“the music industry would find new ways to hegemonize, now arm in arm with the world’s biggest tech companies. And the laser focus from all directions on a handful of the biggest stars now feels of a piece with all the other ways billionaires and their lackeys hog all of society’s resources …
That’s also the logic that governs the labors of armies of stans, the Beyhive and Swifties and others who will swarm, insult, even dox you online if you voice a discouraging word about their beloveds. “
“we thought the whole music world was loosening up, that online discourse would foster a new eclecticism of taste and an almost unlimited range of discourse.
Like pretty much everyone else’s hopes about the internet, ours have come back to bite us in the ass. What we’ve gotten instead is indeed a click-based media economy, in which publications do try to produce as many headlines about a handful of big names” https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/taylor-swift-pitchfork-new-yorker-music-reviews-poptimism.html
« La #France reconnaît aujourd’hui l’ #Etat de #Palestine », déclare Emmanuel #Macron à la tribune de l’ #ONU
Le président français, accompagné par le ministre des affaires étrangères démissionnaire, Jean-Noël Barrot, doit rencontrer à 19 h 30 (heure de Paris) des membres des sociétés civiles palestinienne et israélienne. Puis, à 21 heures, il prononcera un discours pour annoncer la reconnaissance de l’Etat de Palestine par la France.
Registration is open for the free virtual conference–Deep Dive: Data Governance from the Open Source Initiative.
The three-day event will cover data governance, ethics & accountability, open infrastructure, and open source AI, and highlight real-world case studies.
📆 Date: Oct 1–3
🔗 Register at: https://opensource.org/datagovernanceconf
when it comes to music, are you mostly:
🔁 encouraged I want as much data as possible
Return to Paradise on BritBox looks promising.
Instant comfort binge.