last song, Journier, was 87 bpm* for this reason

current effort today, we couldn’t make that work. now running at 78 bpm, which is a mirror image of 87, and that makes us happy enough

(* - please imagine us pronouncing bpm as “bippum”)

yes! algorithmic discovery and ai remixes/ripoffs are very different. tiktok is insane these days for how much ai content is there. ideally, i’d use a genie-wish to kick all ai remixes and ai content out of my doomscrolling, forever. browsing, yes. removing humanity from art, no

also, and i don’t meant to depress you my friend, but i don’t want to own the music i hear. nor video games. my tastes are too fickle and morphic. these are the two fields where subscription service really has improved my experience

about five years ago i wrote a business essay called Spotify Wins Internet. my point was their ai for browsing music (“radio”) was top notch, and that’s a much harder problem than most realize

if anyone has ever beaten them on this tech, i haven’t heard

that is so you :)

here's the same stats, graphed out for the month. note big spikes in nefarious web traffic around the US election and around the current US holiday. non-evil bot traffic unaffected

this graph actually lends me confidence in my definition of "evil"

*hugs*

will there be a bubble burst? kind of i think so yes?

agentic ai will probably collapse into just a few western companies

ai research overall will not go away tho. it matters too much to those who have power, and they will continue to use it on us in more and more interesting ways

is agent-ai similar? yes, i think so. a lot of people are trying to make a new kind of portal

but, not at the upper echelons of money

at the large money end, ai is changing warfare, as being tested in ukraine. and changing surveillance, as being tested everywhere

google ended the dot-com crash when they invented the modern search engin

(“pagerank” algorithm was invented as a way to sort search results when the index got too big for any one single computer)

to explain more: my web server, which serves almost naught of interest to nobody, is still handling 15,000 web requests per day

reminder: my entire web presence was offline more than a year and nobody noticed

this is, for any rounding error we want, *ALL* bot traffic