Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

Word.

If I were on #spotify, I’d cancel my subscription/account immediately.

King Gizzard pulled their music from the platform so Spotify has replaced it with #AI knockoffs of their music. As if paying almost nothing for streaming wasn’t evil enough, they’re now using LLMs trained on stolen content to pay artists nothing at all.

https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff

It really pisses me off how American media and legal scholars talk about sanctions like something the US has a divine right to unilaterally impose and make everyone else follow. Venezuela is not "evading sanctions", they're rightfully resisting US piracy and economic warfare, the right of every sovereign state

Inspección cita a un jefe por obligar a empezar 7 minutos antes: ¿te pueden hacer entrar antes de tu hora sin pagarte?
https://alertatrabajo.com/noticias/inspeccion-cita-a-un-jefe-por-obligar-a-empezar-7-minutos-antes-te-pueden-hacer-entrar-antes-de-tu-hora-sin-pagarte

Which one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?

Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.

#poll #computing #fediverse

#Maga

The very fact that Keir Starmer can suggest that the European Convention on Human Rights should be modified to deal with the immigration 'crisis' is the very reason it shouldn't; the whole point of human rights is they recognise that humans should have rights that transcend & are more important than the day-to-day disputes that pattern politics.

Starmer either chooses to ignore this or has forgotten this & more importantly how such protection is key to the Rule of Law!

#HumanRights #politics

#Maga

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders...