I would argue talent isn’t even in the top ten list of important qualities for “success” in the music world.

I like that the lions don’t quite fit on the gateposts.

You’re only missing Octordle!

I’ve been on Qobuz for a while now. It’s not quite as good as Spotify when it comes to catalogue or community playlists. Other than that, I haven’t seen any AI slop or ghost musicians, and the suggestions are very human. I believe they pay about 4x royalties that Spotify does.

I sadly had to retire my Key2, easily the nicest phone I’ve owned since 1994.

I bought the Titan but returned it for being so underpowered in comparison. Is the Titan Slim2 going to improve on that?

Aristotle broke it down into:

Ethos (credibility)

Pathos (emotional appeal)

Logos (logical argument)

Balancing ethos, pathos, and logos is still the bedrock of political speeches, marketing campaigns, and courtroom arguments.

Also, beware the Sophists who argue well regardless of the truth.

So many confident takes on AI by people who’ve never opened a book on the nature of sentience, free will, intelligence, philosophy of mind, brain vs mind, etc.

There are hundreds of serious volumes on these, not to mention the plethora of casual pop science books with some of these basic thought experiments and hypotheses.

Seems like more and more incredibly shallow articles on AI are appearing every day, which is to be expected with the rapid decline of professional journalism.

It’s a bit jarring and frankly offensive to be lectured ‘at’ by people who are obviously on the first step of their journey into this space.

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/

Works well.

Suits is on USA Network not NBC

Signed 1st edition hardback of New Hampshire by Robert Frost.