I was surprised it took them this long. But this just means that labels want to own AI songmaking, this is not good for creators or listeners either. Rick Beato was talking about this today:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZ0OSEViyo&pp=ygUKcmljayBiZWF0bw%3D%3D (minute 6)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/umg-startsai-voice-clone-partnership-with-soundlabs-1235041808/

...but...why? What is the point of living skin on machines? Even humans do everything they can to make their skin not look human :D

Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?

I think it's pretty clear they want to own it, not ban it.

First, they will use the rights of artists to gather popular and lawmaker support in their war against AI-content, then big labels will integrate it to turn around and screw creators over. It's a classic.

The self-repairable part is odd to me.You need to keep feeding, oxygenating it and to prevent infections, otherwise it will rot :S Besides, on humans the healing relies on blood for platelets and crusts to form and a whole immune system...it needs too much babysitting to be called "self-healing".

Problem is this is a Cell vs C18 fight. Don't let Cell win and absorb C18 :/ neither can win.

I get that you don't need to be a professional instrument player to make good music...or be a professional composer...but if everything that takes effort, knowledge, experience and practice is done for you, what are you really contributing? Curation, maybe?

This is great for people who make indie games to focus on gameplay and structure. You can make a full soundtrack and background images in a 2 minutes for free. But you can't say it is going to help foster the creativity that great composers valued, because you will eventually see e.g. music at the top level, as styles you can remix with some characteristics, but won't be aware of how they are built and can be rebuilt to create something truly new.

This will limit creativity, because we will associate novelty with a high-level remix/fusion in a preset number of dimensions instead of the much higher possibilities coming from complexity underneath.

...it's like I'm talking about low-level programming languages vs high-level ones :)

synthetic playmates..got it 👯

France didn't let you post if you didn't have enough karma in that sub...ok.

Maybe those services could take a hint and create a unified platform where each partner gets a cut depending on % of their content watched.

Magnesium oxides can also serve as a catalyst for lots of reactions, but I'm not sure if it will have the same effect in this specific context, I'd guess it would.

That's why I added the link to the wooden satallites, that also reduces the metal debris somewhat and reduces other effects like radio interference.

Feb. 12 – After another unfruitful phone call between Biden and Putin, U.S. officials warned that a Russian attack on Ukraine could come at any time. A Kremlin aide accused the West of creating “hysteria.” “The Americans are artificially inflating the hysteria around the so-called planned Russian invasion,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters after the call between Biden and Putin. “The preconditions for possible provocative actions of the Ukrainian armed forces are being created alongside these allegations.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/02/russian-rhetoric-ahead-of-attack-against-ukraine-deny-deflect-mislead/

Probably, yes. Imagine how superhuman you'd feel skydiving without a parachute outside the day of your death knowing you couldn't die. (plot twist: you spend 10 years in a coma afterwards and still die from doing it :/)

Depends on where you live. For a european, african or an american, it's a bit meh. For a japanese, chinese, korean, philippine, taiwanese, vietnamese or an indonesian...it makes front page. And since this is World News and all...

The point here is not that aluminum oxide "pollutes" on its own, it is that it "speeds up" the harmful reaction between ozone and any chlorine (like CFC) "pollutants" up there without being consumed, so it keeps acting over 30 years. It makes all the pollutants you mention "more effective" at depleting ozone.

It's a joke about how apple made their phone even thinner and the battery still isn't removable :P

I was just worried about Kessler syndrome and just felt relaxed that their orbits were low enough to naturally decay and never become a permanent problem. What this research seems to show is that the aluminum oxide dust does not settle in days/weeks, but it is fine enough to stay there for decades :/

When do you think that might have happened? Because he's been a documented dick for a long, long, longer time than most media give him credit for.

Yea, but who builds infrastructure? Where I live, 50% of the workforce in construction is immigrants.

PS: I'm not saying what you say isn't true, it's just weird to see countries that were built by wave after wave of immigrants now say it's not working anymore. What changed from then to now?

PS2: https://www.vox.com/politics/351535/3-theories-for-americas-anti-immigrant-shift probably it's inequality making the majority of people feel like if they don't have enough for themselves, how can new people move in?

also: I was wrong, there's always been some pushback against the wrong kind of immigrants e.g.:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/immigration-history-race-quota-progress/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment

Fell down a rabbit hole, sorry for the linkdump, this stuff really puts into perspective the stuff happening in american politics today.

Even in petrostates? But most petrostates are not run by the people or for their people, so petrostates will keep being petrostates until demand for oil in EU/China/India dries up. https://www.worldstopexports.com/crude-oil-imports-by-country/

Throw this national menace into federal max security solitary confinement, next to Hannibal Lecter >:/

Nah, we already use it:

https://www.nio.com/news/NIO-reaches-30-Power-Swap-Stations-in-Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w

We just need to get our heads out of the sand and take these challenges from China seriously in the EU and the US with proper coordinated reindustrialization policies. Tariffs and bans only buy us time.

There was the scientific article and the abstract in the body of the post if you wanted to read it, wtf more do you want?

October and even then you might get the odd Typhoon https://old.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/jawz01/does_the_taiwan_strait_really_suffer_from/

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Is connecting it to the router via USB an option?

heh, yea, the satellites are not just wood for sure, they goofed. But it's less metals, which helps.

So far, he's being smarter than monkey putin.

Oh, so no Chlorine ever truly gets locked away from the ozone cycle...smoke particles will just keep reactivating it 😞

Plot twist: dude works at Disneyflix :D

Guys, this war is not going to end before the US election, stop pretending: bibi and his fascist buddies want to get trump into the presidency so they can do whatever they want. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905

hamas thinks that more victims means more support for them and they are never going to surrender or hand over the hostages. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gaza-chiefs-brutal-calculation-civilian-bloodshed-will-help-hamas-626720e7

PS: The disagreement in the negotiation is the ambiguity on the permanence of the cease fire: hamas wants guarantees that the war will not continue in the future. Biden is not in a position to give or force that guarantee if he loses. Israel does not want such a guarantee, because they think they can eventually exterminate hamas faster than the suffering of palestinians radicalizes new militants.

Ok, you're winning at monkey pawing :D lemme see if I can top that...

Depends on income. With more income, I'd travel a lot and do things. With no income, I'd try to make some things, be online and read pirated books :)

hear hear for small cars

PS: and walkable/cyclable cities

Miranda is jubilant that Plombir surprised her with a long holiday in a spanish resort for once 😎😎 🐬 🐬

A 34-year-old can't become president, if that is not ageism in the first place, I don't know what is. But fine, if you are lucid and nimble enough to survive and win a presidential campaign, I guess you're good for 4 years of constant stress and travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age

True, mass parallel charging can fulfill more peak demand faster, but from the point of view of the user, it would still be good to have the option to fill/exchange the battery quickly.

Hey hey, you have one finger left for diet Coke Microsoft

I was actually reviewing the O3 depletion process https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_monoxide and Cl only stops reacting with O3 when it ends up as ClO2, but that is rare, because ClO usually is too short-lived to react with another Cl into Cl2O, so it may be possible that a catalyst like Al2O3 could actually clean up Cl interfering with the ozone layer along with the effect of speeding up the nefarious reaction with O3 :D

I love that system