11yo Daughter: "Where are you going, dad?" Me: "Just to the toilet" 11yo daughter: "Good luck!" ...what does she know that I don't?

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Saw an article explaining how executives are urging a studio to embrace AI 'to lower costs and boost creativity'. Which is sort of like urging firefighters to start lighting fires, in order to reduce the number of fires, and make them better at preventing fires.

I'll belive the guys who insist that AI music is going to replace real music as soon as they're prepared to, in person, go up to a group of Swifties and firmly tell them that their mother goddess is obsolete I'll be generous and give them time to update their dental records beforehand

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d ago

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

These bold predictions from tech bros would be a lot more worrying if they had the slightest inkling of an idea of how humans actually work See also; tech billionaires 'hacking' their own bodies to maximise health, via methods that would be laughed out of an undergraduate physiology class

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d ago

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · 4d ago

Game Of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest, Warner Bros.' first big-screen trip to Westeros, is set to hit cinemas in Summer 2029. The movie is being directed by Owen Harris (A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms) from a Beau Willimon (Andor) script. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

With a surname like that, every chapter title is a pun: Lowe Life - when he was born Swing Lowe - for the sex tape stuff High Lowe - his old life of partying Do Your Balls Hang Lowe - now he's getting on a bit

"The Lowe down" was RIGHT THERE! If you have a punnable name but refuse to use it as such, you shouldn't be writing autobiographies. This is a hill I will die on.

To the guy in the supermarket car park, the one wearing a tight vest, with a tattoo sleeve on one arm, tuning up an acoustic guitar: I don't know what you've got planned, but I'm 97% sure it's not going to be as appreciated as you believe it's going to be

Putting together a grant proposal to research the bizarre psychological phenomenon of how coffee/tea with *not enough* milk tastes stronger than coffee/tea with *zero* milk

Read the blog here: www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/myth-bu... @becky-pope.bsky.social

Myth-Busting Neuroscience

Do we really only use 10% of our brains? Can a machine tell if we’re lying? And are you actually ‘left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’? Lucy Browning explores the neuroscience myths we love to believe, and what they reveal about how we engage with science.

womeninneuroscienceuk.org

🧠 Do we only use 10% of our brains? Can a polygraph really tell if we’re lying? And are you actually ‘left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’? Lucy Browning explores the neuroscience myths we love to believe, and why the most marketable myths can be the hardest to shake. @drdeanburnett.bsky.social

People making fun of Melania Trump's expression, but I think that's unfair. It's not her fault, she just has resting HOW IS HE *STILL* ALIVE? face

If you think "employee needs to consume fluids to function" is a dealbreaker for your business, I have *terrible* news for you about AI...

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.

I've been sent many 'creative' arguments and objections to #antidepressants lately. This is my new favourite. Also, for the #conspiracy enthusiasts, if I were a shadowy organisation wanting the masses to be productive but easily manipulated, removing their sex drives would be the LAST thing I'd do

Just stared at myself in the mirror and realised the claim that men's ears keep growing as we age seems to be true. I look like I'm in the middle stage of Pokemon evolution where the final stage is Ferengi

Suddenly getting a lot of wedding fayre and venue offers in my feeds. Presumably because I posted that my wife and I celebrated our twentieth anniversary yesterday. Not sure if the algorithms are just being profoundly dumb as per, or even they're thinking "She's SURELY about to leave him by now?"

If people spending taxpayers money on alcohol is such an undeniable problem, I assume they also plan to permanently close the House of Commons bar?

Rare that vou get a news story where commenters can yell about people being both privileged AND scroungers, but we might have managed it here. #ADHD #Autism #neurodiversity l

Listen to episode one with @holliemcnish.bsky.social - next up @chanda.blacksky.app www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... #podcast #cosmology #poetry

The whole "small boats" issue is a problem created out of thin air by successive right wing governments and amplified by a racist media who don't want a single brown person in this country. It's so simple it fits in one post and I can add this sentence too.

Exciting SIGNED book news! "The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky" @aptshadow.bsky.social is published in December 37 stories! More than 600 pages! The ultimate collection of Adrian's short(er) fiction. Pre-order a SIGNED copy HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

A musician pushing a piano down twenty flights of stairs could claim they're producing more 'original sounds' than ever before. Even if it's true, it's not an achievement, and nobody wants to actually listen to that

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.

This last week or so has been a bit perplexing for those of us who could never understand why Ed Sheeran was so popular in the first place. The musical equivalent of a frozen pizza base, or the default character skin in a video game.

I didn't post it at the time because it may have seemed distasteful, but all the recent conversations about "We all remember exactly where we were when we found out about the 9/11 attacks" reminded me of my own experience, and how ridiculous it was Basically, I was on my grandmother's shed roof 1/6

So was a bit late for the 35th Anniversary but plenty early for the 37th Anniversary of The Best Of Both Worlds Just need to work out the title and where that will sit but in the meantime please enjoy this painting i did paint #startrekthenextgeneration #startrekfanart #fanart #startrek #theborg

Alan Ritchson seems an okay sort of feller.

Remembering that time I was tagged as a 'beta male' by one of those 'Alpha' manosphere accounts My pointing out that snidely and anonymously tagging strangers on Instagram, a platform typically associated with teenage girls, is not especially 'alpha' behaviour, got me blocked Ah, testosterone...

Hang on, where did this blue tick come from? What does it mean? Am I officially 'me' now?