Even if you don’t subscribe to Qobizz their magazine helps me find new music all the time

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/magazine

I’ve said it before many times on here… I will never vote for Newsom. So I will vote third party or not at all for POTUS. I will vote for the rest of the voting options though.

The source is from the unions

More than 30 crore workers, farmers, agricultural workers, and other groups of employees participated in the general strike on Thursday (February 12, 2026) to protest against the four Labour Codes and the free trade deals being struck with the United States, European Union, and the United Kingdom, the central trade unions said.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/30-crore-workers-farmers-participated-in-general-strike-trade-unions-say/article70625346.ece

Thank you

On Meta’s plans to add facial recognition technology to its smartglasses:

That pile is so large

“This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting,” the actor told Variety on Tuesday night at the Sundance Film Festival. “We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”

The video:

Remember this? Ugh…

Is this the sort of thing that’s going to get Gen Z excited about progressive politics? I doubt it. I’m no 17-year-old, but when social media is filled with videos of masked immigration officers indiscriminately attacking protesters and separating children from their families, I don’t think what young people want is a “progressive content hub.” I might be going out on a limb here, but I think what Gen Z wants is for their elected officials to do something that actually helps their constituents. Does this feel like the right time for a Substack essay?

This is currently on the front page…

It’s so cringe.

Saw them live years ago. So many bruises from the pit. Worth it

SMH

Venezuela war just dropped.

It’s the only one reporting what he said