Paul O’Brien

@ifdestroyed.bsky.social

Writes about comics at housetoastonish.com

Blog update: Bomb The Bass reached number one in the NME Indie Charts with "Beat Dis" in February 1988, and debuted inside the National Top Five. Its hyperactive, twitchy samplemania struck a chord with the public who would have had none of it a mere year or two before.

111. Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis (Rhythm King)

All the singles to top the NME Indie Charts since its launch in 1981, complete with an overview of the other music in the charts each week.

indienumber1s.blogspot.com

Shout out to the man on the train calling his bank about ID theft and who has read his name, postcode, and the long number on his card to the whole carriage.

If nothing else, the Healey appointment says a lot about Burnham and his inner team's ability to stop information leaking. Which in the modern era is a moderate accomplishment all by itself.

Clive Myrie just reassured BBC viewers that this is a "peaceful transfer of power", which I'm sure will come as a relief to everyone.

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.