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… Swift’s team worked around the major studios—represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, in the ongoing labor negotiations—altogether when it came to producing and releasing Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. The film was self-funded, with Swift reportedly spending $10 to $20 million to produce it and her parents working directly with AMC Theaters on distribution. … Though Swift’s film may not do Barbie numbers, she is set to break even more records when it opens next month. Already, it’s on track to make up to $100 million in its first weekend—and could open as high as $145 million, according to BoxOffice.com. That’s unprecedented for a concert film, and would put it in the top five theatrical openings this year.

time out's article on sugababes, their one-night-only reunion concert and new single 'when the rain comes', and reclaiming their music and their name in modern times.

it's an uplifting mix of nostalgia and hope for all of us who remember them fondly.

i was cruising the music site looking for backfill songs i might buy, and was rudely reminded of the state of music criticism in the 80s (to be fair, this was from a zine, but was put in front of me by qobuz, so it had some staying power).

this hatchet job on the blink-and-you-missed-it "don't you (forget about me)" by some scottish dudes called simple minds, for the soundtrack of a very niche and forgotten film, reminds me of everything i escaped. it's probably from "the big takeover" issue #17 from 1984.

i closed the tab. no sale.

For six years this was a creative and interesting Scottish band that used synths in artistic ways to go with Jim Kerr's Roxy Music-like yearning, poetic vocals to forge lovely, danceable, moody soundscapes full of promise, enchantment, and sinewy shadows. So now they get to do a hit song for a bad movie, and they suddenly turn into every cliché you've ever heard, complete with Kerr doing what he said only last year he never would: singing the word "baby" in a pop song (repeatedly at that!). They didn't write this song, but it's their name on it and they recorded it, and sure enough this awful garbage is heard everywhere after no one in the U.S. ever played one of the band's great songs outside of nightclubs. Sorry Jim, this is obviously the most forgettable thing you've done so far. Hopefully the next LP will make this look as asinine as it is, a bad one-off, but experience tells us that once you open Pandora's box, you can't close it again, especially if it yields sales instead of ridicule.

© Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover /TiVo

n.b. all good pop songs have "baby" in them. repeatedly. sorry, jack

ingrid burrington, an author i follow, lifted this scooter quote from the linked business insider article, the many faces of scooter braun:

In 2014 he married Yael Cohen, an elegant mining heiress whom he met after watching her TEDx talk about founding a cancer charity.

in her newsletter perfect sentences, she added some snark and finished with:

I have no stake in the disintegration of this guy or the careers of the celebrities he manages/previously managed, but I appreciate an eye for the absolute worst details.

i don't actually know anything about the guy, but it seems like the hate pretty much writes itself.

well, huh, as if we needed more evidence, taylor's been made into a little golden book. i guess she's actually legit successful.

pushed to me while looking for completely unrelated things

In SF we have some really long bus lines, 6 miles long and a ton of stops. One of those lines has a part-time extension now - it runs to an underserved overground rail station. It's a very high-value extension but runs only on weekdays, not weekends.

Normally we have separate relations for the weekday route and the weekend route. But others built those routes. I help maintain the ones we have, but I can't think of any way to get iD to clone a relation.

Is anyone either in SF and wants to clone the 31-Balboa, or knows of a tool that can do this? I've looked at JOSM and simply couldn't figure it out. I'm happy to do the grunt work of extending the line; I just have no good starting point.

I have an old MacBook that runs Ubuntu rather than Pop because the Elementary installer doesn't work with the layout of its SSD. Ubuntu often makes me sad, but it was my only way to get Linux onto this box.

Pop works fine from the Live CD so I'd love to have a go; it's on my desktop machine and I much prefer it. But Pop is bundled with a pretty old Elementary installer and only a really new one is likely to work.

Is there any way to get a new installer into my environment while running the installer ISO, or into the ISO itself?

https://github.com/elementary/installer/issues/617

i've tried grocy a few times over and it's burned a lot of time and brain cells. is there anything that does this (or even much less than this) and just works?

i understand why it was made this complex - i code and i work with people who want everything to be so theoretically 'flexible' that nothing simple works, so i'm used to the abstraction layers. but

• first try: looked at number and size of packages, no tree-shaking, code doesn't pass sniff test. dozens of megabyes for this? nope
• second try: well i don't want to build this myself. i'll put it in its own instance to minimize security exposure. but hey, this release is months old and these terrible bugs have been fixed, i'll just grab newer code. missed the thing where database migrations are tested only from official releases. database breaks.
• i learn sqlite syntax and reconstruct the database.
• months later i download new grocy android client, which expects a v4 grocy back end. all recipes break.
• i download official grocy v4 release (the third one in rapid succession, due to major bugs - luckily i hadn't tried too early).
• database breaks.

i'm done. i don't care that i lose the work i already put into it. i just want to open the cupboard twice and have the same thing be there both times. help

a pickup truck with 'american tragedy' written on its rear gate in a red script font

I took a Pop update today. After reboot Vivaldi (and only Vivaldi) wouldn't start correctly; there were no icons or menu bar, so it had to be quit from outside.

I saw that this happened to someone else on a previous update. The same intervention worked. This will trash all of your bookmarks and other config. There's probably a less scorched-earth way to dig out, but since I do use their sync service, this was an easy fix.

• Move/zip up/delete the ~/.config/vivaldi/Default directory
• Accept the onboard new user stuff.

Vivaldi sync is far from perfect. After re-establishing it, you'll need to reconfigure all extensions you were running, and many of your settings will have been discarded, even if you said to sync them.

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