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@discuss.onlinehttps://pitchfork.com/features/article/uncovering-how-streaming-is-changing-the-sound-of-pop/
Hit-making songwriters and producers reveal the ways they are tailoring tracks to fit a musical landscape dominated by streaming.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/08/08/margaret-watts-hughes-voice-figures/
“I hear bravuras of birds… I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,” Walt Whitman exulted in his ode to the “puzzle of puzzles” we call Being. How puzzli…
https://terikanefield.com/beware-the-lawyers-follow-up/
Last week I summarized Peter Arenella’s 1998 piece, The Perils of Legal Punditry. Among other things, Arenella argues that much of legal punditry is “Hot air that passes for legal commentary.” If you missed it, start here. I suggested that people don’t need lawyers to decode the news. I turned off my comments and added […]
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/reddit-ceo-teases-ai-search-features-and-paid-subreddits-225636988.html
Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform. 3
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/guys-who-always-touch-door-frame-explained
George Mallory, the mountaineer who died attempting to summit Everest in 1924, is said to have given a three-word reply when asked why he wanted...
https://www.power-technology.com/features/exclusive-sodium-batteries-to-disrupt-energy-storage-market/
With costs fast declining, sodium-ion batteries look set to dominate the future of long duration energy storage, finds an AI-based analysis that predicts technological breakthroughs based on global patent data.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/building-the-bell-system
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top. It’s large, but not notably so: it came in 32nd in the 2024 Fortune 500 ranking, just above Comcast and below Verizon. Its offerings are not unique: it’s just one of many companies providing phone, internet, and other communication services. By market cap, AT&T is less than 10% of the value of Amazon, and around 4% of the value of Apple.
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-unusual-cheese-switzerland
In this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral.
https://theconversation.com/momentum-isnt-magic-vindicating-the-hot-hand-with-the-mathematics-of-streaks-74786
For 30 years, sports fans have been told to forget about streaks because the ‘hot hand’ is a fallacy. But a reanalysis says not so fast: Statistics show players really are in the zone sometimes.