Sacha Judd

@sachajudd.com

Talks and writes about fans and tech (sachajudd.com). Co-founder of Lume (lumemusic.com). Letterboxd’s Senior Harry Styles Correspondent.

Here’s something extremely cool. If you’ve bought Fables’ Lume, we just added a whole new live set. Just more stuff. In the album you’ve already paid for. Like magic. When we say the world of an album we mean it.

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Good for them. Until the Grammys stop making whiteness the default, it will never improve and more acts like BTS should refuse to participate. K-pop & J-pop may be distinct categories but lumping them into a generic “Asian acts” like a Panda Express is bullshit. deadline.com/2026/07/bts-...

BTS Withdraws From Grammy Consideration In Over New Asian Pop Category

BTS will not submit its music for Grammy consideration this year, apparently in protest over a new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category.

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Sure, Jared Leto is a creep with multiple allegations to his name over the course of two decades, but you have to understand that he's also a mediocre actor who's a nightmare to work with and whose movies are critical flops that don't make money.

Here’s something extremely cool. If you’ve bought Fables’ Lume, we just added a whole new live set. Just more stuff. In the album you’ve already paid for. Like magic. When we say the world of an album we mean it.

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Woohoo! Auckland Transport will be running free public "first looks" at the CRL stations in August 🎉 👀 🚇 - Maungawhau Station, Saturday 8 August - Karanga-a-Hape Station, Saturday 15 August - Te Waihorotiu Station, Saturday 22 August Pre-register/ more info here 👉 pages.iticket.co.nz/crlfirstlooks

CRL Station First Looks

Be among the first to step inside Auckland’s City Rail Link stations before they open to passengers.<br><br>Across three weekends in August, free CRL First Look Events will give the public a rare oppo...

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"The site was being hammered by AI crawlers at industrial scale (by early this year only about 10% of its traffic was human) and buried in that flood, someone was probing a thirty-year-old codebase for back doors." the extraction machines continue to destroy the world they depend on.

Sacha Judd@sachajudd.com · 2w ago

This week: what happened with The Numbers, and why we all need to care about our favourite sources of reliable information -- our load bearing shelves. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/load...

Absolutely FIZZING about the Aotearoa Album Charts today. Eight lumes either re-entered, entered or moved up in the charts, and in Isla Noon's case it was ONLY through lume sales. WEEK ONE. (get amongst at lumemusic.com)

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