maybe one of these years I'll hit my reading goal
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44% complete! Michael Kovacs has read 11 of 25 books.
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces …
Jesus was no sissy-he was a ‘star athlete’ who could ‘become your life's hero.’ The Christian life was ‘total war,’ and Jesus was ‘Our Great Commander.’ Graham's Jesus was ‘a man, every inch a man,’ the most physically powerful man who had ever lived.
— Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (6%)
in regards to Billy Graham.
fucking barf.
white male evangelicals be the same mfs who call their partner a "female". absolutely disgusting behavior.
white male evangelicals be the same mfs who call their partner a "female". absolutely disgusting behavior.
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces …
...nearly two-thirds of white evangelicals harbored fears that a once-powerful nation had become 'too soft and feminine.'
— Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (4%)
WHAT IS SO FUCKING WRONG WITH BEING "FEMININE"
WHAT IS SO FUCKING WRONG WITH BEING "FEMININE"
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces …
the victim complex at play here with evangelical christians in america is insane. i have seen this in person by a majority (NOT ALL) of people i know who identify as even just christian in america. they need to be under attack in order to be secure in their faith.
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
A really in depth report through Spotify of how the music streaming industry kicked off and how it has impacted musicians through the years. My own music listening habits on Apple Music are being questioned. Loved the ending section about libraries and how they can help alleviate some of the issues of creating art in a capitalist system.
“The problems faced by musicians, like those faced elsewhere in society, aren’t technological problems: they’re problems of power and labor.”
A really in depth report through Spotify of how the music streaming industry kicked off and how it has impacted musicians through the years. My own music listening habits on Apple Music are being questioned. Loved the ending section about libraries and how they can help alleviate some of the issues of creating art in a capitalist system.
“The problems faced by musicians, like those faced elsewhere in society, aren’t technological problems: they’re problems of power and labor.”
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming …
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
this book is really making me reconsider my music streaming habits. I’ve converted to Bandcamp as a way to buy tracks for DJing that directly supports the artists and gives me a high quality DRM-free file, but it’s convincing me more with every page that maybe I should move more of my day to day listening habits to the music I own on Bandcamp instead of Apple Music
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
Lopatin asked a question that has stuck with me: ‘If your art practice is so ingrained in the brutal reality that Spotify has outlined for all of us, then what is the music that you’re not making? What does the music you’re not making sound like?’
— Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (56%)
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
The U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib estimated in 2023 that it would take over eight hundred thousand streams per month to make the equivalent of a $15/hour job.
— Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (49%)
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
When I look at a Spotify bedroom pop playlist, it doesn't feel like I'm learning about bedroom pop, it feels like I'm learning about the SEO-optimized version of bedroom pop that exists on the Spotify servers.
— Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (39%)
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from …
kath already read it so no point in keeping it a secret by not adding it to my tbr list
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
the BBC radio program Music While You Work was meant to boost the moods of workers in weapons factories
— Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (16%)
kinda like lofi music to study/relax to?¿?
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
how did I not put two and two together?
spotify. ad spots. they were advertising tech bros in search of a format to sell ads against.
they ad spot-ified our music listening experience.
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
“If you start looking at Spotify as an advertising company rather than a culture company, a lot of things make more sense.”
— Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (5%)
pay 👏 artists 👏 more 👏
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how …
same vibe as bullet train maybe?
