Paul Carey Jones
@paulcareyjones.bsky.social
Welsh-Irish opera singer
Research on #MachineLearning and the human voice
#Cymraeg
www.paulcareyjones.net
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Research on #MachineLearning and the human voice
#Cymraeg
www.paulcareyjones.net
keynoteartistmanagement.com/artists/paul-carey-jones/
freelancersmaketheatrework.com
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
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The truth politics dare not speak. Part of the reason this is unsolvable for Lab is that it isn’t a real issue - it’s a euphemism for political discontent.
They could get immigration to zero, destroying the country in the process & it wouldn’t help, cause it’s not what ppl are actually angry about
They could get immigration to zero, destroying the country in the process & it wouldn’t help, cause it’s not what ppl are actually angry about
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The truth politics dare not speak. Part of the reason this is unsolvable for Lab is that it isn’t a real issue - it’s a euphemism for political discontent.
They could get immigration to zero, destroying the country in the process & it wouldn’t help, cause it’s not what ppl are actually angry about
They could get immigration to zero, destroying the country in the process & it wouldn’t help, cause it’s not what ppl are actually angry about
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
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This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.
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These people will keep pushing AI products they know don’t work, can’t be trusted, & are dangerous because they’ve bet their houses them. What’s going on here is the AI companies putting responsibility for the harms on the user: ‘You should have been more careful.’ What’s needed is regulation.
Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
These people will keep pushing AI products they know don’t work, can’t be trusted, & are dangerous because they’ve bet their houses them. What’s going on here is the AI companies putting responsibility for the harms on the user: ‘You should have been more careful.’ What’s needed is regulation.
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As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril
By Jessica Frank-Keyes
bestforbritain.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
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Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
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Newydd ddod o wylio ffilm ‘Tanau’r Lloer’ Gareth Glyn ac Opra Cymru yn Pontio. Anhygoel. Rhyfeddol. Cerddth GG, perfformiadau’r cantorion lu yn ardderchog. A dychymyg y cyfarwyddwr yn wych, a llwyddo gyda phrosiect mor fawr yn syfdanol.
EWCH I’ W WELD.
🌟Mae Gareth Glyn yn drysor cenedlaethol!🌟
EWCH I’ W WELD.
🌟Mae Gareth Glyn yn drysor cenedlaethol!🌟
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Newydd ddod o wylio ffilm ‘Tanau’r Lloer’ Gareth Glyn ac Opra Cymru yn Pontio. Anhygoel. Rhyfeddol. Cerddth GG, perfformiadau’r cantorion lu yn ardderchog. A dychymyg y cyfarwyddwr yn wych, a llwyddo gyda phrosiect mor fawr yn syfdanol.
EWCH I’ W WELD.
🌟Mae Gareth Glyn yn drysor cenedlaethol!🌟
EWCH I’ W WELD.
🌟Mae Gareth Glyn yn drysor cenedlaethol!🌟
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In order to counter Reform lies and propaganda, the government could have given people facts and defended the asylum and refugee system. Instead they've joined a populist race to the bottom. It'd be shameful for any government, but for a Labour one, it's disgusting.
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In order to counter Reform lies and propaganda, the government could have given people facts and defended the asylum and refugee system. Instead they've joined a populist race to the bottom. It'd be shameful for any government, but for a Labour one, it's disgusting.
Big Mac 💔 #legend
RIP Sir Donald McIntyre, my first Wotan.
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIntyre and Jones)
YouTube video by cragarrows
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November 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Big Mac 💔 #legend
At the time, I loved The Force Awakens. Then I loved The Last Jedi even more, in a more complex, confusing way. And then The Rise of Skywalker made me wish I’d never set foot in a cinema, or possibly even existed. But perhaps that’s just the Gen X lifecycle in a nutshell.
There are a lot of things wrong with The Force Awakens, but Leia choosing to hug Rey and not Chewie at the end has to be the worst of them.
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
At the time, I loved The Force Awakens. Then I loved The Last Jedi even more, in a more complex, confusing way. And then The Rise of Skywalker made me wish I’d never set foot in a cinema, or possibly even existed. But perhaps that’s just the Gen X lifecycle in a nutshell.
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There are a lot of things wrong with The Force Awakens, but Leia choosing to hug Rey and not Chewie at the end has to be the worst of them.
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
There are a lot of things wrong with The Force Awakens, but Leia choosing to hug Rey and not Chewie at the end has to be the worst of them.
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Racists: Asylum seekers don’t integrate!
Also racists: Let’s make sure they can never integrate by making them feel second class and permanently afraid they’ll get kicked out at the drop of a hat.
Also racists: Let’s make sure they can never integrate by making them feel second class and permanently afraid they’ll get kicked out at the drop of a hat.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Racists: Asylum seekers don’t integrate!
Also racists: Let’s make sure they can never integrate by making them feel second class and permanently afraid they’ll get kicked out at the drop of a hat.
Also racists: Let’s make sure they can never integrate by making them feel second class and permanently afraid they’ll get kicked out at the drop of a hat.
In fairness, if I were Pope, I’d like to think I’d be able to come up with an equally eloquent pretext to meet Monica Bellucci.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In fairness, if I were Pope, I’d like to think I’d be able to come up with an equally eloquent pretext to meet Monica Bellucci.
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The kind of people who deny people consent in one thing, also deny people consent in other things. There is an authoritarian approach to power, denying consent is its essential quality. First they deny consent, then they deny accountability.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The kind of people who deny people consent in one thing, also deny people consent in other things. There is an authoritarian approach to power, denying consent is its essential quality. First they deny consent, then they deny accountability.
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Lovely story about the Dutch shift from 65% support of blackface Zwarte Piet to 62% support for nonracial Piet makeup. Took 15 years of protest and dialog. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Na vijftien jaar pietenprotesten: zo veranderde de samenleving van mening
Sinterklaas: Zaterdag komt Sinterklaas aan in Zaandam. Al 24 jaar organiseert René de Reus het feest. Dacht hij vijf jaar geleden nog dat Zwarte Piet onmisbaar was, nu is hij tot inkeer gekomen. „Als ...
www.nrc.nl
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Lovely story about the Dutch shift from 65% support of blackface Zwarte Piet to 62% support for nonracial Piet makeup. Took 15 years of protest and dialog. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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I did not have insider knowledge. I have just been around Brussels negotiations for a long time...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I did not have insider knowledge. I have just been around Brussels negotiations for a long time...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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ChatGPT violated copyright law by harvesting musicians’ lyrics, German court rules
ChatGPT violated copyright law by harvesting musicians’ lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on popular songs without permission
A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling.
The Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany’s music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to “learn” from them. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
ChatGPT violated copyright law by harvesting musicians’ lyrics, German court rules
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The William Sitwell column has really upset me today. I would give anything to wave some kind of magic wand and remove my children’s allergies - for them but also, selfishly, for me.
The mental health impact of having a child at daily risk of death is - frankly - horrible. I am never relaxed.
The mental health impact of having a child at daily risk of death is - frankly - horrible. I am never relaxed.
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The William Sitwell column has really upset me today. I would give anything to wave some kind of magic wand and remove my children’s allergies - for them but also, selfishly, for me.
The mental health impact of having a child at daily risk of death is - frankly - horrible. I am never relaxed.
The mental health impact of having a child at daily risk of death is - frankly - horrible. I am never relaxed.