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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 🧵

Bill Skarsgård says he has wanted to play John Constantine. “I thought Constantine was cool. I had an idea that Andy Muschietti and I could do Constantine. I just thought that it [would blend] truly visual horror & superhero.” (Source: @joshuahorowitz)

They’ll kill you nowadays if you dare write Amanda Waller to be morally grey and nuanced, instead of just mustache twirling evil.

Wildwood is a remarkable technical achievement and that 20 minute battle sequence is unreal. You really do forget it’s stop motion and wonder how the hell they did that. Mulligans voice work is stellar too along with the rest of the cast

U can walk into any Apple Store today, buy a $599 Mac Mini, install a free open-source AI on it in 20 minutes, and resell it to a 60yo lawyer or doctor for $7,500 cash Sounds completely illegal the first time u hear it Here is why they happily write the check (and how to set it up): Go ask any divorce lawyer, plastic surgeon, CPA, or 60yo millionaire why they don't use ChatGPT to run their business They will all give u the exact same answer: "I'm not allowed to upload my clients' private tax returns, medical records, or legal contracts into someone else's cloud" If a lawyer leaks a client contract into a public AI model he can literally lose his license So instead he pays a human executive assistant $65,000 a year just to sit at a desk, read his emails, summarize his calls, and put appointments on his calendar Now look at what kids in LA, New York, and Miami are doing rn: Step 1: Walk into Apple and buy a base-model Mac Mini for $599 Step 2: Install OpenClaw (free on GitHub) + a local open-source model directly onto the hard drive so zero data ever leaves that physical silver box Step 3: Connect it to a private Telegram chat (@BotFather takes 2 minutes), hook up his Google Calendar + Gmail, and connect Fireflies to his Zoom Step 4: Drop a 1-page instruction file into the folder (called SOUL. md) w/ his exact writing style, his pricing, and his rules for how he likes his schedule run Now u walk into that lawyer's or doctor's office holding the silver box in ur hand and tell him: "This is a private AI Executive Assistant in a Box. It plugs into ur wall right here in ur office. Nothing ever touches the public cloud. U just send it a 10-second voice note on Telegram while ur driving to work and it answers ur emails, summarizes ur Zoom calls, drafts ur contracts, and books ur calendar 24/7. A human assistant costs u $65,000 every year. This box is $7,500 once and u own it forever" To u, it's a $599 Apple computer and 20 minutes of terminal commands To a 60yo partner at a law firm billing $800 an hour who hates paying $65k/yr for a lazy secretary, $7,500 is pocket change Sell 1 a week and u clear $27,000/mo in pure profit without writing a single line of code from scratch

MLB owners keep pushing the same bullshit rhetoric that a salary cap is for the betterment of the game and the only solution to address the disparity in team payrolls. They couldn’t care less about what the fans think.

Don't be gaslit into being okay with ai slop. This is what they want.

She’s the main reason why people have the wrong thoughts about how Diana truly is.

Ask a DCAU fan to have a conversation about a female character and they’ll talk about anything but writing, performance, or lore.

I love Waller in this version. She has an entire arc where she grows to be suspicious of the League, becomes outright hostile against them, and then realizes that ultimately humanity does benefit from having the Supes around. She even admits she's lucky she's not in prison. Lol

Last month, DC fans were up in arms about LANTERNS “hating its source material”. Now they’d like a sequel to the movie where John Constantine is American, dark-haired and quits smoking at the end…

I’m steadfast in my belief that I don’t care if there is a cap/floor, I only care about the facts. A fact nobody on either side would disagree with is that a 50/50 revenue split would have players earning less of the pie than they do now, and I’m unsure how many people know that

Fans don't care about there being a salary cap per se. It's just the buzziest term bc MLB keeps pushing it. Here's what fans want: Ability for their team to compete for free agents. Their owner to invest in their team's winning. That's it. Plenty of other ways to get to this.

The bigger issue BY FAR are the owners who have no interest in the product and are just taking profits A ceiling wouldn’t fix that, a floor should

MLB owners keep pushing the same bullshit rhetoric that a salary cap is for the betterment of the game and the only solution to address the disparity in team payrolls. They couldn’t care less about what the fans think.

Not enough conversation on how a 72 year old IP is thriving like this, and Star Wars is currently a mess

Fuck AI and fuck movies that use AI.