Friday's one thing + a weekend wish
Item 1. Ditch Spotify
Because it's the time of year when Spotify users create their year-in-review "wrapped" playlists, there are several campaigns underway that tie the individual boycott – which might feel tedious, pointless, weirdly emotional, or all three – to a rewarding collective action.
Here are a bunch of Instagram posts* with bite sized answers to What/Why/How, plus two deeper dive websites:
- @workingfamilies, @nelstamp, and others; see also their Spotify Unwrapped site (ICE recruitment angle)
- @fightfortheftr and @thatevangreer; see also Spotify Whacked! (Stealing from artists + creepy surveillance angles)
- @letstalkpalestine, @ajamonet, and others (Palestine angle)
Convinced? ➡️ Fight for the Future explains how to choose a new streamer and move your playlists.
Item 2. Weekend wish
Per Mariame Kaba (this time via Monica Byrne), may we take part in – or at least witness and celebrate – "small things, lovingly done."
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