Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
In the recording, the mother of two can be heard discussing with her staff the success of a TPUSA event and the strong sales of associated merchandise. She then appeared to dismiss her husband's death during the discussion while emphasizing harmony between staff.
Music is subjective claiming that a song below 1000 streams is a bad song or that song that had no value for most people or thst people are just not aware of do not deserve to be payed ia ridiculous
Also the idea that artists should make music only for fun is ridiculous too.
I didnt claim it was a bad song. Do you thinking paying people to upload music to Spotify regardless of view count would somehow increase the quality of music?
Yes.
It would have the opposite affect attracting unserious musicians to the platform which would directly complete in recommendation algorithms with people who actually try to make music.
Who are you to say who is the serious artists and who isn't. The recommendation algorithms push people to copy each other killing innovation and artistic control . Demonetize songs to pay bigger artists including the biggest artists in the industry is completely fair . Yo should worry more about how loose Spotify is with AI generated music to hurt small artists even more.
It is when there is then hundred thousands of artists and millions of songs . Algorithms being biased towards big artists and most people just listening to the same 10 popular artists.
It doesn't matter if the biggest share of revenus is from sows , artists made an effort and made music , it should be paid that's all
It is a lot based on the industry saturation . It is unfair , it is stealing money from smaller artists to give more to already huge artists and major labels
You shouble be ashamed of minimizing small artists efforts. You don't know ish about how hard the industry is. As a super fan of music I have build connection with small local artists failing to have regular over 1000 streams tracks let alone 1000 per years. They do everything right like in real life networking, participating in competitions, asking advices and retroaction from better profesionals.
You are no different than people who say anybody who is poor is because he is lazy and not serious while defending billionaires
It doesn't matter how small the money is for 1000 streams. Any artist should still get money from streams and not stealing that money to give them to mainstream artists.
Instead of shaming small artists you should adress spotify being loose about blocking ai generated music, giving big artists right to use AI and giving advances to major label and if the revenus are less than the advance the label still keep the difference
It is comparable you can't minimize small amount of money. When someone stream an artist he should get compensated even if it is a very small amount of money and not to be given to rich artists like Drake
If you're a cent short just go talk to the checkout lady and she'll sort it out.
It is very rare even in small businesses. They have no obligation to accept.
$4 over a year is a rounding error.
4$ a year is for dollars a year that should belong to the artists that generate it
You just a terrible person shitting on small artists and defending major labels. The algorithms do not push those artists so your argument is trash and factually wrong.
Spotify allowed billions of fraudulent, bot-driven streams to inflate Drake visibility. You have no problem with that you just have problem with small artists that many of them make quality music. I do not wish music I hate to be demonetized because I believe in fairness between artists
Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors. What do you think?
We have fact checkers, we have reputable historians, we have videos confirming stuffs, we have human right organization confirming stuffs. Propaganda points from Zionism for example are intentionally not remove . I support removing all clear propaganda points whatever it is from China, Russia, the west ,Iran and Israel
There is less propaganda talking point that you think that can be debunked in 5 minutes. The same propaganda talking repeated points so they become so easy to recognize. You don't need to know the whole history of Russia and Ukraine to know that Russian invasion is illegal, you don't need to know too much of the history of China or Taiwan to know that China has no right to take Taiwan, you don't need too much details to know that Israel is the settler colonial power and that settler colonialism is never justified . Visiting regularly the modlog it is pretty clear to me that mods of big communities do not intent to fight propaganda at all . One can't expect all propagandist comments and posts to be removed but can expect some to be removed when they are reported
Always the same you will always see scums like him justifying stuffs under the pretext of lack of context. I saw the same where anti occupation protesters in germany are beaten by the police
The European Union on Wednesday strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ raid on the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem and the subsequent demolition activities, describing the move as a serious attack on the United Nations....
Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians on one of the deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October....
after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine - Ben Gurion
No wonder arabs was trying to stop the occupation plan from the start
You purposely conflate Arab leaders with Arab population . The majority of the arab population support Palestine . You blame everything on "terrorist" organization to justify leaders inactions when we all know that the reason they no longer care is that the usa bought it support with military and economical support. Israel openly allude that that they control the open and closing of thee rafah border. Morsi was easing up the border control and that's the reason the usa organized a coup to oust him
About 77% of respondents named the United States and Israel as the biggest threat to the security and stability of the region.
See it is not khamas or khizbollah who are considered the biggest threat
Funny how you also omit the atrocities made by Israeli backed militant in Lebanon civil war
call for more violence (intifada) and war (destroy Israel)
The intifada was a Palestinian rights protest that started peacefully than Israel start shooting people. Israel is fully responsible for all the violent on both side that happened afterwar.
And by war we mean fighting for liberation of Palestine then create either a two state or one state where everybody live peacefully .
Israel is the one currently destroying everything and trying to exterminate Palestinians why don't you admit it instead of both siding. Why can't you say simple that you support after the liberation of Palestine to held accountable war criminals from both side
Arab leaders were promising massacres and ethnic cleansing of the Jews from Palestine in the wake of the war. “Throw them back int the sea.”
Why did Arab not ethnically cleansed jews from their countries until Israel ethnically cleansed Palestine from where Israel was created? Because Arabs did not have a problem with jews they have a problem with Zionist who came under pretext of being refuges just to reveal after that that they . You keep removing important fact to make Israel look better. Why did you not mention the nekba?
Why don't you mention that zionists also admited to want the whole land?
after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine - The terrorist and first prime minister of Israel Ben Gurion
but also Yemen for example
The Yemeni jews who came to Palestine was welcomed. Palestinians Arabs and Yemeni jews was participating in each other festivities
They didn’t have any other place to go to. Nobody wanted them. For them it was fight for their lives or be killed.
This is a lie . The Jewish Autonomous Oblast existed . Also just because other countries didn't want them doesn't mean recent immigrants has the right to force a state on the local people . Also the part of land jews owned was noncontiguous so the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was inevitable
After the war was won by Israel. 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and Muslim countries and mostly went to Israel. Adding more Jews to the land with no other place to go to.
This is true and like I mentioned in the beginning it was Israel who started the ethnic cleansing it doesn't make the Arab decision right but it is an important detail you shouldn't remove and not all was expulsed by Arabs for vengeance . Zionists did false flag operations to push some to leave by themselves and even deals with Arab leaders to transfer many jews to Israel
It’s a pretty shit situation overall and was from the beginning.
It is a shit situation because of people like you who both side the occupied and occupier
Israel is the occupier it do bad things because the state has a supremacist ideology and want all Palestinians expulsed or killed . Occupied people do atrocities as an retaliation to occupations . Once Palestinians are liberated they will live peacefully with their Israelis
The political reality and history of the region is as simple as Israel is evil based on facts I mentioned in the other comment
Let’s look at some facts though. Islamists and secular dictators in the region have killed far more people than Israel.
The same dictators who are abandoning Palestinians and are improving their relation with Israel. Israel is trying to normalize with El jolani which is an islamists. You are a bad faith and hypocritical person who try to justify occupation , settler colonialism and genocide
When asked if Hamas had committed the atrocities seen in the videos shown by international media displaying acts or atrocities committed by Hamas members against Israeli civilians, such as killing women and children in their homes. The overwhelming majority (86%) said it did not commit such atrocities, and only 10% said it did.
That's what happen when you are oppressed for 80 goddamn year where israel is continuing the theft of land and want to exterminate Palestinians . Netanyahu said it pretty clearly there will never be a Palestinian state because the land is our and he compared Palestinians to Amalek there is no more clear intention of extermination not just genocide than that even Hitler was using better euphemism to deflect from the fact that he wanted to exterminate jews
Of course the Arab public blames the USA and Israel for everything bad. You can also look up what conspiracy theories are popular in the Arab world and you will see how much validity public opinion has. Blaming Israel and the USA (and the west) for every failure has been a goto for political and religious leaders for more than a hundred years. It’s the whole basis of Muslim brother type Islamism for example.
