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Which swear words do Britons find the most offensive? Cnt: 82% say very or fairly offensive Motherfcker: 70% Fatherfcker: 62% Btch: 55% Fck: 53% Wnker: 53% Bstard: 45% Pssy: 44% Prck: 42% Twt: 40% Asehole: 39% Dckhead: 39% Son of btch: 36% Cck: 34% Full list in the chart 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

A new poll shows that music fans reject the UK government’s plans to upend copyright law to favour AI companies: - 78.5% think AI shouldn’t be trained on music without permission from the artist / label - 72.7% think AI developers should list all music they train on ... 🧵 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

musiciansunion.org.uk/news/musicia...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Saw Fingals Cave at last. I've been wanting to see it in person for ages. It didn't disappoint

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music is my passion

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8

submitted 26 days ago • 38 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

“The wealth of bands, orchestras, concerts and gigs we see today isn’t a predictor of our musical future, it’s a reflection of our educational past”: powerful @theguardian.com letter on the bleak decline of music in state schools …

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve. Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead. Everyone: Okay. Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

Before it gets stolen, you saw it here first....! I follow back if you're interested....

submitted 57 days ago • 34 comments

Wow!

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Hmmm - maybe I'll just use my regular old tongue www.newscientist.com/article/2470...

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Sign the petition - Keep this cunt out of the UK you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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submitted 58 days ago • 36 comments

www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, just gorgeous

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Music should be for everyone but is it becoming a luxury only the rich can afford? Shocking stat: 25% of Youth Music-funded projects are at risk due to funding cuts. That’s one in four spaces where young people could have discovered their creative voice or music-loving social circle is under threat

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

ok how did people let this fraudulent eye doctor kill all the greatest living music composers

submitted 75 days ago • 15 comments

There's 312 nahs in Hey Jude

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t polish a turd, but you can autotune a fart.

submitted 77 days ago • 18 comments

"That Wales is known as the land of song is increasingly ironic, as its musical life edges ever closer to collapse." Strong words in this week's Private Eye:

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything % saying Brexit has had a positive impact on... Control the UK has over its laws: 31% UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23% UK's level of international trade: 11% NHS: 6% Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

submitted 87 days ago • 58 comments

Aw. Twenty something years ago myself & Marianne got exceedingly drunk on Long Island Ice Teas at the George V hotel in Paris. Our recording session the following morning was a bit challenging, but she was an absolute joy to meet & to work with. Sleep well

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I loved David Lynch's work, especially the final Twin Peaks series, because it suggested strongly that the weird world, not the real world, is the true world.

submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

'There are a range of activities that extend and enrich your life, including music and dancing. Listening to music at home with a friend is good, attending a gig with friends is better, playing in a band is best.' Can Listening to Music Help you Cheat Death? buff.ly/4amkLib

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

I wrote in the Guardian today about the UK government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, which proposes handing AI companies the life’s work of Britain’s creators for free. The government must reconsider. We can be a leader in AI without throwing the creative industries under the bus.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Writers, musicians, actors & other creators strongly oppose upending copyright law to favour AI companies, as suggested in the UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan. As Kate Mosse says, seeking economic growth "cannot be on the basis of theft of our work". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 103 days ago • 12 comments

After today's depressing news regarding AI from the UK government, this piece by James Hannigan is a must read jameshannigan.com/2024/02/02/a...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

More AI shenanigans www.standard.co.uk/comment/ai-c...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

This is great - almost reminds me of how things were back in my day Banging the drum for music education: the UK school run with an orchestra www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

2024 brought early signs that generative AI is displacing demand for human creative labour; suspect 2025 will bring considerably more evidence of this.

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

Outstanding investigation from @lizpelly.bsky.social into how Spotify is relentlessly replacing artist-driven music on its most popular playlists with anonymous Muzak harpers.org/archive/2025...

submitted 128 days ago • 24 comments

This ⬇️ www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sorry - are we just allowed to set up companies that aren't legally affordable? What are you? Thames Water? If you can't pay for what you use, you don't get to use it. You get to make money off the back of the work of people whom you don't pay? Get absolutely fucked. Go disrupt your own anus.

submitted 129 days ago • 16 comments

Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands is on BBC Scotland at 22:00 on Tuesday and will be on BBC iPlayer afterwards 🎸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👩‍👩‍👧‍👧📺 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 136 days ago • 15 comments

Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.

submitted 135 days ago • 29 comments

www.politico.eu/article/uk-c...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Composers and publishers worried about the use of AI in creating music, now is a good time to write to your MP as the bill is being debated in Parliament next week. www.ukaop.org/hub/governme...

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

“For instance, the electricity usage required for training one of today’s large AI models could produce air pollutants equivalent to driving a passenger car for more than 10,000 roundtrips between Los Angeles and New York City, according to the researchers.” www.newscientist.com/article/2459...

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

Parking Garage Door Does Impression of Miles Davis’ Jazz Album, "Bitches Brew"

submitted 140 days ago • 1 comment

Currently listening to Nuggets Vol.2, one of the best of the bunch

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