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[ May 30, 2025 - June 7, 2025] Conference or similar: BACK to the THINGS THEMSELVES! 2025 https://philevents.org/event/show/123722

BACK to the THINGS THEMSELVES! 2025
Back to the Things Themselves! (BTTTT!) is an annual attempt to put aside the more conventional scholarly practice of textual exegesis and critique, and return to the lived world to divine the essential structures of experience through careful phenomenological description. In short, BTTTT!‘s main aim is to “do phenomenology”—that is, to generate original descriptions of phenomena in the lifeworld.  BTTTT! is part of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Cultu…

What. The. Actual. Fuck.
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Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don’t enjoy making music.
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Suno was trained on heaps of copyrighted music it fed into its training dataset without consent, a practice Suno is currently being sued for by the recording industry.
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https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/

"Code is, ultimately, characters on a screen, and software engineers do nothing but hammer that code into shapes that spark Joy and Money. The fear and dread comes from a culture where people feel bad that they can't work quickly enough in the terrible codebase, where they feel judged for slowing down to hammer the code into better shapes that sadly aren't on the Jira board, and where management looks down on people who practice craftsmanship."
-- Ludicity