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Bandcamp Bans AI Music AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the AI-generated psych-rock band the Velvet Sundown and the AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue racking up streams on Spotify? R...

Bandcamp has banned AI music.

The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."

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YouTube video by Hildegard von Blingin' Manchild - Sabrina Carpenter (Bardcore | Medieval Cover) Whitney Avalon & Hildegard von Blingin’

Dovetailing from my love of webcomics, this is what I love about YouTube. Just the fun and wit of taking a catchy pop song and getting it full of history.

youtu.be/skXyvLQif5g

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

So in the wake of the Epstein revelations, @wired.com posts an article about how it’s actually gay men running the tech industry on private sex islands. Except unlike the Epstein files, the writer couldn’t provide real evidence.

Way to look like you’re running interference for a pedo ring.

Stuff like this is why I love webcomics.

It's just deeply frustrating how willing so many politicians will lie to the faces of their supporters. I'm so tired of yelling at my officials.

Still a fun song and even more awesome video. Made me always wish there was a more long form version of it.

Apparently Adobe popped to Bluesky like a flower in Spring.
And then ended like that.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

Wait did a studio/creator do this after your recent video? Wonder if they are playing for all publicity is good publicity. 😬

Outside of redistricting efforts (which several other states where Dems have control are doing, he doesn't get to take credit there) all he's done is run a PR campaign. While also hosting right wing chuds on his podcast and backtracking on every stance they whine at him about.

don't put this evil out in the world or it will manifest

Gotta love watching a transit creator double down on his BetterHelp sponsorship when concerns are raised about the company by telling people to stay on the video topic in the comments.

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Oh man, really love that my insurance forced me over to Amazon Pharmacy who keeps delaying delivery of one of my medications. Totally not a really important thing!

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

You can do your own here!

tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

Stylized map of the US showing places the person has lived, stayed, visited, stopped, passed through, wants to visit and has never visited. These are assigned a point value, with the image creator's humorously achieving a score of 69.

I managed the funny number. Also I'm not against the places in white, but don't have as much reason to visit them. Most of where I've gone is from its ability to get there by train, bus, or car within a day.

Gotta say, a guy being flirtatious in my DMs and being a railfan was great until he became extremely doom focused about pretty much anything being built right now. Like I get that shit sucks atm, but it felt like the conversation turned into a Not Just Bikes video about North America.

I've watched multiple artists reboot their own stuff over the years. Or shift the direction of it. Hell David Willis has essentially rebooted his comic universe 3 times now to great success. There's nothing wrong with taking another shot at something with new tools and ideas for it.

There is a brief nudity moment in the game, so probably why.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”

Here’s to 2026

Oh, I had one of those! Except instead of being about how Elvis was a groomer, it was every time I posted that ULINE was literally run by theocracy-craving disinfo-peddling fascists and we should all stop using their services.

Think I'll post this link again! He hates it.

refuseuline.com

Gotta love UPS making their poor drivers shake people down to pay Trump's stupid tariffs with cash or check only. Poor dude was just as annoyed as I was that I didn't have either to give him and now they have to come tomorrow instead.

Reagan wouldn't know anything about good or decent, and elevated some of this nation's worst people into politics. If you somehow end up the nominee in 2028, we're absolutely fucked.

Kinda love that as always, Patreon was forced to backtrack on their stupid decisions to try and pull our eyes away from the creators we actually support. Your memberships are no longer crammed at the top anymore as a minor thing to click away to. So yay for listening?