Lots of steady rain today for the first time in what must be a couple of months if not longer. The lawn was properly soaked.
Been feeling a bit tired in the head today. Mental activities needed extra effort and result in fuzziness and a sense of failure, which is never nice. Needed to pull back and rest the brain, which is never easy as a fatigued brain does not want to rest. It wants to think all the thoughts.
‘We never apologised for our rage or revenge-seeking’: riot grrrl legends Heavens to Betsy reunite
I somehow missed Corin Tucker’s first band (loads of cool bands passed me by, though I’m sure they were played on John Peel) and am very much enjoying listening to them afresh. Unsurprisingly they come over like an unfiltered proto-Sleater-Kinney.
I wonder what it’s like to have juvenilia that you feel proud to revisit, let alone let other people hear. My stuff from when I was that age makes me shudder. Is it easier for musicians to channel teenage angst without being total cringe? Maybe some kids are just really good.
- Ogmios School of Zen Motoring ep 10 - Madcap Plans — Ogmios is back!
- Do not talk to me about “AI” — Printable cards to present to those whose conversational choices might trigger one’s longing for the sweet embrace of death.
- Stewart Lee: Why we need humour to beat the populist right
- The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore review – an ominous warning of tech takeover
- Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist — Typical Yorkshirefolk thinking their accent is special (I joke). My GP in Birmingham turned this off after a week of it simply not working. Nothing to do with accents, everything to do with AI hype overreach.
- There is nothing scientific about The Great ADHD Myth? ‘documentary’ | Suggesting that ADHD is a myth is pseudoscientific and dangerous 🪜 | ‘Biased’ Channel 4 programme on ADHD misrepresented my views, says expert — Fuck everyone involved in broadcasting this hateful tabloid nonsense.