This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
🚨🇺🇸HUGE LOSS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES: COURT RULES AGAINST INTERNET ARCHIVE | 500K BOOKS REMOVED
A court has ruled that the Internet Archive, a key resource used by public libraries to lend books digitally, can no longer lend over 500,000 books like "The Catcher in the Rye" and "To Kill a Mockingbird."
The ruling states that the Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program, used by public libraries to lend e-books, violates copyright laws.
CDL lets libraries lend one digital copy for each physical book they own, just like traditional lending. But publishers like Hachette sued, claiming it bypasses e-book licensing fees.
The Internet Archive is appealing, arguing CDL is essential for libraries to lend, preserve, and ensure access to out-of-print books.
Sign the open letter to bring these books back.
Source: Internet Archive
Sign here: https://t.co/Y0g03IhWj7
This feels like a moment I'll look back on many times...
A.I. has made something incredible, or at least shown it can. And a valid contribution to rock n roll.
The crossroads between innovation and art are here.
We are no longer alone in the creation of music.
Title: My Love
Style: “Indie Rock with 90s influences, featuring a combination of clean and distorted guitars, driving drum beats, and a prominent bassline, with a moderate tempo around 120 BPM, and a mix of introspective and uplifting moods, evoking a sense of nostalgia and hope.”
“How did I waste so much fucking time?“
Is the biggest revelation of parenthood
Not, “how will I find the time?”
Your brain is wired to avoid the things you’re afraid of, so create or don’t.
But don’t blame kids
I just heard a popular twitch streamer say that her friends who have kids are not as serious artist/musicians
“Because they have other priorities”
Which is hilarious, because I quit my last day job to become a dad and Professional Musician because of the flexibility it gave me
I think it’s important to note that, yes, family obligations, but also romantic relationships, jobs, eating, sleep, and even streaming on twitch, can be an excuse for not creating your art
The problem isn’t the kids, or any other obligation. The problem is the excuses.