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musefoundry.bsky.social
Former music analyst at Pandora | I publish articles on a regular basis on Medium: https://medium.com/@WeWillNotBeFlattened | Currently building the future of music offline https://musefoundry.studio/
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The Future of music is offline. The future of content is on Spotify.

Deerhoof are leaving Spotify over CEO Daniel Ek's investment in an AI military startup: "We don’t want our music killing people. We don’t want our success being tied to AI battle tech."

EPISODE 1: We’re chatting with Greg Saunier of @deerhoof.bsky.social about Noble and Godlike in Ruin, the group’s new record for @joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social , resisting the AI slop machine & much more! Listen: apple.co/4irnN76 Support us & hear a bonus segment: patreon.com/criticallistening

Nothing says romance like two content cadavers playacting Americana in a cowboy cosplay truck shoot, embracing immortality-as-content, while dropping $55 million on a wedding no one’s invited to. This is a wedding photo as brand asset for the regime of undead aesthetics.

Profit from collapsing the spaces for protest music to emerge and then profit from the rise of a militarized culture.

My use of the internet is fairly close to this.

For a company like suno.ai or Midjourney to be seen as viable or valuable, it must emerge from a culture that has already embraced the complete futility of human life. These systems don’t produce resignation; they presuppose it. medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...

From a new piece on AI: The logic that sells art without artists, songs without musicians, connection without embodiment, is the same logic that can destroy actual human bodies & call it necessary. When presence has no value in epistemic relations, its elimination becomes acceptable and inevitable

The 2010 cliff will implode the global economy. Unless we find other ways of assigning wealth - which we won't because we may be the laziest, most unimaginative cohort of humans to ever exist. That said, the 2010 cliff aligns perfectly with AI’s push to render the human body obsolete.

Cars are dumb. An EV car future is even dumber. Driverless cars are the infinity point of dumb.

I said to the wife that it was weird B2s were flying over pacific to strike Iran when the B2s always fly east when they dropped bombs in Afghanistan. Apparently most people forgot about that?

Decided to get up on the roof and watch the sunrise for my birthday. Venus and the moon looking spectacular.

AI is the end of man; as in, the medium - generative AI - is the ultimate expression of resignation. For a company like Suno.ai to exist and be viable, it must emerge in a culture which has embraced the complete futility of human life.

This Modern Love story on men opting out of society is really insightful and spot on. I argue that the goal of AI and algorithms more generally is the logic of obsolescing the body. This essay illustrates the stakes of this beautifully. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/s...

'Postmodern cosmopolitanism is usually no more than the philosophical superstructure of cheap flights between European and American capitals." - Sloterdijk

A couple of years into this and the fact people still don't get this should be a disqualify event. I can't believe I still see people who teach at universities post shit like: I asked ChatGPT who won the World Series in 1969 and it gave me answer 'X!' See, these machines are stoopid.

Dope: "...turning it down because it wasn’t something that reflects the work that Studio Musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s Recording Hits…….. you are always part of a TEAM, not a solo artist at all..."

They are calling for a high of 115 tomorrow in Tucson. There was a time - pre 2000's - that reaching 110 was rare. Long term viability of this region is questionable.

We used to record in time. Now it’s plotted pixel by pixel, gridline by gridline. Pro Tools shifted music from the ear to the eye. We traded kairos for machinic regularity. And it’s tearing us apart. medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...

Sloterdijk argues that attempts to revive Old European political holism rooted in metaphysical unity and public spirit are only possible now through a fascist ruler. Therefore he argues his spherological forms represent 3rd way: plural, relational, non-totalizing...

Good thing Pima County Supervisors voted to approve a massive data center in an environment where it regularly is above 110 degrees and requires insane amounts of energy and water to maintain. Economic Development in Southern Arizona has long ago gone off the rails.

At the end he was convinced that public life on television...was more real than private life in the flesh. He wasn't afraid to let his body die.

Same aesthetic

Weird to me that all the freedom of speech absolutists are perfectly OK with a foreign nation silencing our speech and then co-opting our voice for their own benefit.

Calling for 110 degrees in Tucson this weekend!

Not possible. My most widely read piece on Medium thus far: medium.com/@WeWillNotBe...

Stop Calling AI a Tool by @musefoundry.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wewillno...

I'm old enough to remember when Naveen Chopra was the CFO of Pandora then became the interim CEO when the former CEO was forced out by the board/hostile investor - Corvex/Keith Meister

Wut?