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however, the denominator does a lot of work.

if you (roughly) make that correction it definitely just seems like a story about music's cost going down

this also does not account for am/fm radio revenue that makes its way to artists

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Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · 27/09/2026

I looked into this chart a bit and I think you made a couple errors: - The red area is not measuring live music, but all non-sports live entertainment, so it's likely a ~2-3x overestimate of just live music - Ad-supported music streaming + licensing is not included (maybe bumps yellow up by ~1.3x)

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as a software engineer i can say that one of the most important parts of my job is rejecting the opinions of software engineers

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Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · 27/09/2026

as a software engineer i can say that one of the most important parts of my job is rejecting the opinions of software engineers

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Love to see Medicare for Kids back on the menu, such an underrated path to M4A

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Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · 26/09/2026

i think the theory is that its people voting a second time under a false name or something

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Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · 26/09/2026

this is the funniest joke i've ever made

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this is literally the point of the show - it’s not a surprise he’s a bad guy except for maga weirdos

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bsky is short for buttsky

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three posts too many would mean the right number is zero since you posted three total

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what is the absolute simplest way to make an atproto app

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thanks a lot now im trying to fucking do original research on this with chatgpt for no reason

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appears to be cycle life (does not hold a charge well over many cycles)

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technically she's splitting hairs between "shows bias" and "reflects bias" we dont know what she thinks of "has bias". though "reflects bias" seems less technically correct

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also "based on" is doing all the work!

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Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

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people really want to make every argument about the definitions of words instead of about any sort of idea. literally this is the least useful possible thing to argue about

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also: something else not human that we anthropomorphize is characters in stories who are not real but we see and talk about as having motivations

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also, one reason you might think that ais have anthropomorphic qualities is that they are trained on data from human beings who do in fact have wants and desires and so minimally they are reproducing the perceivable aspects of people behavior quite well

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it does seem like a lot of repliers think a major issue with “anthropomorphism” of AI is that it somehow gets sama out of legal liability or something which i do not think is a true or necessary part of how we describe ai behavior

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not failing to consider them, prioritizing them

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no, the major problem with cars IS that they’re polluting by far, and dangerous

sure. but even so 100% of cars in the final calculation need to be electric

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and also, there's little choice because people really really prefer cars when possible for a million reasons, and not having to drive them, have them be super cheap, and being able to watch tv or sleep or be on your phone in there with point to point transport is ridiculously competitive

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3 - but my electric car on the CURRENT power grid in LA is as efficient per passenger mile as a bus! you can drop emissions like a stone independently of having to rework all the roads which will take much longer than we have to deal with global warming

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1 - electric vehicles are required in any scenario where we address global warming. we MUST replace ALL road vehicles with electric vehicles. 2 - modal shift cannot beat EVs at emissions. because if you got the whole world to Japan levels of transit, that's still half of trips / 63% of km by car

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electric public transit is also good. but you still need to replace ALL -- 100% -- of vehicles private and otherwise with electric ones! Electric cars are available today!

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one wonders what a “human trait” is. presumably they mean an exclusively human trait? not really though. animals think, for example

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changing urban design and putting in trains whatnot takes a lot more time than improving cars. and even the most transit forward and urban places on earth still do most of their transit by cars! you literally have to improve cars in this way no matter what

i mean people in the thread i was replying to were saying long tailpipe stuff so that’s why i think that people still think it. but anyway im happy as a clam to fund other modes of transit but im not happy when people want to sandbag our single best option for reducing transit emissions and deaths

this strikes me as weird argument because even if that were true and waymo can never increase utilization it would be a no-brainer to trade some congestion for substantially decreased carbon emissions, improved safety, and reduced cost

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