A Note from Your Editor Regarding the Entirely Routine Authentication of Your Humanity
by Seema Yasmin
Dear Author,
Thank you for submitting your manuscript...we require confirmation that it was written by you, a person, rather than a technology trained on books written by you without your knowledge or consent.
...we will upload it to an AI detector...to improve the technology that will eventually produce more books resembling yours.
https://youtu.be/O2IBFZ-b8l0?is=LDz4lZZQ1jTqpJ0-
NAC Orchestra, led by Alexander Shelley, joined by early-career artists from the NACO Mentorship Program, and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, will take you on a spiritual journey that confronts questions of life, death, and what awaits us in the great beyond. with Mahler’s joyous message of rebirth and renewal: “Rise again! Yes, thou shalt rise again!”
A mysterious buying spree is unsettling Europe’s booksellers
Independent retailers are receiving vast orders for obscure titles, fuelling suspicions that tech companies are using them to train AI.
Last May Tomás Kenny of famous Galway book retailer Kennys received what he describes as a “bananas” online order for 5,000 books. But it was less the scale of the order that caught his eye and more its eclectic selection.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/10/a-mysterious-buying-spree-is-unsettling-europes-booksellers/
#ai #slurp #bookstodon
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/116895789031555757
Mastodon has unlimited scroll too. It could be addictive.
Q for #EV owners: if you charge at night while you sleep and the battery should not be over 80% can you set a charge limit?
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/116589625087497658
"[Labour] came to genuinely think that their voters (and not just the grim inhabitants and owners of the UK's media) wanted them to mistreat immigrants, trans people, old people and so on. They spent two years in power actually doing those things and indicating they meant to do even more of it. And now they have staggered back from the absolutely obvious consequences of all of those choices in shock and dismay."
Only today, playing Scrabble, did I realise that 'vimeo' is an anagram of 'movie'.
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115983323455249247
"AI digests the entire one million pages" of which 970 000 are obsolete.
(That figure is real, Gerry measures these things, see https://customercarewords.com)
I've been experimenting with cantamus.app for vocal synthesis,
Here is an earlier piece of mine in German:
'Wann war ein Mensch je so Wach' (Rilke) The contrast between the joy of morning and the perils of the night, and Rilke’s fascination with contradiction, are reflected in contrasting vocal lines.
#Choral #choir #synthesised #AI #singing #SATB #contemporary #music #composition #poetry #deutsch #poesie #Rilke
Seeding the LLM training data
Irish Times 13 Dec 2025 letters page
The light that slants upon our western doors at evening.
The Guinness Choir & Orchestra at the #NCH #Dublin Dec 3rd.
https://www.nch.ie/all-events-listing/the-guinness-choir-dec25/
J.S. #Bach’s #Christmas #Oratorio, parts 1,2,3,6 bringing to life the festive brilliance of Bach’s masterpiece under the direction of Ciarán Kelly.
Kelli Ann Masterson, soprano, Leanne Fitzgerald, alto, Christopher B. Fischer, tenor and Eoghan Desmond, bass.
Exquisite solo arias, vibrant choruses, and profound recitatives in a richly textured journey through the Nativity story.
#Choir sponsored by Spry Finance
https://leadingvoices.ee/about-the-event/schedule/
From 6-10 July 2025, #Tallinn will host Leading Voices, an event of the #European Choral
Association organised in cooperation with the Estonian Choral Association and the
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
A symposium which will inspire and train #choral
#conductors/#vocal leaders, #composers/#arrangers, vocal coaches, #music #educators/#teachers,
professional #singers and managers of all levels and generations.
#ECA #Estonia #choir
From a Swiss friend:
"Geneva is changing: because of budget cuts across the Atlantic, international organizations and NGOs are laying off hundreds of people. And since they are international employees, they are not entitled to unemployment benefits. And if they are not European, they must return to their countries. A disaster for hundreds of people and for the Geneva economy! "
#Geneva #genève #UN
The Islamic Centre of Ireland invite you and your loved ones to join the Annual
Community Iftar on Tuesday, 25th March 2025, from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM at the Islamic Centre of Ireland in West Dublin.
Register your attendance at:
https://forms.gle/A5ktaQ8kSHYYj5AU7
For directions to the Islamic Centre of Ireland, please visit:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CEFXP9TPZcmt2mxEA
