Michael: "Gaga is writing new songs”

[Xardas 1,980]

3 hours ago, Mirrion Rizzons said:

Gay of light coming 2028

Better not

[Ziggy 14,343]

I mean yeah for the first time in years she was sitting and chilling at home full of love. Of course she wound up writing some stuff. Also her stutter style I imagine is very lulling and fun to a baby 

[Lucas 31,657]

6 hours ago, MarvinGa said:

Michael even asked him for another vinyl so Gaga could sign it and send back to him.

This is very kind of him. A lot of people dislike Michael but this is an act of kindness we haven't had from other Gaga partners

[Lucas 31,657]

4 hours ago, Mirrion Rizzons said:

Gay of light coming 2028

The world needs that 

[REALITY 80,345]

I mean, we knew she was writing music; it's just a matter of when anything will be released, which I don't think will be soon.

Hell, we even knew that she was recording stuff during The MAYHEM Ball, but that doesn't mean any of that stuff will be released soon either.

Regardless, I think her being a mom will definitely spark some creativity—I mean, how could it not?

[Ivy 13,823]

I like Michael more and more he seems so kind 

The success story of the fan is inspiring as well

I wonder what the event was for?

[Petie Estie 5,762]

i never want to see the word liddo again that is disgusting to read as a word

[Kirby Ghosty 395]

I can see an album next year then a tour 2028. Realistically: I only see it happening if the album roll out promo is not as intense as Mayhem. 

[loveandpeace 2,276]

He's just repeating what Gaga always says 

[bxr 3,181]

1 hour ago, Ivy said:

I wonder what the event was for?

It looks like the OP said it was a private event for OuterBio … ? Maybe pitching new investors, or surveying potential partners / vendors ?

[LG10 14,187]

2 hours ago, Lucas said:

A lot of people dislike Michael

Huh???

[Ilia Malinin 3,157]

8 hours ago, Bradley said:

15 years of being a little monster and I never knew this

18 years of being one and i never knew that term existed.  guess i'm not as chronically online as i thought.

[Lucas 31,657]

25 minutes ago, LG10 said:

Huh???

Well I don't know if my brain just remembers the negative posts about him but I've seen many posts of people saying they don't trust him/don't like him

[MonsterBall13 1,229]

Why is Michael signing gaga's albuns 

 

i dont like that sorry 

 

 

[bxr 3,181]

3 hours ago, LG10 said:

Huh???

To be fair, he promoted “really, really great experience” working with a polarizing personal / professional network in his OuterBio CEO August hard launch … his Founders Fund partners aren‘t considered as kind in ideology or practice … some people don’t like that he’s friendly with fascist supremacists who hold power, other people don‘t mind … it is what it is

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Peter Thiel (Palantir, international surveillance database; Trump top campaign donor; Vance mentor), Sean Parker (Stability.AI (Stability Diffusion)—precedent platform for CSAM legislation), Luke Nosek (Founder, Gigafund; SpaceX‘s (Musk) first institutional investor, current company Board member), and Ken Howery (U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, 2019-2021; U.S. Amabassador to Denmark, 2025-Present)

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Peter Thiel

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How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump ( via Columbia Journalism Review )

In 2007, Valleywag, Gawker’s gossip column devoted to Silicon Valley, published a short piece about a then-little-known venture capitalist and tech founder, under the headline “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people.” Thiel’s sexuality wasn’t a secret, nor was the piece mocking. “Peter Thiel, the smartest VC in the world, is gay,” it read. “More power to him.” But it was the first time this information was made public, and Thiel didn’t welcome the attention. He vowed privately to get revenge on Valleywag, which he described as “the Silicon Valley equivalent of al Qaeda,” a “Manhattan-based terrorist organization” that was apparently terrifying tech bros into conformity. It took him almost a decade for his quest to succeed. In March 2016, a lawsuit against Gawker brought by Hulk Hogan over the publication of a leaked sex tape resulted in its bankruptcy. Hogan, like everyone else, only discovered the identity of his mysterious and dedicated benefactor after the trial.

The Gawker trial was a turning point, both for Thiel personally and for perceptions about the tech industry. His friends would say that, without the Gawker trial, Thiel’s early endorsement of Donald Trump that same year was unthinkable. To others, Thiel’s readiness to simply shut down an online publication that he did not like revealed, perhaps more than any other event up to that point, the authoritarian tendencies of the tech industry and how hollow its commitments to “free information” were. The outlook for digital journalism was ominous.

