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Robert Schneider, frontman of Apples In Stereo and producer of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea has just released an A.I. album and his takes on it has got to be some of the worst I’ve ever read especially when he tries to use both math and the passing of his late friend, Bill Doss from Olivia Tremor Control, as justification for why he made the album and why A.I. is good. Here’s an article for context. The author, Schneider’s friend, at least doesn’t like A.I. at all: https://superjews.substack.com/p/can-ai-generated-music-have-a-soul?triedRedirect=true

Link (with a cool tweet)

The post has 200 upvotes and the top comment is calling us please dont remove this one

i serve the amerikkkan empire

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TFW no career ladder in my sycophantic project to whitewash dems

linky to tweet and boomerberg its with access token and probably tracking

It's about pragamatism - Emma

Sam "Harris" Seder - I voted for Nader and we got Bush (just going to omit how shitty was for the left, labor, LGBTBQ and the DNC nominating his VP to extend his policies were or how the DNC went on to rehabilitate and were willing partners during his reign of shit.)

Look honey, we see you and hear you on that xenophobia, but the reality is there are a lot of racists in this country and we can't afford to stand on principal now.

giggle I find it very funny how long this nickname has sticked for. She will never escape the fart

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https://archive.ph/JgiPA

Petition for Eve Fartlow to join IOF

Who writes this diarrhea? Wikipedia is a joke

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Some genius takes:

The whole Global North/South split is a pet peeve of mine as a social scientist working in development policy. It's a bunch of outdated garbage from the Cold War that was really just a thinly veiled dogwhistle for 'white/the good Asians' and 'not white'. It doesn't hold up to any rational examination. South Africa was part of the Global North until white rule under Apartheid ended, and now they're in the Global South. southern nations.

Real educated economist chimes in:

Jason Hickel is an anthropologist (read: not economist) and degrowther. Despite having no background and seemingly almost no understanding of economics as a field, he somehow continues to get 'economics' papers published in reputable journals despite their obvious low quality. But to anyone with a cursory understanding of economics, it should be entirely unsurprising that exports from developing nations to developed are more labor intensive than vice-versa. This is not a novel conclusion and is not 'appropriation', but is entirely explained by a concept in economics called comparative advantage.

Another genius owns the article epic style

This paper is a demonstration of why input-output (IO) models are bad for economic research. IO models were used by the soviet central planners to allocate resources. IO models are bad for research for the same reason the are bad for planning. The authors look at “embodied labor” (adjusted for human capital), the idea being that any two things produced by an hour of (human capital adjusted) labor must have the same value (btw, this “labor theory of value” goes back to Adam Smith, and was later promulgated by Marx).

Other facts that the authors’ framework will struggle to explain: why is it that the poor countries that most integrated with global trade networks became rich (s korea, Japan, Singapore) or are otherwise growing quickly (china, Panama, Vietnam)? Why is it that countries with severe barriers to trade with the global north struggle to grow (n Korea, India for second half of 20th century)? That’s very hard to explain if trade with the global north is fundamentally exploitative.

~~Yes this is the dumb climate denier econ guy who was popular in the days before the Erdtree.~~

Nope he's an odd Transhumanist associated with Bostrom et al so, more a dumb eugenics guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_events_of_the_20th_century#The_Russian_Revolution_and_Communism

Footnote 19: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1169&context=honorsprojects

The whole section of the Wiki article is regurgitated bad history, but citing a literal rando is low even for Wikipedia

Anti-v@ush posting is apparently v*ush posting and "goes in the dunk tank" according to urbanism mod, and nuts to all the discussion that was already happening in that thread.