Work day, so just saw the highlights and Jolyon's take on the "incident.."
Maybe Checo feels he had a right to the line (Leclerc's draft), but discretion may have been a more valorous choice....
Should we call in Jimmy Broadbent to judge this one?😁 #F1
Now, if you only thought it was hazardous on the road, there's charging to consider....
Any 'nauties in the NE DFW - I'm at Four Bullets Brewery in Richardson tonight, first strike of the 12 string at 6:30. Lots of original songs (with some not the usual covers) and craft beer in a "cozy" taproom! #livemusic
"The most important new thing I saw her do was prebunking. Pre-, not de-. Debunking is waiting for someone to lie and then hitting back with the truth....prebunking works better. Prebunking is explaining to people how they are being (or, better yet, will be) manipulated, what the motive is, how the con works, how the lie will be crafted and how it will function, and, for extra credit, who benefits from it and how."
-Anand Giridharadas
"Meanwhile, Spotify stopped paying out for songs by actual humans that get less than 1,000 plays, even though those songs still generate money for the company. This might not sound too crazy until you realize that that accounts for 2/3 of the content on the streaming service. That's a lot of money—that's now getting paid out to executives and, it seems, AI scammers."
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/09/actual-human-indicted-for-making-millions-off-of-ai-music.html
What the pro-#gun people don't seem to understand is that none of us opposed to gun violence are especially interested in the guns per se; we don't fetishize them, even in a negative way, the way they do. Our problem is the violence, the wounds, the death, the lasting psychological scars.
If there were a way to end that violence and let people have their guns for sport or a masculinity crutch or whatever, we'd be fine with it. But they've had decades to apply their supposed solutions–+
Hey, 'nauts, it's #BandcampFriday - many of your friends 'round here have music available for download and/or on CD, and one purchase will net them more than streaming a song every day for a year! -- So check out your favorite(s) and help them make the next one!
theislen.bandcamp.com
Won't shut up and sing, play, write, teach.