Euan Briggs
@euandbriggs.bsky.social
Graphic & Sound Designer from Scotland. Electronic music project「Hodology」on your favourite music services.
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
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Listen again: The Jupiter Room / 21st November 2025
@thejupiterroom.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/the-...
@thejupiterroom.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Listen again: The Jupiter Room / 21st November 2025
@thejupiterroom.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/the-...
@thejupiterroom.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/the-...
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I love my US colleagues and friends but I could do with a day or two where I don't hear anything about that country
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I love my US colleagues and friends but I could do with a day or two where I don't hear anything about that country
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Another problem with this column/newsletter is the shallow and arguably disingenuous discussion of using AI chatbots for mental health. Even a passing familiarity with psychology should have anyone wondering about this claim:
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Another problem with this column/newsletter is the shallow and arguably disingenuous discussion of using AI chatbots for mental health. Even a passing familiarity with psychology should have anyone wondering about this claim:
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I’m trying to decide if I‘ve accidentally taken acid, or if it’s reality itself that’s breaking down.
Nicki Minaj is set to speak at the United Nations on behalf of the Trump administration.
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’m trying to decide if I‘ve accidentally taken acid, or if it’s reality itself that’s breaking down.
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Not a half-baked gesture at all. Tidal has much better quality and pays artists four times as much as Spotify.
I just switched from Spotify to Tidal as a half-baked ethical gesture and maybe this is some sort of aural placebo effect but the difference in sound quality is startling, as though Spotify plays everything through a sock. Or am I just imagining this
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Not a half-baked gesture at all. Tidal has much better quality and pays artists four times as much as Spotify.
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I'm fascinated by the early #history of #hacktivism in #China and somehow forgot about a 2003 National Geographic documentary that features l10n, one of the founders of #Hacker Union of China, and was involved in mass-exploitation of Linux servers via the l10n worm. (🧵)
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm fascinated by the early #history of #hacktivism in #China and somehow forgot about a 2003 National Geographic documentary that features l10n, one of the founders of #Hacker Union of China, and was involved in mass-exploitation of Linux servers via the l10n worm. (🧵)
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Happy official release day to vari/ations - Ode to Oram album @nonclsscl.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy official release day to vari/ations - Ode to Oram album @nonclsscl.bsky.social
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Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.
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What do you do after you’re done jumping the shark?
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
What do you do after you’re done jumping the shark?
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
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Donald Trump’s demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn’t know what ‘salacious’ really means: ‘Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…’
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Donald Trump’s demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn’t know what ‘salacious’ really means: ‘Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…’
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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stop doing phrenology with the computer!!
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
stop doing phrenology with the computer!!
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This is especially rich given that Wiley's "AI Guidelines for Researchers" makes a point of urging authors to "protect your content while using AI". What they mean is: "make sure no other AI company gets hold of your IP, because then we can't use it ourselves."
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is especially rich given that Wiley's "AI Guidelines for Researchers" makes a point of urging authors to "protect your content while using AI". What they mean is: "make sure no other AI company gets hold of your IP, because then we can't use it ourselves."
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
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🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
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I think it will take a massive mid-term defeat for Trump MAGA in the US for a large swathe of Anglosphere media to get it into their skulls that populists do not always win
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I think it will take a massive mid-term defeat for Trump MAGA in the US for a large swathe of Anglosphere media to get it into their skulls that populists do not always win
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You just have to love the talent Dutch voters have for driving political scientists insane
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You just have to love the talent Dutch voters have for driving political scientists insane
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Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
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It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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As we move from observing cognition in the world, to the lab, to computerized tasks, to online platforms, the targets of those observations are narrowed to cognition that is DEAD: Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized and Disembodied. 7/
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As we move from observing cognition in the world, to the lab, to computerized tasks, to online platforms, the targets of those observations are narrowed to cognition that is DEAD: Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized and Disembodied. 7/
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Naming DEAD cognition helps us see how claims that LLMs are “human-like” fall short. LLMs (or any “AI” model, for that matter) can only ever simulate DEAD cognition, because they don’t have human bodies, experiences or relationships. 9/
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Naming DEAD cognition helps us see how claims that LLMs are “human-like” fall short. LLMs (or any “AI” model, for that matter) can only ever simulate DEAD cognition, because they don’t have human bodies, experiences or relationships. 9/
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this is the level of physical activity that many aspiring ICE gestapo members are apparently too “athletically allergic” to perform
"To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes." Man I could have done that /pregnant/ and I'm an /academic/
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
this is the level of physical activity that many aspiring ICE gestapo members are apparently too “athletically allergic” to perform
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If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?