning
Unfortunately I have a cold.
I hope you all take care.

Same!

My understanding is no, it’s just a show of appreciation.