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Spotify is Worse Than You Think It’s never been a better time to opt out of the world’s most popular streaming service.

A subscription to the world’s most popular streaming service comes with artist exploitation, writes Cher Tan. But its business is also pseudoscience, surveillance and the funnelling of profits into the war machine.

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Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: Academics against racism overland.org.au/2025/07/open...

Lmao older millennials who don't have zoomer friends need to stfu, you're becoming the boomers of our generation

汉堡的威胁

"Naarm"

They say brainrot we say big tech

Feels hard to look at whenever you see a friend masking but it's a comfort to know that when you do it they probably feel the same

All these big dogs suddenly showing sympathy for G*z* tells me that normalisation is coming big time

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

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Good morning. Did you call your local censorious payment processor and let them know you’re upset with their bullying of Steam and itchio? No time better than the present

yellat.money

YouTube video by Stephen Stockwell Pig City - 80s Super8 clip

Remember kids:

'In a society ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile.'

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ChatGPT is to labubu is to Olivia Rodrigo is to mushroom lamps is to pure bred dogs

Zoomers are great at nostalgia for a past they've never known but what about some imagination for a future. Just maybe!!!!!!

Australian media is centrist, corporate and blind to the bigger picture Australians are taught through media and politics that mediocrity is all they can hope for, Amy Remeikis writes

My first piece for Deepcut
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What's the point of being into digital cameras and then posting the photos onto instagram

Unsure what you were trying to unpaywall but it did for me

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YouTube has a full page ad in the Australian today on the first day of the new parliament as it continues to lobby against being included in the under 16s social media ban.

RIP 12ft.io, it was great being acquainted with you. For those adrift, removepaywall.net is your next port of call

Receiving a PS from your grants officer saying she enjoyed your debut book in a book club at a remote library location is kind of reverse katabasis

Has anyone tried to pitch interviews to @therumpus.net ? Do they expect full interviews alongside the pitch or wot

Journalists in "the west" have a lot of blood on their hands. May it keep you up at night and drive you to self-maiming

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Marketing Authoritarianism Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess.

On the unbridled sadism of despots such as Trump and Bukele, and how they provide a blueprint for aspiring dictators everywhere: jewishcurrents.org/marketing-au...

Now where have we heard this before......

The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere

This is like when rock bands have album covers that make the uninformed assume they play dungeon synth www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...

Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...

New from 404 Media: hacked data we obtained reveal dozens of unknown people on deportation flights to El Salvador. No acknowledgement from DHS. "We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know." We are publishing the names here: www.404media.co/flight-manif...

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !