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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year ago

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Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses

MERE HOURS REMAIN for the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything forever, and wow, it's pretty amazing, huh?

AI pitchmen don't make it easy. They like to pile on the cognitive dissonance and demand that we all somehow resolve it. This is a thing cult leaders do, too – tell blatant and obvious lies to their followers. When a cult follower repeats the lie to others, they are demonstrating their loyalty, both to the leader and to themselves.

Over and over, the claims of AI pitchmen turn out to be blatant lies. This has been the case since at least the age of the Mechanical Turk, the 18th chess-playing automaton that was actually just a chess player crammed into the base of an elaborate puppet that was exhibited as an autonomous, intelligent robot.

The most prominent Mechanical Turk huckster is Elon Musk, who habitually, blatantly and repeatedly lies about AI. He's been promising "full self driving" Telsas in "one to two years" for more than a decade. Periodically, he'll "demonstrate" a car that's in full-self driving mode – which then turns out to be canned, recorded demo:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/

Musk even trotted an autonomous, humanoid robot on-stage at an investor presentation, failing to mention that this mechanical marvel was just a person in a robot suit:

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/elon-musk-tesla-robot-optimus-ai

Now, Musk has announced that his junk-science neural interface company, Neuralink, has made the leap to implanting neural interface chips in a human brain. As Joan Westenberg writes, the press have repeated this claim as presumptively true, despite its wild implausibility:

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-lies

Neuralink, after all, is a company notorious for mutilating primates in pursuit of showy, meaningless demos:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

I'm perfectly willing to believe that Musk would risk someone else's life to help him with this nonsense, because he doesn't see other people as real and deserving of compassion or empathy. But he's also profoundly lazy and is accustomed to a world that unquestioningly swallows his most outlandish pronouncements, so Occam's Razor dictates that the most likely explanation here is that he just made it up.

The odds that there's a human being beta-testing Musk's neural interface with the only brain they will ever have aren't zero. But I give it the same odds as the Raelians' claim to have cloned a human being:

https://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/03/cf.opinion.rael/

The human-in-a-robot-suit gambit is everywhere in AI hype. Cruise, GM's disgraced "robot taxi" company, had 1.5 remote operators for every one of the cars on the road. They used AI to replace a single, low-waged driver with 1.5 high-waged, specialized technicians. Truly, it was a marvel.

Globalization is key to maintaining the guy-in-a-robot-suit phenomenon. Globalization gives AI pitchmen access to millions of low-waged workers who can pretend to be software programs, allowing us to pretend to have transcended the capitalism's exploitation trap. This is also a very old pattern – just a couple decades after the Mechanical Turk toured Europe, Thomas Jefferson returned from the continent with the dumbwaiter. Jefferson refined and installed these marvels, announcing to his dinner guests that they allowed him to replace his "servants" (that is, his slaves). Dumbwaiters don't replace slaves, of course – they just keep them out of sight:

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-the-dumbwaiter/

So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: "AI stands for 'absent Indian'":

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

A reader wrote to me this week. They're a multi-decade veteran of Amazon who had a fascinating tale about the launch of Amazon Go, the "fully automated" Amazon retail outlets that let you wander around, pick up goods and walk out again, while AI-enabled cameras totted up the goods in your basket and charged your card for them.

According to this reader, the AI cameras didn't work any better than Tesla's full-self driving mode, and had to be backstopped by a minimum of three camera operators in an Indian call center, "so that there could be a quorum system for deciding on a customer's activity – three autopilots good, two autopilots bad."

Amazon got a ton of press from the launch of the Amazon Go stores. A lot of it was very favorable, of course: Mister Market is insatiably horny for firing human beings and replacing them with robots, so any announcement that you've got a human-replacing robot is a surefire way to make Line Go Up. But there was also plenty of critical press about this – pieces that took Amazon to task for replacing human beings with robots.

What was missing from the criticism? Articles that said that Amazon was probably lying about its robots, that it had replaced low-waged clerks in the USA with even-lower-waged camera-jockeys in India.

Which is a shame, because that criticism would have hit Amazon where it hurts, right there in the ole Line Go Up. Amazon's stock price boost off the back of the Amazon Go announcements represented the market's bet that Amazon would evert out of cyberspace and fill all of our physical retail corridors with monopolistic robot stores, moated with IP that prevented other retailers from similarly slashing their wage bills. That unbridgeable moat would guarantee Amazon generations of monopoly rents, which it would share with any shareholders who piled into the stock at that moment.

See the difference? Criticize Amazon for its devastatingly effective automation and you help Amazon sell stock to suckers, which makes Amazon executives richer. Criticize Amazon for lying about its automation, and you clobber the personal net worth of the executives who spun up this lie, because their portfolios are full of Amazon stock:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

Amazon Go didn't go. The hundreds of Amazon Go stores we were promised never materialized. There's an embarrassing rump of 25 of these things still around, which will doubtless be quietly shuttered in the years to come. But Amazon Go wasn't a failure. It allowed its architects to pocket massive capital gains on the way to building generational wealth and establishing a new permanent aristocracy of habitual bullshitters dressed up as high-tech wizards.

"Wizard" is the right word for it. The high-tech sector pretends to be science fiction, but it's usually fantasy. For a generation, America's largest tech firms peddled the dream of imminently establishing colonies on distant worlds or even traveling to other solar systems, something that is still so far in our future that it might well never come to pass:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead

During the Space Age, we got the same kind of performative bullshit. On The Well David Gans mentioned hearing a promo on SiriusXM for a radio show with "the first AI co-host." To this, Craig L Maudlin replied, "Reminds me of fins on automobiles."

Yup, that's exactly it. An AI radio co-host is to artificial intelligence as a Cadillac Eldorado Biaritz tail-fin is to interstellar rocketry.

Back the Kickstarter for the audiobook of The Bezzle here!

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/#tailfins

#pluralistic #elon musk #neuralink #potemkin ai #neural interface beta-tester #full self driving #mechanical turks #ai #amazon #amazon go #clm #joan westenberg

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haloslips · 2 months ago

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do you have a daniel sprong primer or just in general what about him compels you? i don’t know anything about him so i’m just curious

do i "have" a daniel sprong primer? if you count my single braincell clinging desperately to daniel sprong being a kraken for life as something i have, well, yes! that braincell bounces around my brain NOT unlike - [lound honking].

anon, we're about to embark on a journey, i hope you'll take me in stride. before we start there are a few things you should know:

i took an edible about an hour ago that's just kicking in;

i probably won't finish this in one go so it's likely the tone will change inexplicably halfway through;

i want to Fuck That Man SO bad it makes me look stupid

great, let's get started!

important note: daniel was accused of pretty brutally assaulting a former indycar racer. (warning: graphic images) for what it's worth, the story is a little fishy and there is absolutely no mention of it other than the articles from august 11th - i followed this incident very closely because my first favorite hockey player was p*trick k*ne and i learned my lesson in a hard way, and there was no local news after the initial accusation, no criminal charges pressed, no statement again from anyone on either side. he obviously doesn't cross my personal rpf boundaries, but yours may be different!

okay let's continue 😎

my love for daniel sprong (i luv to full name him) is inextricably tied to his being a 22-23 seattle kraken, which is going to be My Team for the rest of my life god willing. it was just fucking electric to be a kraken fan in seattle that year, and daniel was a big part of that. he ended the 21-22 season with the kraken and as a free agent that summer signed a pto and then a contract with the team right before the season started and then had a career year with us. he was occasionally healthy scratched, but usually on the fourth line. a local like sports and culture writer started making memes about him on twitter in a fun way, idk there was just a lot of local hype around him. and he was playing well! he was winning games for us! call it bad data but the stats say we lost a LOT more games when he was scratched than when he wasn't.

