Ansley Simpson
@ansleysmusic.bsky.social
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe (member of Alderville FN) Musician, Scoring, Sound Installations www.ansleysimpson.com https://ansleysimpson.bandcamp.com/
musicians suing Suno over intellectual property rights is a fine opening of the door, but it’s ultimately a labour issue. doing it on the basis of “they’re mimicking my voice” makes it an individual grievance, but collective action is needed and that can’t be so simple.
Did they really just refer to the "waving plumes of smoke" heading east from the incredibly devastating fires in BC as "could really contribute to some hazy skies and more vibrant sunrises and sunsets." LIKE THAT IS A GOOD THING?? Oh, and no info on how to protect your lungs. Beautiful.
The Weather Network@weathernetwork.bsky.social · last mo.A province-wide state of emergency is in effect in British Columbia as evacuations mount due to ongoing wildfires. https://ow.ly/KVY750ZxSGO
I hate to burst anyone's nostalgia bubble, but my space is no longer owned by Tom. It's now owned by Viant Technology. Which is an AI company. This is data farming. Do not fall for it.
URGENT #topoli - On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. NEITHER OF THESE MOTIONS INCLUDES A MORATORIUM. actionnetwork.org/letters/mora...
FLOOD CITY COUNCIL'S MOTION COMMENTS — AI DATA CENTRE MORATORIUM NOW!
On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. Bi...
actionnetwork.org
Noah Freedman "Ontario's system is falling apart and it's entirely the result of mismanagement at the government level." Small budget means small aircraft only fit half the crew and must make two trips, fires grow while crews wait for vital team members to arrive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdsv...
Ontario's firefighting system 'falling apart' from mismanagement: union representative
YouTube video by CBC News
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Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...
Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers
In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.
theintercept.com
Summer Vol. 2 19/20 "Surface Tension" leannesimpson.bandcamp.com/track/surfac... Words by @biidaasamose.bsky.social Music by @ansleysmusic.bsky.social , Nick Ferrio, and producers Jonas Bonetta and @jimbryson.bsky.social Backing vocals by John K. Samson and co-writers #MusicSky #folkmusic 🎶
![These are simple stolen moments
And we love when we are able...
And there are beating wings
Reminding me if you fly
Forever you can have
Two summers
And the river only goes
One way
And you can't get lost
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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12/31/1925 — b. Daphne Oram, British composer, inventor, music engineer, electronic musician. Inventor of a technique for creating electronic sounds known as “Oramics”; composer of the first electronic score broadcasted on the BBC #womenshistory #WomenInMusic #MusicSky #WomenInSTEM #MusicChallenge
fun announcement for the new year: ill be curating a monthly music doc series at Hot Docs next year, the first one being The Devil and Daniel Johnston at the end of January! hotdocs.ca/whats-on/cin...
Jukedocs | Hot Docs
Watch the world’s best documentaries at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
hotdocs.ca
(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
theglobeandmail.com
Checking out the new @subvert.fm platformn I'm actually excited for this. I've followed a few bandcamp alternatives over the years and this one hits all the marks for me. Artist co-op, simple layout, seems to work well too. Anyone else been checking out their alpha platform launch?
Subvert@subvert.fm · last yr.Oh good. I was beginning to wonder if Eurovision was the music budget. 48 mil over 3 years means no increase in funding from 2024/25 but it’s not gone. Thanks in part from pressure from the Canadian Indie Music Association and working musicians. www.cimamusic.ca/news/cima-re...
CIMA Responds to Federal Budget 2025 - Canadian Independent Music Association
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If you’re worried about hurting artists by boycotting Spotify—don’t. They pay musicians 0.0003 per stream (on the high end) and support fascists. Go see bands play live, buy their merch, collect physical media. That’s how you support artists and tell knee-bending oligarch fascists to eat shit.
📣 Job alert! 📣 The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
I’ve been testing the small French streaming service Qobuz for the last month, considering finally dumping Spotify. One reason I’m drawn to Qobuz is that it’s a smaller operation with seemingly good intentions. … 🧵 (1/10)
"He told me we needed to do a campaign to greenwash the data centers as it was going to become a problem in the future" V good post here detailing the PR strategy of companies and most importantly, how they're winning flat out right now -> hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-energy-...
The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energy
hardresetmedia.substack.com
Hard Reset@hardresetmedia.com · last yr.This thread is excellent but highly recommend reading the full post. One of the few actually critical looks at Google's AI data center energy usage claims, vs. most news orgs reprinting Google's PR claims (hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-energy-...)
The thing about this site is that I’ve been able to find all these different spaces to share and find music. I’ve got some free download codes for my song Echo up on GetMusic for anyone curious or in need of a new listen.
GetMusic@getmusic.bsky.social · last yr.Ansley Simpson - Echo "'Echo' captures the dreamy liminal space in the remains of something beautiful." #indie #folk #indiefolk #dreamfolk #synthfolk #indigenous #music getmusic.fm/l/i9wBhF
For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book
Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · last yr.Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots
Chicagoans are joining a growing exodus from the streaming platform.
Time to dump Spotify - Chicago Reader
Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus from the platform.
chicagoreader.com
Big RIP to George Mundy, who designed the electronics of Phil Lesh’s “Osiris,” aka “Mission Control” bass, itself a quadraphonic limb of the Wall of Sound. A one of a kind instrument. Thanks for your work in the search for the sound, George.
Fascinating study in the genetics of autism. Thanks to @ansleysmusic.bsky.social for sharing it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs - Nature Genetics
Classes of autism are uncovered with a generative mixture modeling approach leveraging matched phenotypic and genetic data from a large cohort, revealing different genetic programs underlying their ph...
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I wrote about the WeTransfer terms of service and the criticism about the licensing rights in reference to large language models: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
WeTransfer Changes Terms of Service After Criticism About Updates to Licensing Rights
The web-based file sharing company said it does not use transferred content to train machine learning models or other AI tools.
artnews.com
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last yr.I have reached out to WeTransfer PR and also some of my sources who use WeTransfer to send images
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
Parasite becomes aggressive. Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased. Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
