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Mainly music, data, tech, football, and dogs. PhD Popular Music Studies. Recovering humanities academic now doing data/tech stuff, + a few music projects. Views my own. Chords generally nicked off The Bee Gees. See my work here: www.popmusicresearch.org
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Unai’s gone for a “Let’s not concede with the first shot we face, lads. and we’ll then go fully Hollywood football mental with subs on 60 minutes” line up, and I’m here for it. #avfc

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Couple of boring but true points: - These are paid-for wrapround ads. - Certain newspapers have done deals with AI firms. - All regularly 'borrow' ideas from online creators. - The AI business model (such as it is) likely collapses if forced to pay creators, so fairness is moot.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Remembering George Harrison on his birthday. Here's a glorious playlist of the singles that he listened to on his KB Discomat jukebox (as published by Record Mirror in December 1965). Photo taken in Chiswick Gardens by Robert Whitaker ▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/2hB...

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

We’re two episodes in to Zero Day and I’m pulling the same face Bobby D pulls on the poster because it is full on daft. The sort of thing Nicholas Cage says yes to when he has tax bill to pay.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Newcastle and (it seems) Liverpool winning today caps a good weekend of results for Villa, which - as everyone knows - is the only thing that truly matters in football.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Watching Newcastle v Forest. I don’t have any tactical observations, but I am struck by how much Anthony Gordon is starting to look like Princess Diana The Queen of Hearts. Look at the images below. It’s uncanny.

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You can see me in this video (mustard yellow coat) jumping around like a bellend after our 90th minute winner yesterday. Pleased to have made a contribution but the 3 points was the most important thing, and now I’m fully focussed on Tuesday at Palace. #avfc www.facebook.com/share/r/1AsJ...

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A sliding doors moment in the season? Finally some luck in front of goal, and 3 points despite conceding *another* soft goal and Michael Fucking Oliver doing his best to ruin the game. #avfc

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Follow me for more cast iron football knowledge that ages like milk in a hot car.

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Man United are terrible, obviously, but Everton (as they have been since Moyes came back) are terrific - they work their balls off and are ferocious as a unit. Proper throwback stuff. Have that, Hipster Tactics.

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I think this should be £0.0bn worth of Crypto stolen. Only crooks, idiots, and wankers get involved with this stuff. The rest of us have a moral duty to bully them mercilessly. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Would 💯 be in the market for a Stoner Rock band called Guardians of Western Civilisation, with a debut LP called We Must Defend It

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you draw Club Bruges in the Champions League twice in the same season, the second time is technically Banshees of Inisherin. #avfc

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Howdy bab. We’re playing at the Bearded Theory this summer, so that’s nice innit. Tickets and whatnot here: www.alttickets.com/bearded-theo...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

First movie in the series will be called Shortfall. James Bond must save the world despite funds running out mid-mission as a result of massive tax avoidance by Tech firms.

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I found another bargain Funkadelic LP, the 2nd Funkadelic LP I’ve found this week. This one is a reissue though. What this means is I have tipped over from having ‘some LPs by Funkadelic’ and into ‘most of the Funkadelic LPs’, which now means I cannot rest until I have ‘all the Funkadelic LPs’

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We have fireworks and all sorts of atmosphere-sapping stupid bullshit at every home game (unfortunately), and six 1st team players out injured, but you stay classy Arne Slot and don’t let the pressure of 4 dropped points out of the last 9 show too much. #avfc

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Could have won it there at the death and we would have been good value for it, but I believe we get two points for that draw because football means more in Liverpool. Excellent team performance. #avfc

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There could be goals in this, at both ends 😬. #avfc

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Leftwing activists can't even get on with other leftwing activists of mildly different flavours, so this is hardly surpising.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

RIP Rick Buckler. I once knew a bloke who sold all his records by The Jam to finance a trip to London to see The Alarm.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Terrific first half from Celtic. #thefootball

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely stuff, and nails a fundamental problem with AI as a tool. Getting an answer is really just a by-product of the really important part, which is the process of arriving at an answer. We being forced to hand over the important part in exchange for (often wrong) answers.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Many moons ago I worked at a Tech Start Up where a director sent an all-staff email about a marketing campaign that he expected would lead to “a salami of phone calls”. He meant tsunami, but nobody dared correct him.

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I keep watching Man U and looking at their players and going “Who is this geezer? He’s terrible”and then I Google him and find out they paid £25m or £40m for him, and then they lose and then I laugh.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments