The NYT talked to @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social and me about MARS, which opens tonight at Galway Arts Festival

Nine Inch Nails and Chris Hadfield are playing Dublin tonight and the city is buzzing with loads of cool people in black leather and also me unzips hoodie to reveal NASA t-shirt

had a dream that in the future teens said thank you not in person but via an app that sent the message “thonk u”

Visit to the National Space Centre allowed me to view Buzz Aldrin’s underwear and a space toilet at close range

Our hotel lobby art in Berlin says METALLIC LIFE REVIEW! See Matmos at Silent Green tomorrow Wednesday! Metal metal metal.

Ah yes, the Singularity www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...

Tonight @cafeotodalston.bsky.social: the Wire Salon explores AI's effect on music with @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Zubin Kanga, Cyborg Soloists & @saving-throw.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w... Read our review of Walshe's book on AI: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art And Music @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social @cafeotodalston.bsky.social www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

I've decided that the people who believe LLMs are literally demons are more correct than the people who believe they can send emails

As a professor of composition, I appreciate the clarity on this.

Bookmart in Sligo is a treasure trove

Great if dark article by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social one of TikToks he mentions is bananas - kids using Vril/Agartha dogwhistles for a school game, comments full of racism and also people assuming Diarmuid & Niamh are some sort of fascistic lore rather than Irish names pitchfork.com/thepitch/tik...

13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music available here, will be talking about it at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on May 13 for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social: unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/merch/jennif...

Old but excellent thread. Could easily be describing AI-generated music. To paraphrase, musical works are boiled down to “reproducible clichés” dropped into musical landscapes based on the most stereotypical understanding of a given genre, with little understanding of context/history of the music.

Don't forget to book ahead for our second Salon event exploring the impact of AI on music, with composer @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social. 13 May, 7:30pm, at London's @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. Tickets below: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w... 📷 Jennifer Walshe. Photo by Thor Brødreskift

Spent this morning reading the CIA’s field manual on sabotage… and am terrified to say that this whole time…I’ve been going to meetings that were being sabotaged??? www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...

The beautiful thing about Easter Sunday is that people in Midjourney newbie channels pause from prompting “white man with his wife and daughter on couch soldiers with rifles they are under siege” for the more traditional “Easter Bunny wearing Bob Marley head smoking a joint high out of he’s mind”

Unlike classic fascism, #MemeFascism doesn't even try to produce a coherent narrative. Like Bukele with his torture camps, it can simultaneously celebrate and deny the crimes it commits. Its followers do not want to be seduced, they want to be entertained. And they are entertained by our outrage 1/

Cafe in rural Ireland and there’s elderly ladies next to me using ChatGPT to look up saints on their phones. They all refer to it as “my ChatGPT” like it’s their own little religion buddy bless their hearts

I wrote about the Enghiblification and what it means for how we read images @irishtimes.com! Briefly mention @nathanjurgenson.bsky.social’s great book The Social Photo which has been v helpful in thinking about how the web changes how we think about pictures…

Hi 🌸 The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up for March is here and it is packed. Alto-fiddle experiments, DIY doom, a returning champ of Irish hip-hop, various shades of minimalism, bedroom pop, club stuff, all sorts. Plus, the much hyped Haunted Mound collective's connection to the auld sod.

This is excellent. I came for the clinical roasting of Berlin hipster life but stayed for what turned out to be some of the best descriptions of what the web and in particular Instagram is doing to our brains.

Tomorrow: Oöm, Alex Glenfield/Ravi Padmanabha, Outi Pukkkinen, Cocanha, @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Batzorig Vaanchig, Elaine Mitchener, Lauren Newton w/Joëlle Léandre, Geometry of @kyokokitamura.bsky.social, @charl-ttemundy.bsky.social & more! Listen here: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

"If art is the establishing or breaking of aesthetic rules, then AI art, as practiced by the right, says that there are no rules but the naked exercise of power by an in-group over an out-group...the only way to enjoy art is in knowing that it's hurting somebody" newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Want to come to the Royal Irish Academy and hear @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Brian Rossney & myself discuss AI & creativity? Sold out but a few returns now available for tonight www.ria.ie/events/disco...

LLM generated stories require a new kind of media literacy. Each new medium uses all previous mediums as their content; while we argue about the most familiar aspects of the messages and stories being transmitted, the medium itself is affecting changes to society on a deeper level.

I wrote a piece for @irishtimes.com about OpenAI’s short story. I feel if we don’t make a concerted effort as humans to help people of all ages gain literacy around AI-generated content, we have no chance at being able to have a consensus reality. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Today at 4pm UK time Oxford’s Faculty of Music hosts @lizpelly.bsky.social talking about her fantastic and important new book Mood Machine! Talk is online and free to all, info to get link here: www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/speaks...

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2024 John Cage I love it

Post-show km28 with @drewdaniel.bsky.social @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social thanks to all the people who packed the house out & listened to our Broadway-inflected electronic stylings while we surveyed their knowledge of the cinematic oeuvre of Barbara Stanwyck

People of Antwerp! Matmos & I play De Singel tomorrow night! Last show we did as a trio featured recordings of black holes, animal calls, spring drums, & what one attendee described as “Donna Summer joined a UFO cult”! desingel.be/en/programme... @drewdaniel.bsky.social @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social

I went to an AI exhibition with my Irish mammy, and we spent a lot of time petting a robotic dog with an elderly gent. Afterwards my mother was *convinced* he was MI6 because of “all his questions about computers taking over the world”. This was the most interesting part of the exhibition for me.

I had a dream I wrote an orchestral piece which consisted of me kneeling on a concert hall stage full of chairs and music stands delicately ripping and replacing the Velcro tie on a mic stand in the dream I was thinking “this is next level I have totally nailed this”