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YouTube video by Ben Barritt Ben Barritt // Some Time // lyric video

‘Some Time’, a new single by Ben Barritt, youtu.be/UkcLb3bcOrM
(Lyric video by Fini Bearman)

Each Peach Pear Plum! ('I spy Tom Thumb') Funny Bones! ('This is how the story begins...') Peepo! ('He sees the shadows moving on the bedroom wall, And the Sun at the Window and his teddy and his ball'). Classic after classic.
Farewell Allen Ahlberg, who truly knew how to write for children.

The ‘Swamp Cabbage’ hairstyle?

YouTube video by Ben Barritt Ben Barritt // Some Time // lyric video

‘Some Time’, a new single by Ben Barritt, youtu.be/UkcLb3bcOrM
(Lyric video by Fini Bearman)

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Trump: the comprehensive Mexican food acronyms

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Ed Zitron urges us to ‘Make Fun Of Them’,
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‘We do not owe Satya Nadella any respect … If anything, we should show him outright scorn for the state of #Microsoft's products.’

(From @edzitron.com’s Better Offline)

Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world LLM failures to reason, as documented in Apple’s Illusion of Thinking paper, are really only part of a much deeper problem

o3 can't play chess.

what that tell us about dreams of AGI?

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Happy Anniversary to Einstein a Go-Go, the Jacksonville Beach venue named after our song, occupancy250.com/email/96e6cc... #einsteinagogo

Etymology The word cliché is borrowed from French, where it is a past passive participle of clicher, 'to click', used as a noun; cliché is attested from 1825 and originated in the printing trades. The term cliché was adopted as printers' jargon to refer to a stereotype, electrotype, cast plate or block print that could reproduce type or images repeatedly. It has been suggested that the word originated from the clicking sound in "dabbed" printing (a particular form of stereotyping in which the block was impressed into a bath of molten type-metal to form a matrix). Through this onomatopoeia, cliché came to mean a ready-made, oft-repeated phrase.

The etymology of the word cliché is very cool

Downtown Train — Tom Waits’s vivid 1985 track became a pop classic Rare among the singer’s output for being relatively conventional, the song was covered by stars such as Rod Stewart and Bob Seger

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Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...

Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

Great album.

Here’s the online version, with embedded music clips. #thelifeofasong

My latest ‘The Life of a Song’, published in this weekend’s Financial Times, is about the Tom Waits song ‘Downtown Train’.

Ben Barritt - The Real Thing Listen to The Real Thing on your streaming service

Release day for Ben Barritt’s latest single, tidal.com/browse/track...
Complete with trumpet solo.

Album to come in September.

Read ‘Blood lines’, John Warwicker’s review of the Catherine Griffiths exhibition ‘Out of Line’, on the Eye blog.
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/bl...
#graphicdesign #typography #poetry #CatherineGriffiths #Melbourne

Cooking Vinyl to be acquired by US independent music company Exceleration Music Almost 40 years after it was founded by Martin Goldschmidt, UK independent music mainstay Cooking Vinyl has reached an ownership agreement that will enable it to continue to operate independently. Rea...

#Exceleration acquires #CookingVinyl
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Via @musicweek.com

Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82 American songwriter lit up generations of dancefloors with his group Sly and the Family Stone Sly Stone, the American musician who lit up generations of dancefloors with his gloriously funky and often socially conscious songwriting, has died aged 82. “After a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues, Sly passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, his closest friend and his extended family,” a family statement reads. “While we mourn his absence, we take solace in knowing that his extraordinary musical legacy will continue to resonate and inspire for generations to come.” Continue reading...

Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82

‘EXPLORE: Fedrigoni Creative Summit 2025’ in Paris.
Eye’s Simon Esterson will be the the first to speak at 11. #Fedrigoni
#graphicdesign #magazines
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‘taramasalata’, not ‘taramasalta’ 🙃

Briar Levit: On design, feminism, and friendship By Briar Levit and Nina Paim. Book design: Tereza Bettinardi. Co-published by Bikini Books and Clube do Livro do Design.

Serendipity and self-discovery

A new book covers Briar Levit’s multi-faceted practice and the lessons she learned along the way.
Reviewed by Amy Henry

Read the full text on the Eye blog, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/se...

#graphicdesign #feminism #designactivism
#BriarLevit

Nice piece about the role of tech in our lives by Ian Dunt.

Michael Bublé

It’s absolutely ridiculous how Farage and the Tories are trying to trash a few minor steps towards helping the British economy as the big ‚Brexit Betrayal‘.

This is the opposite of patriotism.
It’s simply pathetic.
How can no one see this clearly?

I just can’t listen to this nonsense anymore.

This is a bizarre game of chess.

Raymond Scott recital in Dulwich.

Tom Service on Raymond Scott, the composer who saw the future Tom Service on Raymond Scott, the composer who saw the future

Tom Service on Raymond Scott, www.theguardian.com/music/2009/a... in @theguardian.com (2009) #electronicmusic