‘Pay the money or we will make your life miserable’

Obvs not totally ideal for mixing (though you can calibrate with an EQ curve), but buying the 'expensive' HD-25s seems like quite a bad deal now. The reason people get the latter is the modular build, but one can simply obtain another pair of these for less. Pleased!

Don’t disturb the Lime bikes. They only gather like that when distressed.

The article, in its ‘both-sides’-ing of the issue creates the false impression of this being a real debate. It isn’t, and no one who actually understands this stuff could possibly take this seriously.

The notion that an LLM is sentient just because it can do a half decent mockup of human speech is a ludicrous position which preys on public credulity. It is being circulated with utter cynicism.

Oof. Double oof, even.

I defy anyone to find a pop record as sophisticated as Pet Sounds. Any one parameter - harmony, instrumentation, recording technique, performance can be isolated and read as utterly instructive. Totally blew my mind as a kid and my esteem has only grown with time.

Shame Baudrillard didn't live to see this.

Books/magazines/publications pre-2022ish must be protected at all costs!

To be abundantly clear, I utterly disapprove of the current LLM business model, predicated as it is on scraping copyrighted content.