The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Loved that song as a kid, but was too young when it was popular to be buying much more than a couple Swedish fish
What’s the first record you remember buying with your own money?
I think I was 10. A friend at school told me that KISS was so out and this 'new' group AC/DC were in. Bought this with a mix of Christmas money and saved allowance. Changed everything!
Lovely fresh morning on the hills. #sunrise #thursdaymorning
Excellent!
"Kindred Spirits" - a sculpture in Middleton, County Cork, Ireland, commemorating the 1847 gift of the Choctaw Nation in support of Irish Famine relief. Sculpted by Alex Pentek with assistance by students from the Crawford College of Art and Design.
The film's title is great, too: during the Famine, the Choctaw nation raised relief funds for Ireland, even though they were still reeling from the Trail of Tears. The commemorative sculpture in County Cork is called 'Kindred Spirits'.
(also, people, get the hell off substack - don't we all know this by now!)
I mean, if the OP weren't so obviously rage-batey (look at me falling for it), I'd find it fucking offensive. It shows a complete lack of insight into how the research I practice and value actually works.
-> It's not a discrete element that can just be excised for the sake of expedience or CV building, or whatever. If I'm not doing research, I'm not doing scholarship. And AI, as far as I've seen, can't do any of that synthesising in anything close to the way a human can. ->
-> or at least a novel approach to an established way of thinking. It does generate knowledge, but it also deepens my expertise, which not only leads to further research, but enhances my teaching. Research is part of the fabric of my academia, but its interwoven with all the other parts. ->
-> those collegial interactions are PART OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS. And all of that - watching the film over and over, the archives, the conferences, the rewrite after rewrite, is about synthesizing information, both expected and unexpected, into what I hope will be a new way of thinking, or ->
-> and that then changes or challenges or at least complicates what other scholars in my field have said about the film, or the filmmaker. Often in ways I don't understand at first. So I have to write about it - or write through it. And workshop it via conferences and peer review ->
->often in ways I couldn't have predicted. If I'm researching how a film was made, and I have the film in mind, and then I discover something new about it, it changes how I think about the film's making, but also the film's MEANING, or its potential for meaning ->
I'll admit I don't know a ton about social science research. But I can't imagine this being remotely true in the humanities. When I go to an archive, I have an idea about my project, and then it changes. I'm not looking for a preconceived set of facts; rather for my set idea to be expanded ->
Figures released today by housing charity Threshold provide further proof that Govt was wrong to proceed with the introduction of its disastrous new rent regulations.
We need nothing less than an immediate ban on no-fault evictions to prevent a fresh wave of homelessness.
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...
Excellent summary, for those who may not know:
Last night, we launched Míde Nic Fhionnlaoich's campaign for the Dáil.
There's real momentum behind this campaign, and Míde would be an outstanding representative for Galway West.
Join the campaign today, and let's get Míde elected!
@socialmide.bsky.social
@thejournal.ie Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee said she "can't say" whether the US and Israeli strikes on Iran are illegal under international law, as she faced questions about the Government's response to the rapidly escalating conflict
The people who are doing away with the triple lock and are desperate to end our policy of neutrality ‘can’t say’ that a clearly illegal attack under international law was illegal.
If you need a bit of respite from ... all this ... the new Elvis movie is a ton of fun.
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
Robert Carradine (RIP) plays guitar, with Jon Voight, in Coming Home, directed by Hal Ashby, 1978.
RIP Robert Carradine - just hearing about his passing now. He was absolutely fantastic in a small but intense (and sadly prescient) roll in Coming Home.
Jesus, Darth, do you have to breath so flippin loud?
Proposed changes to Arts at University of Galway have sparked a major debate.
We’ve formally responded.
This isn’t just about one degree — it’s about the place of Arts in higher education and who gets to shape its future.
Read IFUT’s statement: www.ifut.ie/content/arts...
The find itself is incredible, but so is the film - give it a look!
Yo, D(oc) - tell 'em how it is!
Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,,
Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO
Yeah, it totally shows some of that stuff (Darby's flat, too) - and Dukowski's convos are great. But generally, the questions she asks the bands, and the talking heads, and the way she gets them to talk about punk, almost always focus on the spectacle of it all. Or so it has come to seem to me.
Jennipher, one of the light-bulb talking-head interviewees from The Decline of Western Civilization (1981).
Alice Bag performing with the Alice Bag Band in The Decline of Western Civilization (1981).
Teaching Decline of Western Civilization for a few years now - the gigs are still thrilling, but I increasingly find the film's framing of the punk scene very middle class-y reactionary. Titillation around violence, very little on the scene as community, or even why so many women were drawn to it.
On one hand, I'm glad that Criterion is publishing this on physical media when Netflix clearly doesn't care. On the other, Criterion's animation range is still tiny and more than half of it is from this century, in English. Publish these, yes, but more quantity and variety would be amazing.
