When I brought up the subject of "ants on a log" to my spouse the reaction was incredulous disgust. Is this a class divide or a cultural divide (western Canada vs quebec)?

I really love traveling but honestly I do my best work at home and I am eager to go into a documentation and organization mode while nesting this fall after I come back from kikk festival

What the heck was the last Canadaland episode where Jesse Brown basically attempted to terrify Canadians by quoting an anonymous "well connected" person that Canadians will inevitably become Americans unless they became monthly subscribers to his show? I mean that was basically what happened right?

Feeling so happy, sensual, and carefree this autumn. Profiting from the smells and temperature of fall, feeling the seasons, baking apple spice cake

I keep on dreaming about Pastel and Camélia lately. Little everyday dreams. I told Tats over breakfast today, and they said "your dreams are highly detailed and also mundane." As long as the ghosts of my family come to visit me I don't mind.

Having an undiagnosed neurological issue is cool because if you ever get sad for absolutely any reason you can whisper to yourself "but I didn't have a full blown body crisis today" and feel a little better.

Lucier could never

Hi I am doing some research and I am curious for recommendations for best vidiogames/ Movies/ music videos with a dreamlike sci-fi aesthetic. I obviously have neon genesis Evangelion, ghost in the shell, blade runner, macross plus, battle angel alita, dune... Others?

Now playing....me on a panel about biodata alife and Ai with some amazing presenters: Nell Tenhaaf, Michele Bunton, Station Mishra) register to join mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

LLMs as a machine for repeating every error of history.

The End of Evangelion Episode 26' Sincerely Yours I Need You

as useful as I understand Material Engagement theory to be I am really struggling to feel *excited* by it.

@sesmith.lol made this great article on asmr and sexuality that I contributed to through a light chat ✨️ All forms of labor should be present in our art. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/does-it-re...

I am completed enamored by Claudia Arozqueta's book on Heartbeat Art (MIT Press 2023). Her deep dive into medical history and means of listening to the body is inspiring beyond what I understood the history of biofeedback to be.

There are fireflies seemingly everywhere around me at night lately, the heat brings them out. It's a small bit of magic specific to the east coast: i never saw a firefly while growing up in the midwest. The season is changing: appreciate the solstice omens.

Writing a score for instrumental ensemble takes so much more time and knowledge resources than any normal person realizes, and since I do it by hand I feel like a character in a Victorian novel.

the new eda sensor design of the BioSynth literally sends the headphone output of a 100hz sine tone through your fingertips to detect emotional engagement and this is so pseudo new age I could scream from delight

After 4 years of waiting My haskap bush has made berries The Cardinals are eating them all to tell me. How nice.

"my multimeter is giving me weird values, uhm, do you know anything about that?" "oh yeah uh, I wanted to measure an AC signal or maybe current, I can't remember, anyways I did and there was a popping sound, I just put it back on your bench." this is love, everyone. this is love.

Hello I am an artist and academic re-drawing the boundaries of music and emotional experience. I am a new professor of music at Université de Montreal Canada. I'm now focused on writing my first grants. I research biofeedback, emotions, asmr and music tech. I also make experimental music. Enjoy

5/4 to be clear I'm not anti ChatGPT, but when I visit artists' websites I can SMELL ChatGPT coming off a lot of the bios. it makes me feel a lot of pity that someone would outsource the meaning of their own artistic work to an algorithm ran by collaborators of the current United States oligarchy.

4) all the same, what role can educators play in encouraging students to take the risk of thinking for themselves or trusting that original ideas have value? Why do students lack the confidence to read or research? How can we reward what looks like original research even if it isn't written well?

3) but maybe this isn't really a "problem", just a cruel irony that reflects the transactional nature of the market. artists don't need to be smart nor original they just need to be marketable and connect. being original can actually damage your career if your expression is alienating.

2/4 art students are also using ChatGPT to contextualize their work with the same self-aggrandizing tone and sentence structure while reiterating well-trodden references, talking points, and politics.

1/4 art students are investing tens of thousands of dollars to develop their own creative voice in university amongst peers and researchers who seemingly all use the same language and references to justify their work through buzzwords mostly relevant to the humanities and academia

I really love this interview format, specifically the fact that they display the original reply of the artist in their native language alongside the english translation.

In re-designing my EDA sensors for AC signal rather than DC voltage running through the electrodes, I am back to building op amp circuits in increased levels of despair while re-learning the basics for hours. Just like the good old days...

Happy International Whores Day! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

I am just struggling to keep the area weeded but I do love the idea of Gothic gardening as well with only dark purple blue and black blooms

I just looked up "Gothic spa" on Spotify and there was nothing. I'm ready to cancel my subscription now.

The baby birds nesting near my porch are starting to leave the nest. The season is changing and it is a gentle time of the year.

Reading this because Hito Steyerl told me to

Concept: ChatGPT and other LLMs as botox for your writing process.

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams. This photograph was made on a commercial assignment for IBM.

Waiting for the dread chemicals to dissipate while listening to asmr roleplay about buying sun glasses

Sound conference

challenging myself to replace morning cell phone use with reading -bringing the same curiosity and gentle attention I would to having a friend over for coffee. Today I am visiting with Georgina Born's Rationalizing Culture (1995), leaning about modernist postures of science in electronic music.

The golden moments between thesis submission and the defense.

Wow, small joys: a half decent cafe where I could bring my laptop and work opened up in my neighborhood. I mean, A LITTLE gentrification, this part is nice.

Au cas où vous l'auriez manqué : Ma participation à l'émission de vulgarisation scientifique « Moteur de Recherche » où je parle de mes travaux sur l'ASMR, la physiologie émotionnelle et la musique de biofeedback.

N Katherine Hayles has a new book which picks up on her theories of unthought from 2017. Wonderful work. www.rightclicksave.com/article/when...

One day more of thesis corrections. I have been working hard but I am excited to wake up tomorrow and give it my best.

I miss them

This ASMR roleplay is one of my favorites it's so soothing

Genuinely struggling with tables and lists in Microsoft word send help and prayers please

Springtime got me buying hyacinths and tulips feeling like the turtledove is in our land

Did you know that the masculine equivalent of the femme fatale is apparently referred to as a "status fatale" ? Academic article below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I feel like the psychological effect of Poilievre repeating FOR A CHANGE at the end of every statement is weirdly like when you are watching a show and the advertisements arrive at a radically louder volume