rolling #metoo thread for sexual harassment in the music industry so no one misses out when artists we don't give a fuck about like Tim Westwood and Bassnectar get caught

I read a paper a while ago about a team of engineers training an AI to recognize porn imagery. Since they were nearly all straight men on the team, the AI didn't even register full on dicks as nudity, just breasts and vulvas

I’d love to read this if you have time to find it. A coworker in my lab works on research related to these problems.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527476416680453

(apologies if my memory sanded off some of the nuances)

Thanks!

fwiw here is an insightful essay on masculinity that starts off by "reading" dick pics

https://thebaffler.com/latest/dicks-pics-dark-rooms-nathan

Pretty sure Svenonius deleted his account shortly after making his statement. For one, his statement was undermined off the bat as he wrote it in his florid style which made it kind of seem like one of his usual bits (maybe he can only express himself that way, but still, dropping his usual style might have made it seem a bit more like he was making an honest go at it). But yeah, doing so then promptly disappearing himself does not exactly suggest he did any "work" but who knows?

Svenonius has been back on Instagram for awhile , but the only comments on any posts are ones offering compliments. Am guessing he is still deleting and blocking ones that bring up his past.

Ooof well yeah not following him but that sounds not so great.

Ugh, someone on another forum says we should brace ourselves for forthcoming allegations about another prominent Canadian indie artist. I won't say his name yet until it happens - FWIW, it's a different band - but supposedly a national Canadian newspaper has been working on the story for some time.

Not Ed Robertson?

Ugh

Does the band have lots of members, or just the standard number?

This may give it away but it has lots of members, albeit a wildly fluctuating number of them.

The poster said the source is rock solid but he didn't identify the news organization...so I guess don't rush to judgment yet but brace yourselves for the possibility.

If it's the same rumor I saw, the lots of members option.

can't believe there's still no reporting on the Timber Timbre allegations
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Broken Social Scene? New Pornographers?

Am I just imagining there's an effort to not 'sully' the Arcade Fire thread with discussions of sexual misconduct? Seems like that conversation belongs in their thread and not just in the generic 'which artists are raping bastards' thread.

Let's just say the one with a (possibly) unfortunately titled track #7 on a breakthrough record.

I don't know any more than that, or what the specific accusations are, but I'm confident I saw the same "source is rock solid" note as birdistheword.

another forum? I'm not buying it

omg the speculation can it stop?!

This is starting to feel disturbingly like an anticipation thread

Put it in 77 you lame

assuning paulie has some terrible opinions on this subject i'd prefer were not elaborated

Not at all. I'm disgusted every time these stories break, whether I care about the artist or not. I'm just not giddy about the prospect of hearing about more of them.

The first time I saw Neko Case, opening for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, she said, from the stage, she would make out with the first person who bought merch.

CBC spokesperson confirms in a statement that CBC Music is pulling Arcade fire music. 'In light of the recent allegations against Win Butler, CBC Music will pause on playing Arcade Fire's music until we learn more about the situation.' BG: https://t.co/EyUy5Hjjkm
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— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) August 30, 2022

xp what's your point

Please don't be Dan Bejar

My point is that speculation is absurd.

Clues above obviously referring to BSS... guess we'll see what happens

I was momentarily afraid that we were talking about a totally different Kanadian* band with a fluctuatingly large number of members.

Please don't be Dan Bejar

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

my one rule for life

Nope, don't you worry the Freedom Convoy is still going strong!

xp

my one rule for life

― Kate (rushomancy)

lol

If we're naming Canadian bands with many members it could also be Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Library Voices

*winces*

Let's just say the one with a (possibly) unfortunately titled track #7 on a breakthrough record.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl. Yeesh...

I LOATHE an unsolicited dick pic, your boner can wait the minute it takes to ask "can I send an explicit picture" and receive a reply, and anyone who isn't willing to do that work is someone I will assume is bad at consent and should stay away from.

― boxedjoy,

A guy I've been seeing intermittently for months will send private Instagram messages of his cock and rim jobs and -- it grosses me out? He's also much younger, probably unaware of the impression he makes. It's partially my fault for tolerating it.

Ok I have to know. What’s this other forum mentioned? I want to go there.

it is pretty fucked up to post ‘well, i don’t want to straight-up name an abuser, but here are several hints’

do you want props for being ‘in the know’? well, kudos

grab that clout i guess

Well kudos to your cheap cynicism for feeding a smug sense of superiority.

But regardless of original intent, it did set off a lot of unhelpful speculation so yeah I wish I held off on posting.

I don't know if calling out blind item nonsense is cheap cynicism.

Clearly the social environment, or scene I suppose, is in need of repair.

“Ok I have to know. What’s this other forum mentioned? I want to go there.”

Me too.

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Not that anyone is speculating on there, or that they should, but that's where you ask to join the private board

That’s not the forum in question afaik

Oh I thought it was another music forum and got interested. No intention to join the ilxorminatti.

Wait there’s a secret/elite ILX board?? holy shit lol

better to think of it as the ungoogleable board, also what a fuckin derail

There’s a new Velvet Rope-style industry board? I’d love to go there.

There’s a new Velvet Rope-style industry board? I’d love to go there.

― beamish13

Wait, by "Velvet Rope" do you mean the Portland swingers' club or something else?