When folks argue that a Universal Basic Income would deter working, think about those million-dollar CEOs. If a modest $15k is enough to make one quit working, wouldn’t multi-million dollar packages make CEOs practically comatose? Yet, here they are, still CEOing. Weird isn't it?
spotify is (allegedly) using ai to generate generic music (allegedly) attributed to made up fake artists with generic names that (allegedly) suspiciously only exist on spotify to (allegedly) fill their famous pre-made playlists to (allegedly) send out to users to (allegedly) avoid having to pay actual artists and (allegedly) get 100% of the income instead of 30%
- spotify pays artists the lowest amount in the industry - spotify has never been profitable - the only reason spotify exists is because it got in early and secured lots of funding - spotify's actual service is fucking terrible and makes a conscious effort to prevent you from using it like a traditional music player and more in spotify's unique way - spotify is wasting all of the money they should be giving to artists on ways to avoid giving money to artists unsubscribe from spotify of the love of all that is good in this world
if you ABSOLUTELY MUST use a streaming service for your music, use apple music, deezer, or tidal. but i heavily HEAVILY encourage you to buy music on bandcamp, qobuz, and physical media (cds are digital lossless, you can rip them to your computer and convert them to any format you like, including flac)
riaa officially declares 1500 streams to be equivalent to ONE album sale. support your favourite artists.
Good: Conservatives look like they'll have their worst results in forever. Bad: Refascist UK look like they'll get a bunch of seats. Good: Refascist UK look like they've successfully split the right wing vote, taking away tory support. Bad: that Refascist UK are even being taken seriously is worrying.
Wow: "Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching. The idea is that radiation detectors already in place at national borders would detect the horns and help authorities arrest poachers and traffickers."
Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into to the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching.
Well...my current employer just went on a bender and fired half the company. So here we are again, sigh, anyone looking for a (recently unemployed) compiler engineer?
If you know anyone who is planning on not voting because ‘it won’t make a difference’, explain to them how public funds are allocated to opposition parties (so-called Short money). £42.82 for every 200 votes gained by the party. More than 20p per vote. Per year. Every vote counts!
Edit: Don’t just favourite this, boost it. People need to know!
So it's election day. Normally I'd post a picture of my polling station as I vote and say "go vote" but I voted last week by post.
Still going to say "Go vote if you haven't" though, and remember to take ID because of Boris's new voter suppression laws. This time around it's even more important.
Also.... usually I'd say vote for whoever you want, but..... vote for who you want if its not Conservative or Reform, or vote for who you reluctantly need to in order to reject the current bastards and stop Farage's even worse shower of racist homo/transphobes.
If you support either of the parties who have ruined and looted the country and/or want my friends (and me) either dead or erased from society then kindly eff off.
turns out on the google clock if you dont let the animation finish before pressing okay itll choose whatever time the minute hand happens to land on, so you can very easily accidentally set your alarm almost an hour after you meant to. whoever implemented this deserves to be shot
Go and vote. Yes, it might not make much material difference, and Starmer's Labour might be utterly shit, but watching the Tory party implode like a submarine full of billionaires tonight is going to be very funny
Just saw a car fan post that while EVs have their place, they're not 100% the answer.
And I guess they're right! We still have steam engines too! In the rural American Midwest we have "thresherees" where old-timers preserve the skills and history of running steam engines.
50 years from now we'll have car shows that will preserve the remaining fraction of automobiles and their enthusiasts to educate younger generations how greasy and complicated and inefficient moving people and goods around used to be.
On a related note, the skills of crewing a full rigged ship are apparently dying, and the VHS rip to YouTube video that I watched that info on was like from the 1980s. I guess some stuff does die out eventually. It was really weird to see people in mullets hauling on the running lines.
How it's going on Facebook .... Someone posted a link to what they called "a fantastic discussion on Fair Use ... from Cory Doctorow" and it was removed within seconds by Facebook. @pluralistic
@cy I tried to share a relevant printables.com link in a Facebook group and was similarly blocked. Seems anything outside the walled garden is assumed to be spam.
@drew @cy I imagine it's bc they don't want links that cause readers to navigate off FB, similar to how many newsmedia do not link to their stories' sources outside their own org.
Important info for anyone voting in the UK today - your ID does NOT need to be in date. It only needs to look like you. Old passports and driving licences are totally allowed.
Pass it on! Tell your friends and family. Tell your neighbours.
July is disability pride month! This is the month where the disability community comes together and we promote more inclusion for our community in a more neurotypical society. As well as celebration of the 34th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with disabilities act. #disabilitypridemonth #neurodiversity #actuallyautistic #disabilityacceptance
Maybe I need to get some bear stuff. Maybe that's what I'm missing. I've wanted a bearsuit for decades now and still haven't got that far, but maybe random small bear stuff would help.
Bear painting on wood for #anthrocon art show! I'm so happy with how it turned out. Our bear friend is using some nature magic to grow a new tree to heal the forest.
Edit to add: this wood was acquired second hand and reused!
@Kitt / Basil 🌻 I should! (I don't know what, though, or where from, or anything. I've never been one for trinkets and ornaments… Maybe I need to ask family for bear stuff for xmas. 🤷♂️)
Bear painting on wood for #anthrocon art show! I'm so happy with how it turned out. Our bear friend is using some nature magic to grow a new tree to heal the forest.
Edit to add: this wood was acquired second hand and reused!
Tomorrow, it's time return to work after the normal month off to be gay, start taking down the queer tree (or leave it up if you're tacky like that), and resume being straight and cis for the rest of the year.
I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:
I watch movies and tv shows on DVD/Blu Ray almost every week. Was an early adopter of DVD in 1999 and never stopped using the format. I still buy music CDs. As regards burning, haven’t done that for a while. I tend to back up all my discs to external HDs, though. I only stream if the movie or show I want to see isn’t available physically.
This. I’ve actually read a good chunk of it. More people should ‘cause Biden’s performance during that debate fucking pales in comparison to the ramifications if these assholes get more control #FucktRump #FuckMAGA #FuckTheGoddamnHeritageFoundation #VoteBlueGoddamit
Been seeing stuff about the BBC cutting out a massive chunk of this scene in Transformers Earthspark where Nightshade learns what non-binary means (and that it's a word that applies to them) and I'm just utterly fucked off by the sheer pointless cruelty of it https://youtu.be/Vd0F3EQ9PzQ?si=G9IVppKHddcfCeqQ
Me: "I'm not that gay, girls are just cool" Car Mechanic Witch: existsMe: akln;asdxcvjkl;n asdfvjl;nawesdvweasf ui;nas uoj;erasdfasefduo;bnfea;iohnasdsf;iohihnasd;fouhna 🥺 Source: fixupx.com/SimzArts/status/1768782605204213994
Finished installing the work I designed and made for the furry pride float for Seattles pride parade! Super happy with how it turned out and I will talk about it more in the future when I’m not tired from workin on stuff!
- spotify has never been profitable
- the only reason spotify exists is because it got in early and secured lots of funding
- spotify's actual service is fucking terrible and makes a conscious effort to prevent you from using it like a traditional music player and more in spotify's unique way
- spotify is wasting all of the money they should be giving to artists on ways to avoid giving money to artists
unsubscribe from spotify of the love of all that is good in this world