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mopping the floor with spotify. ik some people donât like airbuds for whatever reason but i think itâs fun.
Dec 16, 2024
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I love that I can passively use it. It tracks my listening habits but I can pop in whenever! I havenât used it all year bht Iâm still excited to see my stats.
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i always notice music; music is what feelings sound like. because it has to, the world will changeâand people will too. naturally, one of my favorite parts of the year is between late november and early december: spotify wrapped season. keeping track of peopleâs listening habits (to figure out whose allowed on aux) has always been a nosy pleasure of mine. i never want to lose connections to change; music allows me to sever those relationsââyou listen to catherine wheel?â⊠âi didnât know you were into fiona apple too!ââitâs a great way to form bonds. music connects people. i for one relish in this understanding. i, unfortunately, am an impatient person and cannot wait until the end of the year. i take this ngenart quiz monthly to record my own listening analytics as i continue to delve deeper into this interest, and share them casually in hopes that others will join in.
Oct 26, 2024
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i love looking at my music listening stats bc i love a pattern recognition moment but i've become indifferent to spotify wrapped for sometime now for various reasons.
seeing all those layoffs happen right after last yearâs wrapped left a bad taste in my mouth and with how much the company is leaning into generative ai, i wouldnât be suprised if gen ai is being used to supplement the missing labor for wrapped this year. music is not as fun without the humans.
i also dislike the culture that slowly formed around it. the idea of adjusting your listening habits so your results are âpresentableâ to your social media following is wild to meâŠwhy donât you justâŠenjoy the music? i donât know, people hold it on some weird pedestal.
this is honestly tied into my increase in grievances with the app as a whole. if i didnât amass 40+ playlists in the last ten years or listen to thousands of songs from an array of places, people and time periods, i wouldâve left altogether. but alas, i am here. and i wont pretend i dont still look at my wrapped results when they drop. anyways, last.fm is more accurate and i donât have to wait yearly for those stats.
Nov 28, 2024
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started writing this a few hours ago when i first saw this ask, then decided against posting but i've since changed my mind. there really is no justification for it outside of entitlement. even from a selfish lens, there's no long term benefit to its usage. it harms the world and culture in more ways than one.
a.) the water and energy usage that isn't a secret at this point. "no ethical consumption under capitalism" yadda yadda and yeah corporations are extremely culpable in the state of the environment but there really is no need for chatgpt and the planet is already too delicate at the moment.
b.) the exploitation of workers in the global south. this program is not just a computer figuring it all out, there are in fact humans behind it. it reminds me of the acceptance of fast fashion and how people have the tendency to divorce the idea of the garment worker from the garment they wear when all clothing is handmade in some way, shape or form. you need hands to man a sewing machine, you need human eyes to moderate content. also, content moderation can be a thankless job with psychological repercussions.
c.) the erosion of social skills, humanity and media literacy...this one is very personal. like, you have a cushy email job but can't write an email? you need a computer and a worker in kenya to get paid a dollar an hour to figure out a daily routine for you? i've seen the program churn out blatantly incorrect information. fine tuning a prompt or chat or whatever to give you the exact (possibly incorrect) answer you need isn't really that much less work than sharpening your research skills by cracking open a dictionary or using boolean search keys in google. again, the main issue with this kind of stuff is the entitlement to convenience, with no thought towards the repercussions within and outside of us. we are losing major recipes (critical thinking and media literacy) here, people!
i probably did an iffy job are coherently articulating my thoughts here but i am in fact, human. and thatâs the beauty of it all.
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