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Like water, gold simply can’t tell you what it used to be.

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Pride and prejudice. Certainty borne out of extreme cruelty, both felt and inflicted. A century of warlords and volunteers.

  • Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics

    Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025 more ›

  • A story from Joshua Leigh on Medium

    The algorithmic atelier Generative AI and the long history of artistic automation The discourse surrounding generative AI in the creative arts is frequently characterised by a sense of historical … https://uxdesign.cc/the-algorithmic-atelier-4f3db0837136 more ›

  • Al Roker Entertainment Presents The Injustice Files – Sundown Towns (Discovery ID)

    Don’t let the sun set on you in a sundown town. That’s what signs at the city limits of all-white communities warned when African-Americans were not allowed to live there or even visit after the sun set. This method of… more ›

  • Planet Money: How Black hair care grew Black power

    Listen: https://ift.tt/BEQs6Ic The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro Sheen. But Afro Sheen did so much more than make Black afros shine.… more ›

  • The year of technoligarchy

    In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall. https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/ more ›

  • A$AP Rocky – Punk Rocky (Official Video)

    LISTEN TO ‘PUNK ROCKY’ HERE: https://ift.tt/DO0GqIv PRE-SAVE/PRE-ADD ‘DON’T BE DUMB’ HERE: https://ift.tt/PEC0q9M FOLLOW A$AP ROCKY: FACEBOOK: https://ift.tt/KU5ibDm INSTAGRAM: https://ift.tt/Af95Itu TIKTOK: https://ift.tt/oLWC7Kg TWITTER: https://ift.tt/tU1805J WEBSITE: https://awge.com #ASAPROCKY #PUNKROCKY #DONTBEDUMB — more ›

  • The Powers That Be: Daily: The Making of an Interventionist

    Listen: https://ift.tt/I8PWAqH Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss Trump’s turn from isolationism to interventionism in the wake of the Venezuela raid. Drawing on Trump’s first term, Ioffe explains how earlier risk-free strikes taught him that he could attack foreign targets… more ›

  • Treat AI Like a Public Utility

    It seems increasingly likely that artificial intelligence will mean major changes to the economy and daily life. We need a public jobs program for displaced workers, and we should regulate AI as a public utility. https://jacobin.com/2025/07/artificial-intelligence-regulation-public-utility more ›

  • 3 clues to understanding your brain | VS Ramachandran

    http://www.ted.com Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED… more ›

  • Baby, This is Keke Palmer: Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist with Anderson .Paak

    Listen: https://ift.tt/gQAfGbt Keke kicks it with Anderson .Paak for a real hang on new music, his directorial debut, and watching his kids make music of their own. He breaks down how a song he wrote years ago just became another… more ›