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“'They are not making much on streaming services, they are not making much on YouTube for playing their videos,' said [music industry expert Eric Alper]. 'Everything is more expensive, the venues are more expensive, insurance has gone through the roof.'”

They moved fast and broke things, and now everything's broken and has higher concentration of profit and control in fewer hands. Yay #TechnoFeudalism

Toronto BLACKPINK fans disappointed with ticket selling system
ctvnews.ca/toronto/consumer-al

CTVNews · Fans who bought tickets to BLACKPINK’s sold-out Toronto show feel misled after 2nd date addedIt’s shaping up to be a busy and expensive concert season this summer in Toronto. With some big acts coming to the city, including Coldplay, Katy Perry, The Weeknd, and K-Pop group BLACKPINK.

#DOGE Is Putting Major Government #Efficiency Projects at #Risk

“18F was the people’s #tech shop,” one fired #18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole left by the closure of 18F. Requests from across the country for help far outpaced 18F’s capacity before the closure.”

#USpol #Musk #Trump #PublicDisservice #law #regulation #Technocracy #broligarchy #plutocracy #NeoReactionary #NRx #Technofeudalism #USpol
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The meeting was a potential turning point after the frenetic first weeks of #Trump’s 2nd term. It yielded the first significant indication that Trump is willing to put some limits on #Musk, whose efforts have become the subject of several lawsuits & prompted concerns from #Republican lawmakers, some of whom have complained directly to Trump.

#DOGE#USpol#law
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Throughout all of this, #Trump sat back in his chair, arms folded, as if he were watching a tennis match.

After the argument dragged on for an uncomfortable time, Trump finally intervened to defend #Rubio as doing a “great job.” Rubio has a lot to deal with, he said. “He is very busy, he is always traveling & on TV, & he has an agency to run. So everyone just needs to work together.”

#USpol#Musk#DOGE
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#MarcoRubio was incensed. Here he was in the #Cabinet Room of the White House, the Secy of #State, seated beside the president & listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.

Seated diagonally opposite, #ElonMusk was letting #Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.

You have fired “nobody,” Musk told Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from Musk’s #DOGE.

Spotify, Apple Music, et al are rent-seekers: digital music landlords over their vassals, big record companies. When recorded music became free as a result of file-sharing, these lords offered protection to the suits. Why pay _them_ for that which belongs to all humanity? Bread and roses, y'all.

Dump them as soon as you can (even if it means torrenting) and pay what you would have to the artists as directly as you can manage. Reject #technofeudalism.

🇩🇪 Gerade bin ich wieder mal sehr froh, für meinen Account Bits & Bäume (​@bits_und_baeume​) als Host gefunden zu haben!

Ich habe nämlich (durch einen Boost von @mamsell​, danke dafür!) die Aufzeichnung des Bits-und-Bäume-Herbstabends im Oktober gefunden (Thema: »Wem gehört das Internet?«) und schau mir das gerade an. Allein schon das Gespräch zwischen Rike, Anja und @francescabria ist sehr, sehr sehenswert. Tausend Dank dafür 💚

Unten der Link zur Aufzeichnung der Veranstaltung, neu verlinkt über den Proxy Invidious, um Googles und YouTubes Data-Grabbing zu verhindern.

🇬🇧 I am once more very glad to have found Bits&Bäume as my Mastodon host. Just now, I’m watching a video of their fall conference which is quite enlightening. It’s bilingual, you’ll understand most of it.

▶️ inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zSAcnSK

🔗 bits-und-baeume.org

#TechnoFeudalism
#Digitalpolitik #Technologie #DigitalPolicy #Technology #WemGehörtDasInternet #WhoOwnsTheInternet #BitsUndBaeume #Talk

I'm not sure if there's a term that exists for what I'm doing in this age of technofeudalism. There probably is. But a term I use in my mind is "digital homesteading." And I'm surprised how many people seem actually interested. It's, of course, all about making it accessible to non tech people.
#digitalhomesteading #indieweb #fediverse #technofeudalism #smallweb #selfhosting #opensource #leftism #communism #anarchism #foss #anarchy #anarchocommunism #syncthing #joplin #degoogle #google