(1600) Closing in on evening, folks.

 

12. Intellectual property, copyright, AI

… what thinkest thou?

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos

“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms…… pic.twitter.com/GUf09zRuJi

— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) April 4, 2026

11. And here’s another one

10. We’ve been looking at many tales of late

… at possible explanations … the constant factor has been that “crazy” today seems not so crazy once we’ve lost all faith in people “above”, in positions of power. In social media, we can construct any sort of plausible case, throw in some hard data, and Pammy’s your aunty.

9. Moo corner

8. The Paris Review

… is an old publication of the “left literary establishment”, specialising in literary pieces by “highly regarded authors” from their world … maybe “high-toned” is a better way to put it.

So, if an author is to give creedence to the Kubrik moon landing yarn, he must first give some detail but then question it, thereby being “evenhanded”, which is more than, say, the BBC and other MSM do today.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/18/how-stanley-kubrick-staged-the-moon-landing-and-other-stories

7. While Steve comments at HQ about the F-15E pilot rescue

… Andy posts at 1344 that he was not rescued. Your choice in this fog of war.

6. IYE has a piece at 1344 on “the energy beast”

He quotes from it … I also have a takeaway from it:

“In 1932, the Fabian-linked organisation Political and Economic Planning published a pamphlet titled Freedom and Planning. It proposed decoupling distribution from production, installing an unelected planning authority between producer and consumer, and setting the standards by which goods would flow. The farmer would retain operational freedom over his fields. The quantities, the pricing, and the market access would be determined by a distribution authority he never voted for. 

The pamphlet noted that of all Britain’s institutions, only one would require no structural change to fit the new order: the Bank of England.

Ninety-four years later the architecture is the same, but the scale is now global. 

The distribution authority is a physical corridor. The standards are environmental, financial, and regulatory. And the institution that requires no change is the Bank for International Settlements — which published the unified ledger blueprint, calibrates the capital requirements, and built the settlement infrastructure through which the corridor will clear.”