You are just a racist . Of course arabs did kill ton of people in history but it is nothing compared to the west and europe . The USA and Israel is to blame from settler colonialism and genocide . If we talk about who is the most responsible of death of people in history it is Europe. British in India alone are responsible for about 60 to 100 millions death. World war 1 and 2 happened because of European imperialist and colonialism ideology . Nazis was also Europeans.
Almost every western intervention resulted to mass muder or civil wars
If you want the conspiracy to be limited you should ask for unconditional end of the occupation . Yo can't be really anti islamists while at the same time supporting Jewish supremacy which do not represent all jews
At the end of the day there is nothing that justify settler colonialism and genocide that Israel is doing
Then the PLO, who want languishing in exile, was brought in by Israel in a chance to seek a peaceful settlement. Oslo was a step in the right direction. The peace deals were rejected by Arafat.
Why do you always lie ? Arafat accepted Oslo accords, recognized Israel and rejected armed resistance. He rejected Camp David because all Palestinians rights given by international laws was not addressed . Blaming Arafat is like blaming Zelensky for refusing to give up lands to Russia .
Even former Israeli prime minister admitted camp David was a bad deal .
If I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well - SHLOMO BEN-AMI
Palestinians deserve better treatment by Israel and they deserve better leaders, that can see beyond eternal resistance and their personal enrichment.
Palestinians deserve better treatment by Israel and they deserve better leaders, that can see beyond eternal resistance and their personal enrichment.
Stop with you bullshit. Just admit it Israel should end occupation and settler colonialism otherwise it would be really clear that you don't give a damn about Palestinians . You don't mind Israel currently trying to exterminate Palestinians
What Palestinian rights by international law do you mean? UNSC resolution 242 doesn’t grant the so called „right of return“ to all descendants of Palestinians for example.
UN General Assembly Resolution 194 give Palestinians that right . Funny how Palestinian right of return is your problem rather than Israel Law of return which allow any Jewish person, their children, grandchildren, and spouses to move to Israel and become citizens and even to occupied land.
There were numerous rejections of peace deals by Palestinians and Arabs. Peel commission, UN Portion Plan of 1948, Khartoum resolution, Camp David, Taba, and others.
Not a single one granted all right international laws give them. East Jerusalem, all of the west bank and gaza are considered Palestinians , the right to have an army to defend itself and the full sovereignty of the part. Arafat refused for that reason not the bullshit you are saying
Israel should end the occupation of the West Bank and settlements. However they have legitimate security interests. Israel needs a neighbor that agrees to peace and non aggression. Leaving unilaterally hasn’t worked in Gaza. At the moment Israelis don‘t see a chance for this. October 7th has diminished the small peace camp further.
They don't the end of occupation is unconditional. Israel as the settler colonial power and military superiority do not need any security guarantees. It is Palestinians who should have the right to security guarantees
Israel needs a neighbor that agrees to peace and non aggression
Israel as the settler colonial power is the one who should agree to genuine peace and non aggression and should abandon the idea that the whole land belong to them and if they give some part of the land back that it is because Israel is good . The Palestinians authority recognize Israel and collaborate for them. How Israel thanks them? By building even more colonies by terrorist settlers
More Palestinians have died in Gaza, than all deaths combined (including Israel‘s) over the last 100 years before. Gaza had an operational international airport with construction of a harbor underway, was ruled by Palestinians, no IDF presence in the late 1990s. Arafat decided to throw all that away when he launched the second intifada. Just because he wasn’t able to compromise and sell that to his people.
Every single death in Gaza is israel responsibility as the settler colonial power . It is some twisted logic that israel can destroy that Airport just because of the second intifada which also started because of Israel refusing to give all Palestinians right back under international law . The biggest victims of the second intifada is again Palestinians . Israel used human shield during the second intifada and deliberately killed innocent civilians.
