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The adult men lining up to buy Pokemon cards should be placed under the same type of conservatorship as Britney Spears was
Hey @BestBuy, what an absolute disaster.
I waited 2 hours before opening with ~30 people ahead of me.
Then HUNDREDS emerged from their cars to “join friends” in line.
4 hours wasted. No Pokémon 30th Anniversary products. Just a booster bundle and a few packs.
To top it off, I left my chair behind. Your customer service says I need to DRIVE AN HOUR BACK just to find out if it's there.
Apparently nobody can call the store.
Meanwhile, @GameStop uses preorders and organized systems instead of turning releases into a free-for-all.
Give people numbers. Enforce the line. Respect customers' time.
I'm curious: Was anyone else's Pokémon release this poorly managed, or did I just find the worst Best Buy experience imaginable?
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humans forced to work grueling 9-to-5s to afford to live while the puppets get to paint and sing and write day and night. Why do this if not for contempt for the arts and for humanity. I just can't explain how much I hate you. I hate you so much
i went to bed and asked claude to paint an autumn tree overnight.
at around 4am, it realised that it didn't have some shades -- so it stopped and titrated its own paint: diluting red, sienna and madder step by step on a second palette, then measuring each pocket from a photo.
woke up to this beautiful watercolor painting. 303 brush marks, took about 4.5 hours 🍂 (still working on the speed)
Counterpoints: Yes it is, yes they are, and so what.
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disgusting
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
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keeping schumer and jefferies as leaders would be a massive betrayal of this mandate voters trusted the dems with
Axios: House Democrats "inundated" with anti-Jeffries calls
Democratic House members and members-elect are being bombarded with phone calls and emails urging them not to elect Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as speaker, more than a dozen lawmakers and aides tell Axios.
An incoming House Democrat told Axios they are "getting inundated" and have received "about 150" calls since the election urging them not to vote for Jeffries.
axios.com/2026/11/06/jeffrie…
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realized last month there’s a generation of gamers who’ve only grown up with live service games
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Democrats did not sound like this before Bernie Sanders ran for president and anyone pretending otherwise is obviously full of shit
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Kids shouldn’t be dying of preventable infectious diseases.
A sixth person in Pennsylvania has died with measles, state health officials said Wednesday.
Read more: abcnews.link/SiR4Q09
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There is a very real, understandable impulse to just roll one's eyes and say "well Democrats aren't going to do anything anyway" but the stakes for human lives are just too high for that. I genuinely think total cynicism can be just as self-defeating as libbed out naïveté. This is a generational mandate for real change and we have to demand/require that our representatives actually do something with it
With these midterm election results, Democrats have a mandate to fight Trump and deliver for the working class. This is what they should do. theintercept.com/2026/11/04/…
