Thanks for the links, will check them all out. But from a brief squizz at the bbc link... can I just point out that these are all VERY established artists, with established fanbases. None of these will be interacting with people online anyway, already using a social media manager to do all their posts etc.
There's no point making music that nobody knows exist, and unfortunately streaming / social media are the main avenues for reaching new fans these days.
I write a few different styles, been writing big beat for a couple of years now and trying to do it as independently as possible. But still needs promoting online, hence social media ugh.
Some of us have no choice. If I don't have social media, record labels won't sign my music. I cannot afford to pay someone else to maintain it for me.
FR. These features are so easy to disable, when I updated Firefox recently it asked me on next load if I want the features or not... I chose not, no big deal!
'AI' is this generations Justin Bieber / Skrillex. There's plenty to criticise but it's becoming a bandwagon at this point.
Here in the UK, fortunately fentanyl is pretty rare. At the testing tent I mentioned above, it was stuff like: people who thought they had coke, had amphets; people who thought they had amphets, had research chems; people who thought they had ket, had meow; people who thought they had E, either had MDMA mixed with amphets, or other contaminants.
Thanks :)
Didn’t expect to have to learn this much
You have activated the Command & Conquer fanbase. Good luck haha
This is your friendly reminder to buy testing kits if you do drugs, so you know what's in them.
The kits aren't expensive or difficult to use :) when they had a drug testing tent at a UK festival recently, something like 2/3rd of the people didn't have what they thought they had.
You're not wrong!
If you do have something like a Pixel / Galaxy already, consider installing DuckDuckGo browser. It's not just a browser... it also runs an onboard vpn, which has the side effect of blocking ad tracking requests. I was kinda horrified and surprised to see what kind of info most of the apps were taking, and how often they were making the requests. GPS (both coarse & fine), IMEI, post code, email address, all kinds of other identifiers.
You'll have to manually let a few apps through (stuff like the wallet, maybe banking apps) but everything else is blocked on my phone.
If I was going to buy a new smartphone right now, I'd prob get a Fairphone:
Fairphone is a Dutch electronics manufacturer that designs and produces smartphones and headphones. It aims to minimise the ethical and environmental impact of its devices by using recycled, fairtrade and conflict-free materials, maintaining fair labour conditions throughout its workforce and suppliers, and enabling users to easily repair their devices through modular design and by providing replacement parts
any notion that there is method in his madness.
There IS method in his madness. Just, it's mostly not his method, you've got to peek behind the curtain. You have to remember with Trump, all he cares about is money and the appearance of 'winning'. A lot of his 'confusing' rhetoric is designed to pump 'n dump the market, so he and his close associates can make big bets for big profit.
For the darker intentions, you need to look to people like Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Heritage Society. They've literally stated all their intentions in the P2025 documents.
Yeah for some reason I find it easier to avoid infinite scroll with FB than reddit! I know, that's like mentioning Voldemoort round here.
Not sure if any Lemmy-ers still use reddit, they fucked it again (removed /all). It's rapidly turning into a copy of meta, feeds are now curated by algo rather than votes :(