@AlphaCentauri I'm sure the reality will be parceling out selected prooftexts, but it would be poetic justice if they just handed out the full chunk (NIV, no doubt) and V's scenario came to pass...

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Late Guitar Nerdery moment:
Boss MO-2 + JHS Harmonic Tremolo gives a right fair approximation of the sound of Black Hole Sun (add a Rat for the chorus). (For those of us without room or budget for a Leslie....)
Good night!!

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@mcfate Tell NPR...

@DavidSalo I am hearing this in Firesign Theater voices..."Sheriff Axehandle here with an update..."

Okay, so after a deep breath or two, it feels like part of the hair on fire reaction to the debate is due to the ridiculous amount of screaming buildup. If for two weeks prior we can't escape the hype over the thing, an overreaction is inevitable. Now, mighty efforts will have to be applied to shift the focus back where it should be.

@Bix ...well, to be that Old Poot -- I gotta believe an intentional gutting of "civics" is having its desired effect. Having witnessed what my kids, and then grandkids, weren't or aren't taught about government vs when I was kid and had to pass a constitution test to get out of 8th grade in a State (Az) where it would be a safe bet that none of the current GOP electeds would have gotten through...

For your morning coffee -
into the fray, 'nauts!
https://youtu.be/5Sl1mQB9HR4

Tiny fragment of rant to come: Spotify expects creators to monitor playlists and report suspicious activity. That should not be the artists' job any more than it was Elvis' job to investigate payola.

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@tgraph52 @ACID_CASUALTY Gioia's a good follow...whereas I can't really take Lefsetz anymore, he's too enraptured with the business moguls and the business itself vs. the music

@tgraph52 @ACID_CASUALTY Saw that, now he's doing a set on what's gone wrong -- some of the implication so far is that the "lower bar of entry" is partially at fault...which is, to me, a little bit industry oriented in a way... To my mind, a society of music makers is healthier than a society of music consumers, and there's still room for professionals in such a world (see: music before the recording industry). What I see is the industry trying to take music making back away from the people.

@ACID_CASUALTY Oh, it's more shady than that. Spotify et. al. use existing music to train the AI, then use their algorithms and in-house playlists to funnel listeners to their own stuff, keeping all the money.
And, the new monetization policy means they don't pay on 80% of the human generated content on the platform, keeping that money at well. Finally, Spotify uses "questionable playlist activity" to boot you off, even if you've never submitted to, much less paid for, a playlist.

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@ACID_CASUALTY Not that I trust the labels (and their handmaiden Ek), either, but at least a good use of their $$.

(I suspect they're ramping up their own AIs...)

@tgraph52 Chip is one of those who tries to siphon off votes by also trolling fellow Repugnicans, thereby pretending to have thoughts. Basically hates everybody, with a nice gerrymandered district to fit the attitude.

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