before he was a kraken, daniel sprong was drafted in 2015 to the pens in the second round. he was in draft year (2015) which is a docuseries that appears to have been wiped off the face of the earth except for this instagram account and the google drives of generous friends. the series highlighted six (i think) players leading up to the 2015 nhl draft - it's a real gold mine of content, it's a shame it's not more widely available. anyway so he's drafted to the pens where he plays a handful of games with them and then is sent back to major juniors. i'm pretty sure the guys in pittsburgh do not care for him - he's known especially at the beginning of his career as being a pretty severe defensive liability.

the pens trade him to the ducks in 2018, and the ducks play him a little and then send him to the gulls because he's a defensive liability. in 2020 the ducks trade him to the caps. he played for the bears at first, eventually gets a contract extension and a little more than minimum wage. in march 2022 he's traded to the kraken! he's still a defensive liability probably but like i said he had a banner year 22-23. after that season, which was the entire length of his contract, he was a free agent and ron francis was like, go get your bag kid, and sprong signed a 2m x 1yr contract with the red wings.

he does alright with the wings - stays on the nhl team, scores some goals. he doesn't put up enough of a showing that the wings extend his contract and he remains unsigned for most of this summer. i think he ended up on the canucks on a pto and then they basically just gave him back to us. which is to say traded for future considerations.

then last week we put him on waivers and for 24 hours i considered death and dying and then he cleared waivers and now he's on our ahl team, which is not my favorite thing but also isn't my worst case scenario i guess.

BEFORE all that, daniel sprong was born in amsterdam. his dad played hockey there, and when daniel was 7 they moved to quebec so he could pursue his hockey career more seriously.

now let's get into some fun stuff!

my first dms to beccah on the subject:

(sidebar i did actually submit a photo of daniel sprong to the leadership program & at the end the six weeks three separate people had left me shoutouts to thank me for my participation so. if you've ever wondered why i am the way i am it's because the universe only rewards me.)

my assessment of his fursona from this post about kraken fursonas i made:

some get to know the player graphics from the kraken and the red wings:

MUCH to consider!!!! sprong & burky were on the caps together for a brief amount of time, and have a known bromance (although i'm not sure burky has ever met a man he couldn't bromance). but WHAT a weirdo!! in another kraken media thing, he says wizards of waverly place was his favorite show growing up. i love him!!!!!

a really critical piece of media about him TO ME is this deep dive on his tattoos the kraken did. this is also were i sourced the first two photos at the top! some takeaways:

The first tattoo Sprong got was on the inside of his left arm. It's a rose with the birthdates of his parents, his sister, and himself inside. He got the tattoo in Montreal from an artist that a friend had recommended. "I'm not great with dates, but I don't really have any excuse to forget now," Sprong said with a smile.

okay girl. had to get a tattoo of your own birthday to remember it, i see you. this tattoo is kind of ugly so if you want to see it you will have to click the link sorry 🫡

"The outside is a bit of a forest and some water and trees with two wolves," Sprong said. "One wolf (represents) my dad, one (represents) me and the two birds are my grandparents back in Amsterdam."

i'm going to be so real with you when i say daniel sprong would be a furry in a life without hockey. further evidence:

But Sprong doesn't have to wait to finish the sleeve on his arm. He already knows what he wants for the front. It will be a play on imagery from his favorite movie growing up: Disney's The Lion King. Sprong's current vision includes two lions, something that holds multiple personal meanings to the 26-year-old, as well as Pride Rock.

OKAYYY yeah every hockey player wants a lion king tattoo. oh wait that's just me and all my friends.

here are some stills i have saved from draft year (2015) where he looks especially ridiculous and sweet:

here, he's talking about how much he misses peanut butter spread while he's adhering to a strict meal plan. i too would not handle giving up peanut butter well :( his fucked up teeth are sooooooo important to meeeeee

in this one i'm pretty sure he's winning an award playing on a team with people quite a bit older than him. look at his little neck guard!!!! his abundant curls!!! these days you hardly see him without a hat on because his hairline is awol. i truly don't understand why he doesn't just shave his head...... he would look amazing bald and yet he remains dedicated to the hair left on his head. actually ykw i accept this i think if he wants to rock his natural hair he should.

op i get you.

when luke prokop came out, daniel sprong was the first member of the caps to post in support of him:

also on the caps, daniel sprong did math!

here's a picture that drove me crazy from the moment i watched the video it comes from. daniel is ALWAYS wearing a snapback or something with the brim to the front (regrettably not as slutty as he could be, sigh) and looking down - so this angle is really striking imo.

OKAY pivoting hard but my absolute favorite thing is HOW BADLY HE WANTS TO BE A SEATTLE KRAKEN. when he was traded back to us this season from vancouver, he said he never really wanted to leave the team. HE LOVE US. i hate dan bylsma for scratching him 90% of the time he was with us before putting him on waivers. i'm not going to get into his recent post-game comments after scoring two goals and having an assist in his opening night w coachella because he's right and he should say it tbh.

another thing i love is that he talks like he has marbles in his mouth. it's that dutch french canadian thing he's got going on. it's charming!!!!!!!

also he is regularly on ice in shorts and flip flops. freak ass.

the following is NOT my favorite slow-mo video of him but unfortunately when my pc bricked itself a couple years ago i lost my favorite video, lovingly titled DANIEL SPRONG THAT ASS. but this video is mesmerizing also.

and finally!!!!! here's a snippet of burky/sprog fic i will probably never finish, if you've made it this far

in conclusion:

#Anonymous #hockey things #daniel s #home team #max.primer

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defjux · 8 months ago

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I made a post yesterday asking if anyone would be interested in a playlist of lesser known hip hop, essentially only artists that have under 50k monthly listeners. Over 5 people seemed to at least have a passing interest which was good enough for me, so here's the playlist. The playlist has over 80 different artists at the moment, 3 songs each. I'll add more as i think of/discover them but figured this is good enough for now. Let me know if you discover anything new from this, or who you would add. I'll put the full list of artists at the bottom of this post too. Peace.

#music recommendations

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agapi-kalyptei · 1 year ago

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Not gonna lie. I wrote my first programs 34 years ago but I never was a "real" developer in the sense that I'd write fast desktop apps, manage threads, and all that low level stuff. So learning Rust in the past few months, even if I have some very basic experience with programming in assembly, is still a lot to digest. However, today I got back to my test project and am really hyped that I have.... a button that increments a number.

"Ha, I can do that in javascript in 10 minutes." I mean yeah. Obviously. Anyone can. Here's the cool thing tho. I made mine overly complicated.

The UI looks as you'd expect it to, mostly a starter project leftovers:

The HTML is as simple as can be, just plain HTML and javascript, no compile step. We live in stone ages here and we love it.

The submit button has a simple handler in javascript:

This is, once again, trivial, and all just from the template project. Bottom part says "when a user clicks this button, call "greet" function". The top part is the greet function that invokes a Tauri command also called "greet".

What's Tauri? An open source project that lets you write JS/TS/Rust applications with WebView and bundle them as stand-alone, self-contained, one-file applications for desktop, and starting with Tauri 2.0 (now in beta.2) also for Android (and later iOS). If you know Electron (Slack, Spotify, Discord etc all use Electron, they're just websites with Chromium and C++ code packaged around them).

Anyway. Tauri runs a Rust "server" application that serves your HTML/JS app, but also lets you run high-performance Rust code. Adding a command is relatively simple:

Here's where things get interesting. For me.

