Also, what a pity that not everybody can afford a secure private room in which to secretly discuss crimes of which they are ignorant and innocent.

Looks like something spiked the server CPUs briefly at that time, but it recovered. OK for you now, right?

A good reminder that DARK + ICE is soft and stuffed.

(Except that, sadly, BlueSky still sucks for soccer.)

I collected today's sample earlier, otherwise obviously it would be all IMPS.

But it's worth taking a minute to appreciate the accidental honesty of a mouse-first declaration signed entirely by cats.

*Nothing* in the major-label/major-DSP system is meaningfully artist-first. Picking on any one part of it is like trying to fight fascism by concentrating all resistance on whether Tom Homan reported his bribe on his taxes.

Every AI feature mentioned here has been worse for music than whatever simpler and more-human thing it replaced, and we should expect this trend to continue (and to be in no way limited to Spotify).