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  • I wish they would have had more articulate people in that group. Tim Pool’s arguments in general fall apart under logic. The civil war stance especially.

    Everyone was so caught up in pointing out the authoritarian stuff going on under trump that none of them actually addressed his claim. He’s going to go back to his platform to keep doing the same thing he’s always done, but they gave him sound bites to feed his base.

    Any civil war requires resources and logistics on two sides that can equally appose each other. I would have liked to see someone push back on how that happens in an authoritarian surveillance state. I’d even grant him ‘unrest,’ but civil wars are is pretty much impossible. It’s just a matter of logistics. No group can realistically organize to military readiness to challenge current regime. They’re purging the military, setting up a surveillance state, and have been recruiting by way of ICE at least. This says nothing of the military hardware and training that is held at the federal level.

    I get it, he would have just cut in and used half truths but it’s hard to bullshit the obvious. Unless you’re screaming.

    I couldn’t watch this all the way through. Maybe it’s a moderate thing that they couldn’t be more articulate. or maybe the 20 were just awful picks for this.






  • My experience has generally been that any song recommendations by the algorithm are completely wrong. Even when I build the playlist with a certain vibe and then request suggestions from the algorithm, it will go into left field and pick the most awful choices to fill out the list.

    You would think that, with all this data they are keen to collect, they would have some level of understanding of vibes. Not direct understanding, obviously, but I would have thought them capable of cross-referencing various listening profiles to suggest better music.

    It’s legit one of the things I could see AI actually being good at and used ethically for. I guess the fact that it’s not used for better taste profiling is a small mercy, considering the technology would be used for more nefarious stuff elsewhere if it was any good.

    A prime example: the song “The Hoodin’ of Miss Fannie Deberry” by Kenny Rogers is decidedly different from the rest of his catalog. No matter how hard I try to get Spotify to find songs with similar vibes, I can’t escape Kenny Rogers and general country tunes. It’s maddening.

    Any given song radio will trap you in a decade of music/genre, and pay no attention to the vibe of a song.

    It has gotten slightly better recently with making custom playlists for me, but once my hyper-focus changes, I’m sure it will be out of sync with me again. Frontier Psychiatrist Radio slaps, but I’m still trapped in the '90s-'00s.