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[♔ @itsnamesake]

my fav ‘24 albums are by Tyla, Leon Thomas, NxWorries, Bossman DLow, Kaytranada

HM: Don Toliver, PND, Shaboozey, Beyonce, Tyler

[♔ @itsnamesake]

my fav albums this year are by Amaarae, Teezo Touchdown, Jordan Ward, Gunna, Skrillex

HM: Jungle, Tinashe, Janelle Monae, Sexyy Redd, Kaytramine

[camoufly 🌟 @camouflybeats]

wait wait ... so bootlegs and soundcloud remixes are still illegal but this is a thing now? lol

[♔ @itsnamesake]

@ForzaHorizon go ahead and launch on ps5 so we can make it 10M thanks

[♔ @itsnamesake]

labels will pull down actual covers/samples and then you have this

[chart data @chartdata]

Spotify and UMG announce licensing deal allowing fans to create AI covers and remixes of songs from participating artists and songwriters signed to UMG.

No launch date yet (via Billboard).

[Charles @wotancore]

They sell LED bulbs in the colour tone on the left. I sent emails and made phone calls to people in my local council until they changed the bulbs on my street. You can do the same.

[♔ @itsnamesake]

Chicago definitely feels like the most bang for your buck.

also glad this is 50/30/20 based, that’s the bare minimum.

[Symoné B. Beez @SymoneBeez]

They are finally admitting years later that you need to make $100K salary pretty much everywhere in the US as a single adult to live comfortably.

[♔ @itsnamesake]

advertising

[KUTT THROAT⚔️ @Kgothatsoxo]

My friend just video called me from his new job and they are allowed to drink alcohol in the office , guess which industry he is in

[♔ @itsnamesake]

certified crash out smh

[Underdog NFL @UnderdogNFL]

Rashee Rice violated his probation after testing positive for marijuana, per @MattFosterTV.

He's been ordered to serve 30 days in jail.

[alex @vaudevillehook]

Is rack city walkable

[♔ @itsnamesake]

feels like something Steve Jobs would have said.

Gen AI is just nostalgia bait lol

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear.

And he said it without being anti-AI.

Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected.

Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet.

The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA.

And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked.

Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product.

The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches.

What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it.

Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next.

Those are different jobs.

[♔ @itsnamesake]

@InsiderGamingIG great! now launch on ps5 earlier thanks

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

I've never found a windshield wiper setting that truly satisfied me.

[♔ @itsnamesake]

rip your grocery budget lol

[Jabir @_Jabir_]

I eat 3.5k-4k calories a day and I’ve still lost 3kg in a week or two.

Need to up my maintenance again ffs.

[♔ @itsnamesake]

if chicago had a Chili’s or Applebees in the city best believe I would be there

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

Fast food prices have gotten so high that some sit-down chain restaurant deals honestly look cheaper now.

Chili’s is offering a drink, appetizer, and entrée for $10.99 while a Chick-fil-A meal can easily hit $14–16. A Chipotle bowl with chips and a drink is pushing $20 in some cities. Even McDonald’s isn’t “cheap” anymore.

[♔ @itsnamesake]

first time I heard that song I said it sounded like Kodak so I know he got it from somewhere lol

[RAPOLOGY @iRAPOLOGY]

Florida rapper #1900Rugrat calls out #Drake for acting like he wanted to work with him, only to steal his idea instead 👀😳‼️

[♔ @itsnamesake]

that’s hilarious

[Nicholas Craven @NicholasCraven_]

pinkpantheress definitely has an authentic beatmaker posture

[♔ @itsnamesake]

@baredex I learned FL first but I honestly dont see what’s so different about it besides the step sequencer (it’s best feature imo). Maschine is the one I think is uniquely odd.

[♔ @itsnamesake]

nah fr that’s exactly what I do lol

[JoeLongBalls @JoeLongBalls]

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, when you're washing your bedsheets just run that dryer twice, don't even bother checking

[♔ @itsnamesake]

people responding they use this app for free and exposing they know how nothing works lol

[Goddess 🎀 @prn63ss]

the concept of getting mad at someone for getting a tesla cuz it’s owned by elon musk whilst tweeting from the same app he owns… #ok

[♔ @itsnamesake]

@_loqum oh that’s nasty work

[♔ @itsnamesake]

is this not a drake album? Chappell roan fanbase maybe makes this difficult.

[Jozu 🇵🇦 @JozuJoestarr]

I’m looking for an album with:

- The lyricism of Ice Spice
- The repetitiveness of Taylor Swift
- The beat selection of Tha Carter 6
- The art selection for covers of Gunna
- The track quantity of Chris Brown
- The Fanbase of Chapel Roan