“Standing in this moment, with platforms that exercise outsized control over our information ecosystem going nowhere, we need to weigh our choices and define what we’re actually fighting for. The right is fighting to take control of these platforms, while liberals and some on the left are fighting to expand vectors of platform control, without thinking hard enough about who will wield this power and who is likely to get hurt.” https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

after all these years, i still dont know what an ultrafilter is

If you want to think about the impact of AI on art (or some other specific art form) you should really also think about: what will the implications of AI be for dance and dancing?

My software company rankings in order of evil w/ power (what's yours?):
1. PayPal Mafia (Thiel, Karp, Sacks) / Musk & X
2. Microsoft (/OpenAI)
3. Amazon
4. META
5. Oracle
6. Apple
7. All of Chinese big tech? i'm ignorant
8. Google
9. The European IT industry?
10. Salesforce

I don’t think parody is nearly as negative a mode as people here tend to assume. There’s so many things I learned first as parody then as truths.

I think sometimes about how I started listening to music. I found albums online first through Pandora recommendations, then through reviews (Metacritic, Pitchfork). And I’d listen to them by taking them out from the local public library or sometimes I’d get to buy a few on iTunes