Man I miss the early days of the Internet with the bullshit hit counters that were completely inconsequential when wrong and anyone could game.

Now somehow cuz it’s big business, those same bullshit hit counters can be used to move big mountains of money.

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Algorithmic music is incredible for discovery and that’s about it.

This may be true for most but was not for me. I was on streaming services for two years and discovered maybe five new bands. I went back to my old process of discovery (reading magazines, reading online reviews) and discover many more every year.

Algorithms tend to pump you full of similar sounding artists. I’d rather be challenged as a listener and grow than be stuck in a same sounding culdesac.

Bandcamp is good for this. You can stream stuff you bought on there for free through the app if you want to. I download my purchases and add them to my enormous library that I started in the late nineties.

Since a plane requires the most thrust at takeoff, you could use ground-based catapults to get the plane to takeoff speed (or faster even) and then you could carry smaller batteries and propelling machinery.

Don’t you dare talk about catapulting using electric technologies in America though. Steam only! 🇺🇸🗽🦅🏈

They aren’t even actually probabilistic. They’re deterministic with pretend probabilistic characteristics.

Pseudo-random is pseudo. It isn’t really random. That’s why some of them have a setting called a “temperature”. They’re just a fucking program they should have a seed value to behave 100% predictably from the same prompt. The people who own them are fucking responsible and obviously so.