Because I wanted to learn Bevy, a game engine written in Rust, because I want to learn how to write using a high-performance functional-programming-like pattern called ECS (Entity Component System), I have added Bevy to this project.

However, both Tauri and Bevy block on the main thread, so I had to find a tutorial on how to spawn Bevy in a different thread, and how to pass information to it. An example:

#[tauri::command] turns a normal function into a Tauri command that I can call from HTML/JS. It injects resource called BevyBridge which is just two lines of code: #[derive(Resource)] pub struct BevyBridge(pub Sender<u64>, pub Receiver<;u64>);

Sender and Receiver being from crossbeam-channel bevy crate which is for sending data back and forth safely and quickly between individual threads.

so "state.0.send(1)" means I'm sending a 64-bit unsigned integer with a value 1 to the channel.

And this is how to receive the message - inside of Bevy engine, in a separate thread. For simplicity, if I send zero, it resets the counter, and if I send any number it adds 100000 to the number, just for clarity. (Elsewhere I'm incrementing it by 1 on every game loop, so theoretically 60x a second. Or 15000x a second because Bevy is unreasonably fast and it doesn't need to render anything in this setup.)

And the best part is that with a single command (cargo tauri build) I get an .msi file, an .exe installer, both around 4MB, and a 11MB .exe file with no dependencies besides WebView (installed on every current desktop OS by default). There's just something about giving someone a floppy disk with an executable that you made yourself.

Is it dumb? Yes. Does it make me happy? No. Does it make me glad, and very relieved that I'm not completely lost? You bet.

#rustlang #bevy #tauri

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after-witch · 1 year ago

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Bright Lights (Small Spaces Quartet Sequel) (Chapter 2)

Title: Bright Lights (Chapter 2) A03 LINK

Synopsis: Sam tells her friends about her mom's refusal to sign the permission slip for the circus, and they have a plan.

Word count: appx 1700

“You’ve never been to a circus? Like, never never?”

Owen Sannerson’s eyebrows raised in scrupulous disbelief. He had moved to Evansburg two years ago, and while Sam and Elisa considered him a best friend by now, he still had a hard time accepting that Samantha Adler simply didn’t do what most teens her age did.

Sam shrugged. She wanted to change the subject. She also wanted to finish her sandwich before the cheese got all cold and gloppy, and maybe work on her poems one more time before English class. Anything to forget about the permission slip and poster handout that Elisa had slapped in the center of the table at the start of lunch period, eager to find out exactly what had happened with Sam’s mom.

“Nope. Too much like a carnival, I guess, and my mom hates those.” Sam made a sour face. She didn’t really like talking all the things she couldn’t do, especially after this morning’s latest rejection. If she piled all the cool field trips or friend hang-outs she had to stay back from on top of one another, it might just reach the top of a skyscraper.

“She hates farms, too,” Elisa chimed in, popping a lukewarm fry into her mouth. “And ski lodges, unless it’s the Battersby’s place.”

Sam sighed and took another bite of her sandwich. Blech. Too late. The cheese was gloppy. Yet another reason to ask grandpa to teach her his recipes, so she didn’t have to put up with school lunch.

Elisa curled a bit of her shoulder-length dark hair around a finger. She was wearing her in-school hockey jersey and cozy sweatpants. The team had a game next week and Elisa never missed a chance to get hyped, especially now that she was taking lessons from Sam’s uncle Brian. He ran a sports camp in the next town over and offered lessons in just about any sport imaginable; even games like chess, although those classes were taught by his wife Coco.

Elisa tapped the unsigned permission slip with her short fingernail.

“Do you remember when she flipped out when we were supposed to go to the re-opening day of Misty Valley Farm, or whatever they renamed it?”

Sam wished she could forget. That was back in 6th grade. Sam wasn’t allowed to go to the farm with the rest of her class, but she’d cried so pitifully to her teacher Mrs. Norris that the sweet lady had called Sam’s mom on the spot to ask permission as the buses were being loaded.

That had ended with Olivia Adler peeling up to the school in her car about 15 minutes later and taking Sam home for the day while a bewildered Mrs. Norris and snickering classmates had watched.

The car ride home had been quiet, save for Sam’s occasional sniffles. At a stoplight, her mom had turned to her, and opened her mouth as if she wanted to explain something… but she only closed it again and drove them home without another word.

It was always like that, like there was something her mom really wanted to tell her that would explain away everything; but she just couldn’t bring herself to do it. It made Sam mad. More than that, it was frustrating. Couldn’t her mom see that she was old enough to take care of herself? Couldn’t her mom see that she didn’t need to be coddled all the time?

Although a small part of her wanted to defend her mom. There was clearly something going on that made her act this way, when she was otherwise pretty rational, as far as parents went. The divorce probably didn’t help things. And grandpa being sick didn’t help things. That’s why they had to move back to the Egg in the first place.

Sam sighed and shoved her lunch tray to the side, suddenly not feeling very hungry. “It’s shitty. But what can I do? I guess I’ll be 18 before I see a circus or go to a farm.” She snorted through her nose at the thought of scampering up to farm animals or picking pumpkins for the first time after graduating high school.

Elisa was uncharacteristically quiet. This usually meant that she was coming up with a plan or a scheme--with Elisa, plans and schemes tended to amount to the same thing.

“Elisa,” she said slowly, carefully.

Elisa looked at Owen, who held her gaze before suddenly becoming very interested in his lap.

“What?” said Sam, half-worried, half-excited.

Elisa’s chair screeched as she scooted closer to Sam, before gesturing for Owen to do the same. He tucked a stray piece of his chin length blonde hair behind his ear and copied Elisa, until the three of them were close enough to whisper.

“So, me and Owen have been talking,” Elisa began, pulling the permission slip from the center of the table until it was right in front of Sam. “And here’s the plan. You forge your mom’s signature. Go on the trip. Have some fun for once in your life.” She tapped the paper decisively. “Your mom never has to find out. Perfect plan, right?”

Was it possible for your stomach to drop out from underneath you? Sam thought it might be possible, because that’s what her stomach was currently doing, gloppy cheese and all.

“I can’t.” Her words were stiff. “My mom would know. Or she’d find out. I’d be in trouble.” A half-laugh forced its way out of Sam’s throat. “No, I’d be grounded for the rest of my life and even after that. She’d ground my ghost.”

Elisa began to twirl the paper on the table with her finger. “Not if you pretend to be super upset about not going before and after the trip and she never finds out you went…”

“I’m not that good an actor,” Sam mumbled.

“I can give you tips!” Owen said suddenly, sitting up a little straighter. “I’ve only done tech here but I’m really into acting.”

Sam sighed. Then put both hands on her cheeks and shut her eyes and groaned. The idea was tempting. It wasn’t like she hadn’t considered it before. But the fear of her mom finding out always outweighed the desire to go through with it.

“C’mon, Sam.” Elisa picked up the circus poster handout that their teacher Mr. Wheeling had given them two weeks ago. “There hasn’t been a circus here since… I can’t even remember one coming to Evansburg. You have to go.”

The poster was crinkled a little from being in Sam’s backpack, but at least it wasn’t torn. It was designed to look old-fashioned, which Sam supposed was “in” nowadays. There was an illustration featuring a cluster of tents, and a banner across the top that said: “MR. ELIM’S CIRCUS. ALL AGES WELCOME.”

At the bottom of the poster, there was a close-up illustration of a man in a ringmaster’s uniform gazing up at the tent and grinning. Something about him was a little unnerving, like his grin was too big or something. Sam wondered if her friends felt the same; but probably not, especially Elisa, who didn’t even flinch when they’d watched IT Chapter One and Two in Owen’s basement last Halloween. Sam, by contrast, had slept with her desk lamp on for a week.

