Det er skrevet mange julesanger, som oftest er spilt inn i enda flere versjoner hvorav en troner høyere enn andre. I tillegg kommer stadig nye julesanger til, og Ramsalt jul av Thea Sæther fra Frøya (aka. Trøndelagskystens perle) er utvilsomt min favoritt fra 2024. Det er en vakker sang, og nydelig fremført; artisten har selv skrevet teksten. Det er skrevet nok sanger om å feire jul i skauen, så det var på høy tid at kyst-Norge får et nytt tillegg.
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[T]he so-called AI boom we’re in right now is really selling two things, neither of which have to be very good. A way to automate work you don’t value enough to hire a human being to do or, at the bare minimum, a way to hide the human beings doing that work so you can feel better about how little you pay them.
Sam Altman needs you to believe that AI will kill us all or going to destroy all our jobs and that he’s a little bit scared of AI, because if you think for even a second about what this man is saying, you’ll realize that he’s not an engineer, he’s a lobbyist and a liar. He needs us to humor — even if he rejects the notion — the idea that AI could be considered a “creature” because doing so allows him to add further mystique and hype to distract from the fact that he doesn’t seem to know anything and OpenAI doesn’t seem to be innovating.
I blame my parents for making me a fan of musicals at a young age. I’ve yet to see 1955’s It’s always fair weather, but when this scene popped up in my feed, I realize that has to change. I mean, _wow! – I can’t imagine how hard this was to do.
The Dark Side Of The Moon is David Cameron’s favourite album of all time. The latter ex-Prime Minister actually has a lot in common with Waters. Both men have taken charge of something arrogantly and made it immeasurably worse than it was in the first place. Also, each one owns a wardrobe full of inflatable pigs.
[E]ven if Ukraine falls, the fundamental conflict between Putin and the West will not diminish, because it’s really about Poland. Poland’s Western-backed success represents the major challenge to Russia’s domination of what Putin sees as its rightful sphere of influence. And as long as Poland is wealthy and strong and independent, Putin, with the 1600s still fresh in his mind, will always feel like Russia is under direct threat.
I haven’t paid Russell Brand much attention since his brief Hollywood stint. Turns out that he’s discovered he could make lots of money on the far right conspiracy crowd. This is an interesting video from Media Matters’ Abbie Richards, detailing the grift economy network. Brand almost certainly doesn’t believe any of the claims he makes, but he’s making a lot more money from the Alex Jones crowd than he did as a self-help guru type. In other words: follow the money.
Any internet community dedicated to a particular topic inevitably ends up rewarding those users who take the most extreme position possible in relation to that topic. You can see the incredible rise of artistic populism in the past two decades for a great example. Once upon a time, there was a communal sense that being too invested in children’s media as an adult was a mark of arrested development and something to be embarrassed about; the world’s nerds spent many years developing a persecution complex because of this belief. But it turns out that such social conditioning plays an important role. Once the internet became a mass phenomenon, the nerds all found each other and rebelled against any sense of obligation that they should ever engage with art on any level more sophisticated than “Is this badass???”
Here is an acoustic version of The New Pornographers’ Firework in the Falling Snow with a guest appearance by Aimee Mann.