Monday morning ear worm: youtu.be/xJoBmocD5vg?...

I had to sit through an ed tech product pitch today so for all my #academicsky followers and comrades, here's what Turnitin is currently selling (stick around for what's on their product roadmap) so you can prepare yourselves to strenuously reject it. 🧵

I found my... undergrad counterpoint "textbook"?

AI is not the solution to faculty using headshots from 10–20 years ago. 😩

At this year's music Pedagogy into Practice conference at UBC, I attended a keynote address on the subject of integrating AI into music education, from José Antonio Bowen. It was the most disappointed I have ever been during a keynote talk. At times, it was stomach-churning. Thread:

The start of what I'm sure will eventually be a bonkers concert poster wall in my living room: 1) Aoife O'Donovan and Bonny Light Horseman with the NSO at the Kennedy Center two weeks before the 2024 election; 2) signed VIP poster from last year's I'm With Her tour, plus THE SET LIST SARA GAVE ME. 🤩

That fake WSJ Platner screenshot keeps popping up on the skyline and I am once again begging —

The Muppets could put one one last big show to save the old theater (Kennedy Center).

lol

There will be no Jizz at America's 250th

I've been calling this my "the fascists are coming for my gender-neutral shoes" fear for the past few years. 🙃

what if the new Highwomen live album is *too* good

As of this morning, @thenewschool.bsky.social is de facto replacing its History department with a “Center for the American Experience,” which is funded by private and undisclosed donors. The New School has been New Colleged, and there’s no GOP to blame here. Our anti-fascist identity is over.

We're hiring a new Executive Director! Apply below by June 15! www.american-music.org/page/EDJob2026

lol, lmao

I used my self-employment privilege to go to my first WXPN Free at Noon for my forever fave Dar Williams. 💗

Fluxus 2: The Fluxening - I'm giving quit-your-day-job money to anyone with Performance Art Energy until no one can go anywhere without high risk of a happening happening (I would hate this, so it's not selfish!)

extra hour in the Grand Canyon ball pit (context for people who don't have 2014 Tumblr brain: fanlore.org/wiki/Ball_Pit)

I mean, I guess I'd be more uncomfortable if the right *didn't* think I (40, single on purpose, no kids, whatever the opposite of Mar-a-Lago face is, led a class on inclusive language at church a few weeks ago) was a sad freak, right?

What if women got to participate in public and civic life on dignified and equal terms even if they really were in fact ugly, unmarried, childless, gay, or otherwise broadly sexually unappealing to men? ha ha ha ha ha what if.

Do you like string band music and trans people? I learned about Tall Poppy String Band recently in a rare win from the Facebook algorithm, and I already have a ticket to see them in June. I'm emotionally invested in their Kickstarter, which got off to a good start but has slowed down. Help them out!

Oh yeah, I have sidewalks now, I can do #StetWalk!

My "lawn chairs in the park" summer concert season starts on Friday, and I have uhhh nine that I'm planning to go to, weather permitting (five parks in three Philly suburbs and one non-Philly city; five paid, four free). 😃

really cool to see some of the press outlets picking up on Ribbit! big thanks to wes fenlon over at pcgamer www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle... and @mackeza.bsky.social over at the guardian! www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

Here's an article about a book I indexed!

In the last few days I've talked to a few people who are planning to spend the summer converting a dissertation chapter into an article. In the spirit of a productive writing summer, a few pieces of advice based on my experience writing a bunch of articles and editing two journals.

*vague scream about indexing books that the copyeditor half-assed*

People on here will post anything. "Rahm Emanuel is a plausible nominee for president." No he isn’t. That isn’t true.

inside you there are dialectical wolves.

Do you like string band music and trans people? I learned about Tall Poppy String Band recently in a rare win from the Facebook algorithm, and I already have a ticket to see them in June. I'm emotionally invested in their Kickstarter, which got off to a good start but has slowed down. Help them out!

STOP! Sending me that crap, Crap, I don't want it, Don't send it to me

At least I'm working on a holiday from my new office (a corner of my bedroom)!

I just googled "Vatican style guide" out of professional curiosity, but all the results were about the dress code, not why this doesn't use the serial comma.

updating your committee on your dissertation progress

Who's going to do the Magnifica Humanitas large-scale choral work? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacem_i...

Christopher Nolan originally wanted everyone in the cast of The Odyssey to use a Delco accent but Matt Damon kept slipping into Dorchester so he just said fuck it speak normal

She really did

All muppet 4’33” feat. Kermit and Animal

Why am I like this? -Weird Al as a side door into pop culture -Les Misérables (musical, then book) -Dar Williams's albums Mortal City (1996) and The End of the Summer (1997) -the Rutter Requiem (yeah, I know) -listen, it's The West Wing, okay, I have sequelae from a bad case of West Wing brain

Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?

I’ve started inviting my older kids to hang out as I’m editing. I try to narrate the decisions I’m making. How to recast a sentence, why I reject spell check suggestions, things I leave in place to honor the author’s voice. I badly want them to think of writing and editing as a human art…

In the beginning, the BlueSky is a Bubble takes were spaced by 24 weeks. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. The last one in Sydney was a week. In 4 days, we could be seeing a Bubble take every 8 hours, until they are coming every 4 minutes. Marshal, we should witness a double event within 7 days.

Lots to be said re: egregious behaviour of the gallery, but I've a few comments on art historical nocturnes and how the GenAI print *disregards* the tradition. www.engadget.com/2180105/anse...

the only time Bluesky feels like a bubble is when we're all getting defensive about someone calling it a bubble

it's going great 😬

In the end some Gungans died. Some ships blew up and some pilots fried. A lot of folks were croakin. The battle droids were broken

Encarta Mindmaze

Introduce yourself with, idk, 10 concert venues you've been to 3+ times. Appell Center Ardmore Music Hall Bryn Mawr Twilight Concerts Cat's Cradle Freight & Salvage (now The Freight) Keswick Theatre Longwood Gardens Mann Center Memorial Hall, UNC Chapel Hill World Cafe Live (now a sad zombie thing)