Sam Howard-Spink

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

i agree with this not just because of course i would, but because it is increasingly obvious to me that the generational shifts that happened with jazz, rock, and hip hop/electronic is now taking place with international music. yes, that's too diffuse a term to mean anything. so were the others.

Word.

"I've always thought that plagiarism is creative": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones

"One widely beloved and blissfully psychedelic track stands tall, symbolizing the alchemical magic of sampling’s ability to collide disparate sounds from different worlds together to create something thrillingly new: The Orb’s 'Little Fluffy Clouds'."

Look at this absolute professional just doing his job.

Shouting an obscenity at an uncle, a drunk game of cards after dinner, long winded tales of a relative's youthful indiscretions at university... (etc...)

Honestly I fucking loathe the whole idea of "EdTech"

Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".

They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡

Beck released 'Midnite Vultures' 26 years ago on November 23, 1999 | Discover where it ranks in our readers' poll here: album.ink/BeckPoll

Deus é um DJ.

All three major label groups have now signed a deal to license their catalogs to the AI music startup Klay

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cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

A quote from Alan Moore that reads ""I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness ... Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people's consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman."

Many happy returns to Alan Moore - writer, artist and magician - 72 today.

Loud and Clear There is no punk without Black women.

This week's Bitch Media reprint is so key to the archives we are trying to rebuild. Vanessa Willoughby writes on Black women's influence in punk culture--and the attempts to erase their influence over the years.

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The Pharcyde’s ‘Labcabincalifornia’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary Relative to its precursor (1992’s ‘Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde’), the group’s second LP contains less jocularity and levity, in exchange for a more pronounced conscience and introspective vibe.

The Pharcyde released their second studio album ‘Labcabincalifornia’ 30 years ago on November 14, 1995 | Listen to the album + read our anniversary tribute here: album.ink/PharcydeLabcab

Let's go crazy, let's get nuts.

Single comicbook panel showing the Hulk lying prone on some grass near a beach. He's saying (in two speech balloons): "Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up ..." "... everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!" (From Incredible Hulk #261, 1981)

C'est moi

Pulp perform on the Tiny Desk Concert

"It's the kind of deadpan humor long found in the band's music, but also in their performance, as Cocker crooned, cooed and danced his way through four tracks."

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New Central Park owl has dropped.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Central Park's first Barred Owl of the season (and the first in a few years) rests today in the North Woods. 🦉 ❤️

My grandfather only liked Salt & Vinegar crisps and was a prolific consumer of them. Yet they were only invented in 1967 when he was in his mid 50's.

I hope something so delicious and life changing will be invented when I am that age and that I will be open to such life changing taste sensations

Happy 30th Anniversary to GZA’s second studio album ‘Liquid Swords’ originally released November 7, 1995 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @jesseducker.bsky.social here: album.ink/LiquidSwords

Packing up that suitcase again and hitting the road! First stop📍Des Moines! See you Wednesday night at #HoytShermanPlace!
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Here are the songs that helped make it happen #TheFilthyFifteen

Pulp’s ‘Different Class’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary With their fifth studio affair, Pulp extended a message of solidarity—an open invitation to wallflowers, weirdos and pretty much anyone who’s ever dwelt in the fringes.

Pulp released their fifth studio album ‘Different Class’ 30 years ago on October 30, 1995 | Listen to the album + read our anniversary tribute by @raynafire.bsky.social here: album.ink/pulpDC

Book from 1911 showing that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption is far from being a phenomenon born with the internet. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #NationalCatDay

Give us this insane game. I want this game. Remember the Matrix game where you get to the last level and the the Wachowskis literally appear and go “look do you want to stick to the movies or do you want this kick ass nonsense idea we came up with?”? That’s fucking gaming right there

JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE VOODOO CHILE

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Iron Maiden. “2 Minutes to Midnight.” Behind every great guitar solo is a great rhythm section — this right here, with that key & tempo change between Murray & Smith? It’s the ‘drama’ of it all 🤌

#metalsky #ironmaiden

YouTube video by The Kleptones The Kleptones - Bite

A student asked me about 2005 era mashups today. Then I found the Kleptones on YT.