aesthelete

Where are those belts with the fake spikes on them?

I agree partially: banning AI generated code is a little nuts at this point.

BUT it isn't "just a tool". No mere tool requires tech companies to set up illegal energy plants. No mere tool requires the construction of data centers that consume more power than whole cities. No mere tool requires the acquisition and destruction of untold amounts of rare books. No mere tool requires trillions of dollars in funding without any proof that there will ever be an ROI. No mere tool requires a money furnace to operate. No mere tool requires constant, costly maintenance and development so it doesn't get out of date. No mere tool requires hundreds of billions of dollars of investment only to see little in terms of quantifiable improvement in the tool. No mere tool requires constant chirping about fictional possibilities of super human intelligence and singularities in order to stick around.

No hammer is built with the promise of replacing the carpenter. No pencil is built with the promise of replacing the architect.

AI is much more than a mere tool. It's a fucking cult of autocomplete enthusiasts.

Ed Zitron is going to have an aneurysm.

The worst part for me personally (and maybe nobody else) is I love the band the xx but wearing their merch these days makes it seem like I maybe support anything musk based.

Or if we had a functional federal government we could just make this practice completely illegal, and then pass privacy laws while we're at it.

"anonymized"

These bitches are ruining my career and wasting my life talking to themselves about how they know what the real issue is....but wait!

Man I miss the early days of the Internet with the bullshit hit counters that were completely inconsequential when wrong and anyone could game.

Now somehow cuz it's big business, those same bullshit hit counters can be used to move big mountains of money.

"feature"

Algorithmic music is incredible for discovery and that’s about it.

This may be true for most but was not for me. I was on streaming services for two years and discovered maybe five new bands. I went back to my old process of discovery (reading magazines, reading online reviews) and discover many more every year.

Algorithms tend to pump you full of similar sounding artists. I'd rather be challenged as a listener and grow than be stuck in a same sounding culdesac.

Bandcamp is good for this. You can stream stuff you bought on there for free through the app if you want to. I download my purchases and add them to my enormous library that I started in the late nineties.

Since a plane requires the most thrust at takeoff, you could use ground-based catapults to get the plane to takeoff speed (or faster even) and then you could carry smaller batteries and propelling machinery.

Don't you dare talk about catapulting using electric technologies in America though. Steam only! 🇺🇸🗽🦅🏈