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

So DHH (the racist and fascist) got 8 million USD for his foundation for his garbage half-baked config files that he claims are a "distribution".

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

I hate this timeline.

One thing that I'm excited about particularly is that solar power and batteries fundamentally changes the individual and community's relationship to the state.

Now-famously, the Amish refuse to connect to the grid, but today those communities use battery powered tools all the time, recharged by solar power.

Put differently: they aren't rejecting technology. They're rejecting dependency.

That logic scales, everywhere, for everyone, in direct proportion to the amount of available battery.

@aeris Petit bémol, sur le temps, allez/venir à Orly, ou l'aéroport de Toulouse et passez les contrôles de sécurité te fait perdre beaucoup de temps. Donc au final, l'avion ne fait pas gagner de temps (surtout si tu as un bagages en soute)

Ted Lasso season 5 gets exciting new status update https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/ted-lasso-season-5-gets-exciting-new-status-update/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Very tired today because I went to sleep an hour too late.

Reason? One of our cats fell asleep in my arm and I didn't want to wake her.

still baffled that Google's AI Mode has yet to be struck down by an antitrust ruling in the EU

Worth the hype