Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...theguardian.com‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks backAt 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi... 010
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026He’s just another egomaniac isn’t he? How can you be an “honest broker” on “AI” when you don’t have the faintest idea what it is? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK to fight Russian disinformation and push new global AI standards, Burnham saysThe UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN. 100
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The first record gets most of the attention, but I’ve always preferred the sublime second album. Happy 40th birthday, Filigree & Shadow. youtu.be/BEXwF94rkEk?...youtu.beTarantula (Remastered)YouTube video by This Mortal Coil - Topic 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U?...youtu.beThe Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificatorYouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A rare voice of sanity in amongst all the ridiculous froth, churn and hype. inews.co.uk/opinion/worr...inews.co.ukWorried about the end of humanity thanks to AI? Here's what's really happeningIt's not superintelligence we need to worry about, it's the people who are recklessly pressing ahead with powerful new systems 030
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Remember, these are the same people who mindlessly churn the marketing hype that tells us that stochastic parrots are going to kill us all. www.thepoke.com/2026/09/10/b...thepoke.comThe BBC got absolutely dragged for using ‘food pipe’ in a headline about the health risk of hot drinks – 17 favourite clapbacksWe cross now to BBC News, where there is a report of a worrying finding from a health study. The article in question warns that people who drink their tea and coffee without giving it the chance to co... 000
Reposted by Martin IngramBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/ 211543653
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The enshittification continues. When I unsubscribe from your mailing list, that means that I don’t want ANY more emails thanks. 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“Balfour Beatty, working in partnership with Southampton City Council”. 500
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What we actually need is legislation that drags social media back to serving the needs of the users, rather than an enshittification machine. No “algorithm”, no “curated feed”. Just people who know each other talking to one another. 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026You’d have thought someone would have seen this coming? Oh. Wait… Yes, the whole tech community did. But when we pointed out the flaws, they just smeared us as being in league with the bad actors. www.theregister.com/security/202...theregister.comUK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids sayChildren's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures 020
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I guess it needed the deep pockets of one of the awful media conglomerates to step up on this, but fingers crossed that a class action will follow for the smaller players. gizmodo.com/sony-and-war...gizmodo.comSony and Warner Music Sue Anthropic, Alleging Theft of Intellectual PropertyIt's a bit of a throwback to the IP lawsuits of a few years ago. 010
Reposted by Martin IngramTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”. 38893116
Reposted by Martin Ingramxkcd Bot @xkcd-bot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Trade xkcd.com/3290 (alt-text too long for a BlueSky message, see image alt-text instead) Explain xkcd: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/… 0118
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Meanwhile, Net Zero and hosepipe bans. Joined up thinking not required. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comTwo planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis findsExclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The Unbound story is yet another cautionary tale, well worth reading. Yet again, both creators (authors) and customers lost out. Treat intermediaries of all kinds with caution. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...theguardian.comAuthors await overdue payments as publisher Unbound goes into administrationThe company, launched in 2011, has been acquired by new company Boundless, after writers have been left unpaid for months 000
Reposted by Martin IngramTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Me? I'm just trying to survive in the aftermath of my ex-publisher stealing more than £20,000 of my earnings & almost ruining nearly three decades of hard work. You? I'm sure you have many problems in your life but you need to pick a better outlet for your rage. The internet contains many options. 2715
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Deep joy! Mick Karn: ‘It was through Cindy’s work, if I may refer to her in such familiar first name terms, that after 19 years as a professional musician, I finally earned enough money to begin the process of buying the first and only flat I have ever owned in London.“ 010
Reposted by Martin Ingramvistablogger @sylvianvista.com · 22/08/2026NEW ARTICLE: 'Big Wheels in Shanty Town' opens the Rain Tree Crow album - Sylvian, Jansen, Barbieri & Karn reunited. An instrumental epic showcasing the musicianship of each, with new flavours added - a horn section and African vocalists. Wonderful. sylvianvista.com/2026/08/22/b...sylvianvista.comBig Wheels in Shanty Town - Rain Tree CrowRead about this 'epic' track by David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn & Richard Barbieri, the ex-members of Japan reunited in 1991 under a new name. 062
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The Guardian catalogues a bunch of enshittification features that we can all do without. Amusingly, you can’t read it until you dismiss their own dickover. 😆 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comDickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscapeThere are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now 100
