Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-…
One more thought...
One of the more toxic elements of the whole "manosphere" thing relative to dating is the application of game theory to relationships. They've got people trying to "maximize their dating potential" or whatever, trying to find the "most attractive march" (which is it's own fucked up thing I'm not even going to dig in to). But that whole mindset is basically going to always leave you miserable.
Oh, you're single? You need a partner. Oh you have a partner? Could you get a "better" one?
It turns relationships into the endless pointless grind of capitalism. Fuck that. None of that shit makes sense. No matter how "well" you do in that game, you always feel like a loser. Everyone does. Fuck that game. Quit.
The constant desire makes you miserable and your misery makes you unlikable. When you let go of it, you leave room to experience what is instead of constantly imagining what could be.
You will always be able to imagine a better "could be" than what is now. By comparing your situation now to that "could be" you will always see your situation as bad because it's worse than your yardstick.
Is your situation good for you? Is it serving you? It can be good and it can also be possible to make it better. When was the last time you just experience your life instead of trying to strategize your way into "something better."
Throw away the yardstick. Something something Buddha.
Edit: all this is of course aside from the whole objectification thing, which is it's own whole set of fucked up. But yeah... All that shit is real bad news.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, due to potus’ war of choice, cuts off sulfur shipments, and so endangers *checks notes* the United States’ ability to wage war. Behold: the self defeating military!
“Chemicals like sulfuric acid…can determine whether the US military can maintain industrial base production of electrical and digital systems needed to sustain the fight as munitions are expended and combat losses mount.”
game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
A scam website is actively approaching victims of the Odido data breach in the Netherlands, inviting them to join a mass claim against the telecom company for a one-off payment of €50.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/20/fake-sit
He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
Since the start of last year through the end of last month, roughly 11,000 donors have sent Nick Fuentes nearly $900,000 in superchats,
a Washington Post analysis found.
The Post analyzed more than 1,400 hours of Fuentes’s streams,
using artificial intelligence to tally the donations, which flicker on screen in real time.
Fuentes, 27, has been kicked off most mainstream social networks …
The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be shuttered,
with the headquarters relocating from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City.
While the overhaul is billed as an effort to improve efficiency, conservationist…
ICE agents on Thursday pulled an accused MS-13 shotcaller out of a downtown federal courtroom,
catching attorneys and the judge off guard,
and casting uncertainty over the fate of his pending criminal trial.
https://www.latimes.com/califor…