Tootfinder

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/

#SilentSunday

#photo #cables #clouds
Taking a shortcut over the city.

Attiré par la belle couverture tel l’ours par le miel, je n’hésite pas un seul instant Š m’emparer d’un exemplaire de « La dernière nuit de Mussolini » de Jean-Charles Chapuzet et de Christophe Girard. Après m’être acquitté de mon dû, je fonce chez moi et me love dans un fauteuil. La dégustation ne peut attendre. Sous lumière tamisée, cela va sans dire.
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Here's why having accounts on different apps is a good thing:
Instead of responding directly to the person who annoyed me, or even sub posting on the same platform, Ima make snarky comments over here where, likely, they will never see it.
Like:
I'm going to start calling straight white guys in positions that *I* don't think they're qualified for "legacy hires".
#LegacyHires

On the same day I signed an initial IEP plan, I find out the US Dept of Education has cut half its staff.
Fuck POTUS47 and anyone that voted for him. And fuck any #ProgressivesForTrump that didn't have the maturity to vote for a better future. There's a million ways we will suffer for your single-minded refusal to see the future. You think people will "try harder&quo…

Wut.
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Injustice Watch first reported on the incident, saying Glennon-Goodman had told a confidant that “the message was intended for a close friend and was instead mistakenly sent to a fellow judge with the same first name.”
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https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/judge-reassigned-after-texting-my-first-ankle-monitor-gag-to-another-judge.html

Estados Unidos be like:
#ViernesDeMemes

What's the path of least resistance to archive reddit.com threads that are somehow still online?
I've seen that web.archive.org and archive.is can get blocked by reddit's bot detection, and even if not, they don't archive all the permalinks to nested comments etc.
#datahoarder #dataarchival #webarchiving

There is a long and storied history of whistles for protection. Ancient Egyptian guards used to place a blade of grass between the thumbs to alert other guards of issues that were transpiring. Later, shells were used to the same end. In China, acorns with holes drilled in them were used similarly.
As a dedicated instrument, whistles have been made of wood, bone, metal, and later, plastics. British bobbies have used whistles to communicate over distances since the 1880s. They are a commonly used tool for boatswains, crossing guards, and referees.
I wish I knew more about rape whistles, but they seem similar in functionality to hikers taking whistles with them in case of injury, as the sound carries much further than yelling, and is much less tiring.
As someone regularly stalked by a large creepy harasser, I am grateful for the whistle I was given for self-protection, even if the creeps who it was given to defend against resent the fuck out of it.
Fin.