Spotify’s plot against musicians. In reality, Spotify was subject to the outsized influence of the major-label oligopoly of Sony, Universal, and Warner, which together owned a 17 percent stake in the company when it launched.

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I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree …

Illustrations by Franz Lang. My mother lost both of her legs on the way to the Barbican Art Gallery. It was her day off, and she was going there to see an exhibition called Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art.

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On the eve of his inauguration, Donald Trump held a “victory rally” during which the musician Kid Rock performed; “inflation’s up like the minimum wage,” Kid intoned, “but that BS is about to change!” 1 2 3 On Inauguration Day, Joe Biden announced pardons for his family members in the final twenty minutes of his presidency, and Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people involved in …

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