Emily Bick

Before and after.

Here's to 500 more issues. Thanks to all who have helped us along the way.

(Cake made by Jill Tipping.)

Photo of a magic 8 ball with a 'goatse' version of the OpenAI logo and the words ChatGPT on it, next to a white box that says "ChatGPT offline version". Inset are photos of the 8-ball responses such as "That's a great question", "You're 1000% right" and "Too many requests try again later" and then another photo from the back of the box of a holographic authenticity sticker that says FAKE.

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.

Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

Vital Cat Update It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

🎶if i had a hammer🎶

ok, back in the day there was a popular bootleg fugazi shirt that said 'this is not a fugazi t-shirt' with 'you are not what you own' on the back, but anyone wearing it would get massive 'yeah, i see what you did there' eyerolls

in the department of spectacularly missing the point, looks like a streetwear brand is now calling itself fugazi...its t-shirts use the band's typeface...what happened to all ages shows under $5 with no merch (b/c anticonsumerism)? shop.doverstreetmarket.com/collections/...

ah too bad, hope you feel better soon. but it's amazing, he crowdfunded the first 10 years of his online diary, and it's got a yellow book inspired illustrated cover.

if you do, good luck...and are you coming to dickon's diary book launch at the boogaloo tonight?

The Florian Schneider Collection The Florian Schneider Collection Auction to be held at: Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum 401 Gay Street Nashville, TN 37219 It is imposs...

@kunstmuell.bsky.social have you seen this: www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

AND a whole lot of your favourite music journalism.

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7) The Wire 400 26 page supplement (Issue 400, June 2017)

6) The Wire 300 online essays series (Issue 300, Feb 2009)

4) 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening) (Issue 175, September 1998)

3) 150 sonic essentials and aural obscurities (Issue 150, August 1996)

2) 100 most important records ever made (Issue 100, June 1992)

Next week, The Wire will publish its 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th issue, which feels like something worth celebrating.

By way of reflection, we've taken a look back through the archive at our previous milestones.

1) 50 Undersung Musicians (Issue 50, April 1988)

some text from British Vogue claiming that punk (1976) was a rebellion against the Thatcher government, idk, this is almost as bad as the time they were on about 'partying like it's 1989 at Limelight with Andy Warhol'??? Alternate universes or time machines, who knows

FFS British Vogue, not again

Why articles explaining why Britpop nostalgia just won’t go away just won't go away.

The Wire's very own Joseph Stannard @jjstannard.bsky.social will be in conversation with Slomo and Stephen O'Malley on 1st Sept 👇

Ilia is also down at a tremendous looking @cafeotodalston.bsky.social evening tonight, with their new Mute Frequencies project exploring sewing machines, Specialist Machines. Who is not fascinated by sewing machines?

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/proje...

where are the @thewiremagazine.bsky.social listeners on this hellscape app? Please forward lol. TY.

describing Labubu

Help @femalepressure.bsky.social keep doing their amazing work!

There are no AI bands with a large and engaged listenership. That black mirror nonsense is not happening, at all, anywhere. Each time one of these prompt-generated music projects is in the press because it's doing meaningful numbers, it's just a stream-fraud ring stealing income from the pool.

july now but absolutely yes

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