Dirk Maggs

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Sarah Gail Brand Trombonist of Improvised Music. Also seen on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle series 1 & 2 For more info, contact me on here.

Hello Bluesky.

If you like Improvised Music/ Free Jazz, you can hear and buy it on my records here:

sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com

I haven't released a new record for a while - I'm benched as a trombone player while I recover from hand and arm surgery, but my music lives on!

#BandcampFriday

That’s why we are here! x

I’m enjoying it x

You could bring a ton of lived experience and creativity to the genre. That’s worth a ponder.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

“See You Next Tuesday”

Hope you enjoy them Bill 😊

No worries mate

That’s very kind of you but I try and forget birthdays nowadays.

Given how clumsily Ii have expressed myself in the past I'll take an edit option. But drafts? nah.

If you know your Douglas Adams, this makes perfect sense.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Also - you talk about “episodes”. These are *series* (seasons, if you will) of between four and six episodes each.

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

Yes these are the series I made. The cover art has changed since original release. If you go for the multicast Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases (Douglas’s name for Series 3, 4 and 5) plus Hexagonal (Series 6, based on “And Another Thing” with added material by Douglas), you’re golden.

Delighted to say I will be discussing the mathematical formula (Beatles+Lester=Fab4) that gave us the film A Hard Day's Night, at the Oxford Lit Fest on Sunday March 29th 4pm oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

PS it’s so good I used excellent twice

Excellent news. If you want to write comedy, you should read this excellent book.

18.50 THE INEDIBLE HULK Superhero action with scientist Bruce Banner who, when angered, turns into a giant green monster who simply cannot be eaten.

Super-Sunday

“Bored Of Peace”

From Talking Pictures TV schedule. Momentarily misread this as Rubbery Underarms.

I think the Reform Party tried it last week and failed miserably.

This was the only time I ever got a round of applause for farting. From doctors.

Hey just following up on this

Ohhhhhh I’m sad

Maybe I'm not being clear enough Dave. This person wants an *Actual Wooden FX door* - a door, made of wood, as a stage prop for an live show so the audience can see a *real* door being used to create the sound effect.
(And, after 40 years in this biz, I own the BBC, 6000 and other FX collections)