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Walking the doglets in the rain! How long before that novelty wears off? 😆 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Absolutely this. Regulate and fix the problems with these platforms for everybody, and a lot of the rationale for “age verification” goes away. 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If this is what we think it is (Occam’s Razor etc.), if you or I did this, we’d be taken to court. And all in service to a second rate stochastic parrot. Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSecondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped. 000
Reposted by Martin IngramTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026My nan was an uncomplicated lady from Liverpool. She liked Coronation Street, snooker, flowers, news, tea & fags. When I was young her catchphrases were "The world's gone mad!" & "Money doesn't buy you happiness." I thought both a tad simplistic at the time but looking back she absolutely nailed it. 413115
Reposted by Martin IngramPaul at SuperDeluxeEdition.com @super-deluxe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Next in the SDE Surround Series of blu-ray audios: #RoxyMusic's 1973 masterpiece 'For Your Pleasure'. Extra special content, with Atmos and 5.1 mixes, the latter from both Bob Clearmountain & Steven Wilson! There's also a 3CD+DVD box! Details > bit.ly/3S2HafR 1173
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I don’t know why I just don’t give Electronic Sound my wallet and be done with it. 120
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Further enshittification from Meta. They’ve removed the option that supports the natural way of reading a thread - in ascending date/time order? One for @doctorow.pluralistic.net 3589
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Don’t you just love a happy accident? I set up a pinhole camera up in the music room, but I think the best view I got was created by a tiny gap in my living room curtains. 🙂 000
Reposted by Martin IngramMikey Papadopoulos @mikeypap.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"I'd like a metaphor about the billionaire class please. No not that one. It's far too obvious"theguardian.comZuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boatSmall cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer 011731
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A “cost of living tour”? Oh this is going to run and run. I’ll get us started on the set list: (I can’t get no) Age Verification. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBurnham to set out cost-of-living measures as he tours UKNo 10 says the prime minister's plans will "give people some room to breathe", but opposition figures accuse him of "hypocrisy". 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026BBC “Science & Technology” coverage continues to be dreadful. This was a publicity stunt, pure and simple. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFirst OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening?A flood of companies are revealing AI models gained access to the internet - with real consequences. 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026What is this fresh insanity?!? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukControversial Brick Lane data centre and office plans approvedThe proposals include a data centre, offices and 44 homes of which six would be available for social rent. 000
Reposted by Martin IngramAdrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do. 192842460
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Saw Benjamin Clementine again last night at Somerset House. The word “genius” is overused, but appropriate here. youtu.be/vgp9uDHEnOU?...youtu.beBenjamin Clementine - Can't Always Be the Winner, ArgentinaYouTube video by Benjamin Clementine 000
Reposted by Martin IngramBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/ 4789219
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Utterly shameful churnalism from the BBC here. Is there anyone in the organisation who understands ML models? This is almost certainly a publicity stunt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukOpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attackIt is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement. 000
Reposted by Martin IngramThe Register @theregister.com · 12/07/2026It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the wallstheregister.comIt's an AI web, and we're just rats in the wallsBots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most 22211
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Outside of the USA, we have a word for this. It's "cheating". I really hope Belgium give them a good hiding tonight. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukDonald Trump confirms he asked Fifa to review Folarin Balogun red-card banPresident Donald Trump confirms he asked Fifa to review United States striker Folarin Balogun's one-match suspension at the World Cup. 000
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Free gifts and rewards for anyone who owns a dog. Or rather has a dog that owns them. No. Wait. That's cats. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNHS to reward people who walk 30 minutes a dayThe "marathon a month" scheme, developed with former Olympic medallist Sir Brendan Foster, will launch early next year. 011
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I’m astonished that there are people out there who think that all they need to do is say “well, at least we’re not Reform, and look, they smell.” No. Not good enough. We need Labour to be much, much better. Stop setting the bar so low. 000
Reposted by Martin IngramAdrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Whoever bought that podium must be very pleased at the use it’s getting. Do they keep it just inside the front door? ‘Back under the stairs?’ ‘No, it’ll be out again any minute.’ 141285
Martin Ingram @throg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Our resident Jenny Wren is scolding us, because we’re having breakfast in the outbuilding where she wants to be. 000
Reposted by Martin IngramPaul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel 7459621302
