Daniel

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Photo of a man performing electronic music live with a laptop, with circular lights flaring around him.

Had a great chat with @tomhallsonics.bsky.social on his new album Trip Computer, the FM techniques that make that "Max sound", and way more.

Read & Listen at CDM: cdm.link/tom-hall-on-...

…and we wouldn’t want that now, would we?

Queen

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang.
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Article on BBC news. Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪

The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.

That is *pure fantasy*.

Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

In the City Trading with Israel PALESTINIANS are dying of starvation in Gaza; meanwhile the UK has been importing increased volumes of Israeli vegetables and fruit. In the first three months of this year (so mostly before Israel ended the ceasefire in Gaza and imposed a total aid blockade), those imports were worth £51.3m, up from £29.1m in the last three months of 2024. Vegetables and fruit comprise the largest contribution to Israeli exports to the UK, worth £139m last year and likely to earn much more this year for the Israeli economy as the Gaza famine death toll rises. Israel also exported to the UK larger amounts of other products that are restricted or blocked from entering Gaza. Exports of medical and pharmaceutical products more than doubled from £840,000 to £2m. It exported toilet and cleansing products worth £13.8m, compared with £13.15m in the last quarter of 2024. These latest trade figures from the Office for National Statistics show the UK has continued to do significant trade with Israel despite political posturing amid growing outrage over the killing of civilians in Gaza and by Israeli settlers on the West Bank. The UK is an important export market for Israel. Israel is not that important to the UK, either as an export market or for irreplaceable imports. The UK ranks behind only the European Union, United States, China and India for Israeli exports. Israel ranks behind almost 40 countries for UK exports. The Labour government has so far failed to use that financial leverage to pressure the far-right Israeli government into stopping the war in Gaza or preventing ethnic cleansing

Total UK imports of goods from Israel in the January–March quarter rose from £298m in the previous quarter to £343m. Imports of services – primarily consultancy, telecoms, financial services and IT – dropped from £320m to £278m. Exports of goods fell from £412m to £384m, while exports of services slipped from £465m to £432m. These figures are not seasonally adjusted. Year-on-year imports of all goods from Israel fell sharply in the 12 months to March 2025 by 28 percent or almost £500m compared with the position at March 2024. Exports rose slightly, but this still created a £848m trade surplus with Israel for the UK in goods and services. Maybe public revulsion over Gaza is starting to have an influence? Israeli exports benefit from preferential treatment under the UK–Israel trade and partnership agreement, which includes a human rights clause stipulating that “respect for democratic principles and human rights constitute an essential element of the Agreement. The Agreement also adopts, as a main objective, the encouragement of regional cooperation with a view to the consolidation of peaceful coexistence and economic and political stability.” It seems unlikely this provision allows for the killing of children at a feeding clinic or the shooting of hundreds of hungry Gazans waiting for food. Nor would it allow for Israeli settlers killing and evicting Palestinians on the West Bank with impunity. The post-Brexit UK agreement replicated the EU trade agreement with Israel

Astonishing that this isn't being talked about more: the UK is still trading huge volumes of goods with Israel. Where are the sanctions? Non-existent.

At this rate, Gaza will be completely destroyed before the UK Govt suspends trade.

Via Private Eye (do buy it):

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

The 4presenters of Zapheap, a new version of the classic engineering show

We are all ready to shoot the first episode of ZAPHEAP! (a new version of the classic engineering show Scrapheap)
Coming to YouTube this Autumn

This is really impressive. Proper comms, so that the public understand the amount of money (close to zero) available, and there's no wiggle room for rumour-mongers and troublemakers. Hats off to the team at Mansfield Council.

‘Trickle-down’ tax cuts don’t work, study says As governments decide how to plug holes in their finances, a new report adds weight to calls for higher taxes on the wealthy.

A 2021 LSE report analysed *50* years of growth, income and employment data for 18 countries that had tax cuts for the rich and found that it failed to strengthen economies and worsens inequality.

www.weforum.org/stories/2021...

Trickle down economics is one of the greatest lies ever told.

Ah that’s fantastic. I appreciate you digging it out!

I really hope its been archived somewhere as there was some fantastic conversations on there, and very interesting info on music creation etc

I’m convinced whenever I switch mine off it wipes *my* internal memory, as when I turn it on I have absolutely no recollection of how it works. The manual is well worn!

If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That's common sense. So we're raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists.

But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.

How do I self release my music? Isn’t it better to get a label?

If I don’t sign will anyone hear my work?

All of this explored in my new piece written for the @wearethemu.bsky.social ✨✍️

Read:
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/member-...

I still repeat that line at least once a week.

What’s a line delivery you think about?

Agree - Pure LoFi is a fantastic instrument, so many sweet spots!

DM me for mixing & mastering work!
I'll attach some stuff i worked on in this thread.

Sheffield ! Algorave happening this Friday 18th April, come and enjoy some top notch handmade algorithmic dance music buytickets.at/patternclub #algorave #sheffield

You don't need a complicated ai tool to predict those likely to murder. Just some joined up thinking. It's men with a history of domestic violence. They'd be the top group.

"Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames… I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly"
walzr.com/IMG_0001

Daily reminder

Two hours of joyfully exploratory electronic music on @slackcityradio.bsky.social and @totallyradio.bsky.social with Anmon, Skee Mask, Alexandre Bazin, Loscil, Max Cooper, Doris Dana, Judith Hamann, Sarah Davachi, CoH & Midori Hirano and many more!

www.totallyradio.com/shows/earspa...

This is a great album! Thanks for sharing.

Nice!

Troyka, by Troyka 11 track album

I really liked his Troyka trio where he’s on the organ - great stuff! troyka.bandcamp.com/album/troyka