@NancySinatra One of our best! An honorable man with a conscience who believed in hard work and helping those less fortunate. They tried to beat him down but his record stands and his actions after leaving government speak volumes to his character. Please let us see like him in politics
On May 9th, 2024, Maryland @GovWesMoore made history by signing into law the first concert ticket consumer protection bill in the nation to outlaw speculative tickets and hold the ticketing platforms accountable. ARA is a proud supporter of this win for consumers, Maryland concert venues, and musicians that play in the state, and we hope to see more states take this important step. Read more: https://t.co/6lcmStoghZ
Read ARA Music Council member @SherylCrow’s op-ed with @thr where she addresses AI in Music and the need for Congress to act now:
https://t.co/ryEfE1UAfZ
@TPBlue4@JoyceWhiteVance@JamesFLoveIV I believe trump said “will be wild” which can easily be misheard as “we’ll be wild” and not sure he didn’t actually say that! Or at least know multiple ways his prepared dog whistles may be interpreted by the rabid followers of his cult. He is a master of the grift for sure.
Pretty disgraceful fuzzy logic posturing by @spotify in pulling out of Uruguay , (using it as a global lobbying laboratory), because new regulation expects them to pay Equitable Remuneration to musicians, which Spotify say would make their business ‘untenable’ .
Err! Surely without musicians performances their entire business is ‘untenable’?
So ingrained has denial of exploitation in music become that even the most straightforwardly anti-creator tropes become normalised.
This logic seems to suggest that if a Music service actually pays musicians then its model is unviable? The only conclusion is yes, your model is unviable….. Equal rights for others does not, in any way, diminish your own. The only way such a proposition can be logical is if you derive your worth from an unfair advantage over others.
It is not ‘untenable’ to suggest that those who make Music should earn as much as those who sell it, is it?
Albeit, their argument that musicians should be equitably paid from the label share is also valid. https://t.co/G2CxIMxcrF
Great thought for day
KURT VONNEGUT:
I went out to buy an envelope ~ Oh, my wife says, well, you're not a poor man, You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around.
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore. ~ Kurt Vonnegut 100%
@cindylentz597@SifuThorenki@DameBrooklyn@RealDeclanReed@OccupyDemocrats Comparing Babbitt and Floyd is a false equivalency. Multiple officers stand over a man already subdued and kill him manually for a nonviolent crime vs. outnumbered officers protecting a gov. building and electeds from a violent mob that has illegally trespassed and been warned.