ffs, Spotify had this problem for years and it drove me up the wall.

(It is their fault, although I will admit the record industry doesn't make it especially easy to fix.)

No idea, I don't have any inside info, just saw it on my cycle to the pub and did some detective work.

The show is on until tomorrow so I suspect it may have been one night only.

I might go over tomorrow and ask how much it costs to rent. Best I can tell the retail price is 6 figures

It worries me that the alleged drone sightings over the past week or so are causing European leaders to talk about war, and NATO is mobilizing. Troops are being called up. Almost every indication is that the drone sightings are the same bullshit we saw in New Jersey–there may be *nothing* there. 2/

I guess to be fair it's only the user-facing tip of a whole election management system (candidate management, polling cards, statutory notices, electoral registers, ballots, count management, etc) which doesn't feel especially straightforward to replicate.

www.civica.com/en-gb/produc...

Civica and Idox provide the election management systems for most local authorities. That's Civica, the Idox equivalent is even more janky-looking:

www.elecreg.co.uk

Full-res image link: f001.backblazeb2.com/file/russss/...

The court case found that Anthropic's use of the books for LLM training was fair use, so this is just compensation for pirating the books before they used them in training