‘Basically everybody in the music business hates Spotify except for the people who work there. It’s a platform that sucks artists for everything they have, it actively prevents community building, and, despite all of that, the platform still struggles to maintain a healthy profit margin.’
Happy Thursday the 12th to all who celebrate it.
Good morning.
@fip.fr
Excellent.
Principles of Boogie Management.
I interviewed David Gentleman in 2010 for #Eye78 @eyemagazine.bsky.social
eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
(Lovely man.) Portrait by Philip Sayer.
Mitte.
#TypeTuesday, bit.ly/Punches-pixels @eyemagazine.bsky.social
Listening to Coltrane’s ‘My Favourite Things’ on @jazzfmuk.bsky.social
Mysterious and glorious.
ENO’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny goes for the jugular ft.trib.al/oPCj9Gd
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY #EnglishNationalOpera #ENO - This is a patchily focused pachyderm, says @davidnice.bsky.social: the production sags, but boasts a tireless protagonist in heroic tenor #SimonONeill www.theartsdesk.com/opera/rise-a...
Curtain call from ENO’s container-chic production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill & Brecht). Simon O’Neill played Jimmy MacIntyre like a less sleazy Steve Bannon. Superb music, well played and sung.
Lovely review, but when did British people start saying 'Rube Goldberg' instead of 'Heath Robinson'? This makes me sad.
My review of ‘Lee Miller’ at Tate Britain in #Eye109, www.eyemagazine.com/review/artic... #LeeMiller #farleys #Vogue
Backsliding in the USA, giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.
From #trainline this morning. Note the use of ‘occasionally’.
For those joining Bluesky from the Bad Place: welcome.
Yes, you could/should have made the decision sooner, but it is never too late to make a good decision.
And there is a lot on this site which will remind you of the Bad Place before it was bad.
I enjoyed writing this ‘The Life of a Song’ piece for @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com (3 Jan 2026) about ‘Trust In Me’ from The Jungle Book, www.ft.com/content/c1f7... #shermanbrothers #gracejones #veronicaswift #siouxsie #halwillner #hollycole #junmiyake #scarlettjohansson #selenagomez #disney
Latest ‘Books received’, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/bo...
Robert Reich on the 6 Jan 2021 riots, robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-s...
@rbreich.bsky.social
Common sense from Baldur Bjarnason, from his article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
#BaldurBjarnason #artificialintelligence @baldurbjarnason.com
Good read: John Lanchester reviews four books about tech, the spectre of ‘AI’ and the strange men behind them.
Watch this urgent message from our CEO & Founder, Imran 👇
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Yes, please.
Read the latest Eye newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/... @typetogether.bsky.social @johnlwalters.bsky.social
No!
