Gary Andrews

So many questions. Not least why on earth you’d want to do this? Or to show the bits that the artist deliberately left out? It’s almost like a lot of tech people have no soul.

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

Kinda interesting. If you cant beat them, make money off them?

Meta jumps on WhatsApp getting ads for the first time WhatsApp is getting ads in its Updates tab....

Inevitable

The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.

Of all the various dystopian AI nightmares, this one feels most real and unsettling

Weekend Boxset: Back to Wembley Walsall v Chesterfield, Melbourne Vic v Auckland C, Wimbledon v Notts Co, Freiburg v Franfurt, Palace v Man City, Chelsea W v Man Utd W, Inter v Lazio

WEEKEND BOXSET: blog.sofpodcast.com/2025/05/week... Our final set of previews of the season - including a six hour block of football before the start of the FA Cup final. With reviews from @firefli.es @terryduffelen.com @janbilton.bsky.social and @garyandrews.bsky.social

The rise of microdramas raises the question: Was Quibi right all along? Mobile-first, minutes-long scripted content is blowing up around the world....

Being early is sometimes the same as being wrong. Right idea wrong time.

Weekend Boxset: Another Madchester derby Lionesses v Belgium, Adelaide v Sydney, Luton v Leeds, Werder Bremen v Eintracht Frankfurt, Fulham v Liverpool, Man Utd v Man City, Roma v Juventus

WEEKEND BOXSET: blog.sofpodcast.com/2025/04/week...

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I have 147 unopened emails and the snooker lover in me wants to keep it that way for a perfect break

Weekend Boxset: The League Cup finals Bristol City v Norwich, WSW v Melbourne Vic, Chelsea W v Man City W, Leipzig v Dortmund, Arsenal v Chelsea, Liverpool v Newcastle, Atléti v Barcelona

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What are you watching this weekend?

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How Streaming Is Making Us All Cinema-Illiterate The oldest title available on Netflix last month was 1973’s 'The Sting.' Where does that leave the next generation of film lovers?

Have been saying this for a very long time

I absolutely did not know I needed a Robyn and David Byrne duet of Dancing On My Own but I so did youtube.com/watch?v=fYc3...

Weekend Boxset: Fine lines and true nines Portugal W v England W, Melb Vic v Melb Cy, Sunderland v Hull, Aston Villa v Chelsea, Newcastle v Forest, Man City v Liverpool, Hoffenheim v Stuttgart

WEEKEND BOXSET: blog.sofpodcast.com/2025/02/week...

Previews of the best games to take you from Friday to Sunday:

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Sex scandals! Fights! Egos! Confessions of the chief whip Simon Hart was chief whip during Rishi Sunak’s crisis-ridden premiership. In his hilarious diaries, he reveals what was going on behind the scenes

Every line of this is gold.

The F3 Derby is getting quite interesting, fun and spicy. Newcastle can’t help give away soft goals but have given as good as they’ve got, and now both sides have decided to go for it. Mariners want a third, Jets pushing hard for the equaliser. No idea which way this will go #CCMvNEW

Weekend Boxset: Last minute shopping Blackburn v Preston, Central Coast v Newcastle Jets, Forest v Brighton, Wolves v Aston Villa, Man City W v Arsenal W, Brentford v Spurs, Milan v Inter

WEEKEND BOXSET: blog.sofpodcast.com/2025/01/week...

In what promises to be a busy weekend for deals, there are some cracking matches...

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Apple News + a Reach local news site covering a non-local story = Once again, a false clickbait headline pushed to the home screen of vast numbers of iPhone users by a “trusted mainstream news outlet” in order to hit click targets.

I’m not majorly plugged into the gaming world, but this is also a massive profit / margin marketing problem as well.

If consumers come to expect that a product is released half finished and will drop in price after bugs are fixed, where is the incentive to buy at full price?

How good is the new Mogwai album? Early contender for an album of the year.

Weekend Boxset: Banishing the January blues Sheff Utd v Hull, Macarthur v Melbourne City, Luton v Millwall, Man City v Chelsea, Chelsea W v Arsenal W, St Pauli v Union Berlin, Lazio v Fiorentina

WEEKEND BOXSET: blog.sofpodcast.com/2025/01/week...

The weekend is finally here. Settle in with some cracking matches on your TV...

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Quite a big fan of the new Lambrini Girls album. But I’m also somebody who thinks swearing is big and clever

Weekend Boxset: Eh, Monkey! Burnley v Sunderland, Newcastle v Bournemouth, Arsenal v Aston Villa, Atalanta v Napoli, Leeds v Sheff Weds, Everton v Spurs, Man City W v Man Utd W

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Big games in the Championship, Serie A, Premier League and the return of the WSL

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The anti-trend email for 2025 Trends are easy to write. Questions are harder to answer.

Not a fan of trends. So I tend to do a start of the year roundup of key questions for the year ahead. What happens when people lose hope? Is AI software, a platform or something else? What does the fragmentation of legacy media mean? No easy answers but lots to mull over

Huge if true

You boy, is the transfer window open?

Check out this 4 bedroom link detached house for sale on Rightmove 4 bedroom link detached house for sale in Stryd Y Castell, Conwy, LL32 for £875,000. Marketed by Dafydd Hardy, Llandudno

Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, will prepare you for photo number 17 on this listing.

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Weekend Boxset: Happy 2025! Valencia v Real Madrid, Melbourne Vic v Western Sydney W, Blackburn v Burnley, Brighton v Arsenal, Fulham v Ipswich, Liverpool v Man Utd, Roma v Lazio

WEEKEND BOXSET: blog.sofpodcast.com/2025/01/week...

Returning for 2025, our previews of the seven must watch games of the weekend:

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What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing | NOEMA While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality — and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others.

A long but very well considered analysis of AI’s impact on writing

Spectre Island Discs - A James Bond musical special To celebrate Christmas 2024 Gary, Terry and Graham gathered to record a very special musical podcast. Don't worry we don't do that much sing...

If you like listening to feature length podcasts with @firefli.es and @terryduffelen.com there’s another one for you! The guys are with @garyandrews.bsky.social for the Oddjob Pod’s end of year special, which is all about the music from James Bond films. Enjoy! www.oddjobpod.com/2024/12/spec...

Sydney are so frustrating to watch right now. There’s a good team in here but setup isn’t helping. Millie Farrow is so isolated up front with Ibini and Dos Santos staying wide and midfield staying flat. Any second balls in Victory’s end are easily mopped up #ALW

What happens when the internet disappears? Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

Is the vanishing internet A Problem or just a historical inevitability? www.theverge.com/24321569/int...