otsum11

Trombonist in @wildcatchi, contributor to @The_Sugar_Beat, host of 'We've Got Issues', music enthusiast in general and a Chicago sports fan

[Dirk Chatelain @dirkchatelain]

I know it doesn't matter, but this happens over and over with the SEC...

Mizzou: 6-3. Wisconsin: 6-3

Mizzou best Ws: Florida (5-4), A&M (4-5)
Wisconsin best Ws: USC (7-2), Penn St (5-4)

Mizzou Ls: Miss St (4-5), Ole Miss (6-3), Texas (6-3)
Wisconsin Ls: UCLA (9-0), ND (8-1), Iowa (7-2)

Mizzou is 23rd. Wisconsin is unranked.

[otsum11 @otsum11]

The amount of comments indicating people who don't have x amount is indictive of qualifications to work in government is pathetic

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Troy Jackson makes like $80k a year. Him and his wife's biggest asset is his wife's retirement account which is under $250k. He is one of us. And we need 100's more in Congress just like him.

[son gohan @the_songohan]

We live in a time where ppl r mad at literal nazis dying

[Righty Summer @vodkasnowflake]

Lis’s last client had to drop out of her primary early because she polled in single digits against Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, who will now become a Senator. it’s great, though, that she gets to spin what the mandate to govern should be.

[otsum11 @otsum11]

"save the music industry"

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.

Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.

The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.

Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.

This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.

A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.

“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”

Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵

[Jon Kent @jonkentcomrade]

"Calling your representative and demanding them to do something is performative"

[otsum11 @otsum11]

@cbouzy

[otsum11 @otsum11]

Incredibly brave of Dana to publicly admit she can't read a chart.

People tune in to her for political commentary. Lordy

[Dana Loesch @DLoesch]

@ArdentShepherd Can you read polls? 75% said it wasn't. The little red bar is R. Good grief.

[palki 🌹 @themeasuredtake]

Many people, including @neeratanden, whose chosen candidate ended up being a MAGA Republican, said Abdul El-Sayed would win by thinner margins than Elissa Slotkin in 2024.

Elissa Slotkin won by 19,006 votes.
Abdul El-Sayed won by 334,962 votes (and counting)

[Brian Tashman @briantashman]

Not a single Palestinian-American or Lebanese-American interviewed. No mention of the anti-Arab, anti-Muslim attacks from the GOP or Haley Stevens’s allies

But they did interview a pro-Israel congressman, a pro-Israel rabbi, and a pro-Israel voter to imply that Abdul is a bigot

[Kid Riles @kid_riles]

Tomorrow is the day in Wisconsin where Madison and Milwaukee can’t start counting the tens of thousands of absentee ballots until polls open, because Republicans won’t allow it, and then Republicans will cry when the results are released later in the evening.

😭 😭 😭

[otsum11 @otsum11]

But please, everyone, go on about what Abdul has to denounce.

[Bulwark Clips @BulwarkClips]

Q: "What did [Haley Stevens] say back to you?"

Mike Johnson: "I've spoken her and encouraged her to stay safe."

Q: "Do you think she's not safe?"

Johnson: "I don't know."

Trump: "They're dangerous. He's a jihadist."

[otsum11 @otsum11]

Yeah no shit

[Fenit Nirappil @FenitN]

A group that calls itself "Empowering Black Americans” has been texting Michigan voters that Abdul El-Sayed has been "disrespectful and dishonest with Black voters"

Its one disclosed donor is a White businessman from Pittsburgh who gives to Republicans https://t.co/uWzbRZUDlm

[otsum11 @otsum11]

Oh, so the whole family are a bunch of losers 👍

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

CNN: Haley Stevens' mother says she voted for Rogers before endorsement

Rep. Haley Stevens’ mother, Maria Marcotte, said she supported Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers before her daughter endorsed him and denounced claims that anyone encouraged Stevens to support Rogers.

“Haley is her own woman. She always has been. Suggesting a man made her decision for her is insulting to her, and it is insulting to me as her mother,” Marcotte said in a statement to CNN. Stevens’ fiancé, Jason Turkish, previously endorsed Rogers.

“I voted for Mike Rogers before Haley said a word, and so did many people who love her. We watched what she went through this year. Haley wasn’t even engaged when she was screamed off her own convention stage. It was Haley who was chased out of a park and called a Zionist pig. It was Haley who was told not to come to church,” she said.

Link to article: https://t.co/fxkUO1xD4s

[otsum11 @otsum11]

This is the whole conservative stance in a nut shell. Brown man bad. Brown man can't be trusted. We have to share the earth with these fucking neanderthals

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Kid Rock on Abdul El-Sayed: This man very much is assimilated. You know who else assimilated? Those pieces of shit that flew those planes into our World Trade Centers. This is Islamic extremism.

Bill Maher: The hijackers weren't here assimilated. They were from Saudi Arabia.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Oh look, it’s Francesca Hong, the DSAer the establishment went all out to defeat in the primary for Wisconsin governor, working her ass off for Dems and using her platform to attack the Republican candidate for governor (not her former Dem opponent). Quite the contrast with Haley Stevens next door in MI.

Because—say it with me—corporate centrist Dems are the real traitors to the Democratic Party.

[otsum11 @otsum11]

"Picking Hasan Piker's uncle over party unity". Do they hear themselves? A Rogers voter is making national rounds along w/Stevens, rattling the cage w/an election a few days away...are pointing the finger about party unity. Absolutely insane anyone takes these two seriously

[TMZ @TMZ]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: HUGE problem looming for Abdul El-Sayed ... Rep. Haley Stevens is ready to pull her support for the Michigan senatorial candidate and no-show an important campaign rally if he doesn't disavow a couple of controversial political ads ... and the warning is coming straight from Haley's fiancé.

[otsum11 @otsum11]

Lol "Hasan Piker's uncle". What a wild statement from someone who, from this statement, continues to act like her primary focus is protecting the reputation of a foreign nation

[Haley Stevens @HaleyforMI]

On the eve of the eve of the eve of our BIG and important election, a unifying moment has arrived, our democratic nominee for U.S Senate disavows the Rebellion PAC ad made by Hasan Piker’s uncle that claims Jews are responsible for America’s economic woes. We have learned from party leaders and emissaries, as reported in the news media that he has.

On Sunday I will join with the Great Democratic leader, Jim Clyburn and Dr El Sayed for a church service in the beautiful city of Detroit.

The political coalition of Black and Jewish voices that have carried Michigan and this country through so many storms to the righteous path of liberal democracy and equal opportunity for all will ring out. Full statement here:

[Ray Wert @raywert]

BREAKING: Mallory McMorrow's husband says he's NOT voting for Mike Rogers for Senate

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

When will DSA be voting for expel the three DSA-LA councilmembers that endorsed the candidate that denies the genocide?

If you want to be righteous purist, don’t be hypocrites and fail to remove them. Be consistent.