Social and psychological reasons to stop using streaming dis-services.

This is not just a matter of advantages and disadvantages of two formats. CDs are free technology — you don't need nonfree (and probably malicious) software which controls your access to their contents. Streaming dis-services impose DRM, and jerkmaking contracts in which users promise to be bad neighbors, and also require them to identify themselves.

Out, out, damned Spotify!

George Monbiot: *What price British democracy when a rich elite has the government’s ear?*

He invites us to imagine that a foreign power had the control over the British government that the rich have.

It's broadly similar with the rich in the US, and the plutocratist senators (and other officials) they buy.

(satire) *Woman Desperately Seeking Excuse To Assault Retail Workers Now That Mask Mandate Lifted.*

*More than 1,000 Hershey’s workers vote on plan to unionize Virginia plant.*

US citizens: call on Secretaries of State to disqualify all insurrectionists from serving in office, including as poll workers and election officials.