Robert Dayton

Robert Dayton

@robertdayton.bsky.social

my book "Cold Glitter The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" is available from Feral House. More info: www.robertdayton.com

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Instagram/Meta is starting to use everyone's content to train AI and users in the USA can't opt out. It's also midterm election season. MAGA and billionaires(Zuck) are pro AI. There's also been posts suggesting a "blackout" in protest of this training which during election season sounds fishy.

I have the pleasures of spinning neat records that I love! This Sat, Oct 17, 8-10 pm PST I am a guest on the Hypernormalization radio show. Two hours of Canadian spooky glam, Canadian spooky sounds, and spooky sounds in general! Rarities! It's on KCHUNG, tune in here: www.kchungradio.org/stream

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I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich.

Don't worry, those new AI data centres will solve it for us, right?

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social

Land is warming 1.75× faster than the ocean. Heat records are being smashed by larger margins than ever before. Four times as many new heat records occurred in recent years because of human-caused climate change. This is acceleration. We must respond with equal urgency. #HeatCrisis

This piece is incredibly validating for my recent dealings with them over a cheque they "accidentally" sent me then demanded back months later with penalties, so many hours wasted on the phone, along with gaslighting.

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After my dad finished watching hockey on the one TV we'd all watch Tommy Hunter which was on after I told a Canadian friend that hockey outlasted Tommy Hunter but that friend corrected me and said that hockey's gone too.

CHEK News@cheknews.ca

Tommy Hunter, a fixture in Canadian living rooms for decades with his long-running CBC TV show, has died. He was 89. https://cheknews.ca/canadian-country-star-tommy-hunter-dies-1333966/

Wish I could be there! There's a chapter on Metal Messiah in the free Cold Glitter PDF Supplement, download here: feralhouse.com/cold-glitter/

feralhouse.comCold GlitterCold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam uncovers a forgotten yet fascinating chapter on glam rock music and culture…from Canada. Multi-disciplinary artist Robert Dayton taps his Canadian roots...
Canadian International Pictures@cipictures.bsky.social

We’re excited to announce our new 4K restoration of METAL MESSIAH – the little-seen dystopian rock opera debut of director Tibor Takács (THE GATE) – will premiere at @fantasiafestival.com on July 25th, and Takács will be there! More details here: fantasiafestival.com/en/film/meta...

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I am delighted that the new issue of my Three Stooges zine (100+ pages of art, essays, poetry, fiction, and more about The Three Stooges, written by a host of brilliant contributors) was covered by the Criterion books newsletter: www.criterion.com/current/post...

criterion.comJune BooksMartin Scorsese, Agnès Varda, Lars von Trier, and Katharine Hepburn are just a few of the names you might be adding to your summer reading list.
Will Sloan@willsloanesq.bsky.social

The world's greatest Three Stooges fanzine returns. THE JOURNAL OF STOOGEOLOGICAL STUDIES VOL. 2 is available. Art! Comics! Poetry! Essays! Fiction! Buy it: United States - www.amazon.com/Journal-Stoo... Canada - www.amazon.ca/Journal-Stoo... United Kingdom - www.amazon.co.uk/Journal-Stoo...

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Today is the last day to join our friends at CAG in telling the city government that we don't want an AI data centre in Mount Pleasant! #vanpoli #vancouver #NoAI

CAG AI Data Centre Response Committee: We have until this Friday (June 12) to tell the City of Vancouver how we feel about the Mt Pleasant AI Data Centre! Comment period on the Planner Report for the 111 E 5th Ave rezoning app about to close!

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I guess one can move to Csnada, get a job at a data centre (which the country will be jam packed with), get cancer by 70 -and hey, free health care!

Kimberly Parker@thatkimparker.bsky.social

If you’re also furious about AI data centres being built in the middle of Vancouver you can tell the City exactly what you think by writing an objection to the rezoning application here www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

I can understand building an expensive bullet proof ballroom to protect say, a school of over 100 children from being bombed but if it's just for one awful old guy with dementia, maybe use surgical precision to resolve it -or a bulletproof bodysuit for him where he can't talk or write.