11/16/2024 - 10:00 AM - Venue: Chaos Games and More

So what do you do if you’re a musician in a world where the income can come from streaming—perhaps not a whole lot, but some is better than none—and you discover that there isn’t a sufficient amount of traction being gained and that you have to keep pumping out songs in order to algorithmically make it?

What do you do if you have to build a l-o-n-g wooden fence that has plenty of planks that need to be joined with a bucket of nails?

You find a hammer.

This is, in effect, what a musician in North Carolina did, yet in this case the hammer took the form of AI and an army of bots.

The good news for the man is that he made some $10-million over a seven-year period. Or about $1.4-million per year, with monies rolling in from Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.

The bad news is that last week he was named in federal indictment for stealing royalty payments from the digital services. Among the charges are wire fraud and money laundering.

Live by the algorithm. Die by the algorithm.

The musician, Michael Smith, The New York Times reported, had a rather clever approach:

• He used AI to produce fake songs
• He ascribed the fake songs to fake bands
• He put the fakes on the streaming services
• He created, with some outside help, as many as 10,000 fake streaming accounts (he’d purchased a long list of email addresses)
• He used the fake accounts to stream the fake songs
• He managed to stream 661,440 songs per day
• He made a lot of money
• He now faces some serious time behind bars through the digital creation of “musicians” including Callous Post and Calvinistic Dust

The whole scheme may be illegal.

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Armie Hammer's mom got him a vasectomy for his birthday. The Call Me by Your Name actor — who has two children, Harper, nine, and Ford, seven, with his ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers — has revealed the bizarre gift Dru Hammer got him for his 38th birthday in August. Speaking to his mom on the second episode of a two-part chat on his new podcast Armie HammerTime Podcast, she said: "Let's talk about what I gave you for your birthday this year." She continued: "I call Armie, and I go, 'What would you like for your birthday this year?' He was like, 'I don't know. Maybe money. Whatever.' And I was like, 'I believe I'm going to give you a vasectomy.'"

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A hammer bit includes a bit body coupled to a hammer drill, a housing bit disposed to the bit body, at least one wing bit coupled to the housing bit to move up and down slantly, and having a rotating radius that is more increased than an outer surface of the bit body when moving up and is more decreased than the outer surface of the bit body when moving down, and at least one spacer installed to move up and down together with the wing bit and filling up an upper space of the wing bit when the wing bit moves down.

A down-hole hammer comprising a drill bit (10) and a drive collar (11) with an interconnection therebetween for causing rotation of the drill bit upon rotation of the drive collar. The drill bit (10) comprises a drill bit head (13) and a shank (19), the drill bit head (13) defining a cutting face (15) and having a circumferential shoulder section (17) adjacent the cutting face (15). The shank (19) extends from the shoulder section (17) in the direction away from the cutting face (15). The interconnection between the drill bit (10) and the drive collar (11) comprises a spline assembly including at least one spline (43) on the shoulder section (17) for mating engagement with at least one counterpart spline (63) on the drive collar (11) to provide a drive coupling therebetween while also allowing the drill bit (10) to slide axially within the drive collar (11) to perform a percussive action.