Isn’t every president an enemy of the people though?

… if their own AI efforts didn’t fall so short. They‘re seeing silicon valley raising massive amounts of money…

Successful AI =/= grifting massive amounts of money

Yes, the rot is mostly centralized in a few monopolistic companies with outsized economic influence. That’s why the crash will be much worse.

Yeah, I prefer What Makes This Song Stink.

The autotune “argument” is sooo narrow. There are many many genres that generally don’t use autotune at all (eg. metal).

I feel like Rick is just another old white guy who’s mad about Hip Hop but doesn’t want to say it directly.

IMO metal has gotten much better. For example, I think bands like Serpent Column and Blood Incantation are doing amazing things for black metal and death metal respectively.

I feel similarly with Hip Hop. But I admit both genres are oversaturated with bad music.

I’m pretty sure Rick Beato only listens to shitty music.

It’s much easier to take phones away from students than to stop profiting from theft.

Ah yes… Affectionate condescension and authoritarianism. The best kind.

It’s disappointing but not surprising to see so many people (on lemmy) willing to violently control children and their access to tech, information, etc.

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/schools-and-edtech-need-study-student-privacy-year-review-2022

It’s pretty telling when people don’t want to do anything about the many other much bigger causes of psychological harm. Where’s the law that stops cops from harassing minority youth? Yeah right.

Peeps are literally upvoting Ron DeSantis. Fascism is not the goal here. Wake up, y’all.