Alex Pleasants

Strategy, public policy & comms for tech & creative industries | @DiversityAPPG | @and__finally__ with @edvaizey | won @ITVChase

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Not on here that much any more... BUT! I wanted to share a piece I wrote for @theLDNstandard on declining access to arts education in the UK and what that means for both the creative industries and the wider economy in the AI era.

Here it is! https://t.co/OdSah3pxGo

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@jasminedotiwala Amazing! Congrats

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5 you might have missed this week before you dig into the Quality Street...

✍ 1) The big one this week is the launch of the government’s consultation on copyright laws as they relate to AI and the creative industries. 10 weeks to get your views in

https://t.co/OkgQgLNAJQ

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5 you might have missed this week…

🏓 1) The Cabinet Office has announced £100m of funding to make the state ‘more like a startup’. Slides and ping pong tables blocking Whitehall soon. Will be chaos (https://t.co/nsNjph1ACt)

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🚨NEWSLETTER REBRAND ALERT 🚨 Welcome to And Finally… the Friday arts, tech and politics roundup from me and @edvaizey

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Congrats to @edvaizey and @alexpleasants on the launch of their revamped newsletter 'And Finally...'

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@TrudaSpruyt Woohoo 👏

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Such sad news about Simon Albury. A tireless campaigner and voice for the marginalised and also so generous with his time and wisdom (and wit!) to many of us earlier in our careers. He truly was one-of-a-kind and will be deeply missed.

https://t.co/jUEsHAzOLz

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"...the coming war is not really one between human and machine creativity; the two will forever be incommensurable. Rather, it is a struggle over how art and human labor are valued—and who has the power to make that appraisal."

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Lots of things about the DCMS brief are fun - but with museums going bankrupt, falling exports in parts of the creative industries, a diminished British brand, questions for the gambling commission, challenges to sports provision in local areas etc. - it will be no cakewalk

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@MrTomGray @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer Valiant effort Tom 👏

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@DanAldridgeWSM @UKLabour Huge congrats Dan 👏👏

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@Mprendergast One for the newsletter I’d say

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@Tomkiehl Congrats Tom! Well deserved 🤝

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@MrTomGray So good 👏