losthighway wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 7:49 am My schadenfreude fantasy is Musk and Zuckerberg, sloppy drunk at a San Francisco bar commiserating about their failures.

Meta and Twitter are both about to implode and fall off a cliff and I've got my popcorn ready.

I thought, what could the next wave of social media be like?

I'm picturing a platform called Blippi, where creators can submit videos, called Blips, that are limited to one second in length.

These one second videos would be streamed to users in an endless algorithmic playlist with absolutely no pause in between, with the app constantly monitoring your facial expression to measure engagement.

Or how about a music streaming service which cuts down all songs to just one chorus, and beat-matches and stitches them all together into your own personal song medley? You'd need something for your eyes to do while you were listening but I guess you could watch Blippi at the same time.

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:09 pm Or how about a music streaming service which cuts down all songs to just one chorus, and beat-matches and stitches them all together into your own personal song medley?

Like a never-ending dance mix of fragments of your favorite songs, all spliced together by AI?

If this hasn’t happened yet, you’re totally onto something.

I hate chiptunes.

It's really fucking cold.

jfv wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:23 pm

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:09 pm Or how about a music streaming service which cuts down all songs to just one chorus, and beat-matches and stitches them all together into your own personal song medley?

Like a never-ending dance mix of fragments of your favorite songs, all spliced together by AI?

If this hasn’t happened yet, you’re totally onto something.

Luckilly for humanity the URL is taken. Unluckilly, Blippi is full of cack.

I smell a partnership. Somebody give me $200 million in seed capital.

Anthony Flack wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 2:50 pm I smell a partnership. Somebody give me $200 million in seed capital.

Best I can do is between 1.5 and 5 mL of seed.

The R&R HOF is unfettered horseshit, but Priest reuniting with KK Downing and Les Binks almost validated its existence.

Thinking . . . one good thing about Twitter starting to tank is that if things keep going this way, eventually novelists won’t be expected to have accounts there.