Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)
Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich (open.substack.com)
Florida is down so bad | Florida's Troubles Continue to Mount (open.substack.com)
The author argues that Florida is struggling in many ways recently. Ron DeSantis’ handling of the COVID pandemic led to many preventable deaths in Florida, contradicting early articles praising his response. Now DeSantis is known more for his anti-gay and anti-science stances rather than effective governance. His campaign for...
Moms For Liberty And Anti-Trans Republicans Suffer Massive Election Defeat Nationwide (open.substack.com)
Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices. (open.substack.com)
So this is how the story ends (open.substack.com)
Absolutely great read from Bernard Hickey on Hipkins’ wealth tax announcement and the treasury report released yesterday:...
Why I Switched to Nobara Linux, and Why You Should Too (open.substack.com)
I wrote an article on my switch to Nobara Linux. I think this community might enjoy the journey.
OC "Trust and Safety" departments exist to protect the company, not users. (open.substack.com)
Why I'm done with Nobara Linux: A Breakup Story with a Tech Twist (open.substack.com)
Followup to why you should switch to Nobara Linux. Also, some scripts I’ve compiled for distro hopping the fedora flavors.
A different approach to talking with people who have religious beliefs. (open.substack.com)
In this episode, I speak with Anthony Magnabosco a founder and the current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International, an educational organization that is committed to addressing dysfunction in public and private discourse by encouraging rationality through civil conversation. Anthony has been involved...
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries (open.substack.com)
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Eliminates Means Testing, Provides Free High School & University Education for Residents (open.substack.com)
Japan hit a record low for the eighth consecutive year in 2023 (open.substack.com)
Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices. (open.substack.com)
Why I Switched to Nobara Linux, and Why You Should Too (open.substack.com)
I wrote an article on my switch to the gaming focused Linux distro, coming from Windows 11 and thought you all might enjoy the journey.
An indepth explanation of how LLMs work with an minimum of jargon (open.substack.com)
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media (open.substack.com)
This article from 2022 does a very good job of capturing the social media landscape and the condition of political discourse right now. It highlights one thing that I've been hearing a lot and agree with, the cruelty is the point.
Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)
Latarnik wyborczy, czyli światło na końcu dupy (open.substack.com)
Napisałam ścianę tekstu bo nie miałam co robić.
Why I'm done with Nobara Linux: A Breakup Story with a Tech Twist (open.substack.com)
Followup to why you should switch to Nobara Linux. Also, some scripts I’ve compiled for distro hopping the fedora flavors.
Why Google Pays Apple $18 Billion Every Year (open.substack.com)
Ontario’s Liberal Party is still in trouble, and it seems like they don’t know it. (open.substack.com)
Great essay by Scrimshaw on the state of play in the OLP. It’s likely they won’t survive another election if they continue with their internal delusions.
Great essay from Brittlestar this week on just not being a dick. (open.substack.com)
I always enjoy Brittlestar’s stuff, but this week’s essay seem particularly appropos.
The great Mercedes turnaround (open.substack.com)
Removing work requirement from California child tax credit doesn't cause parental labor drop, study finds (open.substack.com)
