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Yet another XKCD where he delivers the punchline, and then goes on to explain the punchline.

1. CEO wastes a ton of money on generative AI
2. CEO fires a bunch of people to hit quarterly profit targets

generative AI resulted in job cuts.

Men will literally let an AI kill thousands of drivers a year instead of ~~going to therapy~~ building high-speed rail.

If the artist has a way to buy and download from their website, I do that. Otherwise I buy CDs or vinyl and rip them.

Sometimes I poke around Wikipedia and see what other artists collaborated with, influenced, or were influenced by artists I like, and buy their albums.

Sometimes I download highly-rated shows from random artists on Internet Archive's Live Music Archive

Sometimes friends recommend stuff.

mpd + ncmpc

I am but a simple man. All my music is FLAC. It is arranged neatly in folders. I just want to select an album to play. I do not need album covers, playlists, search, streaming, tags, lyrics, analyzers, or scrobbling.

If a third of registered Democrats stopped voting for DNC-backed candidates who do not represent them (by not voting or by voting for the Green Party candidate) and the Democrats lost in a landslide, the DNC would have two options:

1. move left to regain the voters
2. move right to keep the corporate bribes coming and try to sway Republican voters.

I am not at all confident that they would select option 1.

Escaped religion.

The P in HIPAA is for Portability, not Privacy, and the S is for security.

Like with anything, you will not know if you are going to be good at it until you spend a lot of time trying and failing and learning. If you enjoy it, just keep doing it.

How I feel about this very much depends on which justice he threatened to kill.