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Double Shot Brings Songwriters a Double Win christiancastle.substack.com…
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During the cold war, Reagan used the space race to lure the soviets into spending their way to bankruptcy. Presented without comment alongside the current state of AI.
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Something I discovered two years ago when researching "black starts" - which is what you need to do when the entire grid has gone down - for @TheCriticMag is that the models exist on Excel spreadsheets. Relax everyone. We are in good hands. They have thought of everything. telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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sign the petition at humanmadehumanpaid.com #HUMANMADEHUMANPAID Human Made, Human Paid: The Musicians Union's Three Cs of AI thetrichordist.com/2026/10/2… via @thetrichordist
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We support @The_AFM musicians fighting for consent, credit and compensation when their work is used for AI development and music generation. The future of music must belong to the people who make it. #HumanMadeHumanPaid
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Basically Meta is saying if you use their services at a professional capacity, they have the right to use and profit from any material of yours located anywhere on the internet. Insane.
%$&*!!! whoa. This reads that Meta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - once a company uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services after October 30, 2026. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5
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Watch this clip from Terence Tao and see how OpenAI is once again flouting ethical norms.
Terence Tao says OpenAI's math dump included a lot of proofs that people were currently working on and were not far from solving.
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From the True Enough Substack —> Follow the Money: DOJ’s $1.3 Billion Ticket Scalping Case—Why Not RICO...Yet? christiancastle.substack.com…
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In a post for @humanevents, Will Chamberlain states, "Unauthorized [AI] training of #copyrighted works threatens the economic viability of industries responsible for over 2.3 million U.S. jobs, [...] & a $37 billion trade surplus." Read more: humanevents.com/2025/10/14/w…
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Music Radar: “I said, 'Dad, what you did with The Beatles was kind of amazing, wasn’t it?’ He looked at me and said, ‘Not as amazing as Brian Wilson’”: Giles Martin on the overwhelming talent of Brian Wilson – musicradar.com/artists/giles…
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Today we celebrate the icon, the genius, the Black President: Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti! Happy Birthday to the King of Afrobeat! ✊🏿🌍🕺🏿🎂
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The AI Bubble Is Much Worse Than They Think: Remembering the Last War christiancastle.substack.com…
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