A not-so-social socialist
@treeslaughing.bsky.social
Curious about everything. Resentful about the fact that the world is ruled by men with the emotional depth of a cauliflower
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The world’s 3 biggest music companies have all licensed their works to an AI music startup.
The company, called Klay, is building a streaming service where users to remake songs using AI.
Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music have all signed on.
The company, called Klay, is building a streaming service where users to remake songs using AI.
Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music have all signed on.
Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service
The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The world’s 3 biggest music companies have all licensed their works to an AI music startup.
The company, called Klay, is building a streaming service where users to remake songs using AI.
Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music have all signed on.
The company, called Klay, is building a streaming service where users to remake songs using AI.
Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music have all signed on.
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From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
The age of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity must finally come to an end
Research shows it is not possible for captive cetaceans to thrive in concrete pools
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
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Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary school teacher combined.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary school teacher combined.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Let them burn...useless, self-serving parasites.
Stock market sell-off continues, as Google boss warns ‘no company immune’ if AI bubble bursts – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as shares fall across Asia and bitcoin hits a seven-month low
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Let them burn...useless, self-serving parasites.
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Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Healthy oceans, safe future: stop the toxic shark trade
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now!
action.wemove.eu
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring
www.nature.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
While everybody else is falling in line, there will be some, few, with principles. So that we dont forget what integrity was. #python
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Kudos to the Python Software Foundation for refusing a $1.5m NSF grant which would have forced it to compromise on its DEI commitments #wellintended #wellindented
Kudos to the Python Software Foundation for refusing a $1.5m NSF grant which would have forced it to compromise on its DEI commitments #wellintended #wellindented
Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding terms forcing a compromise on its commitment to diversit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
While everybody else is falling in line, there will be some, few, with principles. So that we dont forget what integrity was. #python
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.
Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.
Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
Today in capitalism: an early exposure to the glamourous beauty industry, with its toxic chemicals certainly adapted to the delicate skin of an 8 year old. How nice we treat our princesses.
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today in capitalism: an early exposure to the glamourous beauty industry, with its toxic chemicals certainly adapted to the delicate skin of an 8 year old. How nice we treat our princesses.
I am joining this. We can no longer afford to be complacent in the face of the threat. We have to take back our lives and livelihoods. #diem25
Grace Blakeley on why she joined DiEM25 and why we must organise internationally to fight the far right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=evbg...
Grace Blakeley on why we must organise internationally to fight the far right!
YouTube video by DiEM25
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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I am joining this. We can no longer afford to be complacent in the face of the threat. We have to take back our lives and livelihoods. #diem25
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Grace Blakeley on why she joined DiEM25 and why we must organise internationally to fight the far right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=evbg...
Grace Blakeley on why we must organise internationally to fight the far right!
YouTube video by DiEM25
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Grace Blakeley on why she joined DiEM25 and why we must organise internationally to fight the far right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=evbg...
Today in capitalism: tiny household appliances for the consumers of the future. Nothing says childhood awe and wonder like loading a dishwasher or waiting for an ultraprocessed burger prepared in a microwave. Right?
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Today in capitalism: tiny household appliances for the consumers of the future. Nothing says childhood awe and wonder like loading a dishwasher or waiting for an ultraprocessed burger prepared in a microwave. Right?
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This past year alone, the 10 richest people in the U.S. got nearly $700 billion wealthier.
Meanwhile, over 40% of the population is now poor or low-income.
The Trump administration is accelerating an American oligarchy that’s been getting worse for decades.
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Meanwhile, over 40% of the population is now poor or low-income.
The Trump administration is accelerating an American oligarchy that’s been getting worse for decades.
THREAD 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This past year alone, the 10 richest people in the U.S. got nearly $700 billion wealthier.
Meanwhile, over 40% of the population is now poor or low-income.
The Trump administration is accelerating an American oligarchy that’s been getting worse for decades.
THREAD 🧵
Meanwhile, over 40% of the population is now poor or low-income.
The Trump administration is accelerating an American oligarchy that’s been getting worse for decades.
THREAD 🧵
You know what this result tells us? It says: go to the people, to the suffering, hard working majority and dare to be bold in the face of oligarchs who just got too used to shape our world to their liking. Mamdani won despite the billionaires. It is possible!
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenges Donald Trump in victory speech as Democrats win key US election races – live
Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump as Democrats win California redistricting vote and New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
You know what this result tells us? It says: go to the people, to the suffering, hard working majority and dare to be bold in the face of oligarchs who just got too used to shape our world to their liking. Mamdani won despite the billionaires. It is possible!
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If you're an author and think you might be able to register a claim as part of the lawsuit against #Anthropic for feeding its genAI with your books, Conor Kostick of the Irish Writers Union has an article that talks you through the process.
irishwritersunion.org/irish-writer...
irishwritersunion.org/irish-writer...
Irish Writers and the Anthropic Settlement - How to Register a Claim - Irish Writers Union
by Conor Kostick As previously reported in Final Draft, a landmark settlement has arisen in the US between a giant tech company and authors. Anthropic has a large language model that authors claim was...
irishwritersunion.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you're an author and think you might be able to register a claim as part of the lawsuit against #Anthropic for feeding its genAI with your books, Conor Kostick of the Irish Writers Union has an article that talks you through the process.
irishwritersunion.org/irish-writer...
irishwritersunion.org/irish-writer...
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The combined wealth of the 10 richest people in America jumped $698 billion over the past year.
This figure was supercharged by Donald Trump’s tax giveaways to his fellow billionaires.
www.thedailybeast.com/wealth-of-am...
This figure was supercharged by Donald Trump’s tax giveaways to his fellow billionaires.
www.thedailybeast.com/wealth-of-am...
Wealth of America’s Richest Billionaires Rockets Under Trump
“The rise of a new American oligarchy” is underway, according to an Oxfam study.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The combined wealth of the 10 richest people in America jumped $698 billion over the past year.
This figure was supercharged by Donald Trump’s tax giveaways to his fellow billionaires.
www.thedailybeast.com/wealth-of-am...
This figure was supercharged by Donald Trump’s tax giveaways to his fellow billionaires.
www.thedailybeast.com/wealth-of-am...
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I am 100% sure, if we invested this much money into tackling the ecological collapse we are facing, we would have done it 20 years ago...
Boom or bubble? Inside the $3tn AI datacentre spending spree
Investment in these vast warehouses is huge but some worry the debt-fuelled exuberance will backfire
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I am 100% sure, if we invested this much money into tackling the ecological collapse we are facing, we would have done it 20 years ago...
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Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers.
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers.
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
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Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Halloween
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.