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Totally. They are the only ones who said no to letting their tech being used for illegal use cases.

This doesn't automatically make them the great virtuous team. It just means the rest of the pack are toxic as all hell.

You may be the first person I've heard argue that artists are the oppressor class

Top album here :) You can find and reuse / remix all the Strudel code via the links: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/albums/

1. So AI companies royally screwed over artists and other culture workers.

2. Culture workers are a big part of who sets the narrative for the general population - especially young people.

3. Less than 1/5 of Gen Z are optimistic about AI and the number is falling: (https://news.gallup.com/poll/708224/gen-adoption-steady-skep...)

The current wave of AI companies did this to themselves. Had things moved more slowly and actively worked with all the affected industries, I suspect people would be far less interested in seeing the technology fail.

https://strudel.cc has been the most intuitive music livecoding experience I've come across. In-line piano rolls and waveform visualizers, highlighting current notes - I love it. I'm currently halfway through making an album entirely in Strudel

James Burke is one of Earth's treasures. Connections is the best docuseries I have ever seen.

I should hope that if Zuckerberg isn't severely punished for this, it at least sets a legal precedent for every other person to do the same with immunity.

All the Aaron Schwartzes of the future could freely share scientific papers with the world.

I think this a great point though. It's always worth asking what the purpose of innovation is. The end goal should always be to help people and societies thrive and feel vitality. If the goal becomes speed for its own sake, it is going in the wrong direction.

I agree that copyright is foundationally wrong, but the way out has to be through a culture shift of people putting their work in Public Domain. It's not up to a private company to decide everyone else's work is public commons.

Honestly, the best use of AI I've found so far is also getting them to call me out on bullshit assumptions and logical fallacies. Helpful for the kind of thought exploration + planning that another human won't want to discuss at 6am.

Calibre lets you put non-Amazon eBooks on these very same devices. It made me start using my old Kindle again: https://calibre-ebook.com/

I can tell you that myself (and many others) still create concept albums as our primary format. It's not that people aren't still creating it.

The choice is still there for any listener that cares about albums as a format. I don't mean that in a negative way. I suspect that many people listen to both playlists of singles, and albums of their favourite artists, depending on mood.

This. Super important.

A pre-commitment means nothing unless you have the mechanisms in place to enforce it.

A pre-sacrifice would be more effective.

100% agree. Any AI org that is that tied to a single nation's interest can only be detrimental in the long run.

I know "open-source" AI has its own risks, but with e.g. DeepSeek, people in all countries benefit. Americans benefit from it equally.

Love what you're doing, but it is funny - I make a lot music in the style of GBA, and specifically bitcrush and downsample to bring in those audio artifacts. They add a lot of high frequencies that give it a great shimmer.

Having said that, there is definitely many use cases where GBA games would want to reduce that artifacting. Keep it up!

Whenever I've trained clients in AI use, I've tried to strongly recommend using GenAI as a "Learning Accelerator" as opposed to a "Learning Replacement".

GenAI can be incredibly helpful for speeding up the learning process, but the moment you start offloading comprehension, it starts eroding trust structures.

Beautiful!

I do AI trainings, and the framework I try to teach is "Using AI as a Learning Accelerator, not a Learning Replacement"

Also check out Encarta 99 album by Slowerpace! https://youtu.be/V_HpQdS0Ru8?si=dAnGBJS5M229xNBf

> Time spent at the computer can be meaningful. The user just needs agency in that interaction.

Sums up the core spirit really well. I've recently been using plugins like Unhook to hide YouTube recommendations by default, and can turn them back on when desired.

I think people often forget that the act of exploration itself is an important part of healthy learning.

Try Kagi - it is literally the search experience you are talking about. I've been using it for 6 months, and will use it for majority of searches. The only time I need AI "search" is for follow-up questions.

Web Search isn't shitty. Google and Bing have become shitty. I use Kagi and it is exactly the seamless experience you are talking about.

Self-promotion, but the music I release here is totally free to use in your own projects. It's all CC0

https://makertube.net/a/johnoestmannmusic/video-channels

The plugin "Unhook" lets you granularly block many different features of YouTube. I'll often turn off recommendations when I know I don't want to get pulled down rabbitholes.

It has made YouTube much healthier in my life. Imagine if YouTube themselves let you turn these features on and off.

Lemmy has everything that Reddit does. It's federated - I would recommend lemmy.world or lemmy.ml for people from HackerNews

Every Tesla is essentially a camera for Elon. I think more countries should consider that a national security risk.

I've been creating a regular magazine (inspired by 90s/2000s gaming magazines) focused on celebrating quality art + tools, released for free by their creators.

Not everything is open-source, but I try to go for FOSS options where possible.

I thought that this community might enjoy it!

Second this. F-droid opens all the doors, is pro open-source, and use AppManager through F-droid to remove Google's bloatware!

I just discovered that, somehow, having a YouTube Video embedded on my website is allowing them to block a totally separate link on my page. It then emphasizes the "Go Back" button, which does not take you to my site, but takes you to YouTube!

Tested on Firefox, Chrome, LibreWolf and WaterFox for Mobile