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New from me - I wrote about one of the great, wide-ranging duets albums - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's jaw-dropping 1972 collaboration of simpatico. listeningsessions.ca/p/roberta-flac…
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Robert C. Gilbert
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Robert C. Gilbert
@listensessions1
Toronto-born and Oshawa-based music critic & record collector. Subscribe to my music newsletter. Looking for a writer? Email me at [email protected]
Toronto, Ontario Katılım Temmuz 2017
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I’m sorry but the future belongs to those who read widely, who are able to write without the assistance of a machine, who haven’t allowed endless slop to kill their curiosity and cognitive abilities. Excess tech is going to melt many brains. Yours doesn’t need to be one of them.
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The more I think about it and discuss it with @claudeai 🤷♂️, the more I believe this would increase parity as well.
Shorter games = more upsets
Mark Cuban@mcuban
Make the games 40 minutes. 8 x 82 / 48 =13.667 That’s the equivalent number of games you would reduce the schedule by. Without breaking arena leases. Works for college. Works for international. Works for the WNBA. AND. If you looking at tv and streaming ratings, the less the actual playing time for a televised game, the bigger the ratings. Ie, the less time fans have to focus on a game, the more they enjoy watching it on tv
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@DarylMann11 @RollingStone Not sure - going to try to figure it out.
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Great to see a new big feature on Laura Nyro in @RollingStone. A few years ago, I wrote an essay on 'New York Tendaberry,' trying to do justice to a magnificent artist and one of her triumphs on record. #LauraNyro listeningsessions.ca/p/laura-nyros-…
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@asymmetricinfo You turn in clean copy by writing, re-writing and more re-writing. There is no other way.
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TL;DR: For a journalist, IMHO, think of your chatbot as a combination of an intern, a first-pass editor, and a fact-checker. It's job is to do grunt work and help you turn in cleaner copy, not to "inspire" you.
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I use AI to do research (i.e., find things to read, explain parts of academic papers I find ambiguous or confusing), transcribe interviews, generate pushback on my column thesis, suggest trims when I'm over my word count, sharpen podcast interview questions, and perform a final fact check on columns and editorials. But mostly it's compressing the ancillary tasks to the main job: reading, thinking, and writing.
Matthew Cole@mattbencole
This is literally what my students say when they get busted using AI. “I didn’t use it to write my paper just for brainstorming, outlining, and editing.” Yeah that’s most of what writing is.
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@BestStephenD @Steven_Hyden Ugh - treating the written word like just another widget.
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@Steven_Hyden Depends on why you're writing and if there is a deadline. I write, for example, to earn money. I'm not paid to 'love the game.' The process is not 'the whole point.' The point is providing a service for a client and a product they can use.
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Depressing to come on here & see pro writers/journalists talk about using AI to "streamline" the process of writing. Really shows how many players have no love for the game. The process is the whole point! Trying to figure it out, & then figuring it out, is why you write!
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Among the enraging things about this thread is that are literally thousands of writers who would do the work that this "writer" is content to farm out to HAL 9000. Many of them are likely on Substack or doing it on their own. More power to them!
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
I use AI to do research (i.e., find things to read, explain parts of academic papers I find ambiguous or confusing), transcribe interviews, generate pushback on my column thesis, suggest trims when I'm over my word count, sharpen podcast interview questions, and perform a final fact check on columns and editorials. But mostly it's compressing the ancillary tasks to the main job: reading, thinking, and writing.
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if laura nyro is about to blow up know i was into her since 2022. just have to call it now cause this has happened before
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A Laura Nyro mention in 2026! Oh i love it she deserves to br mentioned in the conversation wayy more.
Her album she did with Labelle needs to be in a museum
Rolling Stone@RollingStone
Patti LaBelle on Laura Nyro: “She had this soft quality of bringing the songs to life and making them sound so different... They were her songs. She had that ability.”
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sorry for harping on this but the problem of “knowing what you want to say but not how to say it” often means you haven’t yet figured out what you want to say. if you turn to an LLM to help organize loose thoughts into prose, you’re outsourcing your cognition to a machine
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@listensessions1 @RollingStone 10000000000000000000%
Save the Country.
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Laura Nyro was one of the most influential singer-songwriters of her time in the late Sixties, but the music industry never really understood her.
Who will remember her now?
rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
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This is why it's BS when people say "oh don't worry, the most masterful writers/lawyers/coders/whatever can't be replaced by AI."
How do you think they became masters? By doing constant, repetitive work on a smaller scale for years. The work that AI is doing now. Work that now they'll never get a chance to do.
x.com/CharlotteAlter…
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@oh_tuntun The Frick, the Brooklyn Museum, Central, Prospect & Domino Parks, Smalls and the Staten Island Ferry.
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This is a 10/10 album. Agree or disagree???
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I hope this piece will encourage more people to discover the music of Laura Nyro. It just might change your life.
Angie Martoccio@angiemartoccio
Spent two years writing about the unsung Laura Nyro rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
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Patti LaBelle on Laura Nyro:
“She had this soft quality of bringing the songs to life and making them sound so different... They were her songs. She had that ability.”
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