Notices by Aram Sinnreich (aram@aoir.social)

I just left three very emphatic voice mails for my congresspeople @sen_alsobrooks @vanhollenformd @repraskin saying the ONLY legislative priority I care about right now is removing Trump from office by any means necessary.

I wish they still had human beings answering the phones.

#25A #ImpeachTrump

There has never been more freely available music online than there is today.

Also, the music industry is making more money than ever, with more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, driven almost entirely by online platforms.

Seems like the whole #PiracyCrusade scapegoating #P2P users was based on fallacious assumptions.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/global-recorded-music-revenues-hit-31-7bn-in-2025-up-6-4-yoy-users-of-paid-music-subscriptions-reach-837m/

The best thing about Google blocking most VPN traffic is that they’ve given me the push I needed to stop using their calendar and email services

Cognitive prosthetics like these are a massive threat surface, not just for the people around them, but especially for their wearers.

The more thinking you offload to a networked processor, the less you do for yourself.

Imagine wearing one in a voting booth.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/harvard-dropouts-to-launch-always-on-ai-smart-glasses-that-listen-and-record-every-conversation/

Wish the Sunday pundits would just say:

These guys are a bunch of sickos who have no idea what they're doing, and their greed, malice, and arrogance will cost millions of lives.

I know every day is a news tsunami, but don’t let this fly past your radar: the DOJ "appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews” with a minor who credibly alleges she was sexually assaulted by Trump.

Thankfully, @oversightdems are ON IT.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-robert-garcia-statement-after-department-of-justice-withheld-epstein-files-includes-allegation-president-donald-trump-sexually-abused-a-minor

Can someone who understands Mac system messages please explain what “inside out” means in this context?

It’s so appalling to see the media regulatory apparatus weaponized like this.

The FCC's one job, per the act of Congress that established the agency, is to manage public communications infrastructure in the public interest.

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/programming-and-sales/carr-urges-broadcasters-to-get-patriotic

Kudos to the NY Times for taking a story about a Nazi collaborating with a pedophile to destroy the US and making it sound like a feel-good Hallmark movie about the magical healing power of friendship

You don’t have to love AI to love #FairUse. It’s not a loophole in the law that wrongdoers “hide behind,” it’s a fundamental free speech right that keeps the censorious powers of copyright in check for the public interest.

https://recreatecoalition.org/a-note-from-recreate-google-books-shows-that-memorization-and-outputting-training-data-are-not-fatal-to-fair-use/

Elon Musk wants to build an ice cream castle in the Horsehead Nebula

Elon Musk wants to ride a pink pegasus to the prom with his best gal Sydney Sweeney

Elon Musk wants to win a threepeat threepeat for the Chicago Bulls

Elon Musk wants to piss champagne and fart love potion

Elon Musk wants.

Alisa Tang, the wonderful journalist who, until a few days ago, ran the Washington Post “Post Local” newsletter…

…now has a newsletter of her own. It’s free, entertaining, and informative, especially for folks living in the #DC #DMV area. Check it out here:

https://alisadailydose.beehiiv.com/p/tea-sympathy-in-my-garden

Does obscene wealth turn people into sociopaths, or does it simply reward people with sociopathic tendencies?

Dear Dems: Stop fundraising on our outrage. Just act. When there are consequences for these villains’ crimes, we will open our wallets for you in gratitude.

It’s bonkers that MacBook Pros are still shipping with 0.5 or 1TB of storage, unchanged for years, even though:

1) storage prices have 📉 precipitously (AI bump notwithstanding)

2) MacOS has gotten bloatier and bloatier

3) file sizes keep 📈, esp photos/vids

Where do folks store their photo libs?

RIP mass market paperbacks. They were the cornerstone of my cultural education, and they stretched out a lot of my back pockets.

The world is poorer without them.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html

ICE spotted near Blair high school in #SilverSpring, #MD

What’s this going to do to the price of eggs?

Asking for 75M neighbors who really seemed like they cared about that 14 months ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/01/20/get-ready-us-dollar-collapse-warning-issued-as-markets-brace-for-gold-and-bitcoin-price-shocks/

Love my neighbors.
#ICEout #ReneeGood #SilverSpring

I just reported X for generating CSAM on the iOS app store. You should too!