A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Nick Gillespie recalls a "devastating" 2009 critique of Cesar Chavez at @[email protected]'s old Left Business Observer, as well as a 1997 Reason cover story on the UFW's finances.

Cesar Chavez's other crimes