Next to the ringmaster were a series of faded blue banners that described circus acts.

“FEROCIOUS BEASTS! SEE TIGERS TAMED!

FLYING TRAPEZE! DEATH-DEFYING HEIGHTS!

REAL LIVE FIRE BREATHERS! HOTTER THAN HADES!

ENDLESS SIGHTS THAT WILL ASTOUND AND AMAZE!

PERFORMANCES YOU WILL NEVER FORGET!”

They did sound amazing and astounding and wonderful.

And her mom would never, ever let her see them.

And even if Sam did try to forge her mom’s signature and go on the trip, who’s to say she wouldn’t find out somehow, anyway? Sam might pop in the background of someone’s video online or Mr. Wheeling would call Olivia to say how glad he was that Sam was going on a field trip for once.

Besides, Sam was too scared to forge her mom’s signature. Especially on something as serious--well, in the Adler household, it was serious--as this.

Sam felt a familiar tightness in her chest begin to grow and pushed back from her chair. Before Owen or Elisa could say anything, she grabbed both papers and shoved them deep into her backpack.

“Sam,” Owen said, and reached out to touch her on the arm. Owen was good at one-on-one talks like this, sort of like her grandpa. But she didn’t feel like being reassured right now. She just wanted to be mad at the unfairness of her life.

“My mom would find out,” Sam said shortly, hoisting her backpack over her shoulder. “Or I’d mess it up somehow and blab or copy her signature wrong or…” She sighed. “Sorry.”

Owen did touch Sam’s arm, then, and looked incredibly thoughtful.

“Why don’t you ask your mom again tonight? Like, sit her down and have a full-on discussion about it? Maybe you can find the website for this circus or whatever and show her that it’s not a big deal. It did say all ages, so it’s got to be mild enough for little kids.”

Sam shook her head, but didn’t outright say she wouldn’t do it. Owen was just giving her advice. She couldn’t be mad at him for that, even if it was something she’d tried to do on her own countless times over the years.

And maybe… maybe her mom would listen, if she took the time to explain. Her mom had been in a rush that morning, what with Sam running late. Her mom was always stressed in the morning, especially if her grandpa needed help during the night.

Was it worth a shot?

Sam nodded at Owen and tried to smile, but it wasn’t anything to write home about. “Maybe. Text me after school, guys. Or during 6th period, I’ll have my sound off. I gotta go to the bathroom before lunch ends.”

With that, Sam Adler walked away from her friends with thoughts of permission slips and serious discussions weaving heavily on her mind.

“Tell your mom, it’s just a circus!” Elisa called out after Sam, all 15 years of her life experience weighing behind each word. “What’s the worst that could happen?”

#small spaces #katherine arden #small spaces quartet #fanfiction #afterwitch writes #bright lights

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generation-dope · 2 years ago

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The Source unsigned hype - October 1995

#capone-n-noreaga #the source #90s hip hop #queensbridge

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kae-karo · 2 years ago

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

JACK HELLO TYTY 💜💜 i feel like i always hype myself up over the same fics so i'm gonna go with some deep(er) cuts that i really loved writing? and ur getting....more than 5 cause i feel like it !!!

don't want to say goodnight (x) - bnha - shinkami

this i think was my first sincere venture into outsider pov of a relationship? i had fun with the lil bit of worldbuilding and denki and jirou's friendship 🥺

to the stars that burn (x) - bnha - dabihawks

one of my first hurt/no comfort fics and basically still one of my only ones?? but i got so enamored with the idea that dabihawks trained together as kids at the hero commission and just. how horribly that all fell out

our hearts are heavy burdens we shouldn't have to bear alone (x) - genshin - chaeya

i just. had so so many feelings about chaeya seeking each other out as a source of comfort in the wake of their own broken hearts and traumatic pasts and just. poured all of that into this fic and i love it so much i know i never shut up abt it when i get the chance to rec stuff of mine lmaooo but i really do love it

i think that i'm learning to hope (oh no) (x) - genshin - kaeluc

this one just truly captivated me while i was writing like i love writing kaeya pov generally but i had so much fun with it during this fic? just the balance of nostalgia and heartache and tentative fluffy reconciliation lmao

letters unsigned and unsent out of fear (x) - genshin - kaeluc

this was a BLAST to craft with the letters between kaeya and diluc in mind, i just truly got possessed writing this one lmaoooo like i have nothing else to say beyond that it was just so much fun

i don't bite (but i heard you might) (x) - bnha - todobaku

bro i kid u not i had a BLAST with this like the banter the tension the worldbuilding it was just so so much fun i was SO excited to post this one lmaooooo

keep my fingers crossed (that i'm somebody you could love) (x) - bllk - kaisae

jack u know i had to do it to em i have to mention a kaisae fic cause u brought me here to the kaisae basement sdlfjlksdf but honestly this ship has been UNREASONABLY fun to write???? like the fact that i was within a couple weeks living breathing these two ???? this one specifically i really loved writing just playing with their characterizations (it was the first one i wrote actually lmao)

(and much like u i am frothing at the mouth over fics i haven't posted yet so prepare for some serial killer kaisagi and silly multiship blue lock mall au fic sometime in the future and i rly have so many bllk fics impending i'm so sorry to everyone who was not prepared for me to get obsessed with bllk lmao)

#ask #alienjack

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New Song Music

It has been a frustrating and uninteresting task to find music that you enjoy. Many of you who are reading this would probably agree. Please let me define "music as you like it".

It is music that makes you feel good, or allows you to see a brighter side to things (that light at the end). It is music that can change your mood (from bad into good, or vice versa), and make an impossible task possible. Music is Emotional and Compassionate. It compliments our lives.

You may have festival ortigueira found yourself tapping to an unfamiliar beat or melody, only to realize that you had been doing so and continue tapping. When we are fortunate enough to hear music we have never heard before and we enjoy it, we often wonder about the piece's name, the artist or album.

It can be difficult to determine the source of the New Song Music. It could have been the radio, Internet, Internet Radio, a restaurant, lounge, Gym etc. You can find new music in many different ways. If you've never heard it, it is brand new. You love it the same way you do a brand new car.

Let's talk about this and remove dumb luck. How often do you stumble upon great music that you love while on your daily commute? Most people do not have this kind of free time unless they live in college or go to clubs and happy hour every day ("ahhhh, the good old days"). Some of us have the luxury of working in the entertainment industry or having jobs that allow for plenty of free time.

We all have time constraints and a moderate to heavy amount of responsibility. Finding new ortigueira music will require a little more planning and deliberateness. This is a convenient and easy way to discover new song music frequently.

You are probably aware that most of the new music played on mainstream radio is not very appealing. The same songs that are not appealing are then played over and over again. You may lose interest in a song sung by an artist that you like if it is played too many times. How do you introduce new artists with so much repetition? This is what I call the radio loop.

Here are some ways to find good New Song Music. Music Blogs and Social Music Sites can identify similar artists based on the genres or categories of your current favorites.

Music blogs...

You can download music from Mp3 blogs. You can listen to the music and leave your opinion after you download it. The featured artists are usually new, unknown, less known or underground.

A blog post will be included with your music download, giving you background information and biographical details about the artist. You will most likely be able see how other people have rated the music, depending on its age. It can help you decide if it's worth spending time listening to the music.

These mp3s are distributed by record labels or promotion companies, so the music is free and legal. The majority of the downloads are from artists who promote music, making it a great place to discover some musical treasures.

Check out One track mind and the Hype Machine. Your opinion is highly encouraged. This is how sites can provide you with new songs daily. Remember to rate and vote the songs that you enjoy, as well as the ones that you don't. It only takes a few seconds. Here is a chance to help out when you can.

