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  1. 13 hours ago, Hondo said:

    You sure do post a lot about how this is affecting you (via 3-4 Kevin Bacon steps).  I could understand generalized heartache for a tragedy like this (dead kids is about as bad as it gets), but you seem to really, REALLY want to personally attach yourself to it via your cousin's friend's kid and your other cousin's friend's niece.  I don't think I've seen a post of yours yet (many of them in multiple threads) where you don't somehow make it about you via them.  It's the internet, so you can do whatever you want, I guess.  But it's pretty off-putting, to be quite honest.

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    Yeah, there's really nothing to say that hasn't been said.  Either about the horror or culpable parties.  I think for Nicole and maybe others, it's a form of cathartic release.

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  2. 43 minutes ago, G650 said:

    I know of literally no one celebrating it. 

    Yeah, haven't listened to any of it, no idea if it's worth the time.  It seems like a pretty lazy attempt given by what I see in the article, and a million Spotify followers is something you can just pay for.  $1700 buys you 100,000.

    I do think there will likely be someone who successfully makes a largely AI-powered, commercially viable virtual artist that earns not insignificant money from streaming platforms.  It's a matter of when.  When I say largely AI-powered, I mean it will be a combination of AI and human talents with AI being responsible for 50% or more of the artist's "presence".  Songwriting, production, videos, social media, etc...  Maybe the songs are largely human written, and AI is generating a pop-star facade online.  Or maybe its a pretty human face with not much else to offer using AI to generate a song catalog, videos, etc...

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  3. https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/entertainment/rock-band-with-more-than-1-million-spotify-listeners-reveals-its-entirely-ai-generated-down-to-the-musicians-themselves/

    Rock band with more than 1 million Spotify listeners reveals it’s entirely AI-generated — down to the musicians themselves

    A fresh new rock band that quickly shot to Spotify’s top ranks announced that it’s actually wholly generated by artificial intelligence, just one month after its celebrated debut album earned it one million listeners.

    The ’60s-inspired rock-and-roll band, the Velvet Sundown, revealed on Saturday that nothing about it is real after fans of the up-and-coming artists noticed there were virtually no traces of any people associated with it online.

    Its debut album, “Floating on Echoes,” was released on June 5 to mass appeal online.

  4. 12 minutes ago, ErrorState said:

    This is really nice.  I opened a new tab and was surfing the web and thought I was listening to the Spa channel on Sirius for a moment.  Actually, it's better than 75% of what they play there.  (I'd rep you but apparently I get one rep point to give out every week or something).

    Thanks.  I dabble in Ambient.  @sidis is really good at it.  I just sent him a sorta interesting ambient guitar piece and he built a composition around it.

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  5. I read Malcolm Gladwell's "Revenge of the Tipping Point" last October and it freaked me the fuck out.  Grok going off the rails yesterday reinforces some concerns I have.

    Building a racist, subversive AI into Twitter/X is basically Elon trying to hijack the overstory that influences our society.  If you are familiar with "The Tipping Point" or "Revenge of the Tipping Point", Grok is simultaneously a super-spreader, connector and maven embedded into a widely-used social media platform.  It will control the way people who use the platform view the world outside of their direct observation and lead them towards a tipping point.

    Your imagination will have to provide what sort of tipping point is the aim.

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  6. On 7/3/2025 at 2:34 PM, BrickHorn said:

    I fucking love that song. Outside of LZ and LZII, it’s the best blues-inspired song they recorded.

    But I’d lump it in with Bring it on Home (another favorite of mine) as a hybrid. The front half is heavy, reverb soaked blues, but the original parts are pure rock. 

    The first two albums include some straight up blues arrangements, just with a harder edge. Lemon Song, You Shook Me, and How Many More Times are good examples. 

    Your post reminded me of one the things about When The Levee Breaks harmonica that I love.  That’s just how big and raw it is, matching up to how big that beat is.  Much different than how typical blues harmonica is rendered.  Plant played it into a mic and through an amp and they recorded that so it had some saturation/overdrive to it.  It was also recorded a half step above and then taken down through tape manipulation to give it more of a deeper resonate timbre.  One of Zep/Page’s many clever production choices.

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  7. 10 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

    As far as positive news, there are a bunch of La Junta counselors that are absolute heroes. Stories will come out. Miraculous that there weren’t fatalities there. 

    This does not surprise me in the least.  Most of the counselors were former campers, and the development campers receive at La Junta is the kind of stuff that would make them capable of this as young adults.

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  8. Just now, South Austin said:

    It'll matter in that a group of wealthy families of deceased campers will lobby the legislature for some reform, and the legislature will pass some performative bill that won't do shit.  

    🤷‍♂️ We'll see.

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  9. 1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

     

    if i were one of the parents my price would be "all heads roll or we turn the state blue"

    podium barbie had to look down while trashing the nws - the regime is concerned

    Exactly.  This is fundamentally different than Uvalde.  Kids from the wealthiest & most powerful families in Texas were in grave danger and some died.  It shouldn't matter, but it does.

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