For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I posted an earlier version about 10 hours ago. This is the latest version reflecting everyone's feedback. Remember, I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have for V2 of the playlist. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like.

Money itself: the source of, and solution to, all problems

The O’Jays — For the Love of Money
The Flying Lizards — Money (That’s What I Want)
Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
ABBA — Money, Money, Money
Pink Floyd — Money
Depeche Mode — Everything Counts
The O’Jays — Rich Get Richer
Billie Holiday — God Bless the Child

Inherited wealth and class

Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun — Really Rich Parents
Lorde — Royals
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Pulp — Common People
Dolly Parton — Coat of Many Colors

Work, wages, and survival

They Might Be Giants — Minimum Wage
Dolly Parton — 9 to 5
Donna Summer — She Works Hard for the Money
Shakira & Fuerza Regida — El Jefe
Rise Against — Prayer of the Refugee
The Clash — Clampdown
Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons
Desmond Dekker & the Aces — Israelites
UB40 — One in Ten
Simply Red — Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)
Travis Tritt — Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man
The Kinks — Dead End Street
Tracy Chapman — Fast Car

Labor history, dispossession, communities stripped of value

The Staple Singers — When Will We Be Paid
B.B. King — Why I Sing the Blues
Skip James — Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Bruce Springsteen — I Ain’t Got No Home (written by Woody Guthrie)
Bing Crosby — Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Patty Loveless — You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Billy Joel — Allentown
James McMurtry — We Can’t Make It Here
Bruce Springsteen — Death to My Hometown

Poverty, inequality, displacement

Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five — The Message
Bruce Hornsby and the Range — The Way It Is
Prince — Sign o’ the Times
The Police — Driven to Tears
Bad Bunny — El Apagón
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)

The system, the math, and accountability

Pete Seeger — Banks of Marble
Yasiin Bey / Mos Def — Mathematics
Hozier — Eat Your Young
William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson — Common People (produced and arranged by Ben Folds)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris — Compared to What?
Stevie Wonder — You Haven’t Done Nothin’

Closing: Wake up and fight

Johnny Cash — Man in Black
Tracy Chapman — Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution
William Elliott Whitmore — Mutiny
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up

Walk-out coda — after the formal event has ended
Gil Scott-Heron — Whitey on the Moon

@boris because I had the type of parents who would tell me, "Go look it up"

I went and looked it up.

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"In France, the entrée slowly came to be associated primarily with its position in the meal rather than the composition of its dishes. Despite the objections of various food authorities who insisted on retaining the classical meaning of the word,[30] the term entrée came to refer to the first course of the meal, a small dish that precedes the main course (plat principal) in a three-course meal.[a] The "new" use of the term, now common almost worldwide, is a return to the literal meaning of the word and a partial return to the medieval arrangement of the meal.

In the United States and parts of English-speaking Canada, though, the older understanding of the entrée as a substantial meat course persisted, and the word came to refer to the principal dish of the meal.[31][32] In the 21st century, the use of the word entrée in North American menus began to decline, being replaced by terms like "main course" or other terms appropriate to the culinary tradition of a given restaurant or cookbook."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entr%C3%A9e

Versions of this legislation already failed in Australia, failed in the UK, so of course Luxon wants to do it and have it fail here too. 🙄

Evidence-based decisions? Not under their watch!

Govt pushes ahead with social media ban for under-16s
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1103002/govt-pushes-ahead-with-social-media-ban-for-under-16s

#NZPol #ditchThePricksIn26 #voteThemOut

Sometimes I visit BlueSky and... it's not that folk on there are bad in any profound way, but I always leave the place with a sort of unquantifiable misanthropy. Something about the place just makes me want to escape to the wilds. I don't know whether it's the omnipresent Americanism or the fact that all posts take the form of a critique on a critique on a critique, but the atmosphere is just crushingly claustrophobic. It seems like everybody is desperate to convince themselves that they're part of some intellectual priesthood. Just exhausting stuff.

@mattdarveniza i was never a big fruit guy, but since taking the mounjaro ive been eating so much of it, maybe there's a connection, dunno (fruit is healthier than chips or chocolate, that's for sure)

99.9% bots

I'm now ahead of @icing with a mere 0.09 percentage points...

This counts share of lines of #curl production code with our names on when you do git blame - right now in git master.