📣 💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📣 💥 @leninology.bsky.social puts some excellent listener questions to @redandinexpert.bsky.social in this one-time-only, never-to-be-repeated switcheroo instalment of Interregnum:

Found this conversation critiquing Spotify really interesting. Some interesting suggestions on how to lessen reliability on Spotify and other big streaming platforms near the end of the episode. I do stream music so not a saint regarding all this

Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

"TV shows such as HBO’s Chernobyl (2019) fetishize the surfaces of the system they condemn, luxuriating in brown carpets, marble walls, orange plastic light fittings and, of course, prefabricated concrete structures." - Owen Hatherley newleftreview.org/issues/ii155... @newleftreview.bsky.social

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"TV shows such as HBO’s Chernobyl (2019) fetishize the surfaces of the system they condemn, luxuriating in brown carpets, marble walls, orange plastic light fittings and, of course, prefabricated concrete structures." - Owen Hatherley newleftreview.org/issues/ii155... @newleftreview.bsky.social

This dialogue exposes how Spotify’s algorithms shape listening habits, erode community, and hollow out music’s cultural connection. Yet, resistance is growing as musicians and listeners imagine alternatives to this monopoly. With @lizpelly.bsky.social on @poltheoryother.bsky.social

Really damn good listen and you should subscribe to PTO too btw, so great

I think one of the reasons why it's tougher to reckon with the failures of COP30 than previous recent COPs is the high expectations that things could be radically different in the Amazon and with Global South left leadership- which overshadowed how bad is climate-class struggle on the periphery.

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From the latest episode - @sabrinafernandes.com on the "class conciliation" politics of Lula and the PT - that sees Brazil's domestic capitalist class as genuinely concerned with the well-being of the nation:

📻 Sunday listening 📻- @sabrinafernandes.com on the disappointing outcomes of #COP30 and Lula's politics of class conciliation, that seeks to achieve climate and environmental goals whilst placating agri-business and mining interests:

From the latest episode - @sabrinafernandes.com on the "class conciliation" politics of Lula and the PT - that sees Brazil's domestic capitalist class as genuinely concerned with the well-being of the nation:

This episode of @poltheoryother.bsky.social is so good but in my mind so so so depressing of our future...everything sounds to me so so so bleak! pca.st/episode/3015...

"One sometimes hears the Monroe Doctrine invoked in regard Trump’s hemispheric policies, but this is really not your grandfather’s Monroe Doctrine... It is a contradictory mess, inadequate to its own concept..." - @leninology.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/145307...

📻 Sunday listening 📻- @sabrinafernandes.com on the disappointing outcomes of #COP30 and Lula's politics of class conciliation, that seeks to achieve climate and environmental goals whilst placating agri-business and mining interests:

Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

📻 Weekend listening 📻 - @sabrinafernandes.com on the disappointing outcomes of #COP30 and Lula's politics of class conciliation, that seeks to achieve climate and environmental goals whilst placating agri-business and mining interests:

📻 Weekend listening 📻 - @sabrinafernandes.com on the disappointing outcomes of #COP30 and Lula's politics of class conciliation, that seeks to achieve climate and environmental goals whilst placating agri-business and mining interests:

So… big news. (Keep reading.)

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"This was the excuse coming from the COP30 presidency: 'We invited a lot of people from the private sector, but we also had record numbers of indigenous people attending...' But what kind of inclusion is that?" - @sabrinafernandes.com on the presence of industry lobbyists at #COP30.

As with IAMs, overshoot and carbon removal, geoengineering scenarios are inherently political: "There are these deep contradictions in the sense that almost nobody who is working on studying geoengineering from a scientific perspective really recommends it, and every scientific paper about...

The COP system has reached peak liberal capitalism: we'll let social movements in, but private capital will be there in even higher numbers. Record high, actually. But we still wonder why the end results every year are a few meager victories amidst gigantic delays and strong denialism?

"This was the excuse coming from the COP30 presidency: 'We invited a lot of people from the private sector, but we also had record numbers of indigenous people attending...' But what kind of inclusion is that?" - @sabrinafernandes.com on the presence of industry lobbyists at #COP30.

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this is a great, if depressing, discussion. Need to read the book.

📢🇧🇷NEW EPISODE📢🇧🇷 @sabrinafernandes.com on the disappointing outcomes of #COP30 and Lula's politics of class conciliation, that seeks to achieve climate and environmental goals whilst placating agri-business and mining interests:

meta is making $7bn a year from advertising by scammers, so the opportunities are just going to grow www.reuters.com/investigatio...

A free roll-up cigarette to whomever can guess the author of this ominous manifesto

"As the line misattributed to Stalin goes, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Thus one way to get away with murder is just to keep killing." - Lorna Finlayson in @newleftreview.bsky.social

Heather, if you listen to last week's excellent Politics Theory Other podcast about the history & strategy of Spotify, you'll want to find an alternative - and quickly, and rightly.

Thanks to @the-syllabus.bsky.social for picking the recent PTO episode with Liz Pelly (on her brilliant book about Spotify) as one of their podcasts of the week. The Syllabus is an amazing non-profit content curation service: www.the-syllabus.com

Thanks to @the-syllabus.bsky.social for picking the recent PTO episode with Liz Pelly (on her brilliant book about Spotify) as one of their podcasts of the week. The Syllabus is an amazing non-profit content curation service: www.the-syllabus.com

"One sometimes hears the Monroe Doctrine invoked in regard Trump’s hemispheric policies, but this is really not your grandfather’s Monroe Doctrine... It is a contradictory mess, inadequate to its own concept, incapable of achieving actuality..." - @leninology.bsky.social

"One sometimes hears the Monroe Doctrine invoked in regard Trump’s hemispheric policies, but this is really not your grandfather’s Monroe Doctrine... It is a contradictory mess, inadequate to its own concept..." - @leninology.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/145307...

📻 Sunday listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:

📻 Sunday listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:

📻 Weekend listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:

📻 Weekend listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:

Can't make this shit up

Saving to peruse later (It's inside baseball for the tech industry, but I want someone to talk about the "Spotify model" as another curse that the company has wished on us.)

@spotify is fucking evil.

Great episode.

ICYMI - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:

ICYMI - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:

reposting so i remember to listen

📢💥 Spotify unwrapped 📢💥 - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

1) Putting this out on Spotify wrapped day is top drawer leftist killjoy behaviour, respect 2) Ok I'll start biting the bullet, anyone tried the bandcamp alternatives mentioned here / UK library streaming services?

Great ep