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they seemed to be leaking in from one particular instance I was subbed to. I unsubbed from that instance before coffee this morning and now I can’t even remember which one it was, so I’m seeing fewer of them, at least.

That nice lady is in the Beacon 23 show.

I thought the mood was that everything should be monopolized by the super rich.

23 skidoo

spot-on observation. always follow the money

I keep waiting for Amazon to start generating AI-driven online profiles spouting Ai-driven selling points for AI-generated media.
It’s the AI version of “Flood the zone with shit” except the entire internet is The Zone.

this is the “can it run DOOM” of manufacturing

well the artwork undeniably is.
but the point stands: obvious Xitter bot army is obvious.

what’s this? an anti-corporate message that sneers at cable TV companies??? CANCEL THAT SHOW!!!

that show was so amazingly prescient: the theme of the first episode was how advertising literally kills its viewers and the news covers things up. No wonder they didn’t get renewed. ;)

allow me to rebut:
It feels like in most cases Apple is saying “I can do whatever the fuck I want and you won’t remember a goddamn thing”, like the lovely lady in that movie Memento.

Apple had a new phone out, they pushed a software update to slow down the old phones, and didn’t tell anyone they did it: end of story. I remember the very day this happened, no word of a lie. For it to take this goddamn long to actually be financially accountable for doing this is a crime unto itself.

I wish I’d read this article before Social Media destroyed my soul. Oh well.

and hey, seeing as the soulless need music now more than ever: go listen to my band’s second album! https://songwhip.com/thethreeleonards Even if your soul has also been lost to Social Media I’m sure there will be something you enjoy.

See? Only a soulless artist would plug their art this shamelessly. :)

Eventually all comments will be AI-generated too, carefully crafted to ensure humans follow a paid narrative.

This reminds me of the posts people used to make on FaceBook where they’d post a paragraph of text specifically denying FB/Meta the right to do anything with their personal data. It’s well-intentioned, but it may not persuade a bot to ignore what you write.

it changes things if you’ve ever wanted to become a new anchor

pour one out for the kids in the back.

yes, I use the headphone jack on my phone.

I can’t abide the idea of paying extra money for a separate device to plug in headphones to use a phone. That’s like forcing people to buy a straw to drink their coffee because they’re not allowed to drink it from a cup anymore.

well, as far as “proprietary vs free” software needs, there are very few free vocal tuning (“Auto-tune”) VSTs out there. It turns out fixing vocals is pretty important to all kinds of production, it’s not just for turning vocalists into robotic auditory paste.

Tuners are just super useful tools to begin with. The math behind recognizing pitch is, evidently, rather tricky. (I have more than one guitar tuner that will take about a half-second to decide that my E string is tuned a little bit low.) So the first step would be writing a pitch detector and getting it to work on a guitar, and a bass guitar, and then a voice.

Once you’ve got an algorithm for pitch detection working, then you’d need to get it to respond VERY quickly (which would take some next-level cleverness to do.) After that you’d have it analyze an input signal to graph what frequency the signal is at, and then choose which notes those frequencies correspond to. Those notes could probably be stored as MIDI data. By this point you’ve already achieved a “sing your own MIDI notes” VST, which I’ve already seen people asking for.

Lastly you’d need editable parameters for each note (or group of notes) to describe how to adjust the pitch from the detected frequency to the desired frequency. One parameter is how quickly it changes the note (which gives that characteristic “robotic” feel that is just pervasive in pop music these days.)

I think this could be a fantastically useful plug-in; it’d certainly be nice to have a useful free alternative for people who can’t afford hundreds of dollars of software.

I guess it’s the Always-On DRM that’s the issue. Best get rid of that entirely, or force developers to disclose IN LARGE PRINT if a game has it, like they did with parental warning stickers in the late 1980’s. And I mean FORCE, as in “you can’t be on Steam/whatever because you have unnecessary DRM”

I can still play World Of Goo any time I damn well choose because I paid for it and I own it and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

did 1983 predict the rise of “catalog shopping”? because I sure didn’t :)

rather than uninstalling adblockers entirely, can’t they just whitelist YouTube? Ad Trackers only have value when they track people across multiple sites: if the tracker only functions on YT then users get the video views they want and YT gets near-worthless tracking data.