@sdiver100@lexlanham Wouldn’t surprise me that booking agents don’t dig to find out.
“Does Morris Day have availability on such and such?”
“He does - what does it pay? Send the offer. Is this just for Morris or the whole band?”
might be the extent of it b4 a contract is sent. Date venue guarantee.
You can dislike AI just like you can dislike anything else, and for lots of reasons, many valid, but if you’re critiquing the “art” then you gotta know you’re going to be wrong in some cases.
and in immediate solutions incapable of healing people’s wounds. As a result, while some pursue the illusion of unlimited self-assertion, many are deprived of basic necessities.” - @Pontifex
“[B]uilding for the common good means accepting the limits and weakness of humanity without considering them an error to be corrected. Today, the human desire for fullness of life is at risk of being misled by deceitful goals…
…such as the prospect of a technology that promises to free us from all weakness, and models of wellbeing that leave behind entire populations. All too often, we place our hope in unlimited “upgrades,” in forms of progress that exacerbate inequalities…
@brianlfrye This is worthy of a roundtable though bc “plagiarism” defined varies so drastically profession to profession. If young lawyers didn’t plagiarize in private practice they’d probably be fired.
in my capacity as a contributor to the New York Times Magazine + a judge/essayist/interviewer for this Greatest Songwriters project, I'm jumping in the comments over there. wild times! call me crazy but Mariah gets a lot of hate for being on this list https://t.co/LVygZQoLe0
95 overpass partially collapsed in Rhode Island onto the tracks and Amtrak in the NEC was halted from Fri am - Sun am. Infrastructure is so desperately needed and this isn’t a car versus transit conversation it’s everything. Make a jobs program to literally rebuild America.