I also hopped back into ListenBrainz and Last.fm within the last year. Exactly like you said–they’re not trying to sell something, so it was interesting to go back and see just how much that influences the recommendations.

The suggestions are better, I’m building up a local library again, and not paying for Spotify. What’s not to love?

There is absolutely no way this blows up in their faces.

All of these guys benefit from government involvement early on. Elon went to Russia to buy rockets for SpaceX with the man who would immediately thereafter become the head of NASA. Facebook was started with outside investment from Thiel, who himself was the beneficiary of In-Q-Tel funding. The project that became Google Earth was also funded by In-Q-Tel.

Bootstraps my ass, and frankly, they’re all probably assets as well. It’s not hard to look at FB/Google/any number of tech companies and conclude that they collect information the government would like but politically can’t hold, but is able to obtain via national security warrants with little to no oversight.

Turns out all the government needed was some Trump branding in order to sell people on an invasive national database.

Genuinely miss the old Apple, but Linux is ascendant so I’m not too mad.

This article has me thinking I’ll get the two cheese graters out of my closet. For old times’ sake.

Guy whose ideal model would be to have no employees and pay $0 in wages, benefits, retirement, etc: “I think generative AI is great, actually”

We don’t need a podcast to answer that question