Social Music Sites...

The Incumbent Independent artists submit their musical works for review to these Musical communities. Listeners who are soon to be fans of the music recommend it to other members in the community. This type of social network allows you to see at a glance what music other listeners like. You can add to your personal musical Internet jukebox.

My favorite social music sites are the Sixty One and our stage.

Music Portal Sites

Most of these Sites are geared towards promoting unsigned artists and allowing their music to reach a wider audience. Listen carefully as the new music is often original and unique. Listeners are encouraged to invest in artists that they like. Once an artist has reached their budget goal they can record a professional album. The artist can then negotiate their own deal with the record label. This allows for the artist to create their own deals with record labels, without being restricted by limitations. The artist/artists can then retain creative control and maintain the musical message. Record Labels are free from main stream restrictions. You get to listen to new songs before they hit the mainstream and top of the charts.

Check out Africa Unsigned and Sola band for great resources.

There's literally dozens of different ways to discover new music...

Here are just a few of the many ways you can discover new music. Please take your own initiative to discover New Music, and share it with others as often and as much as you can.

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700+ YouTube Music Channel Name Ideas in 2025

If you are creating a YouTube music channel then choosing the right name for your channel is the first step for building a strong brand. A unique, relaxing, catchy, stylish, and memorable YouTube music channel name helps you to stand out from your competitors, attract the right audience, and also it define your musical identity. Whether you’re into cover songs, original compositions, DJ mixes, music reviews, or tutorials, your YouTube channel name should show your style, personality, and genre.

In this blog, we will guide you on how to choose a unique YouTube music channel name and also share a YouTube channel name ideas list. This list contains 700+ name ideas.

How to Choose a Unique, stylish, and relaxing YouTube Music Channel Name?

1. Define Your Music Niche (Category):

The first step is to select your music niche. Are you a singer, instrumentalist, DJ, or music reviewer? You must know your niche.

2. Keep it Short & Memorable:

It is important to select short and easy-to-remember YouTube music channel names. It helps to build a brand.

3. Use Creative Word Combination:

Use creative words that are related to music, rhythm, beats, sound, harmony, and melody. This helps to reach the right audience and also helps in ranking.

4. Make it SEO-friendly

It is very important to choose an SEO-friendly name for your music YouTube channel name. Use keywords related to music, this helps to reach the right audience.

5. Check Availability:

Choosing a unique name is very important. Before finalizing your YouTube music channel name, you must search it on YouTube, Social Media, and Domain selling Websites. This helps you to know the availability of the name.

6. Avoid numbers and special characters:

Don’t use numbers and special characters in YouTube music channel names because it affects your brand and also SEO. Search engines face difficulty in ranking your name.

Following are the 700+ YouTube music channel name Ideas in 2025:

1. Music Covers & Remixes

Cover Kings

Remix Nation

Echo Covers

ReMixMaster

Sound Reimagined

CoverVerse

Play It Again

The Vocal Remix

Reharmonized

Acapella Dreams

TuneTwist

The Melody Factory

ReWorked Tunes

Vocal Vibes

Echo Chamber Music

Hit Replay

Acoustic Alchemy

BeatFlip Covers

Legendary Remixes

Loop & Remix

Sing It Again

RetroRemix

Next Gen Covers

EchoWave

Harmonic Replays

The Cover Studio

Music Reimagined

Chord Chronicles

Rhythm Revival

Melody Transform

Epic Cover Nation

TuneCrafter

The Cover Factory

Cover the Hits

New Notes Covers

Singers’ Haven

Acoustic Reinvented

Echo Melodies

The Vocal Edge

Cover Rewind

Melody Overdrive

Remix & Mashup

Vocal Remixers

Chill Covers

The Acoustic Room

The Sound Smiths

Unplugged Magic

Pure Harmonics

The ReMix Lab

Vocal Blend

2. Original Music & Independent Artists

IndieSoundwave

The Songwriters’ Lounge

Pure Originals

The New Sound

Rising Tunes

SoulCraft Music

The Indie Playbook

Next Big Hit

Breaking the Charts

The Underground Vibe

Unsigned Legends

Indie Jam Session

The Raw Sound

Beyond the Beat

Tune Architects

Acoustic Journey

Sonic Visionaries

Future Legends

Authentic Sound

Underground Rhythms

Dreamers & Doers

The Artist Lab

Melody Creators

New Age Sound

Songwriting Studio

Heart & Soul Beats

No Label Music

The Hit Factory

Studio Chronicles

The Music Makers

Breakthrough Beats

Vibe Creators

Rising Notes

SoundStory

True Music Wave

Melody Foundry

Passion & Rhythm

Studio Sparks

The Tune Studio

Raw & Real Sounds

The Independent Wave

Unleashed Sound

Song Crafter’s Hub

The Lyric Lab

The Sound Machine

Sonic Evolution

Indie Hitmakers

The Jam Room

Creative Sound Lab

The New Era Beats

3. Music Reviews & Reactions

Sonic Reactions

Vibe Check Music

The Tune Critic

First Listen Reviews

Hit or Miss?

