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Jun 3Liked by Damon Krukowski

Loved this deconstruction of an 'assertion'. One question for all those determined not to pay for content... Will their AI bots pay taxes too?

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Awww... wrapping up with a Shelley quote. This weekend one of the the kids sat us down to watch Lisa Frankenstein. Someone (?) in the house started screaming THEY MADE A VIDEO FOR STRANGE OH MY GOD HOW SWEET YES YES

What was that about shelf life again?

I like to think about objects/artworks as energy packets that contain/gather/release energy at irregular intervals. Vases, hooks. More musical notations on ceramics please.

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very good... thanks...

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whilst asking humans to do the labor of filtering and surfacing, no less

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Jun 5Liked by Damon Krukowski

The words he uses reveal that he may not understand how "content" is created, and that he is conflating publishing content with creation. The creation process is months of writing and re-writing, or a spark of insight all at once, 100 vocal takes for one recorded verse. Perhaps he is unwittingly correct that the cost is near zero, because the act of creation cannot be commoditized, he's just stuck in the capital distribution mindset, shuffling stock units and trying to maximize profits ("shelf life" and "obsolescence").

As the Great Stoic Marcus Aurelius once said "In your life, don’t be all about business" and "if it is not true, do not say it."

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Jun 7Liked by Damon Krukowski

Thanks for your wonderful words and truths Damon.

May I direct you to, and hope you enjoy, my old band’s Ozymandias - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw_smqngr28

Produced and released before ‘streaming’ enveloped the world.

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Has there ever been a band called "The Stoics"?

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