anna 🩷💜🩵

art is just another form of screaming | she/her |

[Sunny Giron 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @sunny_giron]

We can live without data centres and billionaires but we can’t live without water

[Aria 😷 @ErsteKatze]

I bring a "genAI is bad and I judge you for using it for everything" vibe to the table that people really don't appreciate.

[Usman ❤️‍🔥 @taysfavcardigan]

you just had to be there.

[autist @litteralyme0]

Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

police officers who leave their K-9 locked in their hot car to die should have to face the death penalty as a capital offense of murdering a police officer just like suspects who kick or fatally injure K-9’s during a pursuit etc

[meow & that @irinosbby]

everything is ai. i open my phone the reels are ai , music videos are ai , songs are ai , people are ai , foods are ai , places are ai

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm

[Daisy 🌸 @DaisyBareNaked]

I think people underestimate how much h Taylor donated to food banks because a lot of the specific amounts were kept private, but using Detroit’s 15 million, for 51 cities, that is $765 million dollars.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

What really bugs me these days is that we can't own anything anymore. Everything is a subscription. Adobe, Notion, Spotify. You don't just buy things once, you keep paying every month. You literally have to pay for everything forever. Isn't anyone else bothered by this ??

[jane doe @girlmeat07]

i wish i was dumb enough to be a choice feminist and genuinely believe that doing my hair, makeup, etc. was just "because i want to", but unfortunately every time i do those things i am painfully aware of the influence the patriarchal beauty standard has on me

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Rich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection of their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection of the fact that a human that doesn't have to worry about money will often choose art. everyone is an artist until rent is due. i wish we all had that right

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Q: “Now that you’ve met with [Trump], you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”

Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

Q: “And do you tell him that?”

Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

THEN ARREST HIM. How many times are they going to say “there’s proof he raped kids” only to do nothing about it?

[mel @user861kms]

the problem with choice feminists is that they think they just fell out of a coconut tree

[CHIDINMA @cruisequeeeen]

don't borrow grief from the future babe everything is going to work out the way it's meant to

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

A $7 increase in over 80 years. Fucking shameful!

[Meg @_nomadic_soul]

In case you’re wondering, here’s an example of women gaining more rights because we don’t possess them all yet in this country.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

> walk around your city catching pokémon
> game asks you to scan a fountain. sure why not
> 30 billion scans later
> niantic owns a more detailed map than any government
> sells game for $3.5B
> spins off a spatial AI company
> your pokéwalk is now classified infrastructure
> delivery robots now navigate using your walks
> you were never the player. you were the product.

[ChronoTheHarlequin @ChronoHarlequin]

Seeing an overflowing shopping cart of groceries be $100 and have that be considered comedically overpriced is gonna make me shit blood