EVERYONE ... PLEASE BOYCOTT SPOTIFY NOW
Since Spotify's inception a silient boycott was iniated by several professionals across the music industry. The reason was simple: To listen to concept albums such as PINK FLOYD's THE WALL, RUSH's 2112, plus numerous symphonies or operas with an album's song sequence intact and not 'scrambled', Spotify Users were urged (forced) to buy a subscription to Spotify. This was part of the Spotify model.
Of course there were the Ads too that disturbed the flow of the art. Ads were the surface sale's catch, but the real sale's stickler was album sequence. Blackmail.
Spotify has been and continues to be a threat to the creative space. The Joe Rogan deal pulled Spotify back into the limelight so to speak. Podcasting gave Spotify a new lease on life. However, from the perpective of Music Purists this didn't matter. And then many fans of Rogan's began to think like Music Purists, "What the Hell is going on with 'Hotel California'?"
Face it, SLAYER's "Raining Blood" without "Post Mortem" preceding it is ...
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To AI-Proof Lawyers, Some Law Schools Restrict Technology | by Kathryn Palmer | July 14, 2026 | Inside Higher Ed
Last week, the University of Chicago Law School announced a ban on laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom. The goal is to help students develop critical oral argument skills, which AI likely won’t take over from human lawyers any time soon.
Even as the legal profession embraces generative artificial intelligence, some of the nation’s top law schools are restricting its use.
In May, the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, announced that effective this summer, students are by default prohibited from using AI in “conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit” to ensure “the best legal education possible for our students by equipping them to perform activities constitutive of excellent lawyering.” Last month, the dean of the law school at the University of...