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@ShowlandProd Abbie Gordon open.spotify.com/track/3GmBZBdF…

It's New Music Friday. Put me on to one independent artist that deserves more listeners. Could be you. Could be someone you know. Let's discover some real music today. ⬇

@davidclowery If your manager's being paid gross on individual shows, you've done a bad deal. Agent yes, managers these days, no.

This has always been true. Net vs. gross. Agents and managers are paid on gross, not net. They are incentivized to fill schedules with breakeven shows. Classic principal-agent problem. If you pay attention as an artist, you end up with a free MBA. That’s why I teach at the business college.

@l0ttiehall Agreed

I think I have got the ick from artists reading acceptance speeches from their phone #Brits2026

@AnthropicAI Suck having your stuff stolen doesn't it? @ednewtonrex

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

@ConradMurray Love to you all Conrad ❤️

It’s 10 years today since we lost Kris, River, Tom, Jack & Craig. Remembered today and always ❤️.

@CollinRugg This kid is an absolute legend. Being able to communicate so clearly after that ordeal is truly impressive.

NEW: Emergency call released of 13-year-old Austin Appelbee telling authorities to get a helicopter after he swam for four hours to reach the shore. Appelbee was heard calmly telling authorities that his mom and siblings were stranded at sea. The boy was heard explaining that his mom told him to swim to shore after they had been swept out about 2.5 miles. After four hours of swimming, Appelbee had to run about 1.25 miles to reach a phone. "I’m sitting on the beach right now, and I have to also explain. I think I need an ambulance because I think I have hypothermia … I feel like I’m about to pass out." Swims for four hours, sprints 1.25 miles, his body is failing, and he calmly instructs emergency responders to send out a helicopter. Wild.

This new report shows the havoc AI is already wreaking in the creative sector. Evidence from 10,000 British creatives shows: - 58% of photographers have lost work to AI - 32% of illustrators have lost commissions to AI - 86% of authors say AI has reduced their earnings Generative AI competes with the work it is trained on, and the people behind that work. Every single new piece of evidence backs this up. The theft must be stopped - government must step in. ism.org/brave-new-world

@SciTechgovuk Jesus. Can we, ahem, 'opt out'?

AI in classrooms has the potential to break down barriers and provide personalised learning experiences 🚀📈 That’s why we’re trialling the use of AI tutoring tools in schools, creating safe UK benchmarks 💻

@GWRHelp @Tyw77 That's a shocker, Emma.

Hi there, thank you for your message. There are unfortunately no road transport services covering this route tonight I apologise. There is the option of getting a taxi and then submitting a claim to claim this back as a refund, however we cannot guarantee that this will be accepted. I am so sorry for the inconvenience - Emma

Hello. I'm contacting on behalf of my dad. He's stuck in Plymouth with no train going to Truro. @GWRHelp. What provisions do you have in place? Staff at the station is saying no taxi arranged either.

@OGsimulant @jonnybid Prick

@jonnybid Encourage her to pursue something useful because art is already done better by a.i. sorry not sorry

I have a pupil in my class (Year 6) who did this in about ten minutes. She's massively talented. Some ideas about how to help her move forward would be very much appreciated. Art isn't really my speciality.

@MrEwanMorrison 'If it was aware' 😂😂 oops!

Karma: OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits "OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material." Of course they were aware!

It’s coming

@ednewtonrex It's white collar crime

It is indescribably sad that, if you exploit “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet” without paying the musicians behind them - and create a model that can compete with those musicians - this is how you are rewarded

@SuellaBraverman Oh stop it.

President Trump has been slandered by the BBC. Whether intentional or accidental, the damage is significant. President Trump is right to sue the BBC. It’s the only way things will change.

@WuxiaRocks They're not particularly keen on AI co's stealing their IP without permission or payment.

With the latest Disney news on supporting AI, and the Universal music news on AI, it just proves what we've been saying: these companies don't hate AI; they just hate the idea that they can't control what we make with AI. Hence, they want in and with control.

@axinovium @ednewtonrex Art is completely subjective.

@GordonAPB @ednewtonrex These are all subjective

Ordinary people can make and share the music they love now without big budgets, music studios, expensive equipment or industry gatekeepers. Welcome to the new normal 😎

@ednewtonrex @axinovium Or taste. Oh, and meaning. And, while we're at it, emotion.

@axinovium or skill, don’t forget skill

@Artedeingenio Nah, it's just shit. Show something to change my mind.

If you think all AI-generated art is garbage, your artistic judgment is automatically invalid. You’re blinded by prejudice.

@RupertLowe10 Ignorant simplistic racist nonsense.

Let's have an honest conversation about the impact of immigration on the health service, because we're constantly told how without migrants the NHS would collapse. I passionately disagree. Let's take that apart, shall we? Accepting a tiny number of ultra-high skilled surgeons and doctors is not the same as welcoming millions from the third world and allowing them access to our healthcare system. OBVIOUSLY. Here's a mad idea. Let's take the benefits of immigration, and none of the negatives. We can just do that. The actual doctors and surgeons don't have to automatically come with the unvetted Sudanese and Somalian men. We can choose. This is not a package deal. So let's say we remove all illegal migrants, and a large number of unproductive legal migrants. The only entrants provide a genuine benefit to the British people. They give far more than they take. That means better care, fewer delays, safer hospitals. So my suggestion is this... Let's have a laser focus on training our own people, but in the meantime we can accept the American oncologist without also importing in one thousand unqualified young men from the third world. Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?