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Bir biyolog, ormandaki bir mantarın biyolojik aktivitesini synthesizer’a bağladı. Mantardan gelen sinyaller, enstrümandan müzik olarak duyuldu.
Risk averse, could’ve never been me. 🤣
I enjoy the research, I enjoy the hypothesis, I enjoy findings.
Science 🧬
Gross
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but if the market is wildly selling off AI stocks because of the election results then it’s safe to assume the value wasn’t in the product but in the administrations willingness to let Silicon Valley fellate each other on your dime.
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BREAKING: GOVERNOR-ELECT GINA HINOJOSA ORDERS AN IMMEDIATE END TO SELLING TEXAS PUBLIC LAND TO ELON MUSK.
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A key data point, mostly unnoticed, explains much of the election carnage in Texas and nationally.
Major bond packages were on the ballot throughout North Texas. The City of Irving had a roughly $1 billion dollar bond presented for public schools. Irving voters—who voted for Talarico by a whopping +43 margin—rejected the public school bond. Convincingly.
Dallas County (+45 Talarico) voted on a tax that would generate $100 million/year for homelessness services. It failed.
Bonds or tax packages in McKinney, Keller, Mesquite, and elsewhere failed—including a vote in Plano to bring the Dallas Stars NHL franchise to its city.
While the nation elected openly Marxist DSA candidates, blood-red states like Mississippi and South Carolina saw Republican losses, and where far-left Democrats prevailed in once untouchable Texas, those same voters rejected funds for public school and homeless services, darling issues for liberals.
How could these newly progressive voters be so cold-hearted?
This election was chiefly about economics. It is, so it turns out, the economy, stupid. In the last two years, the economic plight of working Americans simply did not improve. And the war in Iran, besides being a betrayal of trust to voters, made money matters affirmatively worse.
Texas Democrats intentionally—and quite shrewdly—ignored culture war issues and laser-focused messaging on populist economics.
That’s how they were able to win the same Texans who voted against public school and homeless service proposals. People are struggling, immensely more than most understand.
