John Gazzini

@gazzini

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It's very hard to order coffee from their website. https://wunderground.com

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I would feel duped if the song was mostly AI-generated and I didn't know it. (there was no way to interpret this meaning from my cast lol).

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I see that -- and I think they already have a plan to "lose" and disclose it. And... I also dislike the cheating... but it's outweighed by how much fun it is to watch Spotify eat itself. As a consumer, I don't feel deceived by the mechanics of the flow-of-funds from Spotify -> artist. AI might change that.

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The author's solution is bad -- like, would the labels do better? Which labels own the platform? Do new artists have vesting cliffs? Drawing the lines between the current definitions of "musician" and distributors ("labels" "platforms" whatever) is probably not that important. We should let music get weird, then better.

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It seems obvious that their strategy is to go "too far" like this, make a huge debate around "should we disclose it?!?", and then finally cave to the will of the people. And Spotify will win, but "the people" will have apparently won. vs if they disclosed out of the gate, people would debate the cheating directly.

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Competing unfairly & disclosing it still seems shady. They both created an efficient online marketplace, then expanded it to more markets, and are now competing unfairly within those markets. Putting an "I cheated" sign on the first result doesn't move the needle much.

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These in-house artists are Shopify's version of "Amazon Basics". Love it.

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Where does Coinbase's value capture come from?

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Yea I block them

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Nice! I finally made a "House Gazzini" playlist on Spotify with these songs on it because we had a few meltdowns trying to beg Alexa to play them: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HP0ezZWTVbyAry8rrOXBD

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This is one of the things that Austin gets really wrong. I've needed the police twice in 9 years and we're now 0/2. The population has grown, but the number of officers has been flat (and the city council is so erratic about the budget that nobody with options decides to become a cop). More. Cops.

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There's something really funny about a company called "Bending Spoons" that's just forever squeezing its users. I'm sure they wanted to invoke a cool visual from The Matrix, but I'm picturing a fat kid just angrily squeezing a spoon with both hands.

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We're kinda crushing it.

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I've been off social media for a while to focus on building a family

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Can you handle the truth?

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You heard the man.

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I'm also getting one but for VERY DIFFERENT REASONS

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Absolutely ruthless behavior.

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Your nicknames are 10/10. Would never have thought to use "killer" here.

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