Apple really needs to up the game! Why just foldable? That’s so Samsung. How about rollable? Come on. iPhone Fold to be joined by foldable iPad
Did anyone else read this article published by The New Yorker about Spotify? I only got on the platform last year, so I don’t know how shitty it has become. Why I Finally Quit Spotify 🎵
Tremendous work of literature! I can’t recommend it enough. It is devastating and complicated, both a dialogue with Mark Twain and a response. James by Percival Everett 📚
@manton any chance you can help me with my domain settings? I posted on the forum and sent emails to support. Thanks!
Very much enjoying the Drowned in Sound newsletter and its take on music & algorithms, channeling the frustrations with how music is found (and not found) with the rise of bots:
With those pesky gatekeepers like music critics and radio hosts slain¹, we now must make offerings to our robot overlords. Forget blood rituals, they want your soul, sweat and tears (and cash), to decide whether they agree that what you have created resonates with their data-points.
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Sixty days until Claudia Scheinbaum is inaugurated as Mexico’s first female president. Here’s an interesting analysis of her rise to power along with the “hegemonic” Morena party. www.csis.org/analysis/…
I wrote about the last album by the Mexican band Caifanes for Grammy.com - Revisiting “El Nervio del Volcán” 🎵
@UndamnedOne Beautiful album! I forgot about it.
The Washington Post shows why so many Americans are feeling an economic crunch: Housing costs are out of control.
I do not want an AI iPhone. Apple Intellgence sounds like a privacy nightmare. There’s no guarantee that they will do no evil with the data being sent to their services. OpenAI is a malicious company. More from Disconnect
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angularmusic.comWhat would a federated news organization look like? What benefits could ther be?
angularmusic.com@moonmehta congrats! Great stuff
🎵 Didn’t like Mengers when I first heard them (maybe I wasn’t in the mood at the time), but now I’m addicted to their album “Golly”:
@goblingumbo Critics say this is their landmark album, but I agree that Mezanine is the better one. Have you listened to the podcast One Good Song? Interesting breakdown of "Teardrop" and history: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...
I read that the fediverse will save us from Big Tech. But for godsakes, how many tutorials do I have to read to understand it? What the hell? I am also wary of anything that the Instagram head honcho has embraced.
Great conversation on 🎙️Search Engine: Are news orgs ready for what is expected to be a web traffic catastrophe?
@manton I am not convinced this was coincidental. And I think that OpenAI planted the story in WaPo (as someone who works in PR and was a former journalist) as a first step to change the narrative because of the high legal risk. "Documents shared by OpenAI"? Not a coincidence. This is crisis communications at work.
@manton I'm moving the goal posts? LOL. Point taken, though. But it does seem odd that he would go asking her to use her voice when they already had a voice that sounded like her. Why?
@manton This new twist only shows that OpenAI was hiring voice actors back in May 2023. While the company may not have explicitly requested a voice that sounded like ScarJo, it does not say anything about whether Altman weighed in on the selection to ensure that the outcome was Her-like.
@manton I think the reason the ScarJo voice situation is so unsettling is that we already know that OpenAI hoovered vast amounts of artistic works on the open web without giving credit or remuneration. I think we are all right to be skeptical of the company at this point.
thelookingglass.newsDelicious! First taco stand ever to receive a Michelin star is based in Mexico City. The chef says their secret is “simplicity.” The Associated Press
Despite illness, Echo & The Bunnymen put on a fantastic show in DC 🎵
There are so many good lines in this Platformer story, but this one makes it clear how Google is on the verge of fully capturing the web through AI. Google’s broken link to the web
Over the past two and a half decades, Google extended itself into so many different parts of the web that it became synonymous with it. And now that LLMs promise to let users understand all that the web contains in real time, Google at last has what it needs to finish the job: replacing the web, in so many of the ways that matter, with itself.
I took a collage workshop. Here is what happened. Any other collage fans out there? 🎨
A highlight for me at the Independent fair in NYC: Sculptures by Anna Tsouhlarakis
@jonah Ugh. Subscriptions. Everyone wants to charge for one. Thanks for this!
@jonah Good to know! Thanks. Punkt is coming out with a new smartphone, with more features, so maybe I'll wait for that.
@marmanold @jonah I would love to know how the Light phone stacks up to other minimal options out there, like Punkt. One review of the Light said it had too few options.