The Music Breakdown

Hype or Trash

React & Review

Tune Tester

Track Talk

Melody Meter

The Beat Verdict

Jam Session Reviews

The Listening Room

Notes & Reactions

Sound Spectrum

First Take Music

React & Rate

Real Talk Music

Honest Harmonies

The Sound Lab

Hot or Not Tunes

Tempo Talks

The Lyric Decoder

Chart Busters Review

Tune Analysis

Behind the Beats

Melodic Thoughts

Ultimate Tune Test

Music Nerd Reactions

Album Analyzer

The Reaction Booth

Track Talkers

Beat Breakdown

Press Play Reviews

The Soundwave Critics

Headphone Heroes

Deep Cut Reactions

True Notes

Sonic Review Club

Ultimate Music Radar

Track Junkies

The Music Review Spot

Melodic Take

Trending Tunes React

Hooked on Music

The Track Dissector

Play, Pause, React

Harmony Haven

The Audio Aesthetic

4. Music Tutorials & Lessons

Play It Right

Sound Mastery

Learn the Chords

The Music Academy

Tune It Up

Master the Notes

Instrument Whisperer

The Jam Coach

Quick Music Hacks

From Noob to Pro

Strum & Learn

Beyond the Sheet Music

Play It by Ear

Songwriting Secrets

Scale Up Music

Music for Beginners

Next Level Playing

Soundcraft Lessons

The Chord Zone

Drums & Beats

Music Mentor Hub

Learn That Riff

Voice & Harmony

Singing Made Simple

Guitar Licks & Tricks

Piano Keys Pro

Rock the Notes

Vocal Vibes Academy

The Ultimate Music Guide

One Chord at a Time

Learn Music Fast

String Masters

Beat Builder

Masterpiece Tutorials

Play Like a Pro

The Sound Foundry

Keys & Chords Academy

Songwriting Genius

The Music Tactician

The Playbook of Sound

Chord Progression Secrets

Ultimate Music Workshop

Rhythmic Learning

Master Music Theory

Groove Mastery

The Soloist’s Guide

Soundwave School

Keys to Success

The Learning Studio

Strum & Sing Academy

5. Lo-Fi & Relaxing Music

Chill Beats Club

Lo-Fi Vibes

Relax & Repeat

The Cozy Playlist

Study Groove

Cloud 9 Sounds

Tranquil Tunes

Night Owl Beats

The Calm Sound

Chillax Lo-Fi

Smooth Flow Music

Coffeehouse Beats

Sunset Soundscapes

Dreamy Lo-Fi

Background Bliss

Midnight Melodies

Zen Rhythms

The Lo-Fi Hideout

Cozy Room Beats

Soothing Frequencies

Sleepy Time Lo-Fi

Good Vibes Music

Focus & Flow

Chillhop Central

The Serene Soundtrack

Rainy Day Beats

Peaceful Soundwaves

Mellow Mode

Warm & Fuzzy Tunes

Mindful Music Lab

The Lo-Fi Scene

Pure Zen Sounds

Harmonic Chill

The Easy Listening Spot

Lo-Fi Love

Study & Chill Music

Deep Breath Beats

Night Drive Lo-Fi

Sunset Chillhop

The Dreamscape

Sleep & Study Tunes

Echo Vibes

Feel Good Frequencies

Lost in Lo-Fi

Soulful Chill

The Mindful Musician

Moody Melodies

The Zen Lounge

Soft Waves Music

Mellow Hues

6. DJ Mixes & Live Sets

DJ Vibes Live

Party Mix Nation

Soundwave Sessions

Bass Drop Club

House Beats Live

The Ultimate DJ Set

EDM Mix Central

Deep House Vibes

High Energy Grooves

Spin It Up

DJ Jam Central

Club Nights Mix

Festival Sounds

Ultimate Mashups

The Drop Zone

Party Mode ON

Midnight Vibes

The Dancefloor Channel

24/7 Club Mixes

High BPM Beats

Spinning Vinyl

Techno Tempos

DJ Turntable Magic

Rave Ready

The Remix Master

Hype Beats HQ

Feel the Drop

Electronic Pulse

DJ Evolution

Bass & Melody

House Party Beats

The Beat Switcher

Mixology Sound Lab

The Club Vibes

Deep & Dirty Beats

Hype Mode Music

The Festival DJ

The Future of Mixes

Nocturnal Grooves

DJ Battle Ready

24/7 Electronic Beats

The Ultimate Soundwave

VIP Lounge Vibes

Hands Up Music

The Energy Booster

Night Club Anthems

The EDM Sound System

The DJ’s Playlist

BPM Nation

Glowstick Grooves

7. Classical & Instrumental Music

Timeless Symphonies

The Classical Haven

Instrumental Bliss

Pure Symphony

The Grand Orchestra

Eternal Classics

Strings & Keys

The Concert Hall

Cello & Sonata

Harmonic Waves

Piano Perfection

The Violin Room

Gentle Strings

The Baroque Beat

Chamber Music Lounge

Timeless Tunes

The Composer’s Desk

Elegant Melodies

The Orchestra Vault

Beethoven & Beyond

Timeless Harmonics

Golden Notes

The Symphony Suite

Classical Dreams

Piano & Beyond

Peaceful Symphony

The Orchestra Lounge

Celestial Compositions

Opera & Orchestra

Soundtrack to Serenity

Eternal Piano

Flute & Fantasy

The Timeless Score

Tranquil Strings

Acoustic Grace

Melodic Moments

Grand Concertos

The Violin Virtuoso

Timeless Instrumentals

The Music Hall

Harmony in Motion

Soloist Symphony

The Classical Corner

Gentle Piano Tunes

The Grand Composer

Acoustic Wonders

The Royal Orchestra

Majestic Melodies

Classical Waves

Strings of Serenity

8. Karaoke & Lyrics Channels

Sing Along Nation

Karaoke Kings

Lyrics on Fire

The Karaoke Room

Music Without Borders

Melody & Words

Song Lyrics Hub

Golden Mic Karaoke

Karaoke Beats

Sing Your Heart Out

Tune & Text

Ultimate Karaoke Party

Sing It Loud

Your Lyrics Station

The Karaoke Lounge

Words & Melody

Sing Along Hub

No Mic Needed

The Lyricist’s Lab

Music & More Lyrics

The Karaoke Studio

Harmony & Words

The Sing-Along Playlist

Epic Lyrics Zone

Jam & Lyrics

Karaoke Playlist Live

Lyrics & Beyond

The Singing Spot

Vocal Stars Karaoke

The Mic Drop Lounge

Ultimate Lyric Hub

Your Singing Room

Hooked on Karaoke

The Voice Booth

Melody & Magic

The Karaoke Vault

Perfect Pitch Karaoke

Chartbusters Karaoke

The Singers’ Hub

Singing Sensation

The Lyric Lounge

Harmony & Hits

The Words & Notes Show

Tune & Track

The Karaoke Connection

Lyric Line Up

Singers’ Paradise

Let’s Sing Along

The Ultimate Karaoke Night

Lyrics & Mic

9. Music History & Documentary

Legends of Sound

The Music Archives

Timeless Tunes

Melody Through Time

The Vinyl Vault

Evolution of Sound

The Music Storyteller

Rock & Roll History

Behind the Sound

Unplugged History

The Music Journey

Hits of the Past

The Golden Era Sound

Forgotten Melodies

The Story of Music

The Sound Chronicles

Evolution of Notes

The Legacy of Music

Tunes of the Past

Nostalgic Harmonies

The Songbook Diaries

Behind the Notes

From Vinyl to Digital

The Hidden Notes

Soundtracks of History

Legends & Lyrics

Lost in Music Time

The Music Timeline

Old School Sound

Echoes of the Past

The Rhythm Archives

Soundwave Stories

The Great Composers

Music Legends Uncovered

Throwback Tunes

The Story of a Song

Rewind the Hits

History of Harmonies

The Musical Revolution

Past & Present Beats

The Forgotten Notes

Decades of Sound

The Vinyl Spin

The Symphony of Time

The Music Timeline

The Anthem Archive

Chronicles of the Sound

From Mozart to Metal

The Record Room

Retro Soundwaves

10. Soundtracks & Theme Music

Cinematic Soundtracks

The Score Studio

Movie Music Vault

Soundtrack Symphony

Epic Scores

TV & Film Tunes

Blockbuster Melodies

Gaming Soundtracks

Legendary OSTs

The Theme Song Channel

Anime OST Central

Cinematic Music Universe

The Orchestral Score

Tunes from the Screen

Fantasy Music Hub

The Music of Cinema

Soundtracks Unlimited

Hollywood Scores

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Music

The Audio Adventure

Soundtrack Central

Songs of the Silver Screen

Music of the Movies

The Film Score Collection

Nostalgic Soundtracks

The Heroic Score

Game OST Playlist

Epic Movie Anthems

The Score Masters

Film & TV Soundwaves

The Ultimate OST

Background Beats TV

The Cinematic Orchestra

Legendary Themes

The Action Movie Score

Emotional Film Music

The Anime Melody Hub

Adventure Soundtracks

The Fantasy Playlist

Score & More

Classic Movie Melodies

The Hollywood Orchestra

Big Screen Sound

Immersive OSTs

The TV Theme Show

Symphonic Cinema

The Sound of Storytelling

The Animated Score

Gaming OST Vibes

The Ultimate Theme Music

11. ASMR & Sound Healing Music

Deep Relaxation Vibes

Tranquil Soundscapes

Sleep & Sound Healing

Zen Waves

Mindful Music Therapy

Calm & Relaxing Tones

Peaceful Sonic Bliss

ASMR Healing Notes

Echoes of Serenity

The Sleep Whisperer

Soft Sound Sanctuary

Nature’s Symphony

Ultimate Relaxation Hub

Harmonic Wellness

Gentle Frequency Flow

Rain & Thunder Sounds

The Meditation Playlist

Healing Harmonies

Ethereal Sound Healing

Breath & Sound Therapy

Deep Sleep Tones

ASMR Universe

The Calm Vibration

Serenity Sounds

White Noise Bliss

Healing Frequencies 432Hz

Soothing Sound Therapy

The ASMR Temple

Crystal Clear Sounds

The Mindful Echo

Vibes for the Soul

Deep Breath Beats

The Energy Cleanse

Spirit Sound Journey

Ocean & Rain Sounds

Nature’s Healing Tones

Ethereal Calm

Peaceful Sonic Haven

Zen Spirit Soundtracks

Cosmic Relaxation

Binaural Sleepwaves

Pure Sound Bliss

Ultimate Mindful Music

Relaxation & Recovery

The Chakra Sound Flow

Nighttime Calmness

Music for the Soul

Cosmic ASMR Vibes

Infinite Serenity

Dreamy Sound Healing

12. Festival & Concert Footage

Live Music Nation

The Concert Chronicles

Stage Lights & Sound

Front Row Vibes

The Music Festival Hub

Ultimate Live Shows

Festival Beats Live

The Gig Experience

Soundcheck Diaries

Backstage Pass TV

The Encore Zone

Headliner Highlights

Rock the Stage

Music Livewire

The Ultimate Tour

Main Stage Moments

Epic Live Sounds

The Festival Vault

Lights, Camera, Concert!

