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The music industry is developing tools to detect AI-generated music across the music pipeline, with a focus on licensing and control rather than takedowns (Jack Buehrer/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

We need to reclaim the tradition of imposing taxes on the rich to cover the costs of war. It’s why we got the income tax in the first place.

War is a mechanism that concentrates wealth at the top. If that is not countered with policy, it suggests that part of the purpose of the war is that concentration.
(see the past 25 years as an example)

Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)

FFOTUS has tossed our US Constitution into the paper shredder and disclaimed any restraints on his powers.
OK. Then....
Congress can play the same game - it can hire its own armed forces. (How and where it gets the money is an exercise left to the reader.)
And generals, more likely colonels, in the US military can say "we don't need no stinkin' commander-in-chief to tells us what to do." This would bring on a good 'ol South American Banana Republic …

Beginning the second day of the #Rotary International 2025 Convention in Calgary, Canada… over 15,000 people here!

Rioter Ordered To Pay $500,000 To Widow Of Late Cop - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/rioter-ordered-to-pay-500000-to-widow-of-late-cop/

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
ZEN: Confirmed.
JENNA: [Looks at controls] That's done it. It seems we're on course now.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/90…

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So it's been an even more hectic afternoon than usual, preparing kit, including 2 new and rather complex instruments we've never used before, for departure tomorrow morning. We managed to get most things ready, but it's been quite the introduction for my colleague Abraham who has never been to Greenland before! But who seems very at home in the snow practicing with the EM which will measure sea ice thickness (we hope). #FieldDiary

In the United States, the power to use military force, including ordering airstrikes, is not granted explicitly to the President in the U.S. Constitution. Rather, this authority comes from Congress's power to declare war and grant the President the authority to take military action under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. This authority is further developed through the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which places limits on the President's ability to deploy U.S. forces into hos…