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Eric Drott

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · yesterday

today in cultural decline gambling eclipses arts and entertainment combined film box office $8.87B recorded music $11.5B live music $18.51B books $14.6B museums $16.4B add it up: $70B less than half of the $166B Americans wagered on sports fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

fortune.com

Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 3w ago

UT Austin doubles down on denial of tenure to leading borderlands tech scholar: “In an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed, a UT spokesperson said, ‘Tenure is privilege, not a right.’” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Border Surveillance Scholar Denied Tenure at UT Austin

Border-surveillance scholar Iván Chaar López was denied tenure at the University of Texas at Austin after being recommended by more than 30 scholars, The Austin-American Statesman reported.

insidehighered.com

Molly White@molly.wiki · 3w ago

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse
Lucy Seton-Watson@lucysetonw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“If you wanted to democratise music-making,” Daniel Lewis comments, “there’s this amazing thing I once heard of called ‘state education’ and giving kids flutes.” It might not be as novel — but you can buy an awful lot of flutes for the $250mn raised in Suno’s last funding round.”

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm in the @financialtimes.com this weekend, looking at the impact of AI on classical music. www.ft.com/content/0216...

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 3mo ago

Spotify & UMG announce licensing agreement that allows fans to create AI covers and remixes of songs from participating artists and songwriters. The new feature will be a paid add-on for Premium users which will “open up additional revenue streams” for artists and songwriters.

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Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm also open to this alternative path of using Callais (intentionally in bad-faith) to pass a map by claiming that the status quo map has unconstitutional VRA districts and thus the normal Virginia redistricting commission doesn't have time to act.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.