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  The dirty secret of AI’s Large Language Models is the cheap casualised human labour that helps AIs seem to be human. New post at The Next Wave. #AI #labour https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2023/07/23/humans-artificial-intelligence-large-language-models-training/

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  In Just Two Things #480 today—the story of the Long Boom scenario that wasn’t. And why climate change will likely trigger the next financial crisis. #ClimateChange #finance #scenarios https://justtwothings.substack.com/p/25-july-2023-scenarios-finance

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  It’s a landmark case in the US. Climate change is tested in court, and a Montana judge finds that it is real and that it is harmful. New post on the next wave. #ClimateChange https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/young-plaintiffs-landmark-climate-case-montana-us/

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  In Just Two Things #495 today: Chile’s 9/11, 50 years ago, through the eyes of the writer Ariel Dorfman. And the second part of my review of Kate Soper’s book, Post Growth, about a new politics of consumption. #Chile #consumption #ClimateChange https://justtwothings.substack.com/p/12th-september-2023-chile-post-growth

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  A review of Pete Atkin’s latest record, The Luck of the Draw, at my Around the Edges blog. https://aroundtheedges.wordpress.com/2023/10/07/pete-atkin-clive-james-the-luck-of-the-draw-review/ Or just have a listen to the title track on youtube. https://youtu.be/bdhL1w19dFQ?si=NAkbT45-EHi_egpy

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  I’m trying not to get sucked into the noise about Israel and Gaza (except: collective punishment is a breach of international law). But Paul Arbair has a useful post on the whole thing. https://paularbair.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/war-and-peace-in-the-middle-east-and-why-israel-has-already-lost/

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  In today’s Just Two Things—AIs and the problem of social trust, and why Virgin’s “green fuel” flight across the Atlantic was greenwashing. https://justtwothings.substack.com/p/11-december-2023-trust-aviation #AI #Trust #Aviation #climate change

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  Revisiting Les Cousins—the Greek Street folk club that was a hotbed for the British folk revival. New post at Salut Live, with thanks to @rwilliams1947. https://www.salutlive.com/2024/01/the-60s-soho-club-les-cousins-is-like-the-ur-myth-of-modern-british-folk-music-a-shangri-la-where-musicians-traded-songs.html #folk #folkmusic

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  New on Salut! Live—what’s the best version of Si Kahn’s What You Do With What You’ve Got, which has become a folk music standard. #folkmusic https://www.salutlive.com/2024/02/cover-story-what-you-do-with-what-youve-got.html

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  More folk tales from the 1960s are Salut Live—Joe Boyd and John Wood on the short and influential career of Nick Drake. Apparently Drake’s playing was so precise, he never made a mistake in the studio. #folkmusic https://www.salutlive.com/2024/02/tales-from-the-1960s-nick-drake-joe-boyd-john-wood-john-cale-.html Photo: Nick Drake seen in 1969.Photographer: Keith Morris

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  Here’s one for St Patricks Day: An imaginary CD of the best of Irish folk music. I’m sre you’ll think we missed something. #StPatricksDay #folkmusic https://www.salutlive.com/2024/03/from-the-canberries-and-christy-moore-to-sharon-shannon-and-the-dubliners-an-imagiary-st-patricks-da.html

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  Something to help you through your Monday — my review of the great Irish singer @CaraDillonSings at King’s Place recently. With a couple of videos if you’d rather listen to her sing. #folkmusic https://www.salutlive.com/2024/03/cara-dillon-coming-home-ireland-sam-lakeman-duncan-chisholm.html

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  In Just Two Things #558 — reading Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, 95 years on. And what Dune: Part Two has to say about 21st century techno-feudalism. https://justtwothings.substack.com/p/6-april-2024-woolf-dune

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  It’s BobDylan’s birthday today, and we have a couple of pieces at Salut! Live to mark the day. Today—some of the more interesting cover versions of Dylan’s songs by folk musicians. (And of course Martin Simpson gets a namecheck there). #bobdylan https://www.salutlive.com/2024/05/covering-bob-dylan-martin-simpson-.html