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shine a light on things that I think are historically, critically, or culturally important that haven't been assigned the proper value… but "proper" is pretty subjective. Hopefully, collectively, you can figure out how to value artists like Sylvester — people who've had more influential roles in music history than most people realize — or also... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
While there aren’t any scaled digital record-keeping companies in Africa, there are digital lenders. But since they don’t own record-keeping, they actually don’t have a good way of knowing who’s serious. As a result, they mainly target consumers instead of small businesses, because consumers need smaller, and therefore less risky, loans.
Packy McCormick • OZE: Not Boring Investment Memo
Chartmetric’s new Make Music Equal report tracks gender representation across 1 million artists - Music Business Worldwide
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The perceived mediocrity of her content, and its subsequent success despite that, was dubbed the "Victoria Paris Effect" by the Embedded Substack. She's had advantages others don't: her college education, pandemic timing, and the fact that "so many massive creators are thin and white," she says. "That is never something that's not always working... See more
Elizabeth de Luna • The business of being Victoria Paris



Anu Atluru's (@anuatluru) essay defined taste as software's next battleground, as AI makes it easy for everyone to crank out slop.
It also sparked a flood of discourse, as every threadboi rushed to claim the word—blurring the line between standard & status symbol.
We discuss.
Michael Mignanox.com