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Publishing's class problem
The 2024 data shows a similar picture of middle-class origin dominance of publishing. Although there are year-on-year variations, since 2019 there has consistently been more than 60% proportions of middle-class origin people in publishing occupations. In the same period, working-class origin proportions have never been above 20%.
#FederatedMemory

Sources: Sony Music has acquired Hipgnosis Songs, three months after it was rebranded as Recognition Music (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sony-music-publishing-acquires-hipgnosis-songs-group/

Sony Music Publishing Acquires Hipgnosis Songs Group, Including Songs by Sabrina Carpenter, One Direction & More
Sony Music Publishing acquired Hipgnosis Songs Group, with hits by Sabrina Carpenter and more, months after it rebranded as Recognition Music Group.

Morpheus Publishing Author's Spotlight
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

A felon in the White House is making crime legal (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-making-crime-legal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p17#a250609p17

Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring back large-scale federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess” 
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies trying to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.

Let Congress know you OPPOSE the MAGA land grab »

The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license.
If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces.
-- Copyright notice for the chat program

NOIRLab image of the week: A Cerulean Moonset over CTIO. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand Via https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2523a/

Apple says it plans to release iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 in the fall; developer betas will be available today, with public betas next month (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/675819/ios-26-macos-tahoe-26-release-date-apple-…

iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe are coming this fall
Apple announced a release date for the next major versions of its iPhone and Mac operating systems at WWDC 2025.

RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines (Robert F. Kennedy Jr/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-hhs-moves-to-restore-public-trust-in-vaccines-45495112
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p111#a250609p111

WBD says David Zaslav will be CEO of the new Streaming & Studios business, and current WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels will become CEO of the Global Networks business (Jacob Pramuk/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/warner-bro

Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year
The move comes as consumers cut cords from their cable plans and companies focus on streaming.