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The cyborg is a being determined by a higher machine, that of perpetual debt.
André Gorz, who was wrong on many things, was right about the reason why. Work – the defining activity of capitalism – is losing its centrality both to exploitation and resistance.
PostCapitalism
Paul Mason
To feed its playlists, Spotify began commissioning “perfect fit content” (PFC) music that matched those playlists but was cheaper for Spotify. “By 2023, according to a review of charts and messages shared on the company Slack, over 100 official playlists were made almost entirely of PFC,” Pelly writes. From there, the even lower-rent option of AI-generated music started looking good.
What Spotify took from us by giving us everything - The Verge
Elizabeth Lopatto
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