The Spotify DJ just played a track of my voice deepfaked admitting to the assassination of multiple journalists and then automatically skipped and I can’t go back
This is very good:
“Klein wants liberal cultural virtues –– mutual regard, generosity, a widened circle of belonging –– without investing in the public systems and human infrastructures that make such virtues possible and durable. Community isn’t a sentiment; it’s a deliberately built social environment. It needs institutions –– public health and social care, housing, childcare, schools, debt relief, neighborhood jobs –– that give people time, stability, and proximity to be able to care for one another.
“Absent that concrete foundation, calls for 'community' and 'cultural change' drift into sermons. And sermons are cold comfort in a society that, after decades of bipartisan privatization and deregulation schemes, is organized around precarity and the profits that can be made from it.”
at one point spotify employed a "genre expert" and a bunch of editorial curators who were there to provide real-world expertise that couldn't be gleaned from surveillance data. they axed those people and subscriptions kept going up. surveillance is what makes the algorithm work
The fact that Dick Cheney died of old age, free and probably surrounded by family, is a disgrace that this country will never escape. He made the world we now live in and suffered zero consequences. He won. We lost.