I spoke with the CEO and co-founder of soundscape generation app Endel — you’ve probably seen it featured in the App Store — about their new ambient label Sources, Brian Eno, functional audio, and giving birth.
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“It’s supposed to hurt. That’s why we do it six times!”
Love my ballet instructor 😂
Tbh, I like winter because it’s easier to see the birds in the trees and it’s more quiet outside :)
😅 I’m bracing myself.
Hi Bluesky, from Grunewald forest, Berlin. I present to you, a blue sky. With birds to listen to.
Alright. 500 days done.
Time to let this app go. Music learning has been fun with Duolingo, but after a few months, I’ve started to plateau.
What better song to end it with than The Final Countdown?
Sometimes it’s good to be reminded of music’s uses beyond the boundaries of the industry. And how not all is black-and-white when it comes to AI-generated music.
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“Networks compress time and space, then quietly train us to live at their speed.”
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"Both Google and Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months."
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A decade before 'Moltbook', there was SubredditSimulator.
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Meta's Secret Weapon in the AI Race? All Your Personal Data
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People who have stopped using Google as their search engine: which do you use now and how happy are you with search results generally?
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Are EU leaders actually so naive as to believe that a greater European military presence in Greenland might appease Trump?
It's not about normal geopolitical interests: Trump cares foremost about the billionaires who want the territory's resources.
The US's defensive position is an excuse.
This Saturday morning, I woke up early and finally snapped.
I ditched Gmail for @proton.me... and boy, would I have made the switch earlier if I had known it would only take me minutes.
(I'd seen the advertising claims. I was sceptical. I was wrong.)
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Be aware of what you share. Assume that what you disclose may leak. That can be tomorrow, or that can be in 20 years. Keep in mind that even things you type, but don’t end up sharing, may be logged. Be aware of what you click. Everything you do in the app is tracked, including which links you choose to open, e.g. if you’re doing research. Avoid sharing information that could be used against you or others, should it become public. Respect your friends’ privacy. Don’t put their addresses, full names, or other personal info into ChatGPT. Use nicknames to create more ambiguity. Regularly clean ChatGPT’s memory feature. Does it really need to remember that you went on a holiday to Italy in 2023 with your ex-partner? Use the temporary chats feature. OpenAI claims these chats won’t be used to train their models, are deleted from OpenAI’s servers after 30 days, and don't show up in your history or memory (source). Stop OpenAI from using your data for training. You can opt out by using ChatGPT’s data controls. Imagine your private challenges from your Italian holiday somehow making their way into someone’s replies years down the line? If using third-party apps with ChatGPT, be cautious. This is a Cambridge Analytica scandal waiting to happen all over again. Keep yourself informed about potential risks. I highly recommend listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast to better understand why your data is valuable to actors with bad intentions, even if you think you have nothing to hide.
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This is your reminder to periodically delete all your data on AI platforms, because you can not know whose hands your chats will fall into.
My recommendation is to completely delete your account, and, if in EU, to submit a specific GDPR data deletion request.
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There seems to be some confusion over record labels’ suing AI companies, only to turn around and partner with them.
The lawsuits are part of the negotiation strategy.
It’s a very common strategy in IP-heavy industries.
(See also: UMG vs TikTok)
“participants were asked to listen to three tracks and determine whether or not they were fully AI-generated – 97% of the respondents failed”
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How you hear these two tones might depend on if you grew up in California or the United Kingdom. Noam Hassenfeld, host of the Unexplainable podcast, talks to researcher Diana Deutsch about why people from different countries hear tritones differently.
(podcaster wedding vows) My fiance, soon-husband, works at Anthropic
“Enjoy the futuristic capabilities of these browsers by all means, but remember that even Opera's 10% success rate with one particular prompt injection attack means that you need to be lucky every time, while an attacker only needs to get lucky once.”
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Innovation at major labels often looks like:
1 Startup has new tech they want to apply.
2 Get shown the door at the label.
3 Investors and founders take risk, develop tech, and launch without proper licenses.
4 Label sues.
5 Startup and label settle with licensing deal.
Major label: INNOVATION!
2025 and German media still call female DJs “DJane”. 🤦♂️
I wrote about AI + why artists need ownership (incl. governance) or they’re up shit creek!
A simple but important argument! And I messed w/ David Harvey’s “Paths of Capital Accumulation” diagram to make it 🤓FUN!
+ a Neil Young song 🧛🔵🏖️!
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When I was still on TikTok I noticed another phenomenon: clips of parties in the 00s with embittered comments about how “we” millennials did it so much better than the younger generation.
My generation is turning into what we disliked about online boomers.
