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Pentti
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I’ve never used Spotify. I go to gigs and buy from the merchandise stand, or Bandcamp. Sometimes I buy music I really like twice - on vinyl and digital formats.
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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I highly recommend ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com

I just played a new vinyl, and it was clicking - closer examination revealed a fairly significant scratch. I sent an email at 9:30pm on a Saturday night, and got a reply within a few minutes to say they would send me a new copy 😍
Ideologic Organ
Ideologic Organ curation & art direction by Stephen O’Malley, in collaborations with Shelter Press. Ideologic Organ was created & actualised in collaboration with the great Peter Rehberg (1968-2021) ...
ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com
Yesterday I embedded a http server with rest interface to a sdk inside an iOS test app in 30 minutes with Claude Code. I use AI at work to avoid burnout, then I can use my brain for fun stuff when I get home. I know what causes brain rot though - Meta, TikTok, X www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
I used to meet up with some guys, but hadn’t heard from them for years (even though I previously said give me a shout if they were doing anything). After much indecision, I sent an email anyway - got a reply, and plan to meet. But now I worry that I’m gate-crashing.🙃
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Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
I might have to set up an insta account and automate some AI to scrape things I’m interested in, just so I don’t have to interact with that shit myself.
It should be easier than ever now, with AI to host your own website with an rss feed like the old days. But no, let’s advertise all our events on Zuck’s evil empire and fuck ourselves over.
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Looks like he's making the wig do a silly voice...
Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

🖊️ Ethan Croft
Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary
The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges
www.newstatesman.com
I’m the least socially outgoing person there is, but they think the opposite when I’m in meetings at work in Finland 🙃 #thesilenceisdeafening
weird how a software project can go from looking so good to so bad in a single day
seen two people in suits in the office today - they look so out of place
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It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?
why wait a month? just dump the vacuous waste of space