Mastodawn

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?

Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢19h ago

mariafarrell 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.

It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.

I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.

Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .

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Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢2d ago

@kyleford My colleague saw him on a train at the Winter Olympics, too. When do I get to meet Mr. Goldblum!?

Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢3d ago

David B.

3d ago

Apparently, the Metaverse is this close to being shut down...

So, to celebrate, this link from four years ago by McKinsey:

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/value-creation-in-the-metaverse

#Metaverse #McKinsey

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Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢5d ago

@Richr Thanks again, this wouldn’t have happened without you ❤️

Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢5d ago

Tonight I got to meet one of my design heroes, Margaret Calvert. Her work speaks for itself, which makes her modesty even more impressive. When I told her I use her typeface every day, she simply responded “oh dear, poor you”. Legend.

Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢Mar 13

sam henri gold Mar 12

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢Mar 12

Sun-kissed evenings in Porto never fail to impress.

Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢Mar 5

This is a low.

Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢Mar 5

Kevin Beaumont Mar 5

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