Comment Re: No speculation at all? (Score 1) 27
> retrospective punishment
Hahahah, remember being covered with fire ants and honey? Good times!
Man, I miss being broken on the rack. Now it feels like I'm always stiff in the morning.
Comment Thoughtful Analogy (Score 1) 123
This smacks of having sex, getting to the point of climax, then your partner throws up a photo of your parents doing something wholesome while asking, "Have you called them? They miss you."
Submission + - Spotify's Ghost Artists (harpers.org)
heptapod writes: Rather than paying royalties, Spotify allegedly uses stock music companies to create their own filler music for playlists.
"Linus Larsson, showed me the Spotify page of an artist called Ekfat. Since 2019, a handful of tracks had been released under this moniker, mostly via the stock-music company Firefly Entertainment, and appeared on official Spotify playlists like âoeLo-Fi Houseâ and âoeChill Instrumental Beats.â One of the tracks had more than three million streams; at the time of this writing, the number has surpassed four million. Larsson was amused by the elaborate artist bio, which he read aloud. It described Ekfat as a classically trained Icelandic beat maker who graduated from the âoeReykjavik music conservatory,â joined the âoelegendary Smekkleysa Lo-Fi Rockers crewâ in 2017, and released music only on limited-edition cassettes until 2019. âoeCompletely made up,â Larsson said. âoeThis is probably the most absurd example, because they really tried to make him into the coolest music producer that you can find.â
The Ghost In The Machine
"Linus Larsson, showed me the Spotify page of an artist called Ekfat. Since 2019, a handful of tracks had been released under this moniker, mostly via the stock-music company Firefly Entertainment, and appeared on official Spotify playlists like âoeLo-Fi Houseâ and âoeChill Instrumental Beats.â One of the tracks had more than three million streams; at the time of this writing, the number has surpassed four million. Larsson was amused by the elaborate artist bio, which he read aloud. It described Ekfat as a classically trained Icelandic beat maker who graduated from the âoeReykjavik music conservatory,â joined the âoelegendary Smekkleysa Lo-Fi Rockers crewâ in 2017, and released music only on limited-edition cassettes until 2019. âoeCompletely made up,â Larsson said. âoeThis is probably the most absurd example, because they really tried to make him into the coolest music producer that you can find.â
The Ghost In The Machine
Comment Stick to food (Score 2) 121
Didn't McDonald's say dabbling with AI order taking was a mistake and they're putting the kibosh on that?
They did!
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbu...
These companies are selling food. Crap essentially. Their margins are fatter than their regulars. No one ever said, "I want AI orders" nor "Giant touchscreens for orders". Those profits getting pissed away on flash-in-the-pan tech and AI could've been dividends or repurposed for delivering better food without jacking prices too badly.
Instead it's dumb widgets for crapburgers that ultimately cost more than Five Guys or sit-down joints because some MBA's innovation is a red herring.
Comment ooh bill gates (Score 0) 206
I don't trust Bill Gates. He's a billionaire. He's protecting his income with charity. He diddled kids with Jeffrey Epstein. No other reason why Melinda left him so quickly.
Moreso when a billionaire invests in fake butter and says it's like the real thing smacks of, "Oh our fake carbon and hydrogen butter is for the proles. Us oligarchs will continue eating the real thing."
There is only one thing to do: Eat the rich. Redistribute their money. Reinvest in regular American citizens than pissing money into billionaire hoarders.
Comment Mindblowing (Score 1) 86
They are struggling like everyone else! Who would have guessed???
p.s. who cares, get work in IT and attend furry conventions to network
Comment How interesting! (Score 1) 16
What's their policy on Nazi content? Are the crusaders for free speech absolutism or no?
Comment McDonald's is too expensive anyway (Score 5, Insightful) 142
Making customers whore themselves with an app for "deals". Trying out an AI ordering system then dropping it. McDonald's needs to stick with what they know instead of soaking fatsos paying Five Guys prices for less-than-stellar fast food.
Comment Re: Sympathy for the Devil (Score 0, Troll) 147
This is why you don't put people from a culture that shits in the street in charge of successful businesses since they'll shit all over those and render 'em into garbage.
Comment Re: I'm going to be that guy (Score 1) 67
Your comment reads like something chunked out of a LLM.
Comment But what about Quora and Pinterest? (Score 3, Insightful) 49
Quora and Pinterest are the bane of Google. I don't see why they rank higher than Wikipedia or reddit.
Comment My first post in 11 years! (Score 1) 179
Just to say, "Haw haw, fuck you Russia".
NASA might want to play it classy, but fuck Russia, fuck Putin, and everything else about those slavs.
Comment The conversation moved to Twitter (Score 1) 29
Yeah, a bunch of us here on Slashdot moved much of the conversation to Twitter. Unfortunately, Trump seems to get a bunch of the bandwidth there too.
Comment Re:Twitter (Score 1) 7
Totally understood. The trick is: you can tune your own signal/noise. Its very handy and I get essentially all my news via Twitter these days.
Comment Twitter (Score 1) 7
Its all on Twitter man...
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