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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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Spotify is Worse Than You Think
It’s never been a better time to opt out of the world’s most popular streaming service.
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August 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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: Academics against racism overland.org.au/2025/07/open...
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...
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July 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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
July 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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
Do you reckon China has a bunch of current affairs magazines with front cover illustrations of a fat bald eagle holding Taiwan in its claws trying to eat it with a headline like “THE BURGER THREAT”
July 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
汉堡的威胁
They say brainrot we say big tech
July 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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
July 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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
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All these big dogs suddenly showing sympathy for G*z* tells me that normalisation is coming big time
July 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
All these big dogs suddenly showing sympathy for G*z* tells me that normalisation is coming big time
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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
Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
![Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfoctmk4guq56gensuermj7q/bafkreihrwrukrvisav54a24jeuv7tlhfwe62yvui5d27gxhnopbdworowe@jpeg)
July 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
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July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
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Remember kids:
'In a society ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehx4...
'In a society ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehx4...
Pig City - 80s Super8 clip
YouTube video by Stephen Stockwell
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July 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Remember kids:
'In a society ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehx4...
'In a society ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehx4...
ChatGPT is to labubu is to Olivia Rodrigo is to mushroom lamps is to pure bred dogs
July 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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!!!!!!
July 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Zoomers are great at nostalgia for a past they've never known but what about some imagination for a future. Just maybe!!!!!!
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My first piece for Deepcut
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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
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July 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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
July 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
What's the point of being into digital cameras and then posting the photos onto instagram
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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.
July 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
July 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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
July 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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
July 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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
"At a certain point, it’s delusional not to be paranoid." removepaywalls.com/https://www....
https://www.theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-therapy-meta-chatbot-surveillance-risks-trump
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July 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"At a certain point, it’s delusional not to be paranoid." removepaywalls.com/https://www....
Favourite and best smelling literary magazine
n+1 is 21! For the next 48 hours, subscribe for just $21. www.nplusonemag.com/21st-anniver...
July 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Favourite and best smelling literary magazine
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n+1 is 21! For the next 48 hours, subscribe for just $21. www.nplusonemag.com/21st-anniver...
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
n+1 is 21! For the next 48 hours, subscribe for just $21. www.nplusonemag.com/21st-anniver...
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...
Marketing Authoritarianism
Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess.
jewishcurrents.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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...