Tom Woodhead
@tomwoodhead.bsky.social
Writer, mastering engineer, will soon sing again in ¡Forward, Russia! I master records for a living, I'm really good at it: www.hippocraticmastering.com
Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
bloodinthemachine.com
Today my 13-year-old son told me he doesn’t want his Phoenix (comic) subscription anymore – he’s had it since his was 7 – and it was the most upset I’ve ever got about a ’he’s getting older’ milestone. Like proper crying my eyes out (away from him, obviously), lol
Crucifixion Altarpiece (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/crucifixion-altarpiece-detail
It took me 4 months to get paid £65 by Sony Music Spain earlier this year. I suppose you have to cut a certain amount of slack to these little companies just struggling to get by
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3w agoI think it's actually really nice that everyone in all finance departments responsible for paying freelancers goes on holiday together every August, just lovely to think of them all gallivanting on the beach, holding hands, giggling, away from their computers for four entire weeks
Oh yeah, the headache that makes you wrong about Gundam
[Jonah doing stand up] and then there was Covid. Remember Covid ? Yep. This guy remembers Covid. I spent a lot of time inside during Covid. Yeah. Inside a whale!
“That’s what makes my writing mine” yes, exactly. That’s the exact reason that watermark detection will report that your text does not originate from Claude.
A factual and measured article. One glance at the reaction on Twitter has sent me into a depression no amount of taurine could flush away
The Square Ball@thesquareball.net · last mo.No Acceptance for Red Bull We need to acknowledge that #LUFC is no longer the exception to modern football — and focus our attention more clearly on what else is happening in plain sight. by @btngnrtn.bsky.social thesquareball.net/leeds-united...
[movie trailer voice] They fuck you up... ...your mum and dad *Country scene, dark, tent in foreground collapses* "DAD!"* They may not mean to but they do *Family arguing as they walk on a cliff path* This year, exclusively in IMAX, they'll add some extra just for you... This! Be! The! Film!
Daniel Tunnard@danieltunnard.bsky.social · last mo.Are there any other poems that have been made into films? Could Nolan have a crack at "This is just to say"?
Perfectly fine to criticise Emily Wilson or anyone else, but you lose all credibility when you imply you have any understanding of Ancient Greek
Books I'll yammer on about to anyone who'll listen: Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban Landscape With Landscape - Gerald Murnane Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages - Manuel Puig The Endless Summer - Madame Nielsen 1982, Janine - Alasdair Gray The Cook - Wayne McCauley
Jonathan Gibbs@jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 2mo agoNicholson Baker Room Temperature Brigid Brophy The Snow Ball TJ Clark The Sight of Death David Markson Wittgenstein’s Mistress Don DeLillo The Body Artist Natalie Léger Suite for Barbara Loden Tessa Hadley Selected Stories (doesn’t exist, except in my head) Louis MacNeice Autumn Journal Don Quixote
If you put in a certain sequence of commands on the FROG lighting desk in the Cockpit while it was booting up you could play Frogger on it. Better than being shouted at by Hugh Cornwell
videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 2mo agofrogger, zx spectrum (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/160755/...
Microsoft's planning to build 3 massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
you.38degrees.org.uk
Reckon I might start drawing the state pension before I receive the £65 I'm owed by Sony Music España
If you right click on a link on a website and don't see the option to open it in a new tab you just know you're browsing some bloated lump of garbage
