Is not yesterday’s fandom. Every other day I have people attacking me for what I said about Taylor Swift’s performance at the Grammys over a decade ago. When I research further, I find that most of these people were barely born when this happened. But they need to defend their hero. But Taylor Swift was […]

Turns out buying your way into the future is a bad strategy. The biggest story this week for me was Facebook (I refuse to call it “Meta,” I’m on the fence with calling Google “Alphabet”) dropping out of the crypto game. Facebook wasn’t first. Facebook had infrastructure. But when confronted with the concept of Facebook […]

Damn right Bob! And their argument is that it’s stopping “free speech”. They assume that if debated enough the truth will eventually come out. That if enough people presented different opinions then that makes the truth more accurate. What they don’t seem to want to admit is that, there’s a lot of privilege and inequality […]

This isn’t about Spotify. This is about misinformation, and drawing a line in the sand. It’s also about Neil Young and his credibility. For decades we’ve heard that selling out doesn’t matter, that you should take the money, that you should become a brand, that your music is just a step towards becoming a conglomerate, […]