When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
I don’t think it’s the boomers fault but rather the filthy rich, they are the ones who changed the rules so that they can take from us even more than from our parents/grand parents. Made it harder to own stuff and impossible to fight them and improve our lives so we stay occupied in their businesses trying to survive.
He seems to believe that poor people don’t deserve live music events. Only good for the rich, us poor workers have to keep on working so our bosses can have entertainment.
Same for me. I actually have so little money that I barely do anything anymore but I still am interested in a bunch of stuff just unable to actively do it since I have little time and no money.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that will prohibit children younger than 14 from joining social media in the state. Those who are 14 or 15 will need a parent’s consent before they join a platform....
All they want to is ro remove anonymity on social media so they can target the people who are different.
I wholeheartedly believe childrens should not be on the internet unsupervised but that is the parents responsibility not mine. I don’t want to have to give up my Rights just so they can track and harass the black dude or the trans person they hate.
Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application....
Nice ! You made me think of spinning up a little server. It’s been a while since I’ve dabbled in managing a server and not aure I have the time for that. But you made the chances if me going for it much higher.
Yea and some fucking cards only had IRQ selection jumpers for irq 5 or 7. Had a situation where I had to swap cards depending on if I wanted to use my twain scanner or play games with sound.
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
My favorite lady stuck her head in the lilac bush
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/5014fa61-04fc-4da2-9e2c-4c051162ba80.jpeg
EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants (zeteo.com)
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
12 people arrested, 102 charges laid in major credit fraud scheme: Toronto police (www.cp24.com)
Toronto police say 12 people are facing a combined 102 charges in connection with an investigation into a major credit fraud scheme.
Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials (www.yahoo.com)
Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!
‘They Are Just Pissed Off’: Scott Galloway Warns Young People Are ‘Opting Out of America’ As Older Generations Failed Them (www.mediaite.com)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees (fortune.com)
Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.
The president of charity *Food For The Poor* was called *Robin Mahfood* (feddit.uk)
Source article, sadly he retired in 2020
Biden might actually do something about ludicrously expensive concert tickets (www.vox.com)
How does one even live like this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
Surprise, surprise!
Which direction are you taking? (reddthat.com)
Video: Baltimore bridge struck by boat and collapses (streamable.com)
Here is a link to another post with an article....
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts (www.nbcnews.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that will prohibit children younger than 14 from joining social media in the state. Those who are 14 or 15 will need a parent’s consent before they join a platform....
I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database (lemmy.world)
Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application....
We need to pollute less and yet ! (lemmy.ca)
We need to wrap this plastic bottle in a plastic bag !
Dot matrix printer go EEEEEEEN-futfutfut-EEEEEEEEN-futfutfut... (lemmy.world)
"Evolution" by Sarah Andersen (lemm.ee)
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FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps (www.pcmag.com)
Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest blocking Swedish parliament (www.independent.co.uk)