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I miss scarcity

This is not a complaint. Or, if it is a complaint, it's half-aimed at me. Mostly this is a reflection.

In the old days, I got to know music really well -- in great detail, sonically, musically, reading all the credits, the liner notes, etc. A friend would have an album I didn't, so I'd go to his house to listen. We'd talk about the music. We'd talk about how album sides hung together or didn't. We were thrilled by double albums.

Now, a torrent of information is everywhere. I listen alone, often to a single song, often not listening to anything over and over again.

You will tell me, "That's your choice." I'd half agree. It's like agreeing that "It's my choice not to live off the electrical grid." 

As I read and teach about AI, I am learning that our tools often prioritize speed and information glut. It seems, initially, like a cornucopia but it becomes a wash of "content." I must admit, I'm losing my talent for managing all this content, and I'm losing my love for it. And it's making me into a different person, somewhat, and I am not so sure I want to be that person. End of reflection.

Wizard Conjuring Cosmic Chaos Art Print featuring the drawing Let There be Content by Benjamin Schwartz

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parkergetdean
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@goodlistening64 there are literally 10s of 1000s of people whose job is to make logging into systems where you can cause or influence an event so difficult that you spend hours a day trying and often failing. One could of course remove those safeguards like Hegseth directing a battle via Signal. But rules are there for a reason

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devinplombier
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An enemy, set on world destruction, would have to physically penetrate the silo (next to impossible) and override systems put in place to prevent such a scenario, then kill the AF folks who are all armed inside and have heavy impenetrable security doors that are bomb proof.

No, it would just have to cause the people who hold the keys to use them. 

Not going to say there is NO chance, but we would have to be at war first and foremost.

Well, even if we are not at war before the first missiles launch, we will soon be.

 

parkergetdean
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@goodlistening64 No, I mean the IT security/security people.

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gents
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Oy. I didn't count on all the soap boxes and symposiums. We might need some AI to streamline this thread.

Like others, I haven’t really changed my way of listening. I do miss the album cover, and subsequently, the CD booklet in my hand, but I’m not loading anything track by track. I’m putting on an entire album way more often than not.

On that note, I recommend the last album I just had on, Henri Salvador Plays The Blues.  

Gorgeous stuff.

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