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Jan 29 4 tweets 2 min read
First, Neil Young.
Now, Joni Mitchell.
Which musician is next to ask @Spotify to ire a COVID misinformation-spewing $100 billion podcaster—or pull their songs?
Said Joni: “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives."
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/art…
On Spotify, Joni Mitchell is listed as having 3.7 million monthly listeners, with two of her songs — “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You” — getting over 100 million streams.
Neil and Joni, singing "Helpless" with The Band in "The Last Waltz" #SpotifyThis
Note: Rogan is well-paid, but not THAT well paid: Meant $100m, not $100b.

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Jan 29
Spotify lost $4 billion in market value last week, as it chose to keep streaming a COVID misinfo-spewing podcaster over musicians like Neil Young (and now Joni Mitchell), who wanted to protect customers from the life-threatening virus datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/spotify-…
270 experts wrote Spotify saying Rogan's COVID misinfo "has extraordinarily dangerous ramifications." Rogan's average listener is 24 yo & unvaccinated 12-34 yo's "are 12 times more likely to be hospitalized w/ COVID than those who are fully vaccinated." jonimitchell.com/library/view.c…
"Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information," said Young, adding: "I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care worker."
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Jan 19
Authoritarian China to Olympic athletes: Don't speak out about politics while you're here, or you may face punishment (i.e., don't mention how we wrecked Hong Kong's democracy or are conducting an ongoing genocide in Xinjiang).
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Meanwhile, the health-tracking smartphone app that Olympics attendees must download has security flaws that expose personal data. The app’s code has a list of political keywords & lets users report “politically sensitive" content, a cybersecurity research group says.
Related, how Hitler conducted the 1936 Olympics. "At the Winter Olympics in the Bavarian resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Hitler reluctantly agreed to remove antisemitic signs under pressure from the president of the International Olympic Committee." ushmm.org/collections/bi…
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Nov 1, 2021
For the 1st time since 9/11, every early-warning US anti-terror center—all 80 of them—had info of a terror attack on Washington at 1 pm Jan. 6. 300 US officials attended a call 2 days before the attack on the US Capitol. Why didn’t they stop the violence? washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
48 hours before the bloody attack of the Capitol, a senior US official “asked the city’s health department to convene a call of D.C.-area hospitals and urged them to prepare for a mass casualty event. Empty your emergency rooms, he said, and stock up your blood banks.”
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The bump happened when the flight attendant was moving through the cabin.
She apologized.
The first-class passenger got up—and punched her in the face. She was hospitalized for broken bones.
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“It’s not just the masks,” Hedrick said. “Our passengers have changed. Their behavior on our flights, the safety of our flight attendants, the safety of our passengers — every day is being threatened here.”
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