Third place is you lose your democracy

Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.

And yes, we should feel bad about serious fuck ups.

But we should also be clear that fuck ups are a part of being human and will happen.

And that often fuck ups are a shared responsibility. And that usually they speak to a GROUP lack of training or preparedness.

Yes! In a mixture of plaid, diagonal stripes, and paisley (with argyle socks)!

Now I'm torn between full-on pyjamas and finding the most garish suit-and-tie combination imaginable...

Though yeah, they will almost certainly get more if you both buy it and stream it than they would if you either just bought it or just streamed it

Are there artists who get more from me on Spotify than they would if I just bought their album? Maybe, but I could probably count them on a single hand, and the difference would be a couple of dollars each.

I've seen estimates that artists get at most $0.005 per stream on Spotify. So unless you're going to listen to a track daily for about three years, or once every three days for almost ten years, they'll get more money if you buy their $5 album on Bandcamp and download it.

This and the one where he broke a plate and his Mom was like, "What happened?!" And he responded, "I was carrying it around too much and I dropped it" are two of my favorites!

So, wait, if I feed that into an LLM will it break?

IDK why RFK Jr. is so against autism. Mine's helping me maintain a healthy detachment from what I am reading so that I take minimal sanity damage!

I think my favorite part is how, a couple of hours ago, before this dropped (or at least before I knew about it) someone said, "I feel like we've got time for one more bombshell before we close out the work week" and now I'm wondering: did they know, or do the have the terrible gift of prophecy?

Is... Is this like leeches for bloodletting but with a "bigger is always better" philosophy?

~suddenly experiences a nearly overwhelming urge to twirl an allium~

I mean... given the degree to which this has demonstrated it is a cognitohazard, I'd say we should be looking at AT LEAST Euclid-level containment. Not because it would necessarily be able to breach by itself, but because of the number of people who would be trying to release it 😖

Yeah, the only thing keeping this from being a once-in-a-lifetime comedy sketch is the fucking insane body count