| Website | https://musall.de |
| Threema | K9VTFPCF |
| Hobby | Nature and wildlife photography |
| Hobby | Choir singing at Vocanta |
Am Freitag durften wir mit #Vocanta ein Konzert zusammen mit #VOCES8 gestalten. Das war definitiv ein Höhepunkt des Vergnügens in Jahrzehnten des Chorsingens.
Why? They:
• Don't pay musicians
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/
• Fund right wing extremist podcasters
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/spotify-paid-100m-to-podcasts-including-joe-rogan-alex-cooper.html
• Harvest gobs of your data
https://bigthink.com/the-present/is-spotify-spying-on-you/
• Fund war crimes in Europe
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-07-31/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-company-some-musicians-say-its-time-to-leave
• Subject you to racist ICE ads!
https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-says-ice-ads-about-dangerous-illegals-dont-violate-advertising-policy-3900838
• Steer listeners to nonexistent AI artists.
https://www.aimusicpreneur.com/ai-music-news/the-velvet-sundown-ai-artist-spotify/
Using Spotify is morally bankrupt at this point.
Spotify has told industry players that it expects the new 1,000-play minimum annual threshold will reallocate tens of millions of dollars per year from 0.5% of its current royalty pool to the other 99.5%.
Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥
"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"
"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’
I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole.
It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and knowledge.
It's because a) I've studied enough AI to know it's a trick, a sort of linguistic illusion, and b) I've studied enough everything else to understand that I'm not immune to such illusions.
Stop supporting Spotify. We told you a long time ago. They’ve been running ICE recruiting ads for at least the last month. Please stop using it. Please.
#BahnBubble Bonus-Gutschein Freifahrt Flex für Dritte bestellt. Name der Zielperson wird abgefragt, hab ich angegeben.
12 Tage später, Gutschein ist immer noch nicht da. Hotline angerufen (“Ihre voraussichtliche Wartezeit beträgt: 7 Minuten.” — 10 min später: “Ihre voraussichtliche Wartezeit beträgt: 6 Minuten.)
Stellt sich raus: man soll da seinen eigenen Namen angeben, sonst funktioniert es nicht. Da, wo der Name der fahrenden Person abgefragt wird, bei einem Flex-Ticket für Dritte… 🤦🏼♂️
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.
Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
Kevin Beaumont
✨Soff✨ Mawr 
BrianKrebs
Stefan Münz
Tattie
Ericka Simone
Prof. Sam Lawler
Signal