Allow Gaza to happen? You mean Biden approved of Oct 7?

I wish I could find the article.

Years ago, someone tried mailing a lot of stuff through the post office.

I remember they mailed a $20 bill, and tried sneaking something oversized like skiis into a mail truck.

can't find the article though - search has really been SEO'd to death by companies involved in mail.

There seems to be a lot of anger around Spotify these days, often misplaced I reckon.

One of the biggest impediments to new artists making a living from recorded music is not the existence of Spotify and other streaming platforms, rather it's the massive and growing library of existing music, some of which is excellent.

But it's not impossible. My neighbor manages his music career himself. In 2024 he went from having 250,000 monthly Spotify listeners to 800,000. A few months ago he was able to give up his job and devote himself to music full time - he is getting decent streaming royalty checks.

If you complain that Spotify is contributing to a generic and bland listening experience then that is totally your own fault. Spotify will give you excellent and adventurous listening experiences, but you have to put in the time to 'train' your personal algorithms first, mainly by liking tracks, saving albums and playlists, and making playlists. Also: by paying attention to DJs/curators and researching dark corners of the music blogosphere, SoundCloud and Mixcloud.

> the mistrals have been historically great and embraced for various fine-tuning Are there any guides on fine tuning them that you can recommend?

you’re probably running it on ollama.

ollama is doing the pretty unethical thing of lying about whether you are running r1, most of the models they have labeled r1 are actually entirely different models

Hispanic and black voters won’t turn out to vote for a woman, regardless of race.

Next time, run a 6’2” white guy with good hair.

This statement from scarlet really changed my perspective. I use and loved the Sky voice and I did feel it sounded a little like her, but moreover it was the best of their voice offerings. I was mad when they removed it. But now I’m mad it was ever there to begin with. This timeline makes it clear that this wasn’t a coincidence and maybe not even a hiring of an impressionist (which is where things get a little more wishy washy for me).

1% of people represent 50% of the ~~flights~~ emissions (see thread): https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-caus...

Who does that?