Steve Chrisanthou

Cloud stacks

@archdrawsalot Love it

Abandoned

This is my son’s artwork , he’s really dug in after a life saving operation 18months ago , he had a year out to rest and recover, didn’t waste any time working hard on his passion every day, he was his own biggest critic but stayed optimistic and dug deep. To say I’m proud is an understatement . 🙏💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🔥🔥🔥

@TheFreds Bought and paid for… the fuckin’ robot .

The totalitarianism we warned of is happening. The European Union is at this moment forcing big tech companies to secretly engage in mass censorship. Google and Facebook are, apparently, going along with it. Only Elon Musk’s X, among the major platforms, is resisting. A few hours ago, Musk said, “The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.” And so now, the EU is preparing to punish X with massive fines — up to 6% of total global revenue. I can't imagine a more egregious form of foreign interference in our domestic affairs than foreign governments demanding mass secret censorship for ideological and political purposes. Most terrifying is the apparently direct involvement of government intelligence and security agencies, and their intermediaries, in demanding censorship. This is all happening at the very moment that the same governments, including our own, warn of Russian disinformation through spam accounts that hardly anybody ever sees. Don’t be fooled by what is happening. Governments and former intelligence officials in Europe, Australia, Israel, Brazil, and Ukraine and other nations are not only demanding censorship but also often spreading their own disinformation. For example, the EU claims that there is more false information on X than on other platforms, and more censorship would reduce it. This is false. Only X has the open-source Community Notes system, which allows for real-time corrections to false information. A recent study in JAMA, the Journal of American Medicine, found that 97.5% of the Community Notes were entirely accurate, 2%, partially accurate, and 0.5%, inaccurate. It’s not perfect. I myself sometimes disagree with them. And of course, science is never standing still, so what appears accurate today might not be accurate in the future. However, X’s Community Notes uses more speech, not censorship, to provide context to controversial content. You can still agree or disagree with the content, even with a Community Note attached. What the EU wants is for its committees of experts, not Community Notes, to secretly decide what we can read and say online. This is unethical and unconstitutional. Another key part of the EU’s disinformation is that “researchers” should have access to X’s internal data, which Musk cut off when he bought Twitter. But those people who want the data aren’t researchers. They’re censorship activists, many of whom have deep relationships with governments in general and intelligence agencies in particular. If the EU succeeds in censoring X, Facebook, Google, and every other major Internet platform, then there is no free speech. There is only government-controlled speech. Many people rightly worry about the implications of a single man, Elon Musk, being all that stands between us and foreign governments’ totalitarian censorship plans. I worry about that, too. Our speech is inalienable. It is not something governments give to us. We need to fight back. While we should be grateful to Musk for standing up to the totalitarians in Europe, Brazil, and Australia, we must build a citizen’s movement to fight back. There’s three things you can do. First, share this video to raise the alarm. Second, add your email to our list here, so we can involve you in the future. And, third, consider making a donation to build the free speech movement and urge Congress and other social media companies to stand up for free speech against foreign interference.

Back British Farming. 🇬🇧🚜

@ednewtonrex I’ve been playing with it for a couple of days , there’s something a little too uncomfortably familiar about it.. credit where it’s due

I spent a bit of time using Udio, and it turns out a bunch of its output closely resembles copyrighted music. - Melodies & chords sometimes closely resemble famous songs - Some output closely resembles specific artists’ sound/style - I could generate copyrighted lyrics for most bands I tried This raises serious questions about what it was trained on. Here’s what I got when I prompted for music by a band that rhymes with fabba, and entered the Dancing Queen lyrics. The tune on ‘we can jive’ is pretty much identical to the original. (Also see transcriptions: left is the original, right is Udio, both transposed to C. That phrase is very similar.) 🧵with more examples👇 (and more detail in my write-up in @musicbizworld, linked further down)

@BretWeinstein Great read 🙏🏼

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Funny…

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Artists should not be content to call our Art content. 👇

"Are we so beaten down that we will meekly accept more lies rather than ask questions, if we don't demand truthful asks then I ask again... Who are we?" pic.x.com/9igb8qvbcm Neil Oliver on the lies of WHO's pandemic treaty, net zero, and those that push these falsehoods. Who gets to decide what is true and what is false? It won't be the public.

@TommyDanvers Love this @TommyDanvers

GM GM. Be playful and humorous. Life is too short and there’s still so much to discover.

NEWS!! I know it’s appeared quiet in #BrokenRecord land, but we’ve been moving - slowly - but moving. Today, the UK government announced a working group into how we get paid. An important step down the road. @cj_dinenage @JWhittingdale musicweek.com/labels/read/uk…

THANK YOU @cj_dinenage⁩ ⁦@JWhittingdale⁩ ⁦@CommonsCMS⁩ ⁦@DCMS⁩. ⁦@bpi_music⁩ concerned about “impact on Investment” Err? Markets don’t grow by prioritising investors. They grow by prioritising what they invest in. musicweek.com/labels/read/uk…

@MrTomGray @cj_dinenage @JWhittingdale Great news… amazing job !!

Huge: “ the result of Phono III …upholds the 15.1% headline rate increase we fought for, however the length of time we have waited for this decision proves the Copyright Royalty Board system is woefully flawed” ⁦@DavidIsraelite⁩ ⁦@NMPAorg⁩ billboard.com/pro/songwriter…

This is the most important video you will watch this year. Millions were killed with Covid-19 for profit. “Covid-19 was an act of biological warfare perpetrated on the human race. It was a financial heist. Nature was hijacked. Science was hijacked.”

@lexfridman First read I thought you said ‘Icarus’ ….

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus

@eldsjal Gorgeous quote Daniel. Yet for all that lifetime’s graft, talent, collaboration & beauty they receive $0.003 between them, gross ( in both senses). Plz raise your $ubs & help those who make music make as much as those who sell it. Is that too much to ask for all this beauty?