CallumDavies

I didn't connect with this at all

MNEK's new album is shockingly bad

extremely bad

I was unimpressed by Jungle, Shook and Weeds. They were fine, but not at the level of the songs recorded under their contract with Virgin. But Modern Love sounds really promising. I sort of hope they don't include the singles from the last two years, and move on with a new single, and an album pre-order.

I honestly think this is the right call

AND its going to be a break up album!

She posted a video of her in the studio with: Mike Sabath (Angel Of My Dreams, Fantasy, Escapism, Where Is My Husband) Sarah Hudson (Levitating, Physical, Dark Horse) JHart (Power, It Girl) Leland (1999) Jesse Saint John (Truth Hurts)

I think his critique of Jay is fair, but the same applies to him Both men who overly centre themselves

I think cancelling would be very challenging for him at this point. In his statement, he tried to emphasise that his outwardly 'apolitical' stance was driven by respect for his fans, rather than his own pocket. Does he still respect his fans? Or will that suddenly change when he feels like he is personally under too much pressure, or the whole thing becomes just too difficult. On the other hand, finishing the tour will be difficult too. All eyes will be on every show. There will be protestors on both sides. This is a literal PR nightmare. Good! Hope he suffers.

I've personally despised P!nk and Ed Sheeran for years so this feels very special to me

It's hard to believe that statement was written with the support of a professional publicist. It's much too long, and gets into way too much detail.

He's only apolitical when his money isn't involved

Me when I try and combine all of my ideas of how to make something flop as much as possible

Where did I state my opinion or position on surrogacy? I just said that this forum, and its demographic are once again talking about women without involving them. But I'm happy to clarify... I don't think surrogacy is good or bad. It's an complex ethical issue. Personally, I would not choose to have a child through commercial surrogacy. But I do think, surrogacy can be an important route for many prospective parents. I would have a child via surrogacy, if I believed everyone is fully informed, consenting, and protected from coercion, abuse, or exploitative incentives. I think countries like Canada and UK have pretty good models. That said, I am not an expert, and I would be reluctant to judge or lecture either intended parents or surrogates about their personal choices. I lack that arrogance, but not everyone does!

This is essentially a thread of entitled men telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies. Nothing scarier than gay men being so progressive that they accidentally become authoritarian

I think a deluxe version of TLOAS is a hard sell, because she spent half of the promotional campaign talking about the 'high bar' she applied to the songs that made it on to the album by her own admission, these would be songs that didn't meet that bar - so why would she put them out

As a Beyoncé Stan, Ray of Light is in a completely different league to all of these projects. It's not just a great pop album. It's one of the best albums of all time, across all genres and artists.

I never think like that. Life isn't fair. I have no interest in bitching and moaning about the hand I was given. I'm privileged and refuse to pretend otherwise.

I don't have a particularly strong ethical or moral position on AI. I think the internet has an unhealthy habit of making everything an ethical test, and if you fall foul of that test you are some sort of demon. People use AI. That is the world we live in. Do I use it? Yes. I have to construct arguments at work, so I use AI mostly as a tool to test those arguments. I ask who would disagree and why. I ask for alternative approaches. I would never ask it to write something for me, but sometimes I will ask it to tidy up something I've done. Or test it for holes and gaps in my logic. But I have a very strong and clear voice when it comes to my writing style, so asking to AI to write for me never works. But people mistake the AI we mostly engage with, such as chatbots, as the main frontier of AI. I look to lots of incredible applications in different fields, especially in healthcare: helping doctors to detect diseases more quickly, speeding up identifying new drugs for patients, helping us understand how proteins fold and interact. Society has become too complex and messy for us to manage by ourselves. Every public service is creaking. Government can't keep up with demand and there isn't enough money in the world to fund all these services properly. It is somewhat inevitable that we will become reliant on AI to help us manage and run society. The dangers are twofold for me: we lose the incentive to train people who to run society - laywers, doctors, engineers. If we don't need them, people will stop learning how to do those things and if AI fails then we're pretty stuck. And second, jobs are displaced faster than they can be replaced. And whilst AI may generate economic gains, it will be at the cost of workers. The rich get richer etc. But these are all political choices, not technological ones. We need to decide not what AI can do, but what we want it to do. But I am very much in favour on controls and limits for how kids engage with AI, especially when it comes to education.

I knew it would be a roach that or a leech or flesh eating bacteria

How does she have the energy to keep going? She doesn't have commercial success but she's also not a critics darling. She's an average live performer and has average pull as a touring legacy act. She's has zero fanbase and is the laughing stock of the internet.

Populism is a response to the failure of the ruling political classes. When people are not happy with the social and economic settlement, they start looking for different answers. They don't feel richer or safer under centre left governments, they don't feel richer or safer under centre right governments, so they look for something else. I don't think calling those voters stupid, or saying they've simply been tricked, is helpful. Many feel left behind by a political system that seems skewed towards certain parts of society, especially perceived elites. Whether thats economic elites such as billionaires, or social elites with influence, many voters feel the system works for them rather than for ordinary people. Other parties need a response to that motivation and that need. Obviously, calling them Nazis isn't working, otherwise 44% wouldn't have voted for AfD. Those tactics didn't work in America, and they don't appear to be working in Germany either. The progressive left needs a new playbook, one that takes seriously why people are voting this way rather than simply condemning them. I think another thing people need to realise is that voters don't think in terms of a left-right spectrum. Most people couldn't tell you the difference between socialist and libertarian economic policies, and they happily mix and match ideas from both. What drives many voters is a sense of fairness: whether they think the system works for people like them, whether the rules are applied equally, and whether they're getting a fair deal

The slow jams and ballads on DIL never get the respect they deserve Be With You is absolute classic and in my top 15 B songs EASY I can listen to it on repeat

The smart phone is no longer the apex of technological competition it once was, that's moved to AI. It's a maturing technology. This Apple x Samsung beef is very 2015.

This song is such an earworm