Festival Frenzy

Unplugged & Live

Touring the World

Soundstage Sessions

The Live Music Journal

All Access Sound

Music on Tour

Global Festival Vibes

Tour Bus Chronicles

Amplified Concerts

Roadie’s Perspective

The Music Experience

The Festival Insider

VIP Music Moments

The Concert Pulse

Mega Stage Sounds

The Live Track

Electric Atmosphere

Ultimate Music Journey

Festival Universe

The Soundwave Experience

Rock the Arena

Mic Check Concerts

Legendary Live Acts

The Tour Vlog

Festival Fanatics

The Band’s Journey

The Live Session Hub

The Music Marathon

Tour Life Chronicles

Epic Stage Presence

13. Music Challenges & Trends

Beat the Challenge

Viral Sound Trends

The Song Challenge Hub

Trendy Tunes Nation

Hooked on Music Trends

Sing It or Skip It

Chartbuster Challenges

24-Hour Song Challenge

One Song, Many Styles

The Musical Dare

Remix This Beat

Guess That Song

Karaoke Challenge Mode

The Ultimate Singing Challenge

Can You Rap It?

Random Genre Challenge

Music Trends Unleashed

Hit or Miss Challenge

Ultimate Music Wars

The Sound Experiment

Dance It or Drop It

The Melody Game

Extreme Song Challenge

Recreate That Hit

Mystery Instrument Challenge

Guess the Lyrics

Instant Song Remix

Sing It Wrong Challenge

Fastest Rap Challenge

Beatbox Battle Zone

Unplugged Challenge Mode

The Impossible Song Cover

Double Speed Singing

The Trending Playlist

The Viral Beat Challenge

Autotune vs. Natural

Riff Off Battles

Can You Keep Up?

Musical Trend Setters

Speedrun Music Challenge

The Ultimate Remix Challenge

The Surprise Song Challenge

Lyric Swap Madness

Reverse Song Guessing

The Random Song Generator

One Take Music Challenge

High Note Battle

TikTok Sound Challenge

The Freestyle Rap Wars

Cover That Trend

14. Music Gear & Equipment Reviews

Sound Gear Lab

Music Tech Unboxed

The Studio Setup

Audio Gear Insider

Pro Music Tech

Sound Engineer’s Choice

Gear Up for Sound

Music Equipment Masters

Studio Sound Reviews

Mic Check Nation

The Ultimate Audio Guide

Gear Testers HQ

Beat Makers’ Equipment

Soundwave Gear Hub

The Musician’s Toolbox

Guitar & Amp Central

The Recording Room

DJ Gear Insider

Audio Wizards

Studio Mic Reviews

The Perfect Setup

Speaker & Headphone Zone

The Sound Setup Review

Synths & Soundwaves

Home Studio HQ

The Audio Engineer’s Corner

Music Production Hub

The Sound Lab

Instrument Unboxing Zone

The Gear Breakdown

Ultimate Music Hardware

The Digital Sound Studio

Mixing & Mastering Tools

The Tech Behind Music

Best Audio Investments

The Recording Booth

Microphone Matchups

Professional Sound Review

The Sound Setup Guide

Studio Upgrades & Reviews

Game-Changing Gear

Sound Innovators

Pedals & Plug-Ins

The Music Workshop

Performance Tech Unleashed

The Pro Studio Vault

Gear for Guitarists

Music Gadget Nation

The Best Budget Gear

The Ultimate Music Rig

15. Hip-Hop & Rap Channels

Rap Kingdom

The Hip-Hop Vault

Bars & Beats

The Underground Cypher

Rhymes & Flow

Rap Star Nation

The Hip-Hop Culture Hub

Fresh Bars Daily

Next Gen Rap

The Beat & Bars Show

The Rap Flow Room

Street Legends Cypher

Freestyle Masters

Rap Evolution TV

The Beat Battle Hub

Golden Era Hip-Hop

The Lyricist Lounge

Hip-Hop Hustle

Straight Outta YouTube

Rap News & Reviews

Dope Beats Daily

The Hip-Hop Takeover

Mic Drop Zone

16 Bar Challenge

The Real Rap Culture

The Rhyme Scheme

Battle Bars TV

Rap Flow Academy

Old School vs. New School

Freestyle Fridays

The Ultimate Cypher

Rap Trends HQ

Trap & Boom Bap

The Lyric Genius

Rap Breakdown

The 808 Room

Street Sound Legends

Flow State Music

The Rap Dictionary

Hype Bars Nation

From the Booth

Hard-Hitting Bars

The Rap Rewind

Hip-Hop Roots & Culture

Trap Music Empire

The Lyric Lab

The Cipher Sessions

All About the Flow

The Rap Revolution

Hip-Hop Unfiltered

Conclusion

Searching and choosing a unique YouTube music channel name is an important step in building your presence and brand identity on YouTube. A perfect, unique, catchy, and SEO-friendly name will help you to stand out, reach the right audience, and create a good impression.

By following the tips in this guide- choosing your niche, keeping your name short and rememberable, using creative words, and checking availability- you can create and choose a name for your YouTube channel. Here we provide 700+ unique YouTube music channel name ideas that you can use and also create unique names using the list.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)

1. What should I name my music channel?

You should name your music channel that reflects your music style, content, and personality. Keep your name short, unique, and memorable. (e.g., “Melody Vibes” or “Beatflow Nation”)

2. What is a good channel name?

A good YouTube Music channel name is easy to remember, brandable, and related to your niche. (e.g., “Epic Soundwave” for music reviews or “The Lyric Lounge” for karaoke)

3. What to name of a music page?

To name a music page, Choose a name that relates to your audience and represents your music genre. (e.g., “Vibesync Music” for electronic beats or “Soulful Strings” for instrumental).

4. What is a good music channel?

A good YouTube music channel provides high-quality sound and engaging content-whether it covers, tutorials, DJ mixes, or reviews.

5. How do I pick my channel name?

To pick your YouTube music channel names, search words related to your genre, test combinations you created, check name availability, and make sure the name is easy to spell, say, and search.

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agportfolio2 · 1 year ago

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Unsigned Hype AI is a music discovery concept I'm tinkering on that aims to surface future stars based on your musical taste.

Currently in alpha, aiming to launch Q3 2025.

