Dr. Steve, but on blue sky

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

Outsourcing your thinking* and giving away the opportunity to practice professional skills is making science - and scientists - less impactful.

*- Note that the LLMs cannot think, only generate realistic sounding sentences based on existing knowledge in its unethically-acquired training data.

Lots of great acts to choose from here... picking just 5 is hard.

Garbage
Elastica
Echobelly
My Ruin
Queen Adreena

but right now I really really really want to add Die Spitz to that list.

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Bandcamp Bans AI Music AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the AI-generated psych-rock band the Velvet Sundown and the AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue racking up streams on Spotify? R...

Bandcamp has banned AI music.

The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."

stereogum.com/2485199/band...

The physics one is definitely deserved though.

Not for playing football. For your enthusiasm...

Congratulations! Very well deserved. Maybe Wrexham can give you some sort of honorary football award now.

YouTube video by Alexa Melo Idioteque by Radiohead (cover by Alexa Melo)

Alexa Melo has an EP of gorgeous Radiohead covers. I often think covering Radiohead is doomed to failure, with notable exceptions like The Darkness covering Street Spirit or anything Alexa Melo has done (her Lotus Flower is better than the original). youtu.be/07gYJot1-UQ

YouTube video by Bloc Party - Topic Hunting for Witches

Bloc Party had a huge impact on me. I even remixed "The Prayer" for a Triple J competition back in the day. Matt Tong is one of my favorite drummers. And every year this song fails to lose relevance: youtu.be/bnTMm5RPFaM

YouTube video by Circle Jerks - Topic Fortunate Son

Everyone knows Fortunate Son and there are numerous covers, but I like this one: youtu.be/TvxbqeLToug

YouTube video by IDLES IDLES - WAR (Official Video)

IDLES are probably the best band I've heard in the last 5 years (Shout out to Die Spitz for being the other contender). Gift Horse is my favorite, but this one fits the list: youtu.be/BLcM3fq6Quk

They Say by Jonny Yen They Say - At some point, the band (Loose End/Oneida) didn't like some politicians. Steve (songwriter) put this together to help express some feelings about modern politics. #alternative #indie #rock ...

A short interlude for a song I wrote in the 90s and recorded around '00/'01 with a couple of friends at a local college. soundclick.com/song/15118745 (🧵 to be continued)

YouTube video by The Levellers - Topic Another Man's Cause (Remastered Version)

The early to mid 90s were a stunning time for music, and The Levellers should've been bigger than they were. I think of them as Folk Punk, but make your own judgement. youtu.be/fiDsuG_LIno

YouTube video by The Cure - Topic Us Or Them

The Cure do great pop and awesome love songs. But they also do existential dread really well, and they rarely get heavy like this: youtu.be/ESqTwHi2Pfo

YouTube video by systemofadownVEVO System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B. (Official HD Video)

While perceived as a political band, it's really Serj's politics. But the songs speak for themselves. youtu.be/zUzd9KyIDrM

YouTube video by Concert Rage Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy (Feat. Maynard)

I still remember the first time I heard RATM. It was 1994, a friend had the cassette of their debut album. youtu.be/R2K2hSB4fEU

YouTube video by BobVylanVEVO Bob Vylan - Pretty Songs

Lots of songs with a message from Bob Vylan. youtu.be/ckf5Awk4fuU

YouTube video by Black Sabbath Judas Priest - War Pigs

RIP to Ozzy. This version of the Sabbath classic is the best IMHO. youtu.be/IB6jbWoGtlA

YouTube video by SonicYouthVEVO Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism

It's 2026 and for no obvious reason, here is a thread of great and meaningful songs:
Starting with Sonic Youth, who I was obsessed with at University. Seeing them at the Shepherd's Bush Empire with Porcupine Tree supporting was really inspiring. youtu.be/eWzIlCJAw-o

STOP USING THAT SHIT.

My son loves that book! I suspect he'd not like it as much in the style of Wanderers. (Although now I'm v curious about a horror/thriller based on the same premise)

That was pretty neat, huh. I should go back and re-read work from the before times more often. Thanks for digging that up!

I make them with HP sauce and a little cheddar melted in to hold the crisps together.

Is Louis Theroux on your radar? He got me into documentaries.

We Live Inside The Shepard Tone Everyday things get worse, and stay the same

Wrote about the feeling of living at a literal fever pitch for the last decade, and how every day things somehow get worse but stay the same.

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...

Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template Your slides are not your talk.

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

*ploughman's
Also, I have relatives from Cheddar. But yeah, a nice bit of cave-aged cheddar will fix everything.

This is not representative of the whole country. Stadium food is always terrible. Chips are best from a chippy, never a stadium. That's like judging US cuisine by my cafeteria at work...

I literally just found out (five minutes ago!) that they have finished shooting Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social and I can’t wait. This is the book that made me come out of the closet and tell people that I loved science fiction, which was unusual for a 20 yr old girl. It’s still unusual!