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YouTube is testing AI hosts, who will share stories and trivia about the music users are listening to, in the YouTube Music app through its new Labs program (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/786697/youtube-labs-ai-experiment-music-radio-ho…

YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music
YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program.

How music criticism lost its edge: since the 2010s, outlets like Pitchfork have abandoned extremely low scores, and critics face harassment for negative reviews (Kelefa Sanneh/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/how-music-…

How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
Reviews of rock, pop, and other music have generally become more positive, Kelefa Sanneh writes, looking at outlets including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, the Village Voice, and YouTube.

Only Donald Trump would try to prove he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC.
“You almost have to feel sorry for the people who work for him,
who try to clean up the messes,”
he added. “They go to all these lengths to say,
‘Oh, it wasn’t coercion!
The president was just musing!’
And then the second Trump is alone, he sits on the toilet,
he gets his grubby little thumbs on his phone,
and he immediately blows their excuses to smithereens&quo…

Goethe on what makes a poet: “As soon as he can appropriate to himself, and express the world, he is a poet.”
https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/792860786847547392/goethe-on-what-makes-a-poet-as-soon-as-he-can?source=share

What Actually Makes You Resilient? https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_actually_makes_you_resilient?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine%2…

What Actually Makes You Resilient?
Our skills, genetics, personality, and environment all come together to influence how resilient we are to stress.

Well worth a read:
The icons in /Applications/Utilities/ in MacOS 26 Tahoe represent a folder full of dead canaries.
via @…
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MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead Canary Utility App Icons
These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.

Hey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @… asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.

They need $500 each week for their family of 6.

Every single dollar makes a real difference 
If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing – it might r…

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

YouTube is testing AI hosts, who will share stories and trivia about the music users are listening to, in the YouTube Music app through its new Labs program (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/786697/youtube-labs-ai-experiment-music-radio-ho…

YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music
YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program.

Only Donald Trump would try to prove he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC.
“You almost have to feel sorry for the people who work for him,
who try to clean up the messes,”
he added. “They go to all these lengths to say,
‘Oh, it wasn’t coercion!
The president was just musing!’
And then the second Trump is alone, he sits on the toilet,
he gets his grubby little thumbs on his phone,
and he immediately blows their excuses to smithereens&quo…

Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour (Emma Haidar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/col…

College Grads Are Finding Jobs Training AI Models
Ever since he picked up a trombone in middle school, Jackson Spellman has wanted to pursue a career in music.“It's 100% going to be a part of my life for the rest of my life,” said the 22-year-old from Wellington, Florida, who graduated in June from Northwestern University with a double major in music and cognitive science.Along with his degree, Spellman finished school with a new gig to add to his resume: artificial intelligence trainer. In the weeks leading up to graduation, Spellman said…