Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
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The hottest phrase in the music business is "super fans."

Streaming services are building more expensive tiers for them. Record labels are hawking apps & merchandise.

I examined these plans -- and whether they will work -- for this week's newsletter.

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"The rebellion at Stonewall would not have happened without trans people. To attempt to erase their existence is utterly shameful.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

UNLESS there’s higher certainty of getting cash in the bank from other bidders (perhaps the robot has a bad track record of paying up), or other offers provide shareholders with more $$ in the long run-shareholder dividends that outweigh the upfront payout of robot offer? @matt-levine.bsky.social

NEW: Spotify has said 70% of eligible creators and networks are uploading video podcasts to the platform, but, in reality, few of the top podcasts are doing so.

Of the top 50 shows in the US, 37 regularly post to YouTube. Only eight also uploaded their episodes to Spotify.

This has been a bit of a crazy week in FTC news.
A) Lawsuits against Deere for allegedly monopolizing tractor repairs; PepsiCo for allegedly favoring Walmart over other retailers; and Greystar for hiding fees from apartment renters. B) Recommending lawsuit to DOJ over Snap's AI chatbot. ...

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Beijing said on Sunday it had lodged a protest with Washington against its latest military assistance and arms sale to Taiwan, and vowed to take all necessary measures.

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My latest: China has sent officials to the Russian central bank to study the effects of Western sanctions for a better understanding of how it would be affected if it were to invade Taiwan.

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The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of spare parts for F-16 jets and radars to #Taiwan for an estimated $385 million, the Pentagon said on Friday, a day before Taiwan President Lai Ching-te starts a sensitive Pacific trip.

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This classic work in the history of nationalism argues that the rise of widely available print (esp. newspapers) made it possible for geographically dispersed groups of people to imagine themselves as a roughly coherent entity called "a nation" in which there was an ongoing conversation.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has taken the stand for the first time in a national security trial widely seen as a barometer of the Chinese territory’s diminishing freedoms.

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Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

What I love about this Officially Verified Bluesky Press Lists is it includes a real mix of people at major legacy media outlets, independent organizations, and freelancers.

We can promote a diverse media when billionaires don't control what you see.

Let's keep it growing!

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This!! No system is infallible, and creating mechanisms to derisk future negative outcomes is so huge 💙💙

But this is what authoritarians want. They wear us down. They thrive on despair and disillusionment. So, we need to remind ourselves what matters. And what is worth fighting for, even if everything seems futile and nothing matters.

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The chief dirty bird admits, in so many words, to censoring Erdogan’s opposition on the eve of the election because he was cowering before a threat.

While I'm pretty sure companies like Chegg will get hit hard by AI, this feels like a convenient excuse for a shitty quarter