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They still have payphones in Neuromancer. It’ll be interesting to see if that translates into the upcoming HBO adaptation.

Meanwhile in Ottawa.

Apple Music pays around $50 million annually to sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

The NFL pays the performers $1,246 for the performance, the minimum allowable SAG rate for theatrical performances.

I love how that's considered peak success in the music industry. 🫠

One dog per team, mandatory.

You can walk from all but the very west-est of westboro to city hall in less than an hour. I do it all the time. Drop ‘em in Bells Corners instead.

Colbert’s intro still says, “live on tape,” even though I’m fairly sure zero tapes are involved.

Me too! Bus shelter ads near parliament for copper mining and big oil.

Friends who follow such things tell me all their merch sold out.

Also, warehouse raves.

Music’s wild, it’s like ‘I’m gonna chant rhythmically about the worst thing that ever happened to me and you can half-listen to it in a dentist waiting room in twenty years.’

47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

Some people only have one?

Rumor is Spotify etc are pushing it because they don’t have to pay royalties on generated content. This is an experiment to see if they can cut artists out of the loop.

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

Good idea but personally I’d like them to do a bit of time travel or Q shenanigans and retcon the events of Picard out of existence completely.

“Harris winning would have been terrible for late night comedy….”

things like this really drive home that the primary function of the “EDM” movement was an extraction and mass-commercialization of Black dance music to be widely palatable to the monied white Chad demographic

*embarrassing (like that typo)

Bond movie where the villain is a Indian tech/media mogul who wants to destroy the monarchy by revealing all their most embracing secrets. And Bond decides to help.

Free movie idea. James Bond-ish characters but from Wakanda. I’d watch a dozen of those.

Parliament Hole.

When I say I live in a "good neighborhood," what I mean is that the grocery store is three blocks away, I can smell my coffee beans being roasted from my back yard, and I can get German baked goods, Oaxacan tacos, and East African lamb stew without walking more than a block.

That’s one rich bee.

people who aspire to be musicians don’t spend enough time thinking about how success means repeatedly singing lines you were once proud of and now find unbearably cringe

We didn’t call people, we called buildings.

You claim to hate communism but you keep getting publicly owned

Same! For at least a couple months I’ve only been able to find Walmart’s store brand.

Photo of a baby elephant accompanied by the text 'Elephants are born weighing 250lbs. They're the biggest babies on earth except for transphobes'.

I snorted.

If you were about to travel 100 years into the future, what would you invest in now? China?

Released 46 years ago

Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles

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