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Rokku Haado retweeted
There's a double standard at the core of the "books for boys" discourse that's so severe yet unchallenged that it's making me feel crazy.
When mostly boys like a book, that means the book is bad/oppressive to girls. When mostly girls like a book, the fact that boys don't like it is proof that something is wrong with the boys.
Rokku Haado retweeted
My joke paid off in 10 days.
James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer run DC Studios.
Jeremy Latcham, who previously served as a producer at Marvel Studios, is taking over DC.
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
Rokku Haado retweeted
Nvidia launches investigation into CEO's affair with suspected Chinese spy bbc.in/4iF9C0r
Rokku Haado retweeted
Hi all, I am trying to locate Royal Navy CPO Med Tech (Medical Technician) (Lab) Stuart McKinley or McKinlay. He served during the Falklands War and was based at the Field Hospital at Ajax Bay. If anyone has contact with him, I'd really appreciate being put in touch. It’s just a chat about his time at Ajax Bay. I know it’s a long shot, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
#Falklands @RoyalNavy
Rokku Haado retweeted
>mad that I pointed out boys don’t have age appropriate books for their interests because they’ve been systemically written off as future incels
>runs a publishing company explicitly asking for YA progressive DEI social justice feminist narratives
Rokku Haado retweeted
“2000s lad culture” was not in fact wearing high heeled boots, skinny jeans, jewellery, eyeliner, and hairspray while trying to start a global love revolution based off having skim read Noam Chomsky. Brand was of course specifically supported as an alternative vision of manliness to lad culture by the Sensibles of the day.
Rokku Haado retweeted
This is the worst idea anyone has ever had
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 🧵
Rokku Haado retweeted
Bro. You can tell the surgeon is pissed. I know the order of putting on and removing sterile gloves. He can’t even remove that without having to redo the entire process. That’s why he just rips off all his scrubs and leaves the room to wash his hands again.
Rokku Haado retweeted
"Will Stalin live to be 150 years old?*" Sir! Magazine, March 1953.
(*Stalin died on 5 March 1953)
Rokku Haado retweeted
I just want to put this in perspective for the Pro Russian Americans out there. If you add all KIA from every conflict, battle or action the US has been involved in since the end of WWII. Including but not limited to Vietnam, Korea, Iraq 2x, Grenada, Panama, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and a dozen other smaller operations it comes out to around 87,000 COMBINED.
Now I know that you always lose more troops attacking than defending. It’s simple war theory. But this leak gives a lot of context to the “meat wall” tactics that I often say Russia uses. It’s just a massive number to really wrap your head around. Bear in mind this figure is only KIA and does not include all casualties which is over 1,000,000.
Rokku Haado retweeted
"Tu" just means "you" in english. It's a direct translation. No one is asking to keep words for which there's a literal translation.
But i would facepalm if you translate "Paella" as "Cheeseburger"
Rokku Haado retweeted
The fact that people like this consider a story about a boy surviving in the wilderness "sociological conditioning of boys and men to be violent and destructive" says so very much.
Rokku Haado retweeted
Longtime readers know I'm a fan of Space Disco. Perhaps the only fan. So I make no apologies for introducing you to Spanish cosmic disco-funk troubadours Zoom, and their minor 1978 hit Space Rescue!
This track is a full cardiovascular workout, accompanied by some excellent spaceships that wouldn't be out of place on Panther editions of Isaac Asimov novels. It barely troubled the charts, but the full version ("Rescate Espacial") is available on their debut album Zoom from Polydor Records. Don't thank me, it's what I do.
Please don't try this dance on a full stomach...