Movie soundtracks connected me with so much music. It was a great workaround for a kid with parents who were relatively censorious. My absolute favorite Nas song of all time is wedged in the middle of the Men in Black OST. I got into big beat music because of Lost in Space (1997).

I was hoping this joke would take off of you because it’s really good and I’m sorry.

Not at all! It’s just the scope of the problem is huge and every tier you ascend upward to see it all makes it all the more horrifying. My healthcare provider is asking for data that has me sweating bullets on the promise of a slightly lower rate.

Yeah, it’s one thing to be worried about the lofi hip hop producers getting all but replaced by LLMs, but you’ve highlighted the especially scary part.

You’re right, and I do too! I’m way less worried about being more effectively marketed to than how the data companies like Spotify collects is going to further impact the arts and artists going forward.

Remember when: we used to believe that music was a sacred place; not some fucking bank machine. Not something you just bought and sold. How could we have been so naive? I think when all is said and done, just cause we were young, it don’t mean we were wrong.

I could finish YuYu Hakusho before Jeff Bezos.

I don’t even think I like One Piece, but I could finish One Piece before Elon Musk could.

The first time I learn that Peter Thiel exists, I see David Brin just do his absolute best to avoid him.

Nothing could have been better for my early development as a communist than realizing that trying to earnest engage these yahoos (at best) and shit heels (at worst)(Peter Thiel) would either turn me into a principled revolutionary or the fucking Joker.

I convinced my local community college to send me to Singularity Summit and this as I just getting myself radicalized. Kurzweil is sitting front and center, surrounded by sycophants, & they gave him a microphone, so he could talk whenever he wanted; but all he had to say is that “that sounds hard.”