Oh my. Oh my!

I just escaped Bandcamp, in part because payments could only be made via PayPal and PayPal is terrible (and requires a mobile phone number, which I don’t have).

My new home Mirlo is way better than Bandcamp on several levels, and it utilises Stripe for payments.

Now, today I’m reading this:

‘Stripe unveils the world’s first AI foundation model for payments’

‘Stripe launches new money management capabilities, making stablecoin-powered financial accounts accessible to businesses in 101 countries’

‘[…] including AI-powered dispute management […]’

https://stripe.com/en-ch/newsroom/news/sessions-2025

Ugh! ‘AI’ and Crypto, what a nightmarish coupling from hell.

Looks like I’ll just have to to give away my music for free. (No, @Liberapay is not an alternative option since, ‘We currently support processing payments through Stripe and PayPal.’

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