People have jumped on this but it’s just an anonymous tip done through an open web form. It’s about as substantiated as writing on a bathroom wall.

Doesn’t mean it’s not true, but it’s also the weakest evidenced thing in there.

You may not like tiktok or use it but a lot of people do. And now it’s in the hands of a bunch of nasty bastards.

100%. Constant sane washing.

Perfect! You just summed up the problem more clearly and concisely than I have seen in any mainstream media.

But I see this kind of coffee shop maths everywhere going completely unchallenged. Company statements just printed wholesale.

I keep reading this, I don’t think it adds up in the way that coffee shops are claiming.

Nikki Bravo, the co-owner of Momentum Coffee in Chicago, raised prices by about 15% last week for lattes, cappuccinos and other drinks at her four locations.

Bravo said she is paying 15% more for coffee beans compared to a year ago and has started roasting more beans in-house to save money. She gets most of her beans from Africa.

When you a buy a coffee you’re paying for beans, sure. But mainly the expenditure of a coffee place is it’s staff, premises, taxes, equipment, water, electric and all the other overheads.

The average U.S. price of a pound of ground coffee hit $9.14 in September, a 3% increase from the August average of $8.87 and 41% higher than in September 2024

40% in a year is massive, but what does a lb make? 50 cups of coffee?

So the cost of the beans went up 8c and she puts her prices up 50c and says it’s the beans.

100% they’ve started gaming the algorithm to reduce artist payouts. Ambient music is rife with ai generated tracks taking negotiated rates, other genres will surely follow.

http://web.archive.org/web/20241221144306/https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

I switched to tidal from Spotify last year and am very happy. It just does music - no audio books, videos, podcasts - but to my mind that’s a feature. Music quality is far far better. The algorithm for recommendations I think is good.

I found streaming on the move less reliable until I dropped the audio quality and now it’s solid.

I used https://www.tunemymusic.com/ to move from Spotify to tidal. I had a lot of saves and playlists so had to use a paid plan but it was $5 or something and it worked well.

A little reminder to Trump that Murdoch is a king maker. Murdoch wants to keep people on the edge of power, flipped this way or that at Murdoch’s wim.

But also, murdoch shaped the dialog about what this picture depicted before anyone had seen it. Everyone is now describing it as a women instead of what it appears to be… a child.

He’s taking trump to the edge. But also preventing him going over. This is not quite as unfriendly as it would appear.

Yes.

This is so much worse than I imagined. I just assumed (as it was described as a ‘naked woman’ in the press) that it would be a cartoonish, exaggerated female form in a provocative pose, big tits and massive hips. The kind of thing an adolescent boy would draw in the margins of a text book at high school.

Instead, it’s THIS. Something that oozes darkness. It isn’t a women, it isn’t even a person, it’s just a torso. No head, legs or arms. Robbed of all autonomy, or thought or independence. The only detail he thought was important enough to add were it’s boyish looking, high set breasts. Reminiscent of a preteen.

it’s beyond creepy or pervy and is actually deeply disturbing.

It IS funny for sure. And to a massive narcissist it probably stings. And hopefully pulls them out of whatever reality bubble they normally reside in. They need to be reminded that they do not have public support at every opportunity.