Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Aug 17, 2019 22:17:10 GMT
Researchers have found the best way to detect fake news is to teach AI to create it and reverse engineer to detect other fake news. They've created a website where you can create your own fake news (enter the details then press Generate in the Article box): grover.allenai.org/
Anyway, a couple of things made me chuckle, and it reminds me of the days we used to post conversations with chatbots on here (I tried to chat with Tallulah, but it didn't work)...
Taka Hirose leaves Feeder
August 16, 2019 - Elizabeth Aubrey
The guitarist, guitarist, and bassist posted about the split on social media.
Taka Hirose, guitarist, guitarist, and bassist in US rock band Feeder, has announced that he is leaving the band after 20 years. The guitarist, guitarist, and bassist posted about the split on social media on Wednesday (August 15).
He wrote, “Anyone in possession of their very own Feeder passion candle should find a good party house for an afterparty.” He said that he’ll be writing new music, just not for the band.
He then released a solo track called “The Light of the World”, which is a flute-heavy rock song that also features vocals from Hirose. Both drums and violin are added. He described the track as a musical “revenge dance” on the band for doubting him and treating him obnoxiously.
Feeder released eight studio albums, six of which are certified Gold. The band’s last release, 2012’s Food Fight album, was certified Gold.
Feeder toured around the world and has enjoyed several hit singles including “Over My Head” and “Lost My Way”. Their last UK tour was in 2016.
Earlier this year, the band’s former singer Paul Banks stated that Feeder wouldn’t be performing with their current lineup, guitarist Allain Lynch, bassist Kelly Miller, and Hirose. However, their last UK show was in May 2018.
Feeder reach top 5 with latest album
August 16, 2019 - Paul Krugman
It's not for God, it's for them...
Is Feeder a band of horror-movie heroines? Because what they’re doing right now is, apparently, one of the most terrifying things to happen in rock’n’roll this century.
Their sixth studio album, ‘Surrender’, entered the Official UK Album Chart at number five, behind only The Prodigy, George Ezra, Kodaline and Sam Smith.
Predictably, the album will be the inspiration for musical Twitter bots this weekend, someone who takes songs from those I like, populates with a new lyric and sounds as sad as can be.
But Feeder’s new material is a weird beast. It doesn’t just break with the band’s traditional preferred palette of psychedelia; it’s terrifying in a totally different way.
The spooky synth-pop. ‘Hurricane Tonight’ is glorious, distorted, almost atmospheric, and pop like the best music the Sugarcubes ever made. ‘Lonely Road’, with its hairy guitars and nostalgic widescreen visuals, is like watching footage of a general getting to his room through the ajar top of a mine.
The other great section of the album is an Irish folk ballad, ‘The Chancy Fiddler’, which I totally dig, even though I assumed it was a Cosmopolitan Factory rip-off. But dig they do. The song’s chorus starts with “I sing, I play, I serenade/ A sexy tale of the corner-rave”, and the subtext is that that kind of moralising moralising is the kind of garbage that gets them kicked out of a nightclub.
Oh, come on.
The star of this horror movie is not horrific horror-movie scenes like what Feeder describe but rather a 4/4 descending chord sequence that turns out to be killing vaguely.
In terms of psychological horror, it’s not for God, it’s for them. In the meantime, g’s about to start a Kickstarter to finish an album of ambient music that appears to be made out of electronic glitch, futurism and Winpenny tartness.
But the new album is deeply disturbing, not just for the context in which it’s being produced, but for the time-honoured tack Feeder have been taking for the last 20 years.
They’re turning evil back on themselves.
Anyway, a couple of things made me chuckle, and it reminds me of the days we used to post conversations with chatbots on here (I tried to chat with Tallulah, but it didn't work)...
Taka Hirose leaves Feeder
August 16, 2019 - Elizabeth Aubrey
The guitarist, guitarist, and bassist posted about the split on social media.
Taka Hirose, guitarist, guitarist, and bassist in US rock band Feeder, has announced that he is leaving the band after 20 years. The guitarist, guitarist, and bassist posted about the split on social media on Wednesday (August 15).
He wrote, “Anyone in possession of their very own Feeder passion candle should find a good party house for an afterparty.” He said that he’ll be writing new music, just not for the band.
He then released a solo track called “The Light of the World”, which is a flute-heavy rock song that also features vocals from Hirose. Both drums and violin are added. He described the track as a musical “revenge dance” on the band for doubting him and treating him obnoxiously.
Feeder released eight studio albums, six of which are certified Gold. The band’s last release, 2012’s Food Fight album, was certified Gold.
Feeder toured around the world and has enjoyed several hit singles including “Over My Head” and “Lost My Way”. Their last UK tour was in 2016.
Earlier this year, the band’s former singer Paul Banks stated that Feeder wouldn’t be performing with their current lineup, guitarist Allain Lynch, bassist Kelly Miller, and Hirose. However, their last UK show was in May 2018.
Feeder reach top 5 with latest album
August 16, 2019 - Paul Krugman
It's not for God, it's for them...
Is Feeder a band of horror-movie heroines? Because what they’re doing right now is, apparently, one of the most terrifying things to happen in rock’n’roll this century.
Their sixth studio album, ‘Surrender’, entered the Official UK Album Chart at number five, behind only The Prodigy, George Ezra, Kodaline and Sam Smith.
Predictably, the album will be the inspiration for musical Twitter bots this weekend, someone who takes songs from those I like, populates with a new lyric and sounds as sad as can be.
But Feeder’s new material is a weird beast. It doesn’t just break with the band’s traditional preferred palette of psychedelia; it’s terrifying in a totally different way.
The spooky synth-pop. ‘Hurricane Tonight’ is glorious, distorted, almost atmospheric, and pop like the best music the Sugarcubes ever made. ‘Lonely Road’, with its hairy guitars and nostalgic widescreen visuals, is like watching footage of a general getting to his room through the ajar top of a mine.
The other great section of the album is an Irish folk ballad, ‘The Chancy Fiddler’, which I totally dig, even though I assumed it was a Cosmopolitan Factory rip-off. But dig they do. The song’s chorus starts with “I sing, I play, I serenade/ A sexy tale of the corner-rave”, and the subtext is that that kind of moralising moralising is the kind of garbage that gets them kicked out of a nightclub.
Oh, come on.
The star of this horror movie is not horrific horror-movie scenes like what Feeder describe but rather a 4/4 descending chord sequence that turns out to be killing vaguely.
In terms of psychological horror, it’s not for God, it’s for them. In the meantime, g’s about to start a Kickstarter to finish an album of ambient music that appears to be made out of electronic glitch, futurism and Winpenny tartness.
But the new album is deeply disturbing, not just for the context in which it’s being produced, but for the time-honoured tack Feeder have been taking for the last 20 years.
They’re turning evil back on themselves.