Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI”
#News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #WeirdAlYankovic
https://deadline.com/2026/07/weird-al-yankovic-turned-down-nice-pile-money-ai-ad-1236972893/
Happy if you're a settler donate some of your money to an Indigenous language saving project Day! #canadaday https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/7008
@AccordionBruce "There was a strange wheezing from the fog…"
Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq: "STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I! (Support Human Creativity!)"
Gratifying when later I see a post by @catsalad and remember I wanted them to see this #cat acting #accordion video
And they already did
🎥 🪗 🐈⬛ 🥰
The bit about cats not being great actors in movies until the internet revealed the genre they excelled at:
Improv-comedy 😹
And that the animators who made Flow used accordions as models!
Maybe explains the soundtrack of the video 🤌🏼
#animation
@AccordionBruce well in this case a fan theory note would work as well.
@AccordionBruce
Put a content warning on this post before you ruin it for somebody else.
@AccordionBruce
Don’t tell me that! That’s what’s called a spoiler! That was seriously uncool
@AccordionBruce @accordionnoir
according to wikipedia:
On the "Early studio version" of "Nothing Left to Lose", Woolfson plays the accordion solo (later played on an actual accordion) on a keyboard with a cheap-sounding accordion preset. His melody is vaguely similar to Alan Civil's horn solo in The Beatles's "For No One".
Similarly, the accordion part on "Nothing Left to Lose" is credited in the liner notes to "An unidentified Parisian session player". Newer editions of the liner notes, starting with the 2008 remastered edition, credit a "Harmonized Rotating Triangle" to Stuart Elliott.[2]
not sure of accuracy, just quoting here.
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Holy shit…..
Batman
Superman
Weird Al
Mr. Mxyzptlk
All in the same comic issue? It comes out September 2. I’ve got to get started strengthening my heart so that I’ll be able to take the greatness that this has the potential to be.
@AccordionBruce @accordionnoir A bit of searching later, I’ve found a couple of mentions of it being an accordion (on the studio recording at least) but not from anything close to a definitive source, nor with any proof. Could just be people assuming it’s an accordion. Unfortunately it’s one APP album I don’t own, so it’s not something I’d previously considered.
@AccordionBruce @accordionnoir I’m not certain, but footage of The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project shows an electronic keyboard being used for that part in a live performance.
"Spotify's effective payout averages roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per stream... By contrast, Bandcamp pays artists roughly 82% of each sale. A direct $10 album sale can exceed revenue from thousands of streams. Buying music or books directly from artists, whether physical or DRM-free digital, is one of the most direct ways to support them."
Artists are likely better off when you #buy one album (and #pirate the rest) than from your #streaming #subscription!
#music #capitalism
https://dervis.de/physical/
There is a coordinated, desperate movement from those with capital and power to convince the rest of us to give up.
To stop making art, to stop telling stories, to stop finding joy.
They want us to buy our stories, and our music, and our art, from them.
"don't bother creating something original, we'll just rip it off or feed it to our AI" they say, or "you can't tell that story, we own that story."
And... Mostly, that works.
I see so many people who no longer make things because they are afraid of how those things will be abused, or how they will be abused, or because they're just so tired.
I get it.
But I genuinely believe that there is no greater threat to the current capitalist order than people making things outside that system.
Every story I tell that does not have the blessing of some distant billionaire is a radical act. My goofy video game where a 75 year old cartoon character takes down an extractive mining operation on an alien planet is absolutely an act of defiance against capital.
Fear is natural, but allowing it to freeze us into inaction serves our enemies.
"Nothing Left to Lose"
#AlanParsonsProject (1980)
Party Game question from an @accordionnoir radio listener: Is that a real #accordion solo at 1:30? 🪗
It's only 20 seconds long and there's only "keyboard" player man-behind-the-thrown Eric Woolfson listed on the liner notes
Might be a Melodion (reed organ) patch from a Hammond #organ or something?
Who has a gueess? 🎹
https://youtu.be/7LMJyK0lj1U
#ProgRock
Surprisingly gratifying level of repeated and even relevant accordion content in this well-researched cat video 🪗 🐈
https://youtu.be/AycqebrmBkM
#CatsOfMastodon #Accordion #Cats
@AccordionBruce “I dreamed I saw Joe Hill…”
The Industrial Workers of the World (#IWW) was founded June 27, 1905
in commemoration Seattle's #klezmer duo Brivele released a video of Michael Wex's translation of the ballad of Joe Hill
Accompanied by the artistry, vision, and research of puppeteer Yankl Krakovsky. Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/D4w4tzni_c0
That was fabulous 🍆
#ListeningClub