journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
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journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
There’s a lesson to be learned here.
That lesson is: FUCK THE USE OF AI TO SUPPLANT THE ARTS, and anyone who attempts to use it to replace human creativity should be mocked and ridiculed to the degree that no one would dare attempt to follow in their footsteps 🖤☠️
Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
We can only hope
In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
Haggis Pakora
Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan
is ChatGPT rotting your brain? get that to quit by trying this one weird trick!
stop fucking using it
“Calculus” didn’t exist in [year I was 6 years old]. This demented concept is from [year I was a junior and flunked out of pre-calc]
Reshare this post to scare the crap out of snoop dogg
Butterfly discovery meme but is the consequences of capitalism
it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"
Did I offend you? Try seeing things from my perspective. Narrow-minded, misinformed, frightened.
Yes if we lived in a different world then who cares about some new computer thing, but we live in a world where like 5 companies are doing everything they can every day to fuck us constantly and they are the ones pushing the "we're going to fuck you" machine most enthusiastically. No thanks!
#FirstNameInSong (7)
Jenny Jenny - The Sonics
#MusicChallenge 🎵
ChatGPT using a bespoke font in their generated nonsense - easier to reject lazily prompted punk flyers hallucinated three days before the gig itself
timothy_thelen 7h Follow Them - You can't throw sandwiches at ICE Agents. Grabs a hot dog. "I guess we'll finally answer the old question."
Experimental philosophy
a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
The new single from Holly Golightly is brilliant, can't wait to hear the whole album
youtu.be/raspj-uKKZw?...
Several artists, including King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof, and Xiu Xiu, are pulling their music from Spotify in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI-powered military tech firm.
Another Band Drops from 'Punk In The Park' Over Owner’s Ties to Donald Trump
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Yesterday, someone in my office told his manager he asked ChatGPT about a scientific thing, and her immediate response was "Jesus fucking christ" and I just started laughing.
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
Has there been a legal case yet to set legal precedent about whether companies are responsible for when their LLMs hallucinate dangerous lies yet? I would 100% sue if I were these guys
a cunt in 1970, a cunt in 2025.
It is with a heavy heart that we regret to inform that Douglas McCarthy passed away this morning of June 11th, 2025. We ask everyone to please be respectful of Douglas, his wife, and family in this difficult time. We appreciate your understanding and will share more information soon.
Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.
