Peter Swimm
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Founder @toilville
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
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TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the "flat, tasteless, and boring" language of AI. "What I sense coming, on social media as well as in conversation with colleagues, is a growing hunger for human-produced ideas, readings, and arts." flaminghydra.com/issue-482/#t...
Head room / Showbiz duo
Jídé Salawu on AI in the classroom, and Jack Pendarvis returns with a new traveling companion
flaminghydra.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the "flat, tasteless, and boring" language of AI. "What I sense coming, on social media as well as in conversation with colleagues, is a growing hunger for human-produced ideas, readings, and arts." flaminghydra.com/issue-482/#t...
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It's Girl Scouts cookie season! This is Catherine's first year as a Daisy, and she's really excited to sell cookies to raise money for the Friendly Fridge and for her troop's camping trip. If you have a Girl Scout selling cookies, please share her link!
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/cather...
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/cather...
January 15, 2026 at 7:09 PM
It's Girl Scouts cookie season! This is Catherine's first year as a Daisy, and she's really excited to sell cookies to raise money for the Friendly Fridge and for her troop's camping trip. If you have a Girl Scout selling cookies, please share her link!
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/cather...
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/cather...
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Sharing this digital security zine from friends at @18millionrising.bsky.social
18mr.gumroad.com/l/DigiSecTra...
18mr.gumroad.com/l/DigiSecTra...
Digital Security for Activists on the Go Zine
Whether you've driving from your home to the local coffee shop, entering the border inspection line at the airport, and heading to a protest, learn tips and tools to protect your digital security whil...
18mr.gumroad.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Sharing this digital security zine from friends at @18millionrising.bsky.social
18mr.gumroad.com/l/DigiSecTra...
18mr.gumroad.com/l/DigiSecTra...
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Then when ICE zooms in on a specific person, it brings up their dossier. Name and most importantly, address. ELITE gives an address "confidence score" based on where the data came from. ELITE gets data from Department of Health, other sources www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Then when ICE zooms in on a specific person, it brings up their dossier. Name and most importantly, address. ELITE gives an address "confidence score" based on where the data came from. ELITE gets data from Department of Health, other sources www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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It is the 107th anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood, which, despite the delightful name, was a major industrial accident of the sort that explains why we have safety regulations and inspections.
January 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
It is the 107th anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood, which, despite the delightful name, was a major industrial accident of the sort that explains why we have safety regulations and inspections.
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Anything less than Nuremberg Trials type consequences at this point would be malpractice.
January 15, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Anything less than Nuremberg Trials type consequences at this point would be malpractice.
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A nonprofit last year released a damning investigation finding that gig platforms are using algorithmic systems not simply to manage workers but to systematically extract labor while evading legal obligations, yet the response from government has been timid, David Sathuluri writes
Why Gig Platform Wage Theft is a Governance Crisis | TechPolicy.Press
A report exposed an AI governance crisis in the gig economy, yet the response in Washington has been inadequate, David Sathuluri writes.
buff.ly
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
A nonprofit last year released a damning investigation finding that gig platforms are using algorithmic systems not simply to manage workers but to systematically extract labor while evading legal obligations, yet the response from government has been timid, David Sathuluri writes
Got it so Bandcamp is against both AI music AND honoring union contracts.
January 15, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Got it so Bandcamp is against both AI music AND honoring union contracts.
Reminder: 1000 chatbot conversations is not a simulation
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 14, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Reminder: 1000 chatbot conversations is not a simulation
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can you imagine thinking the problem with ICE is solved with inventing a redundant, needlessly complicated new kind of badge they won't wear
January 14, 2026 at 5:17 PM
can you imagine thinking the problem with ICE is solved with inventing a redundant, needlessly complicated new kind of badge they won't wear
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They murdered Keith Porter. They murdered Renee Good. They murdered Sylverio Gonzales. They have murdered dozens in ICE custody. They are breaking into people’s homes without a warrant in Minnesota.
January 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
They murdered Keith Porter. They murdered Renee Good. They murdered Sylverio Gonzales. They have murdered dozens in ICE custody. They are breaking into people’s homes without a warrant in Minnesota.
fair and orderly elections
January 14, 2026 at 5:10 AM
fair and orderly elections
quick question: is anyone passing actual real bills or nah?
Rep. Randy Fine on his bill to make Greenland the 51st state: "We need to make sure we assert our dominance over the Western Hemisphere ... the last thing we need is Greenland to become another Venezuela where we have huge problems we have to deal with in the future."
January 14, 2026 at 2:02 AM
quick question: is anyone passing actual real bills or nah?
ok sure lets paywall explainers
January 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
ok sure lets paywall explainers
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An interesting thing about this possibly year-long clock livestream for Avengers: Doomsday is that ICE murdered a woman named Renee Good.
Marvel has launched what looks like an 11 plus month long YouTube livestream hyping up Avengers Doomsday.
Marvel Launches ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Clock Countdown For Maybe The Next 11 Plus Months?
Just your regular 12 month long YouTube livestream.
comicbookclublive.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
An interesting thing about this possibly year-long clock livestream for Avengers: Doomsday is that ICE murdered a woman named Renee Good.
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Just had fun in our lab meeting telling my lovely colleagues that AI is shit, that the university can sack me if they want to make me use it, and that scientists have a moral responsibility to speak up when skullduggery is being perpetrated.
January 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Just had fun in our lab meeting telling my lovely colleagues that AI is shit, that the university can sack me if they want to make me use it, and that scientists have a moral responsibility to speak up when skullduggery is being perpetrated.
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Gen X is at +5 support for ICE while millennials are at -25.
Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?
Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?
Some interesting stuff in the cross-tabs.
January 13, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Gen X is at +5 support for ICE while millennials are at -25.
Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?
Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?
This is an amazing list and i humbly add something i someday want to make a room full of adults watch youtu.be/FbiGpuQq_Ac?...
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
This is an amazing list and i humbly add something i someday want to make a room full of adults watch youtu.be/FbiGpuQq_Ac?...
the swifties hive mind
Without saying Gundam, name a giant robot
January 12, 2026 at 11:23 PM
the swifties hive mind
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We don't need less polarization, we need more commitment to pluralistic democracy
January 12, 2026 at 7:27 PM
We don't need less polarization, we need more commitment to pluralistic democracy