„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…
"A key simplification is that E.ON has now built an integration between E.ON's smart electricity meters and the digital flexibility platform SWITCH. This means that the measurement data required to participate can be retrieved automatically"
This is E.ON Sweden, not Germany of course.
Indian megacities are sinking putting thousands of buildings at risk: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/indian-megacities-are-sinking-putting-thousands-of-buildings-at-risk-study/
📽️ Pirated film quality and ticket costs shape U.S. moviegoers' viewing choices
#movies
Har brukt Qobuz i noen måneder nå, og anbefaler den. Jeg bruker ikke strŸmming (og hadde ikke Spotify fŸr) men ville ha en tjeneste hvor jeg kan kjŸpe og laste ned digitale musikkfiler i toppkvalitet og vite at jeg beholder dem selv om de forsvinner fra tjenesten (*host* Apple Music *host*). Qobuz innfrir, og en ekstra bonus er at de som abonnerer på strŸmmetjenesten får en betydelig rabatt på de albumene man kjŸper.
Dersom du ikke vil ha strŸmming, men heller vil at ekte mennesker lag…
Here's a concrete example of how "vibe coding" with Claude Code changes everything for mildly tech-savvy #humanities academics. #digitalhumanities I have been using one particular commercial PDF management app for years to manage a library of 3000 PDFs I have accumulated o…
Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…
Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/negro-river-study-finds-genetic-damage-in-fish-after-oil-spill/
Of course it's not only the money which is broken.
The music industry is also very crappy. Major pop stars rake in billions while most artists starve. There's only three record companies left, acting as gate keepers determining which sings get the payola to get radio play and Spotify basically gave up paying small artists in order to give Joe Rogan hundreds of millions of dollars.
Terrible situation.
So can bitcoin and lightning fix this?
Thus the after party here in Manchester.
Musicians and rappers at the event embrace V4V, value for value. Busking on the internet. Payment links on screen and on the live stream as they play.
Ainsley Costello tells us that her first song on fountain.fm made her a million sats, way more than any Spotify stream could make even if they still paid small artists.
She played us that song and then a whole range of artists took to the stage, live streamed over nostr, with donations coming in from all over the world.
All of them were talented and entertaining, but in particular Green Sands were tight and energetic and rocking, Edwin Williamson was deep and baritone and country, Roger 9000 really pumped the crowd with his bitcoin based songs and great tiny digital guitar and The Crypto raptor gets a special mention.
It was a really fun party, with musicians who all believe there is a better way than the terrible music industry.
Fast change overs and short sets means there were like ten acts in four hours among a friendly crowd in a dirty dive bar who all shared this common cause.
Full act list, all of whom are with checking out.
Ainsley Costello
The crypto raptor
Andy prince
Green sands
Edwin Williamson
Nathan abbot
G o l d
Longy
Roger 9000
Fable
#bitfest #music #v4v #bitcoin