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Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, and Believe to Partner With Spotify to Develop Artist-First AI Music Products — Spotify AI technology is advancing quickly, bringing both new creative possibilities and challenges for the music industry. It’s critical for the music industry to join forces and act together to protect crea...

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There it is yall, the inevitable conclusion of Perfect Fit Content and Leanback Listening. The platform no longer requires you musician peasant. An in-house slop factory for every medical office waiting room and yoga studio catered to your every passive need.

Goldenrod with a cloudy mountain in the background

Monarch butterfly on goldenrod

Red berries and fall leaves

moss with texture

fall is coming in hot at graveyard fields

Picture of maybe a green heron with its neck extended

just picked up a fujifilm 70-300m and am simply chuffed with the results

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Colonel Panic Repurposes the OUI-SPY to Watch the Watchers, Track Flock and Similar Surveillance Following the use of Flock Safety surveillance data in immigration raids, the OUI-SPY has a new firmware.

Flock You "turns a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)- and Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller into a detector for active Flock and similar surveillance systems in the area—allowing those who object to the company's activities to stay informed of exactly where they're deployed."

The massive praise for the Pixel 10 line is so disappointing. Google locks down the phone, the OS, and is now trying to kill sideloading, and they get nothing but praise from the mainline press.

How are these companies ever going to change if the loudest critics never challenge their bullshit?

Nazi Germany in fact relaxed and eventually overturned vaccine requirements that had been in place prior to the rise of Hitler, so there's that

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

Tom Nichols: American Imbecile

westwood corner is open for you !
plants, art, and local snark ;)
2-6pm friday
12-5pm saturday + sunday
every week ! xx

Just a polite reminder that we owe the concept of zombies to voodoun/Haitian cultures as an externalization of the fear of being compelled to labor beyond what was supposed to be the Absolute Freedom of death.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

This is a must read about Democratic Party grift open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Catharsis: "Hope against Hope" North Carolina's premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, "Hope Against Hope."

It's been years since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Taking up arms against a wave of authoritarianism and despair, North Carolina’s premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, “Hope Against Hope.”

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Opt Out

To accompany my recommendation against all Amazon Ring cameras, I put together a one-sheet template on how to talk with your neighbor, friend, or community member about getting rid of their Ring device, too.

You can download, print, and share it at keepbeyond.com/optout

Xiu Xiu and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have both removed their music from Spotify to protest Daniel Ek’s investment and involvement in AI military technology. Musicians don’t want our art funding the war machine! Daniel Ek, do you see the trend?

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

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Someone posted a video of a husband and wife shopping for interior decor. They wrote: "when will people finally acknowledge the epidemic of men marrying women and being turned gay." Matt Walsh retweeted them and added: "Dudes like this were already gay. I’ve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. It’s now hanging above a fireplace in our home." I screenshot Walsh's comment and added: "For a while, it was believed that women and gay men are born with a natural sense for aesthetics. In reality, straight men, particularly American male Protestants, have simply barred themselves from taking an interest in aesthetics bc they think this makes them noble." Finally, someone retweeted me and added: "Why does anyone listen to what this idiot has to say about aesthetics?" They attached a photo of Edward Hopper's 1942 painting "Nighthawks."

Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture.

But let me elaborate. 🧵

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

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"Men whose triggers pull their fingers. Men who would rather fight than win."

40-50 sungold tomatoes in a basket

First (of many) sungold tomato hauls 🍅🍅🍅🍅

ZAMPLER #25 - You Got A Dave Problem There, by Zegema Beach Records 35 track album

hot new screamo sampler dropped today courtesy of Zegema Beach Records & a certain band on it has a new album coming out later this summer (if u catch my drift)

check song 2 :⁠-⁠)

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re-posting this as a reminder that what happened in NYC this week was because people got off their phones and out of their bubbles. you can't build movements by staring at a glowing rectangle 8 hours a day - meet your neighbors, directly address each others' needs, and commit to doing the work.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales In Unearthed 2005 Interview

HBD to Octavia Butler. Theres not another artist thats given me more confidence to go hard making work about climate/colonialism. I cant believe the cemetery shes buried in burned during the LA wildfires…we’re at another moment in the US where we’re “building more prisons than schools & libraries”.❤️‍🔥

Nothing restores the ol' life force than randomly clicking on random Bandcamp album covers and stumbling into actual, real-life magic. The world is endless and talent is endless.

Truly not surprised to see "folk punk" in their handle 🙃