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Paul Westerberg are you out there on Bluesky?

Where Do Songs Come From? Thinking of songwriting as labor versus divine inspiration can be helpful in resisting the endless churn of big streaming.

Lately I’ve wondered whether the perception of music as an almost magical pursuit also contributes, in some small way, to its treatment as essentially valueless by contemporary society

This is very beautiful, thanks for sharing.

With all the kindness in the world what part of being a Marxist revolutionary who rose to the presidency makes him an Anarchist? I have nothing but respect for him but seems like he was — at least on the surface — pretty invested in the health of the state

Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man

Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man
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REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington

Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

Fandom is rotten as a concept, man. I understand it helps a lot of people who struggle with socializing to find community, but I think it's pretty clear the end result is the very difficult to reverse enmeshment of individual identity with corporate property.

ACLU — NEW ORLEANS: “ICE deported at least two families, including 2 mothers and their minor children – 3 of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant... 1 child with cancer deported without medication…” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Since nobody really jokes on here except @505serena.bsky.social this is the funniest thing on Bluesky right now. We call that “Bluesky Funny”

Guy in post-apocalyptic Jackson Hole who keeps trying to reinvent health insurance

👇🏽

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

i’ve always wanted to use a social media website that only has fake users with fake human profile pictures with posts entirely created by a robot brain trying to sound human

MIT following Harvard's lead here

They said my artisanal hand-carved semiconductor business would never be viable but who’s laughing now?

Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Ratings agency S&P Global said Tuesday that SoftBank’s “financial condition will likely deteriorate” as a result of the OpenAI investment and that its plans to add debt could lead the agency to consider downgrading SoftBank’s ratings. None of the startups with early leads in generative AI have shown they can operate profitably, and the sector is pouring tens of billions of dollars into data centers based on assumptions, not yet proven, of a future in which AI rapidly permeates the globe. Early tech leaders often falter—a point SoftBank learned when it made a dot-com era bet that Yahoo would be the dominant force in search.

It feels like it should be a bigger story that S&P Global is considering downgrading SoftBank's credit rating due to their investment in OpenAI, saying that their "financial condition will likely deteriorate" as a result of their investment.

www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Kris Kristofferson and dream theater in the same collection is a sight to see. Very cool

Poison Oak - Bright Eyes

It’s hard to say anything that does this song justice, but I think it makes me emotional because of the sheer craft and structure of it. That you could take such real emotion and not just put it in a time capsule, but make it transcendent makes me stop in my tracks.

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

i don’t want to hear anyone’s opinion on chappell roan ever again like genuinely.

Reading a book

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

Really nasty work to lump Imran Khan into that. In no way anything like the other guys not a “right-wing populist” by any stretch

this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home “We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

“We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” National Security Advisor Waltz wrote. “Excellent,” VP Vance replied.

massively depressing that the big scandal is that the shithead guy from the atlantic got texted accidentally and not the part where they're raining more death on yemen