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The generation raised on smartphones is choosing phone-free dancefloors A hopeful sign that the smartphone era is turning

Allow me to sprinkle some hope into your feeds 🌿

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Thursday Afternoon (2005 Digital Remaster) YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic

It’s Thursday.

Add some peace to your environment today by giving this fantastically soothing work by ambient pioneer Brian Eno a listen, titled “Thursday Afternoon”.

If you’re feeling particularly mischievous, listen to it in the morning.

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James Martin: We're using AI like a bazooka to swat flies "The impact-to-benefit ratio is way off. And most people have no idea."

"I’m very much in favour of smaller, pragmatic systems that solve real problems, ideally running on renewable energy. I try to use my own brain first; only use AI when it genuinely helps; and when I do, choose smaller, more efficient models wherever possible."

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Oleg Stavitsky: Building music that follows you like a bodily function "You have this creator ego that says, this is how you're supposed to use it — and then real life happens."

I spoke with the CEO and co-founder of soundscape generation app Endel — you’ve probably seen it featured in the App Store — about their new ambient label Sources, Brian Eno, functional audio, and giving birth.

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“It’s supposed to hurt. That’s why we do it six times!”

Love my ballet instructor 😂

Tbh, I like winter because it’s easier to see the birds in the trees and it’s more quiet outside :)

😅 I’m bracing myself.

Hi Bluesky, from Grunewald forest, Berlin. I present to you, a blue sky. With birds to listen to.

Alright. 500 days done.

Time to let this app go. Music learning has been fun with Duolingo, but after a few months, I’ve started to plateau.

What better song to end it with than The Final Countdown?

Kate Berkita: How AI‑generated music can support people with Parkinson’s "Many people with Parkinson’s are not ready to accept they have it. And this is very hard to see, to be honest."

Sometimes it’s good to be reminded of music’s uses beyond the boundaries of the industry. And how not all is black-and-white when it comes to AI-generated music.

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Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or b…

“Networks compress time and space, then quietly train us to live at their speed.”

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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

"Both Google and Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months."

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A decade before 'Moltbook', there was SubredditSimulator.
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Meta's Secret Weapon in the AI Race? All Your Personal Data
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People who have stopped using Google as their search engine: which do you use now and how happy are you with search results generally?

Was looking up the lyrics to the Ghostbusters theme...

Are EU leaders actually so naive as to believe that a greater European military presence in Greenland might appease Trump?

It's not about normal geopolitical interests: Trump cares foremost about the billionaires who want the territory's resources.

The US's defensive position is an excuse.

I put off switching from Google to Proton for years. It took minutes The price of convenience when your life's turned into training data.

This Saturday morning, I woke up early and finally snapped.

I ditched Gmail for @proton.me... and boy, would I have made the switch earlier if I had known it would only take me minutes.

(I'd seen the advertising claims. I was sceptical. I was wrong.)

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Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech : Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence

Yes, please. www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/e...

Hacker Dressed As Pink Power Ranger Dismantles Racist Websites Live on Stage At the Chaos Communication Congress in Germany, it was morphin' time for hacker Martha Root, who took down several white supremacist websites during their presentation.

Not all heroes wear capes… www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-...

Delete by default A challenge for YOU + some personal updates + new challenge in October!

Delete by default privacy strategy: www.calmfluffy.cloud/p/delete-by-...

Be aware of what you share. Assume that what you disclose may leak. That can be tomorrow, or that can be in 20 years. Keep in mind that even things you type, but don’t end up sharing, may be logged. Be aware of what you click. Everything you do in the app is tracked, including which links you choose to open, e.g. if you’re doing research. Avoid sharing information that could be used against you or others, should it become public. Respect your friends’ privacy. Don’t put their addresses, full names, or other personal info into ChatGPT. Use nicknames to create more ambiguity. Regularly clean ChatGPT’s memory feature. Does it really need to remember that you went on a holiday to Italy in 2023 with your ex-partner? Use the temporary chats feature. OpenAI claims these chats won’t be used to train their models, are deleted from OpenAI’s servers after 30 days, and don't show up in your history or memory (source). Stop OpenAI from using your data for training. You can opt out by using ChatGPT’s data controls. Imagine your private challenges from your Italian holiday somehow making their way into someone’s replies years down the line? If using third-party apps with ChatGPT, be cautious. This is a Cambridge Analytica scandal waiting to happen all over again. Keep yourself informed about potential risks. I highly recommend listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast to better understand why your data is valuable to actors with bad intentions, even if you think you have nothing to hide.

My privacy guide for ChatGPT: www.calmfluffy.cloud/p/meta-knows...

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more. OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.

This is your reminder to periodically delete all your data on AI platforms, because you can not know whose hands your chats will fall into.

My recommendation is to completely delete your account, and, if in EU, to submit a specific GDPR data deletion request.

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There seems to be some confusion over record labels’ suing AI companies, only to turn around and partner with them.

The lawsuits are part of the negotiation strategy.

It’s a very common strategy in IP-heavy industries.

(See also: UMG vs TikTok)

Deezer/Ipsos survey: 97% of people can’t tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human made music – clear desire for transparency and fairness for artists - Deezer Newsroom Deezer and Ipsos unveil a first-of-its-kind study exploring attitudes and perceptions around AI and music, conducted across 8 countries with 9000 people. The survey shows overwhelming support for labe...

“participants were asked to listen to three tracks and determine whether or not they were fully AI-generated – 97% of the respondents failed”

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How you hear these two tones might depend on if you grew up in California or the United Kingdom. Noam Hassenfeld, host of the Unexplainable podcast, talks to researcher Diana Deutsch about why people from different countries hear tritones differently.