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Patreon podcasters can now use Spotify to distribute exclusive content
Exclusive content will appear on Spotify when a creator syncs accounts.
I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman
How to fix toxic masculinity - Vox
Child Safety on Federated Social Media
The Fediverse, a decentralized social network with interconnected spaces that are each independently managed with unique rules and cultural norms, has seen a surge in popularity. Decentralization h...
Bandcamp Joining Epic Games!
Bandcamp, an online music store and community where fans can discover, connect with, and directly support the independent musicians they love, is joining Epic Games!
Bandcamp is Joining Epic Games
I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet. Bandcamp will keep operating a…
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
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Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions
A browser privacy showdown has been brewing for a while.
Apple finally reaches the one billion paid subscriptions milestone
On Thursday, Apple announced its fiscal third-quarter earnings and in a surprise announcement has declared that it has hit the milestone one billion paid subscriptions landmark across Services and the App Store.
Child Safety on Federated Social Media
Hunter Biden And The Fog Of War
What We Don’t Know About Why The Hunter Biden Plea Deal Blew Up
The rebel group stopping self-driving cars in San Francisco – one cone at a time
The Safe Street Rebel group has waged a war against robotaxis in an effort to end vehicle dominance in the city and promote public transport
The Guardian view on American Christianity: change and decay | Editorial
Editorial: Market-driven Christianity has boomed in the US but now it is beginning to bust
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Amazon has pillaged the planet in its quest for world domination. Music has not been spared.
pointillist shapes—a medallion, a rocket ship—they concluded, prophetically, with the
Platinum#Liz Pelly#The Baffler#Music Streaming#Power#Documentation#Third Party#Eve Echoes#Google Docs
Many Revolutions | Jamie Lauren Keiles
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How Tinder changed everything
“You can just kind of go down a rabbit hole and stay there for hours.”
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The company that controls dating
Why do apps all feel the same? Many are run by just one company.
Apple Keeps Trying to Fix Its Users
The company’s guilty conscience is making it nudgy.
The Nowhere Election
It’ll be every voter, and bot, for themselves.
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The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark - The Verge
Spotify to buy podcast ad company Megaphone for $235 million
Spotify said it has agreed to acquire Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts.
The Hidden Cost of Gasoline
Gas stations caused a $20 billion toxic mess — and it’s not going away.
What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout
Five lessons, and one open question
r/formula1
Can Mastodon be a Twitter refuge for marginalized groups?
The Twitter implosion has brought a flood of people seeking a safer, less-toxic environment. The results have been mixed.
FEDI-WATCH demo | bonkerfield
running decentralized detoxify monitoring for Mastodon
Ticketmaster to Show Full Ticket Pricing and Eliminate Hidden Fees
President Joe Biden had called out ticketing giants for their “junk fees” during his State of the Union address
Black praise in white pews: When your church doesn't love you back : Code Switch
Absolutely the most valuable "podcast" "episode" I've heard in years in terms of sheer insight.
Brains on Drugs | John Semley
Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.
Largest-ever NATO air exercise to begin in Germany
The largest air force manoeuvres in the history of NATO has officially begun in German air space, a German Air Force spokesman confirmed to dpa on Monday morning.
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]