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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.

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[Link] New Twitter CEO's Tenure Begins With People Dragging Old Tweet In Bad Faith

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down on Monday, and announced that CTO Parag Agrawal will be taking over. Agwaral's tenure at Twitter then immediately started in the most painfully Twitter way: a pile-on based on a tweet he made a decade ago.

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[Link] How a Far-Right Philosopher Ended Up Shooting Porn

Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com

Van Rooijen is part of KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics), a controversial art collective based in Amsterdam. KIRAC rose to fame in the Netherlands through videos where they confront artists and their artwork, usually to expose what they see as a pervasive superficiality in the art world.

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[Link] Vladimir Putin Is Worried About ‘Cancel Culture’

Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com

Watching Putin warn about the dangers of cancel culture of progressive intolerance while throwing his biggest critic in jail is just a more absurd version of what’s become routine in the U.S.

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[Link] Republican Joni Ernst accuses party of cancel culture over Liz Cheney ousting

Read: 12/5/2021 www.theguardian.com

The only woman in Republican Senate leadership complained about cancel culture on Monday, regarding the imminent removal of Liz Cheney, the only woman in Republican House leadership, because she opposes Donald Trump’s big lie that the presidential election was stolen.

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