✍🏽 Heroes Circle Co-Writer with @opal_lines 🇩🇴 Ha’ta la tambora. 🎸🎙️ La Vida Arcana He/Him Neoyorquino desubica’o Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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🧵of my artistic endeavors:
Playing bass, writing and orating.
My band dropped their acoustic demo today. Ya go give it a spin. Here’s us playing some of the tracks at a tattoo shop cause we good like that.
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Watch Jesse’s smile fade micrometer by micrometer as he realizes that yes actually, that is indeed the plan. Watch him slowly realize that his party will never receive votes again. You can literally see his mouth straighten out if you watch the video
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We aren't doing this shit. It's not about your race, it's about you being beholden to corporate interests and opposed to the priorities of the voters who just handed you all this majority.
Recall, Jeffries had to be dragged kicking and screaming to endorse Zohran at the last minute and Schumer never did even though he was the Dem nominee and is one of the most popular figures in the party.
CNN: Hakeem Jeffries criticizes the DSA over lack of diversity when crowd of its members chanted “you’re next” at Jeffries
“It was very interesting to me, as observed by others, that there was almost zero diversity in that crowd.”
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this is why the centrist israel firsters on here are collaborating with the right and going after I've Had It's podcast sponsors. shameless amoral scumbags all of them.
Jennifer Welch: “Hakeem takes AIPAC money. I think we deserve politicians right now in this moment when we have a convicted felon in the middle of a pedophile ring that is ripping everybody off, taking taxpayer money, rewarding all of these bullshit contracts to all of these evil oligarchs. We need a Speaker of the House and a Senate Majority Leader that aren’t compromised. Who can look in the camera and say I’m not compromised, I’m fighting for America, for democracy, and for Americans”
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Ok, we’re messing with you.
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Oh I LOVE this can of worms. Please, keep digging into why “close reading” and “the text itself” was the primary way students were taught to read in school as well as MFA programs. Why would historical-political contexts be discarded in literary analysis under capitalism?
Strange how in high school students are taught to read literature by just focusing on the text and looking for formal elements (metaphor, irony, meter, etc)...but then in college they NEVER hear about any of that ever again, and instead are taught to read endless "theory", or secondary sources about the author's "political context," or simply to project present-day ideological obsessions onto the story (which they might as well just skim).
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Gears is an extremely high level commentary on fascism, war, PTSD, weapon races, and soldiers mental health.
These fucks think it’s a pro war, pro “badass” series when it’s so far from that it’s hilarious.
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Pay attention
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
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In this clip you're playing as a man suffering from ptsd who's only methods of coping are writing letters to his dead parents and being a hype man to keep his friends moral up because if he loses them he'd be one bad day away from eating his boltok
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To all the people texting me asking if this is a real quote:
Yep.
