I only buy music from Bandcamp, as well as some bigger releases from Qobuz.

Spotify is simply awful, and I’m not very happy with Apple Music either which feels almost like abandonware. Time to go back to having a real music library I own, which I’ve been building up incrementally for a year now.

Good on Bandcamp! This is absolutely the right stance. 👏

Pedo president’s pedo military. Cool.

Maybe the entire database should be downloaded into the browser. Then it’ll go really, really fast!

I love CityNerd and it’s a great video as always…but how is related to AI? 🤔

That answer was wrong. So therefore, that answer was correct. No. Yes. Maybe.

I’m in, not all, but some of those camps. I think there’s a lot of merit to this breakdown. I also think the people who are all too eager to lump a whole disparate bunch of people together and call them essentially dumb and out-of-touch (*cough* Casey Newton *cough*) truly suck.

Company which kills teenagers and vulnerable people via psychosis wants you to give them all your medical information. Make it make sense!

I’ve been using Fastmail for many years now. It’s been rock solid. No complaints.

Yeet this shit right into the sun.

Glad to see this sort of information out there.

Nitpick: I don’t like their usage of the term NIMBY to describe opposition to these sorts of projects. A giant-ass McMansion homeowner objecting to ADUs or apartments nearby is not at all the same as a community objecting to fucking gas turbines being installed and polluting their atmosphere all while electricity and water usage goes through the roof.

But there have been so many people out there claiming that ATProto really is a form of decentralized social media. All I’m saying is, OK. Let’s see it! C’mon! Do it! I’ll happily join the first truly decentralized public ATProto platform with no reliance on bsky infra or policies.

And yet hype cycles are real and many of them have bellyflopped. Microslop is similarly in real danger of shooting themselves in the foot with this terrible rebranding.

Two things come to mind:

a) Fedi really needs to grow beyond “Twitter clone for nerds”…most of the infra is already good, it’s more of a marketing problem now.

b) if ATProto doesn’t meaningfully evolve beyond Bluesky this year, it’s cooked at any hope of being convincingly decentralized. Time to put up or, well, y’know.

My money is on (a) being much more likely than (b), but we’ll see.

…and your point is?

I’m willing to believe that’s possible, but what are your sources for this? I don’t see any link to any research data.

I harbor nothing but ill will against all the people who have been trying to greenwash the horrible practices of Big Tech/Big AI. They are complicit in this environmentally harmful land grab.

It’s not shocking he would make such dumb statements, but it is rather shocking that the “quality” of the writing here is so incredibly poor. I mean, my expectations of CEO thought pieces are pretty low, but this doesn’t even meet that low bar. 😂

I’m in this meme, and I don’t like it. 😄

Who knew that “simulating” human conversations based on extruded text strings that have no basis in grounded reality or fact could send people into spirals of delusion?

I completely agree with this take. GenAI is a project based on eugenics and colonialism, designed to appropriate culture and extract wealth. The poor will of course be most disproportionally fucked by this gross system. The rich can essentially pay to avoid it entirely.