It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.

I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic – are facing unexpected hurdles in their efforts to develop more sophisticated models

Google is killing independent websites by burying them in the search results, even when we perfectly follow their guidelines.

Nobody" is sure what is going on, but their search engine started breaking down about 16 months ago

readers on the importance of libraries - and their fragile future

oh oh...

Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating

Apple Vision Pro owners are announcing they’re returning their headsets because they’re disappointed by the experience offered by the $3,500 mixed-reality gadget

what??

Deep Web Website Owners Hack Back Their Websites