Follow the journey to launch → https://linktr.ee/OBFH

#music #creator #ai #Youtube

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year ago

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The REAL AI automation threat to workers

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

Long before the current wave of AI hype, we were being groomed for automation panics with misleading stories. Remember this one? "'Truck driver' is the most common job in America. Self-driving trucks are just around the corner. How can we prevent America's army of truckers from turning into a howling mob when the robots steal their jobs?"

https://futurism.com/millions-of-jobs-are-at-risk-but-their-loss-could-be-for-the-greater-good

It was absolute nonsense. First of all, "truck driver" isn't a particularly common job in America! The BLS lumps together all cargo vehicle drivers under a single classification. The category error here was thinking that every delivery van driver, furniture mover, and courier is behind the wheel of a big rig, cracking wise on a CB radio as they tear up the interstate.

But what about automation threats? It's possible that if we redesigned the interstates to give 16 wheelers their own separated lanes, and then set them to following one another, that they could traverse long distances in that way. Congratulations, you've just invented a shitty, failure-prone train.

"Shitty train AI" does not threaten the job of the vast number of people the BLS classifies as "truck drivers." For one thing, "shitty train AI" isn't going to pilot a UPS van around the streets of a busy city with other road users. Sure, a few robotaxi companies have bamboozled city governments into conscripting the city's residents into an uncontrolled murderbot experiment. These are not going well:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/9-key-leaders-depart-gms-cruise-amid-ongoing-investigation-into-san-francisco-incident/

More than $100b has been set on fire chasing the robotaxi dream, and the result is most charitably described as a technological curiosity, requiring 1.5 high-waged remote technicians to replace each low-waged driver:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

But even if we could perfect this technology, robots still wouldn't replace all those "truckers" who drive delivery vans (to say nothing of moving vans!). The hard part of driving a UPS van isn't just getting it from place to place – it's getting the parcel into the place. The robo-van would still need at least one person to get the parcel from the back of the van and into the reception desk, porch, or other delivery zone. It's not going to fire those parcels at your door with a catapult. It's also not going to deliver them by drones. Drone delivery is another one of those historical curiosities, capable of delivering a very narrow range of parcels, under even narrower circumstances:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#droned

If all UPS delivered was lightweight, non-fragile rectangular parcels ordered by people with large, unobstructed back yards, then sure. Congrats, you've just created the world's least-useful parcel delivery service!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/amazon-drone-delivery-service-seeks-faa-approval-to-launch-in-2022/

All that said, the big rig drivers probably don't need to worry about robots stealing their jobs. It's not even clear that "shitty train" is within our technological grasp, but even if it is, there's yet another problem with the AI automation trucker jobpocalypse: "trucker" is already one of the worst jobs in America:

https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/

It's hard to overstate just how fucking terrible it is to be a trucker. Truckers are trapped in abusive debt holes by their employers – who misclassify their workforce as "contractors" in a bid to sidestep labor law. Shriven of any labor rights, truckers are forced into the most ghastly, body-destroying, family-wrcking, financially precarious existence imaginable.

You can drive a truck for years, give almost all of the money you earn back to your employer (who denies that you're their employee) to pay back the usurious loan for your truck. Then, your employer can underschedule for shifts so that you miss a loan payment, and they can repo your truck and keep the six-figure repayment you've already made to them, leaving you destitute.

They can force you to work for hours – days! – without pay while you wait for loading and dispatch. They can make you drive long past the point of safety, then, if (when) you get into a wreck, they can fine you for not taking the mandated rest breaks.

Now, these drivers aren't about to be replaced by AI – but that doesn't mean that AI won't affect their jobs. Commercial drivers are among the most heavily surveilled workers in the country. Amazon's drivers (whom Amazon misclassifies as subcontractors) have their eyeballs monitored by AI;

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

AIs monitor the voices of the (primarily Black, primarily female) workforce at Arise – homeworkers who field customer service calls for blue-chip companies like Carnival Cruises and Disney. They're listening for unruly children or pets in the background, and workers who fail to muffle these dependents lose the contracts they have to pay to train for:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/22/paperback-writer/#toothless

And AI monitors the conduct of workers on temp-work apps. If a worker is dispatched to a struck workplace and refuses to cross the picket-line, the AI boss fires you and blacklists you from future jobs for refusing to robo-scab:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

Writing in The Guardian, Steven Greenhouse describes the AI-enabled workplace, where precarious, often misclassified workers are monitored, judged, and fined by algorithms:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/07/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-workers

Whether it's the robot that gets you disciplined for sending an email with the word "union" in it or the robot that takes money out of your paycheck if you take a bathroom break, AI has come for the workplace with a vengeance.

Here's a supreme irony: nearly all of the beneficial applications for AI require that AI be used to help workers, not replace them, which is absolutely not how AI is used in the workplace. An AI that helps radiologists by giving them a second opinion might help them find tumors on x-rays, but that's a tool that reduces the number of scans a radiologist processes in a shift, by making them go back and reconsider the scans they've already processed:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

But AI's sales pitch is not "Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy." The pitch for AI is "buy and AI and save money by firing workers." Given how bad AIs are at replacing humans, this is a bad deal all around, both for the worker who loses their job and the customer who gets the substandard product the AI makes.

There is a very limited slice of applications where an AI could make a lot of money for a company that deploys it, without costing that company anything when the AI screws up. For example, AI is a really good tool for fraud! Rather than paying people to churn out millions of variations on a phishing email, you can get an AI to do it. If the AI writes a bad phishing email, it's OK, since nearly all recipients of even good phishing emails delete them. What's more, no one will fine you or publish an op-ed demanding that your board of directors fire you if you buy an incompetent AI to commit fraud. Fraud is a high-value, low-consequence environment for using AI.

Another one of those applications is managing precarious workers who don't have labor rights. If the AI unfairly docks your worker's wages, or forces them to work until they injure themselves or others, or decides that their eyeball movements justify firing them, those workers have no recourse. That's the whole point of pretending that your employees are contractors: so you can violate labor law with impunity!

But that's not the ironic part. The ironic part is that "being a shitty boss" is the one AI application that companies are willing to increase their net spending on. No one buys an eyeball-monitoring AI so they can fire a manager. This is the one place where AI is there to augment, rather than replace, an employee.

This makes AI-based bossware subtly different from other forms of Taylorism, the "scientific management" fad of the early 20th century that saw management consultants choreographing the postures and movements of workers to satisfy the aesthetic fetishes of their employers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The pseudoscientific cod-ergonomics of the 1900s was demeaning and even dangerous, but it wasn't automated, and if it increased worker output, this was incidental to the real purpose of making workers move like the machine-cogs their bosses reassured themselves they were:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

Every AI panic is a way of deflecting attention from the real, grimy, here-and-now ways that AI is destroying our lives by demanding that we entertain nonsensical science fiction claims about large, shiny existential risks that AI might present in the future.

The "X-risk" of the spicy autocomplete chatbot waking up and using its newfound sentience to turn us all into paperclips is nonsense. Adding words to the plausible sentence generator doesn't turn it into a superintelligence for the same reason that selectively breeding faster horses doesn't lead to locomotives:

https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

But there is a way that AI could destroy the human race! The carbon footprint and water consumption associated with training and operating large-scale models are significant contributors to the climate emergency, which threatens the habitability of the only planet in the known universe capable of sustaining human life:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2023/04/14/ais-unsustainable-water-use-how-tech-giants-contribute-to-global-water-shortages/

Likewise, AI isn't going to replace you at work. But it's already augmenting your shitty boss's ability to rip you off, torment you, maim you and even kill you in order to eke out a few more basis points for the next shareholder report.

Science fiction is a fun and useful way to tell parables about our current technologies. But it's not a roadmap for the future. The fact that sf writers like me found AIs as useful measures to describe Earth's dominant artificial life form – the limited liability corporation – doesn't mean that superhuman AIs should – or can – be created.

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