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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 10h

Can you give rough estimates on times to show the difference between incomes too?

Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 12h

When the dot com bubble burst, it was some of the worst that survived, and indeed grew. Just remember that if you're approaching an AI bubble burst with glee.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

You know at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark there's the huge warehouse of artefacts? Oxfam have one that size full of cd singles of Love Is All Around and Everything I Do.

Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

And I did.

Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Makes you cry.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

I had to stop listening in the mornings years ago due to John Humphrey's anti science attitude. In general there can be a dismissive arrogance to so many of the presenters it's quite off-putting.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Is this you trying to tell us how built you are?

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly no later than early 93. I think I was in 2nd year at Glasgow and not quite fully immersed in the world of clubs.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

This week's hill to die on. The sample collage production of Pop Will Eat Itself was at least as good and important as that of The Bomb Squad and Public Enemy.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

And Lo it came to pass that Adrian enjoyed listening to An Unexpected Groovy Treat on Friday morning.

People used to dream about the future.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

That was probably it. The Chart Show was awesome. Whilst I'm generally terrible at recalling details of gigs. I can still recall their scaffold 'cage' at the QM with Roland Octapads (SPD-11 maybe) in the upper corners and them generally clambering about it.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Great read, and what's really weird, is that I thought you'd brushed over the chart success of 101. Except there wasn't any. I'd have sworn blind they were on ToTP with it. Reader, they weren't.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

I've got a 40gb hd of house and techno and I've barely scratched the surface of it years later.

Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

The Ralston effect 🤣

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

I don't accept that Che Adams and Lyndon Dykes are Scotland's best striking options.

Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

He can't be any worse than Hickey was. Not that he was particularly lower in standard than anybody else.

Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

I don't recall it either tbh. Although it's possible I was rummaging in the video box or something.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Weren't the fair play rules supposed to stop this kind of thing too?

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Everybody will end up back on subject specific message boards, small enough to be properly moderated. Very few people actually need this in their life. It's just a distraction.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

You just know they do love something "Indian" but are just too ignorant to realise it.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

A penny might as well be $100 if you haven't got an income.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. Didn't realise there was a gigs in Scotland presale. None left.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 4d

The moderation done via an API and a pre-trained model makes it less likely that all the images are being fed in as part of that process.

We've all been duped into adding alt text for accessibility but in reality we're providing description for AI.

Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 4d

Rightly so. I don't really feel strongly on whether it's the manager or a DoF but doing it by committee as seems to be the case is clearly no use.

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Adrian Burns @lightingmonkey.bsky.social · 4d

As I ponder it while out with the dog, it very much sounds like there's not a person/director with responsibility for transfers and any level of budgetary control. You know like a director of football. They seem all the rage for the last couple of decades.

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