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Right and it going on for years and based on his blatant communications, there was a minimal fraud control - deliberate indifference in my opinion - to the harm caused by the services exploited.

You don’t have a stake in this game, I do.

Indie rights holders like me only get a slice of the revenues after Spotify pays like 75% to the RIAA firms. He gutted our pool. I’ll never see any of the pennies I’m rightfully owed even with great info from DistroKid.

I’ve come around. Copyright is dead, effectively. Just in time too. I WAS planning to sue Smart Communications for engaging in wholesale copyright infringement at scale, as they have unauthorized copies of poetry I wrote in jail - I have proof and trapped an asshole ex cop working for them into admitting they did what I suspected - but I’m moving on with life, still wounded, still sore.

Oh well, much bigger things are coming my way than worrying about money. Little people stand on piles of money to look big. They will never be able to look me eye to eye, as I’m a giraffe by comparison.

Facts.


Rebranding does not fix rot.

See also: X, Meta, Blackwater…


…add on another $1T for the student loans that will never be repaid. Those aren’t counted? There’s a shocker. Mr. Market lost his Marker up his ass a long time ago y’all. Plan accordingly.

Because the way the world is currently and this is trending, let me jump in and save you a lot of time:

Expedience is the enemy of quality.

Want proof? Everyone as a result of “move fast and break things” from 5-10 years ago is a pile of malfunctioning trash. This is not up for debate.

This is simply an observation. I do not make the rules. See my last submission for some CONSTRUCTIVE reading.

Bye for now.


It’s a much more fair headline than the milquetoast AP News pseudo-promotional tone. This reads like an advertisement. The only worthwhile fact in the article is the motive of Shulman.

He’s a failure so he decided to profit and pocket money by hurting those he could never join. What a sad piece of shit. Your opinion may differ, but have you considered you might also share some of his shitty motivations?

As for the Udio guy…grew up an Opera singer in NY??? Tell me you’re fucking rich and entitled without having a household last name. Jesus. All that’s missing is a quote from Jack Antonoff, whose Daddy bought him a career with MLM funds.

The music industry deserves to die and maybe taking Suno and Udio with it is for the best. Team Napster. Hah.


Yes I’m eagerly awaiting the internal emails acknowledging the priorities of revenue over user health too!


One of the emails released from discovery already was about how Facebook deliberately trying to cultivate FOMO in teens, specifically sending mass notifications during school hours to make people not on facebook feel like they're being left out.


This is wild. I would've thought everyone working in the company implicitly knew what they were doing without no-one needing to mention it but I can't imagine someone being so dumb as to suggesting something like sending notifications during school hours in writing. Could you link to this?


Take a look at this (facebook saying teens are top priority): https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...

Heavily redacted document talking about the mass notifications: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...

Here's reporting on this and other documents: https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

HN discussion of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902512


I grew up with Mr Rogers

Gen Z grew up with Mr Beast

We are proper doomed mate.


Hard truths are not desirable and I pity and envy your naitivity.


“Help me find 11,000 votes” sounds familiar because the US has a fucking serious ethics problem at present. I’m not joking. One of the reasons I abandoned my job with Tyler Technologies was because of their unethical behavior winning government contracts, right Bona Nasution? Selah.


Everything about this design has a dichotomous personality. The smoothness of the materials and rounded edges can’t make up for the disparate and forced combobulation to get…this…


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