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New book: "What Republicans Know"
https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/what-republicans-know
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Pam Bondi’s DOJ abandoned 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration
Even investigations into fraud and abuse were dropped https://plus.flux.community/p/pam-bondis-doj-abandoned-23000-criminal
Repealing women's right to vote is a very serious agenda item for the Christian far right. Glad to see the New York Times reporting this out.
Most non-reactionaries do not understand how extreme the Christian right is.
Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean?
Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives
https://plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalton-isnt-real-but-what-does
Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116332497422486698
This essay is getting insane Google traffic. It's easy to say that someone used a botnet to flood YouTube or iTunes, but also flooding Google search to direct traffic to an unrelated website? That seems to strain credulity.
I think this is another Xania Monet scenario here. A lot of people like AI content, it seems like. (At least the creator of Xania Monet had the decency to disclose that her character was AI-generated.)
Trump's highly unpopular Iran war is finally loosening the self censorship about him that has been so pervasive in Republican media.
Talk like this would've been absolute heresy just a few months ago. https://www.rawstory.com/maga-trump-tv-address-iran/
Pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host Gina Loudon revealed that she was underwhelmed by President Donald Trump's Wednesday night address to the nation about the war in Iran.During a Thursday morning segment, Loudon reflected on the speech with co-hosts David Brody and Terrence Bates."He basically said ...
@mattsheffield 97% of people just don’t give a shit about music. as someone who cares deeply, I know for a fact that most people don’t pay attention to music at all. That’s why pop is the way it is, and that’s why AI music has even the tinyest foothold.
Those few who are actually buying albums, listening on streaming platforms regularly, etc. absolutely do notice.
All of this raises lots of questions, where does art live, and do people even agree on that?
It seems that many people value art for how it makes them feel, while the history and the struggle of the artist are what attracts others.
Should only beautiful people be allowed to make music?
Must history, conception, technique, execution, and performance all be conjoined? What is art for? Are the feelings we derive from it any less real depending on its circumstances?
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Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives
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