Israel has severe restrictions seven in the 90's on Gaza
The comparison to Ukraine and Zelenskyy is weak because the situation is so different. Ukraine hasn’t lost the war yet, but is holding on. For how many years that’s worth doing is a good question.
Your logic is weak and scummy. Ukraine is the occupied , Palestinians is the occupied. Russia is the settler colonial power , israel is the settler colonial power . It is exactly the same goddamn thing. Even Israel and Russia rhetoric are the same bullshit : the security excuse while continuing building colonies in the west bank and Crimea, the idea that Ukrainians and Palestinians distinct identity do not exists etc
When someone lose the war international laws do not grant sovereignty over those land to the winner even if the loser started it and international laws grant right to resistance to the occupied and by resistance I do not mean killing innocent civilians unlike you who use excuses to justify Palestinians mass murder , genocide and settler colonialism
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There have been a couple of posts somewhat recently asking what can be done to attract new users to the Fediverse. My answer was basically "make it something new people would want to see and stick around for". The crux of that was basically less news, less politics, less rage and more, well, anything else....
I talked about balance in my first comment. I talked about finding solutions aka keeping light in the darkness. I don't know why people are always selectively reading my comments
Germany and Israel hold first joint exercise to counter cyberattacks ( dpa-international.com )
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are ( www.nytimes.com )
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
Canada’s EV deal with China could hand nearly $1 billion to Chinese automakers from federal credits, experts warn ( thehub.ca )
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When is violence a viable solution?
Protesters confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, a key Democrat whose vote helped secure passage of the Department of Homeland Security’s $64.4 billion funding bill. ( loops.video )
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Erika Kirk Under Fire As Husband's Pal Leaks Audio Of Her 'Giggling' About 'Event Of The Century' After His Death ( theblast.com )
In the recording, the mother of two can be heard discussing with her staff the success of a TPUSA event and the strong sales of associated merchandise. She then appeared to dismiss her husband's death during the discussion while emphasizing harmony between staff.
View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU ( www.policymagazine.ca )
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Spotify paid out $11B+ to the music industry in 2025, up 10% YoY, bringing its all-time payments to $70B, and now accounts for ~30% of recorded music revenue ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )
Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse
Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors. What do you think?
TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover ( www.theverge.com )
France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform ( www.techspot.com )
CANADIAN-MADE armoured vehicle spotted on Minneapolis street just after Alex Pretti was murdered ( www.youtube.com )
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US | Trump withdraws Canada's invite to join Board of Peace ( www.bbc.com )
Trump did not provide a reason for the decision, which comes after Canada's PM Mark Carney warned of a "rupture" in the US-led global order....
EU condemns Israeli raid on UNRWA, vows continued political and financial support ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
The European Union on Wednesday strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ raid on the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem and the subsequent demolition activities, describing the move as a serious attack on the United Nations....
Israeli fire strikes journalists and children on one of Gaza's deadliest days since ceasefire ( apnews.com )
Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians on one of the deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October....
US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked ( www.thecanary.co )
Leaked — US-led Gaza scheme to confine Palestinians in a ‘planned community’, complete with biometric tracking and political 're-education'...
do you know any good non-english rap you’d recommend?
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Mayor Mamdani says he supports abolishing ICE, calls for 'humanity' in dealing with immigration issues ( abcnews.go.com )
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How do you discover new music while avoiding AI generated ones?
I've been looking for a way to discover new music. Spotify used to be quite good, but now I feel like 10% of the stuff it recommends me is AI slop....
The big winner in Iran? Chinese repression ( www.thetimes.com )
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Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world
There have been a couple of posts somewhat recently asking what can be done to attract new users to the Fediverse. My answer was basically "make it something new people would want to see and stick around for". The crux of that was basically less news, less politics, less rage and more, well, anything else....