What are the lessons from the Gawker trial, ten years later? What is its political legacy? And how can digital journalism build a safe future in the face of such severe threats? In this episode of Journalism 2050, Emily Bell is joined by three guests. Maria Bustillos is a journalist, editor, and self-described “information activist” who reported from the courtroom during the Gawker trial. Samuel Earle is the author of Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World’s Most Successful Political Party and a PhD candidate at Columbia Journalism School. Marine Doux is the cofounder and editorial director of Médianes and a research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. 

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Sean Parker

Lady Gaga probably wasn’t thinking that a coup would unfold in her greenhouse. Then again, she was cohosting a party there with Sean Parker, the billionaire founder of Napster and first president of Facebook. [ … ]

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AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived ( Zoë Schiffer via Wired)

Lady Gaga probably wasn’t thinking that a coup would unfold in her greenhouse. Then again, she was cohosting a party there with Sean Parker, the billionaire founder of Napsterand first president of Facebook.

It was February 2024, and the singer had invited guests to her $22.5 million oceanside estate in Malibu to mark the launch of a skin-care nonprofit. One of the organization’s trustees was her boyfriend, whose day job was running the Parker Foundation. In the candlelit space, beside floor-to-ceiling windows that looked out over the Pacific, Parker’s people mingled with Gaga’s, nibbling focaccia and branzino alla brace to music from a string quartet (Grammy-winning, of course).

Prem Akkaraju, one of Parker’s close friends and business partners, arrived in a tailored suit, his thick hair coifed to perfection. The two men had known each other since Parker was at Facebook and Akkaraju was in the music industry. Over the years, they’d tried unsuccessfully to launch a movie streaming platform together and—much more successfully—had taken over a renowned visual effects company. Lately they had been talking about starting an AI venture.

That evening at Gaga’s, Akkaraju found himself sitting next to an investor in Stability AI, the company that launched the wildly popular text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion in 2022. Despite its early success, Stability was “circling the drain,” the investor recalls. It was “within days of not having options.” He told Akkaraju: “You should take Stability and make it into the Hollywood-friendly AI model.”

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The conversation drifts to rotoscoping. Legato explains that this process, where an artist sketches over a scene frame by frame, used to take hundreds of hours and was reserved for entry-level animators. Now AI can automatically isolate part of an image and add visual effects. “You’d never want your child to work on roto,” he tells me.

The comment is meant to sound optimistic, but it gets to a looming fear about how AI will impact Hollywood. Namely, that the technology will lead to widespread job losses.

“I hear artists at VFX companies say, ‘Hey, I don't want to get replaced.’ Of course you don't want to get replaced!” says Cameron. “If you guys are going to lose your jobs, you're going to lose your jobs over the work drying up versus getting bumped aside by these gen AI models.” The idea, echoed by Akkaraju and Parker, is that as movies become cheaper to produce, more films will get made and overall employment will rise.

When pressed on this point, Akkaraju reverts to an extended metaphor. “Every major transition or technological invention is always met with apprehension at first, and then acceptance, and then it's obvious,” he says. “When ATMs rolled out in the ’80s, all the tellers were really up in arms. They were like, ‘That’s our job. We give withdrawals, we take deposits, and now you’re having this machine do it.’ What’s happened since then is that there are more teller jobs than ever before, and their average pay is higher, even adjusted for inflation.”

Whether the coup that began in Lady Gaga’s greenhouse ultimately saves Stability AI, the AI revolution is here and already transforming Hollywood. That collapsing building, that burning forest, that crowd of people you see when you stream a show or go to the movie theater? One person with a keyboard could’ve made them. The thing about that bank-teller anecdote is that it’s often used by techno-optimists—including Stability AI investor Eric Schmidt. What they don’t mention is that the number of bank tellers peaked around 2015. Since then, it’s been on the decline.

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Luke Nosek

[ https://gigafund.com ]

Ken Howery

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Howery ]

 

ETA: Source attribution (and copy edit, “Founders Fund partners” not ”Founding Fund partners”   )

Edited 2 hours ago by bxr