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I really don't think spotify gas much to worry about. Pirating music has been a thing since long before Spotify hit the stage. Spotify's strength (and what I pay for) is convenience. Even if I had a personal library with all the music annas-archive pulled down, I still think I'd keep paying for Spotify as long as it remains easily accessible on all my devices.

I love the concept. But the long load at startup really kills it. Even clicking off the site and reloading makes me have to go through the download all over again.

This could be a fun party game where you are given a country and have to do your best accent.

This could be a fun party game where you have to fake a given accent and see how well it sounds.

Could be made a little less creepy if it had no internet access and you could load in new people as you interact with them so it uses a local cache for lookups.

Totho, has graduated from snap bows.

Some good "modern" sci fi off the top of my head:

Adrian Tchaikovsky's children of time series, as well as his terrible worlds novelas

Anne leckie's ancillary justice series

Martha Wells Murderbot diaries

Andy Weir's project hail mary

John scalzi's old man's war trilogy (technically more than a trilogy, but they fall off after the first 3)

Check out Adrian Tchaikovsky

Lockheed martin

Tiktok will go down in infamy as the best intelligence operation in the history of mankind. Both in its potential for collection and profiling as well as psychological and behavioral manipulation

I've been going through his whole filmography and haven't run into anything I've disliked yet. Much of it is in an audiobook format on your local library app.

Children of Time is my favorite sci fi novel. The sequel isn't bad either, the 3rd one gets a little weird, but i thought the argument about "sentience" != "intelligence" was an interesting one. This is a prevailing theme in Blindsight by Peter Watts too, but I felt the technobabble really took away from the theme and distracted from story.

How far are we from just giving it a novel and effectively asking it to create a TV series from it

My fantasy league moved from sleeper to espn, but espn didn't offer the same weekly accolades, so I made my own using ESPNs api. https://fantasy.chubb.dev

There must be some middle ground between reckless advancement without safeguards and hamstringing the technology through an abundance of caution.

If true, this sounds like a good thing, albeit poorly handled. AGI is a world changing technology, the likes of which we haven't seen since "the internet." Being safety first and deliberate about it with a lesser focus on profit seems like the right call.

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Weird. A few of these were mandatory reading when I was in school

Something darker similiar to the wealth gap right now, but instead of the 0.1% of humans with it, it's just AIs that can live forever and hoard wealth as long as they want. Learning loopholes, technicalities, and faster processing to take advantage of every market condition.

Video game lofi

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It's quick, to the point, and good value for new dads.

Lately I was introduced to Gene Kim's Phoenix Project, Unicorn Project, and DevOps Handbook. They changed the way I've looked at a my role as a leader of technical people in the organization as well as challenging some pre-concieved notions about techs role in business. You should check them out

I really like this concept. Even going as far as seeding a design-as-code parameter with the company name would be a cool feature.