@Belabor

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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

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The major label monopolies' lawsuit says their music archives "face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed."

If I may address UMG directly at this point: speaking as a Burbank resident who woke up one morning ten years ago to find the ashes of some of that music that was in "no danger of being destroyed" decorating my windowsill, you are encouraged to eat a bag of dicks.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/music-labels-sue-internet-archive-over-digitized-record-collection-2023-08-12/

Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection

Universal Music Group <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/UMG.AS" target="_blank">(UMG.AS)</a>, Sony Music Entertainment <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/6758.T" target="_blank">(6758.T)</a> and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.

Reuters
every time one of these not-so-secretly-racist "rising star" conservatives is unmasked as *extra* racist I do a quick check and YEP they've been published by The New York Times
After I do a bad post
i think a lot about how apparently, someone visiting pink floyd's studio in the mid-70s noticed they had several minimoogs set up with gaffer tape all over them, because when they got a sound they liked, they'd put the tape over the knobs so the settings wouldn't get changed, and invoice the record label for another fresh minimoog. i think this is how you're actually supposed to manage python software installations, just buy a new computer every time you finally get the correct packages set up
make furry as strange and unmarketable to advertisers and profiteers as possible
every time

as Meta lays off another 10,000 employees, it's a good time for tech workers to ask ourselves who do we really have more in common with: the struggling people who can end up homeless? or the billionaires, VCs, and "moderate" politicians whose solution to homelessness is an expanding militarized police force and prisons?

which side of that equation will you end up on, as AI gains the ability to write code, and climate-change induced disasters destroy housing? think about it carefully

drinking a beer, eyeing wings