ITEM: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says that it’s not true that his company doesn’t pay musicians enough - the problem is that they’re not recording enough music.

Ek made the comments in an interview with Music Ally:

“There is a narrative fallacy here, combined with the fact that, obviously, some artists that used to do well in the past may not do well in ( Read more... )

Undoubtedly you know by now that Presidente Trump has proposed his first budget - and the NEA, the NEH and CPB ain’t on it.

The usual freakout has ensued, which I will now pointlessly attempt to calm with numbered comments.

1. Nothing has been defunded yet. It’s just a budget proposal (and a “skinny” one at that, which means it’s vague on details), ( Read more... )

Not to harp on the Brexit, but I’m now being reminded why it’s usually a good idea to wait a few days before commenting on Big Stories like this. It takes awhile for everything to filter through and sink in - especially for scheduled stories that have an outcome you didn’t expect.

Anyway, here’s a few interesting updates to the previous post:

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ITEM: More than a hundred media outlets around the world, coordinated by the Washington, DC-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, released stories on the Panama Papers, a massive collection of leaked documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca exposing a widespread system of global tax evasion.

Or, if not tax evasion, ( Read more... )

So this happened in 2002.

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Two words: running mate.

Burger time,

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Remember when the Cleveland grand jury decided that a police officer did the right thing by gunning down 12-year-old unarmed Tamir Rice after giving him one whole second to surrender? Then when the Rice family filed a wrongful death suit, the city govt responded that the shooting was Tamir’s fault for behaving in a way that got him lawfully shot ( Read more... )

ITEM: Ike Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Inc, gave $1 million to Donald Trump’s alt.debate fundraiser for veterans groups, and Marvel fans everywhere have vowed to boycott all Marvel comics and films until …

Ha ha. No. Just kidding. Not about Perlmutter - about fan boycotts.

This is one of those stories that highlights the problem of using boycotts to ( Read more... )

You all know by now about Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who acquired the rights to Daraprim (a drug that treats toxoplasmosis, a parasitic affliction that affects people with compromised immune systems - i.e. AIDS sufferers), jacked up the price 5,000%, then had the nerve to be surprised at all the outrage.

Shkreli eventually ( Read more... )

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