Man, this brings back some memories...
How the Yamaha DX7 Digital Synthesizer Defined the Sound of 1980s Music
openculture.com/2019/08/how-th…
So I made a #Queen playlist for #metalheads (and people who say they don't like Queen).
It has it all, 18 songs full of speed, thrash, lots of prog, some epic doom.
Solos, riffs, drama (lots of drama) and power ballads. And synth pop.
Here you go:
YT: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis…
Qobuz: open.qobuz.com/playlist/285008…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/26pM…
Tidal: tidal.com/browse/playlist/f237…
Shout out to @wendigo and @sariash for providing the Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal playlists 🙏 🤘
A contradiction facing SaaS companies is they charge per employee using the software but are investing in AI whose selling point is companies need fewer employees.
Salesforce is pivoting to charging $2 per conversation with a chatbot as their new usage based model.
The pitch to customers is cost savings. Its COO gave an example of a 5,000-person call center needing 30% fewer workers within 5 years.
To investors it’s that per conversation pricing mitigates revenue loss from having fewer users.
This "example" had so many red flags.
Their AI hasn't been around for 5 years, so at best is a projection. But I rather think it's a fabrication and wishful thinking.
And 2$ per chatbot conversation for a start doesn't seem cheap for me. In my experience i comunicate less than 5 minutes with a chatbot before I'm totally annoyed. Leading to a "hourly rate" of 24$.
But to really solve a non trivial problem i would afterwards need human support in many cases 🤷🏻♂️
From the vendor/Salesforce side it's a great business model. After the AI is deployed and the staff is reduced it's a nice lock-in. No matter if it works or not. They can increase the price, their customers can't throw them out because they no longer have the people. And migrating to another tool is expensive (and leads to lock-in with a different vendor)
Suspicious♦️ mail containing white powder sent to #election #offices in at least 16 states
None of the mail has been deemed hazardous so far
but it has caused #evacuations
At least some of the packages were signed by the
❌“United States Traitor Elimination Army,”
according to a copy of a letter sent to members of the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center
The National Association of Secretaries of State released a statement urging an end to the “threatening and intimidating actions towards election officials” during recent election cycles.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/suspic…
It's deeply disturbing to see a Labour Prime Minister praising the policies of a far-right demagogue.
Our focus must be on creating safe routes and supporting our fellow humans, not on continuing with a hostile environment that thrives on cruelty and punishes vulnerability.
While Keir Starmer says he's keen to learn from Italy, Amnesty International has condemned their approach as depriving people of liberty and dignity.
It doesn't look good.
Look at Wayland. It's been in development how long? And it's pretty much unusable on a regular desktop.
Gnome? It used to be good, now it leaks memory everywhere, extensions can crash it easily and they're needed because for some reason they're trying to copy MacOS looks. Gnome 3 was the best and many changes after it are a regression.
Then there's Rust ... there's so much hype around it and very few, if any finished products. And they want it for kernel dev...
In Lebanon, the health ministry is calling on citizens to
be on "high alert" after
devices belonging to members of Hezbollah 💥suddenly exploded. 💥
Several people have been #killed and ♦️thousands #injured,
⚠️including Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, according to Iranian state media.
Hezbollah said it holds Israel responsible for the attack and vowed retribution.
Christiane gets the latest from Lebanese journalist Kim Ghattas
The arcade game Gorf is cool. But have you seen it's blockier sans-speech conversion for the Commodore VIC-20?
My experience of Gorf started here. I had it on cartridge and played the heck out of it as a kid. Great game.
(I forgot I'd left it on demo after capturing the gameplay, so recorded 2.5 hours of it looping through the demo! Enjoy.) 😊
The pagers that Hezbollah ordered came from Taiwan, and it was en route to Lebanon when Israel intercepted them. The explosives were implanted in the device's batteries along with a switch so that the explosion could be activated remotely.
Today in Lebanon/Syria, around 1530 (330 PM) local time, a message that appeared to come from the Hezbollah leadership arrived on the pagers. At that point, the pagers chirped/rang a few times and then exploded.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline
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