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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Delete Spotify
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I realize this puts me in oft mocked MMT territory, but it seems to me the value of taxing the rich is not to fund government but to compress the wealth distribution, so as to ensure those up top are not so disproportionately wealthier than others as to be able to exercise vast undemocratic power.
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 AM
I realize this puts me in oft mocked MMT territory, but it seems to me the value of taxing the rich is not to fund government but to compress the wealth distribution, so as to ensure those up top are not so disproportionately wealthier than others as to be able to exercise vast undemocratic power.
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If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, here’s a brief explainer about what's really going on. (TLDR: It's a hustle.) anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-imagin...
The imaginary persecution of Afrikaners in South Africa: a brief explainer
If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, or that there’s a radical Marxist called ...
anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, here’s a brief explainer about what's really going on. (TLDR: It's a hustle.) anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-imagin...
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You may not like it but this is the best economic system we can come up with
July 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You may not like it but this is the best economic system we can come up with
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. But they're actually both my enemy so I guess they're both my friend. I guess we're all friends. God I hate them
May 12, 2024 at 8:23 PM
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. But they're actually both my enemy so I guess they're both my friend. I guess we're all friends. God I hate them
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When we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully.
My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com
My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
When we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully.
My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com
My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content