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Ed Oldham

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silvercurrent.bsky.social @silvercurrent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
22 years ago on this day Blue Cathedral hit the racks. What a blast. I remember being just back from mixing and playing a studio cdr burn for a good friend on a summer van drive with all the windows down with the hot dust just blasting our faces and afterward he said, ‘man, that’s really something.’
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.
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Ed Oldham @gratefuled77.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@catbeats.life Willow approves! She loves her likeness on the inner sleeve:
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Ed Oldham @gratefuled77.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/10/2025
Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises
Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
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The empty horror of Robert Jenrick
We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.
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Modern Nature @modernnature.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Source is the second single from our upcoming album The Heat Warps and it’s out today… it’d about protest, collectivism and singing out loud!
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Modern Nature - Source (Official Lyric Video)
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Ed Oldham @gratefuled77.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The most chilled of soundtracks to an afternoon of processing records in the shop. An all-time favourite, this one.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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Broxton8r @broxton8r.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Great article, but one sentence stood out to me… “If your worldview only works when tragedy fits your prejudice, you’re not building a movement. You’re running a grievance factory” Superb 👏👏
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Ed Oldham @gratefuled77.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thanks so much for featuring our wee shop this week @recordstoredayuk.bsky.social!
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Modern Nature @modernnature.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We’re very pleased to announce that on August 29th, we will be releasing our new record 'The Heat Warps' on @bella_union The album’s opener and first song to see the light of day 'Pharaoh' represents the first steps for a new version of the band - UK/US dates and presave - modernnature.band
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Modern Nature - Pharaoh (Official Video)
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
On what every single day is like now.
It’s been two months since I wrote about AI which, as someone who detests having to write about AI, feels like not much time at all. A quick look at recent headlines, however, suggests that there is little else to talk about.
Consider that the CEO of language-learning app Duolingo claimed AI was a better teacher than humans but schools will still remain open in future “because you still need childcare”; a Finnish man was sentenced in Scottish court for using AI to create images of young girls being abused; Google unveiled Project Astra, an AI client that will sit inside your phone listening to everything you say so it can provide unprompted advice at any time; the United Nations’ International Labour Organization said that AI poses a bigger threat to jobs traditionally held by women than those of men; Silicon Valley Bank reported that 40% of cash raised by venture funds last year was for companies focusing on artificial intelligence; Reuters reported that data centre plans in the US are far outpacing expected demand; and Italian researchers found that, despite all their aforementioned hallucinations, errors, and contradictions, AI chatbots were more persuasive in online debates than their human counterparts 64% of the time.
If that sounds like a lot of news for two months, well, I wish this were true. Every one of those headlines is from Tuesday, May 20, the same day the Chicago Sun-Times’ reading list became a major story, and the day I began writing this column. With a trickling sense of dread I realise that I could, therefore, write an article just like this one every single day, each filled with brand-new examples of AI’s constant enshittification of the media we consume, factless posturing from its creators, marketing overhype from its torch-bearers, and bovine vapidity now normalised among those who use it.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Meet Resolute 1850 Ltd - - the UK Project 2025 using Reform UK as a vessel. 🤬
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‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America
Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 05/05/2025
Reform UK says it’ll ‘reset’ Britain inch by inch. But to what? Smog, slums and Section 28? Their nostalgic fantasy hides a dangerous truth. 👉 Read The Bear's clear-eyed breakdown of what’s really on offer ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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Reform UK offers nostalgia, not solutions
Reform UK trades on national nostalgia – but behind the slogans lies regression, not renewal or reform
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Stop what you’re doing and read this.
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