Day: May 4, 2025, 7:25 PM

Chill Links

The History of Album Art.

120 Companies with planned layoffs in May.

One third of the population believes every lie, one third is too ignorant to tell the difference between truth and lies, and the remaining third is powerless (or unwilling) to do anything about it.

Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay.

High Rent Hits Gen Z Hard: 3 in 5 Struggle With Affordability.

US Holders of Foreign Assets, Foreign Holders of US Assets, and Exorbitant Privilege.

Ever Worried About Being Laid Off? Read This.

Split Skulls

Chill Annoying

If I see one more clown refer to a switch as an “Ethernet splitter,” I’m gonna have to go ape up in here.

A switch does not “split” anything. That is fundamentally not how it works. At all, at all.

There is a thing that is an actual Ethernet splitter that you should never probably use. And this is it.

In tech correct terminology is paramount because you often get exactly what you ask for. Ask for something stupid, you’ll get it. GIGO.

AI Music

Chill Music

This is how all AI-generated music sounds. Not knowing anything about it, I identified it as AI slop within the first two bars.

It’s very static and repetitive in a way that human music just never is. I am not sure if I could teach others to clock AI-created music, though. Most people have not listened to the absurdly-vast amount of tunes that I have. But to me AI music stands out like a flashing blue light in a moonless night.

It’s not a bad song. It’s not a good song. It’s a nothing song. It’s just completely soulless. And that is apparent quite quickly.