@penfriendrocks @lizzlipscombe @johnhackettband Oh.. and a video I'm very pleased with, quirky pop about Temptation - Lead Us Not Literal vibes. https://t.co/X0G0D2cTgD Bass on this by @lelandsklar :-)

They're broken. This is just astonishing. They are completely broken. 😮

Whatever your taste, there will be something on the site that will pique your interest! #BandcampFriday is when Bandcamp waives their %age & all monies spent go to the artist (unlike Spotify, etc), so if you want to support an independent artist, these are the best days to! 4/4

Then there's my stuff. If you think someone might like quirky folk-tinged progressive music for Christmas, now might be a good time to turn the thought into action! I'm Here, All Weak is a good place to start :-) https://t.co/8bYhAiesjK 3/4

I've been around @antclifford's #Lofter music for years - the new album, Perseus & Ulysses, is absolutely the best yet (amongst stiff competition from the rest of the catalogue!) https://t.co/Dcj5FfRXXh 2/4

We find ourselves again at a #BandcampFriday! Might I recommend.. https://t.co/dXbbXnGx3a The recent #JohnHackettBand album Red Institution is now available as a digital download, as is John's first solo rock album, 2005's Checking Out Of London. 1/4

With all the excitement (ahem..) of #AI these days, it's worth reflecting that some song by @Trevor_Horn_, Geoff Downes & Bruce Woolley rather presciently predicted it over 45yrs ago.. With apologies to the composers, my acoustic version: https://t.co/hVEnCE3x1n :-)

they should call it Degenerative AI because using it deteriorates your ability to create

I will remind you the Government promised this would all be invested in rebuilding infrastructure. What a lie.

Study - AI is contaminating medical study with false "hallucinated" info. "across all six reviews, nearly one-fifth of the citations, 35 out of 176, were entirely fabricated. Of the 141 citations that corresponded to real publications, almost half contained at least one error"

About time someone with some influence said it

Many haven't realized it, but a defining aspect of the generative AI wave is the fact that we have been experiencing the social media wave for the past 20 years. Millions of us saw it play out firsthand: the false promises, the data harvesting, the dark patterns, and the

A lot of you are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.

🆘 This is CATACLYSMIC! Unless Parliament rebels or a judicial review succeeds, the ongoing UK–US trade negotiations will block Britain from returning to any EU framework, including the single market. Because: 💥The UK is committing to US pricing rules 💥The UK is committing

Keir Starmer's own Chief Economic Advisor says to join an Customs Union with the EU to grow the economy Keir Starmer says no Labour have created absurd 'red lines' and it is Labour's 'make Brexit work' policy that is keeping the UK poorer by the tune of £90 billion a year lost

Brexit is turning the UK from a powerful decision-maker in the EU into an American vassal, for a trade gain that is only a small fraction of what has been lost due to Brexit. This country cannot rebuild until politicians who have tied their careers to Brexit, including Starmer,

For Day 3 of the Autochrome Advent Calendar, I take you back 115 years by enhancing a rather frosty Russian vista photographed in colour in 1910. The autochrome was taken by Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov and I shall add the original plate image in the replies so that you can see the

Ten years after Brexit, the data is finally catching up with the lived reality. UK 🇬🇧 GDP is 8% smaller. Investment down 18%. Productivity down 4%. GDP per capita up to 10% lower than comparable nations. Not bc of a single shock, but because Brexit drained confidence,

Under the Tories, the Ministry of Justice had its budget cut by 25%. They closed over half the courts across England and Wales. Jury trials are not the problem. Austerity is. It doesn't just need to be ended, but reversed. #PMQs

✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity. Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.

Any fool country can make trade deals (or Trump "deals") that heavily favour the other, or not worth much. Why these fools not understand UK will never offset the losses of EU trade unless agrees a CU inside a SM with another market of 1/2bn wealthy consumers..20 miles off shore