Does anyone have a paywall-removed version of this? I tried putting it through 12ft Ladder, but apparently that tool is disabled for NYT.

Not molting…

Not a snake, but it definitely worked. Heading into surgery shortly to have my jaw reattached. 5/7

I’m curious how big of a dip there was with macOS when they fully dropped 32 bit support. I’m just one person but a lot of the games I played through steam were older 32 bit games. I don’t think I’ve opened steam on my Mac since that update.

It’s pronounced NOOK-YOU-LERRR

My local store had numerous room temp superconductors right next to the perpetual motion machines.

Yeah I have the feeling a lot of them are as bad or in some cases worse than bicycles upfitted with gas engines.

One of the reasons the Hollywood strikes have the potential of working is because of the strong unions where the union workers are not even allowed to do any acting or writing related work at all while they’re striking. The music industry does not have that. Thousands of people could join a music “strike” and it wouldn’t remotely move the needle since there’s nothing stopping everyone else from just continuing on. I think your point about the atomized nature of the justice business makes it nearly impossible.

Practically there needs to be an organizer. Maybe it could be as simple as a top musician leading the charge by saying they will pull their music off of all streaming platforms until those platforms offer a base pay of X per stream. It would have to be really public and they then would need to get as many others on board as they can. If a large movement of people comes out of that pulling their music from streaming, maybe that could move the needle.

Another issue is that streaming platforms allowed the general public to spend significantly less on music. Instead of buying one album for $10-15, you now can spend that per month for access to basically all the music you need. I don’t think the streaming services would be able to just straight up start paying musicians a whole lot more without that completely breaking their model. Film and TV studios started paying less residuals, but to my knowledge they didn’t make significantly less money on the top end as well. With music it’s a much more delicate ecosystem where if the streaming services charge more so they can pay more, they’ll start losing subscribers. And if they charge the amounts they would need for musicians to make a decent living, they would lose a LOT of subscribers.

In essence, the music industry is completely fucked right now and I don’t see a way out of it any time soon.

• Albert “Confucius” Einstein

I’m curious to see how streaming services are going to be affected by the strikes. Theoretically down the road they’ll reach a point for a while where they have very little new content to release and will be fighting each other for the rights to existing content.

Same. I cancelled my Netflix a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. They don’t have a lot of content that I’m interested in watching anymore, and when they do it’s easy to find elsewhere. I host my own Plex server now which makes it even more of a seamless transition.