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a Verge headline: The algorithm failed music Illustration: A colorful waveform starts to pixelate

The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.

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I regret to inform you that the romance of "writing on a laptop while wistfully staring out the window on a train" is ruined in reality by screaming infants and track turbulance

A photo of a school in Chicago with the setting sun reflecting in its windows.

A photo of snow falling in Chicago. Similar composition to the first photo but dark and snowy now.

I took a photo yesterday as the sun was setting and I thought it would be fun to shoot it again while it was snowing.

I hope Kim Davis hears about gay weddings every day for the rest of her hateful existence ☺️

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

You’re perfect the way you are 😛🥵😚

Always ❤️🫂❤️

They truly are haha

a blue and white puppet is standing next to a plate of vegetables ALT: a blue and white puppet is standing next to a plate of vegetables

Did anyone else grow up thinking a food fight would inevitably happen... but then it just never did?

If we’re not going to use a multi-trillion dollar budget to make sure people have food to eat, is there even a point?

I loved it

USA Photo of the year

Holy fuck. Wish we were cuddling naked, making out, & more.

Yes plz

A mass EXITS lol wow

three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Same lol.

I REALLY REALLY don't have the time or the patience to deal with you doomer pessimistic annoying miserable ass people who CAN'T RESIST saying some DUMB WHINY UNREALISTIC RIDICULOUS BULLSHIT to piss all over everything good. Go seek help and bother the people who unfortunately HAVE TO deal with you.

perfect shaved balls

"Well you know, now they're REALLY going to rig 28..."

Will the doomers shut up for one night.

The thing is, shit has BEEN rigged. Poll taxes, literacy tests, Cambridge Analytica, literal Russian bomb threats, the mass de-registrations, signature irregularities- our elections have ISSUES.

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

The left/far-left need to do a serious reckoning with antisemitism on the left. Stop excusing antisemitism or candidates with antisemitic backgrounds. FULL STOP. The failure to do so is what will eventually drive Jews away from our natural home in the Democratic Party.

it's so infuriating

Sorry but it’s nasty

W/e

Same

Nailed it.

There is no stronger bond than that of a gay man and a blackout drunk girl he just met at the bar.