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Why Tree is the Robert Johnson of rap An everyman-rapper in a way not every man can be

“I love liner notes. There’s few things I enjoy more than to prepare a cup of coffee, put on a great jazz album and then sit down with it all while perusing whatever additional context that slab of text on the back of the sleeve offers.”

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More reasons to be anti-AI

A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State

This dude has some serious cojones:

“My only intention was to express myself,” he told me in his first media interview. “The party installs surveillance cameras to watch us. I thought I could use the same method to watch them.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

Drinking a beer with Damon Albarn mid-song as he walked through the crowd performing ‘Clint Eastwood’ during a Gorillaz concert in Hamburg.

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well.

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“Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, declared (…) that the idea of a Palestinian state “is being erased from the table.””

And yet, whoever wrote this message linking to the article, seems to bend theirselves over backwards to imply an unfortunate consequence, rather than an explicit purpose.

Daar heb je absoluut een punt.

Ik snap wat je bedoelt. Maar mensen die vrijwillig voor sekswerk kiezen, zitten in een totaal andere situatie dan heroïnejunkies die zich ertoe genoodzaakt voelen.

Het was expliciet die laatste categorie waar Oudkerk zich van bediende, dat kun je IMO wel als misbruik van andermans ellende zien.

I donated anonymously to your gofundme on August 7. I’ll see if I can do so again when my paycheck comes in next week.

Sous les pavés, la plage! (ou forêt)

Sous les pavés, la plage! 😉

Help him out if you can.

Hi Ahmed. I’ve sent you some euros. It’s not much but I hope it helps. Stay strong.

There’s no link to the actual piece..?

Niet schoonmaken a.u.b.!

Drop someone FURIOUS 🤬🖤👿

FFS, can we please not make the 3/5 clause great again?

Amazing how the biggest and most dominating moral question of our time should also be the easiest to answer:

Should a country be allowed to commit genocide?

If your answer is anything other than an unequivocal “NO”, you are part of the problem.

And even though my home city isn’t huge, it’s in close proximity (an hour’s bike ride or ten minutes by train) to two bigger cities. That allows easy access to a wide variety of cultural events, book shops and record stores.

Not needing a car. I like to walk, and whatever isn’t within walking distance I can get to by bike or train.

Amazing how the biggest and most dominating moral question of our time should also be the easiest to answer:

Should a country be allowed to commit genocide?

If your answer is anything other than an unequivocal “NO”, you are part of the problem.

Sean Parker: You don't even know what the thing is yet. How big it can get, how far it can go. This is no time to take your chips down. A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? [sarcastically] Eduardo Saverin: You? [the scene shifts back to the deposition room] Eduardo Saverin: A billion dollars. And that shut everybody up.

The Social Network was basically a horror film based on real events.

Voor wie blijft volhouden dat tegenstanders van zionisme er simpelweg een verkeerde definitie van op nahouden; dit is hoe het anno 2025 door de Israëlische regering zelf gedefinieerd wordt.

Voor de boeren nul komma nul gedaan maar dat is natuurlijk de schuld van bruine mensen.

Kudos to this guy. This is effective resistance. Brilliant in its simplicity. Don’t store the data and it can’t be demanded by the fascists either.

Basically the tech equivalent of ‘don’t tell me and they won’t be able to get it out of me’.

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it | Jodi Ginsberg The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it | Jodi Ginsberg

Ik heb afgelopen weekend de laatste aflevering van de de serie gezien. Bij het kijken van The Handmaid's Tale hebben we elkaar regelmatig aangekeken zo van: ja, dit gebeurt tegenwoordig ook gewoon echt.

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

The ICE ad with the Nazi font, now disabled on the official DHS feed bc of copyright issues.

Looks like Jay-Z didn't like having his music used as the background for a fascism-porn ICE ad using Fractur ("the Nazi font") as its font.

ICE may be powerful. But corporate copyright lawyers are more powerful still.