I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Given that euro ncap have had pedestrian/cyclist safety ratings for a while, I don't see why governments shouldn't ban the sale of cars which fail to meet a minimum threshold. Sick of the ever-escalating car size & bonnet height I see.
100% on both! It took this compilation of covers to make me come round to him being a great songwriter. Once that belting-it-out voice is gone, the songs are so much more digestible. wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/play-s...
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Yeah, feared so, but thought I'd ask!
That looks great!
Do you know if there are any plans to release just the third CD on its own? (already have the earlier 2cd version, & buying the whole thing again is quite a spendy way to get 1 disc)
/5 Put another way, this is on Americans, not just the people who lead them. A truly “freedom-loving” people would not endure this and would not have developed a political culture so encrusted with servile deference to authority that permits it. A free people would find it revolting.
Outstanding 40K foot view on where we are, from @benjaminwittes.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
My god, that's horrendous
The Police, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears and UB40 (Unemployment Benefit 40) amongst others and from a variety of income security directions:
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
Also busycircuits.com/motto-akemie/ ALM's Motto Akemie is a nice FM-based drum machine, like having a brace of Akemie's Taikos in your computer. Easy & intuitive to tweak, and can generate a wide range of sounds.
Instrument-wise, I've enjoyed Fors Tela fors.fm/tela; a modal synthesizer which is bit like having a software version of one of the Elektron "machines". Nice, playful UI and can get deep or not depending on what you're after.
Extremely disturbing first-hand testimony to Parliament from a retired NHS surgeon who spent Aug-Sep in Gaza. "The drones would come down and pick off civilians—children. We had description after description. This is not an occasional thing." committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
Sad news. Love his rough-hewn tunes, esp this one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0mD...
Oh shit just seen the news J Saul Kane has left the building. He seemed to care more about photography than music in later years but my god his catalogue is up there with the greatest of the greatest.
Lee Perry at Black Ark recording the Upsetters #musicsky #reggaesky
