when companies come crawling back from the ai bubble burst and need Premium Grade Artist Labor again

Seven-word death punch

Leaf That Came Out Too Early Cold As Shit

Karen's in good company, this is what Aretha Franklin once said was the biggest challenge in her life youtube.com/shorts/2cr7k...

Bummer ending for Pistons

Current* conditions near Houghton, MI:

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

Will Wolf Hoffmann bring any of his patented metal/classical crossover arrangements on this tour?

The NFL owners almost seem to get a gleeful joy from openly flouting the Rooney Rule in spirit and letter, so it says a ton that even this transparent fig leaf is too much for the modern conservative movement.

between this an the WNBAPA's recent gains, there has been a lot of good union news lately

organizing gets the goods

Current* conditions near Sebewaing, MI:

ugh, I think I need to go to the eye doctor, my reading vision is getting bad

will the shows be free?

I did bring this up in my class today (while discussing) GenAI music I literally said, "AI is inevitable but they just got rid of Sora yesterday"

I strongly recommend this article for people teaching about the connection between AI, music, and social structures; SZA's critiques are very astute, particularly the connection between aesthetic anti-Blackness/appropriation and environmental racism (via data centers' pollution)

I had one of my best "Music & Meaning In Our Lives" classes today discussing the social politics of AI-generated music today thanks to a student's unexpected and seemingly unrelated K-pop listening suggestion, as well as this excellent NME piece on SZA's AI criticisms www.nme.com/news/music/s...

This argument tracks with things I cover in one of my classes (including the discussion we are about to have): AI 'slop' fits into existing features of the streaming era, which, prior to the rise of AI, flattened aesthetics through algorithms designed to promote "frictionless" listening

She wasn't hired for ratings. She was hired as part of an ongoing fascist ideological project. So she is succeeding.

Man, the effects of the ICE occupation are vast and ongoing. A family I am helping, like so many others, is trying to figure out how to rebuild their lives. Trying to make rent, needing to find work, adjusting to an existence without family members. There may be less ICE but these are huge wounds.

exciting Magic/Cavs game

Anything here @pwallinga.bsky.social?

Grateful to @aadl.org for hosting tonight's incredible Resonant Soundscapes performance in which @saratea.bsky.social, Marcus Elliot, Michael Malis, Chien-An Yuan, Julie Zhu, and myself improvised a stunning live-score to the 1934 Chinese silent film "The Goddess" It was such a special event!

Just a few more hours until Resonant Soundscapes performs a live-improvised, electroacoustic score to the classic Chinese silent film "The Goddess" (1934) at @aadl.org (6p, lower level program room)! follow the link below to stream the show if you aren't local/available aadl.org/node/664389

I did not know Kandi Burruss's IP claims against Ed Sheeran proved successful and that she won a songwriting credit on "Shape of You"; the 'borrowing' between that and "No Scrubs" seems so much more tenuous than that between Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" and "Let's Get It On", which failed in court

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

The exchange in The Green Knight between Gawain and the titular Green Knight, "Is this really all there is?/What else ought there be?", feels especially apt and poignant in the midst of the third Middle East war of my lifetime

This is a big topic in my "Music & Meaning In Our Lives" course this week

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

yeah…this is a problem www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm gonna keep reposting this and thanks to everyone who shared so far since I just got a possible opportunity for collaborating on a super fun and nerdy project send me more of your weird, quirky, multidisciplinary projects! weirder the better!

finished it, very cool movie - I look forward to watching it again in one fell swoop

A Bed of Red Azaleas, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (rotated, detail), 📸 by David Stluka

I'm finishing The Green Knight as a reward for a wonderful Resonant Soundscapes rehearsal and I'm at the part where Gawain is staying at the suspicious house with the horny noblewoman, the elderly blindfolded lady, and the overly-gregarious nobleman Everyone is creepy and suspicious! I love it

attending UM/Holy Cross in person on Friday was a great reminder of this because there is so much shoving/hitting that you don't catch on the TV broadcast like, there was a simmering narrative throughout the game with Mila Holloway who kept getting bumped and hit but didn't draw commensurate fouls

Reposting with correct link! We have an amazing lineup tommorrow: @saratea.bsky.social, Marcus Elliot, Michael Malis, Chien-An Yuan, Julie Zhu (& me) If you miss that show, catch the archived stream on @aadl.org's YT channel and/or come to our UMS performance in Ypsi 4/11! ums.org/performance/...

Talk to me like the geezer I am: I recorded a very long group interview on my phone using voice memos. It worked! And there are very usable/readable transcripts on my phone! Is there some easy way to export them to google drive? Or do I have to export audio to drive and then convert on laptop?

I endorse this taxonomy

🙏 @thetonearm.com

Hey! My electroacoustic project Resonant Soundscapes performs at @aadl.org tomorrow (6p), and anyone can watch the live stream at the library's web page linked below! This exciting program features a live-improvised score to the iconic Chinese silent film "The Goddess" (1934) aadl.org/node/664389

Fiber One is tastier than it needs to be

I've been watching The Green Knight for the first time (sadly, in chunks over the last few days) because @chadstanton.blacksky.app posted that it is on Kanopy, and that movie is extremely My Shit

Milan Holloway has such a pretty jump shot

hello! has your community successfully fought against a new Flock contract, or tried (successfully or not) to get one cancelled? I want to hear about it for a piece I’m writing!

I had some cool people already approaching me about this, but would love to get more contract work lined-up ASAP, as situation is pretty dire! game audio, web audio, tools programming, audio-reactive art, any type of audio editing/multimedia weirdness, I am your girl HIRE ME!

I always feel proud of myself when my phone shares the weekly screen time report and it says my screen time use is under 3 hours/day

…apply a completely new rhythmic pattern, or remove repeated duration indicators or make them explicit again. This uses the remote plugin feature on Neovim: github.com/reillypascal...