We're back from going to festivals! We kick it off in urban affairs with "The Uncertain Future of Granville Island" by Uytae Lee on the YouTube channel About Here (2:23 ), then swing into AI as Carson shares the Timbaland music training/generating controversy (24:31 ) and Will gets into The Velvet Sundown, an accelerationist mix of AI-generated everything + bot playlist marketing (47:09 ).

Timbaland links:

• “Timbaland’s AI music project is a ghost in a misguided machine” by Sheldon Pearce for NPR
• Zarah Scully claims Timbaland trained Suno using her voice
• YouTube video: Curtiss King interviews Zarah Scully

Velvet Sundown links:

• "The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners" by Stuart Dredge for Music Ally
• Benn Jordan’s IG post claiming Velvet Sundown are 100% AI gen. Rick Beato agrees
• They are supposedly tweeting

Recs: Carson - album Tether by Annahstasia, Will - album Gadabout Season by Brandee Younger

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