I want a Google scholar wrapped. How many times did i look up the same article? How many times did I download the same paper? Wait what was that paper again. Let me check.

"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit." Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.

I've been thinking about music education and AI over on substack. There are big questions and I'm not sure we're up to providing the answers.

Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.

The world might be stupid but there are still amazing things and people in it. I went to a dia de los muertos celebration last night and there was a tremendous amount of music, color, and joy. Traditions and culture are important.

I’ve been working with a private school’s k-12 music program. It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.

New: Reflecting on real world teaching problems through solving them together- a reflection from some recent music teacher education classroom experiences.

Sometimes the best question to ask isn’t “how can we do better?” but “should we be doing this at all?”

Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

@hankgreen.bsky.social Which way did people turn things before clocks were invented? We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?

Listening to "Ready or Not" by the Fugees today in class. I asked the undergraduates to identify some of the other musical works referenced in the lyrics. "What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing" None of them Knew.

Music education could stand to do more thinking and teaching about how music is used for political purposes. Music isn’t always a liberating force. Music is often used to signal membership of an in group. When Trump uses Greenwood they’re both making a musical cultural case about who Americans are.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

“People espousing antifascist ideology are enemies of the state but don’t you dare call us fascists or we’ll target you with the full force of the state!” Yeah, there’s a name for that.

We rely on each other broadly for protection of the truth. The concepts and knowledge we use to understand the world come to us mostly through others. We need to be able to generally trust their word to be able to know. We’re all in a big community and we depend on each other.

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I’ve just ordered an E-bike in a desperate attempt to reinvent myself moving from wacky shirt guy to E-bike guy. A truly lateral rebrand.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

I was talking to some young people recently and I mentioned that when I went to school you could just walk in and there were no cops there and no one worried about being shot to death. It was so far away from today’s reality that it seemed like I was recounting a dream even to me.

It's always remarkable when we get to see through the pretense to whose lives matter and which ones power mourns, humanizes, and validates in its response to violence, but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything this transparent.

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Used Google's AI mode to ask about Charlie Kirk. It used language that positioned him as a divisive figure who used debate and was perceived to focus on culture war issues.

I work at a university and I was in my office just now as someone was moving a desk on my floor. I heard some loud thumps as they coaxed it to where ever it was going. At least thats what I figured out after I listened for screaming and decided that these loud low thuds didn't mean I should hide.

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

Yes yes, I know that particular definition of insanity, but I can assure you this time it will be different. - Democrats

At some point, the white community is going to have to do something about the high rates of crime in white neighborhoods.

Truth be told, I know a lot of former heroin users I'd trust with health advice over RFK.

Serious question, some folks spend a lot of mental energy worrying about who should be at the table but have we spent time making clear who isn’t welcome. Personally I don’t really want Nazis to be welcome. I’d like them to feel unwelcome in almost every circumstance, we could be clearer on this

If ought implies can what does that mean for a discipline that can do many other things, and has been aware of other options since at least 1967 but continues to choose not to? Asking for #Musiced

If you have one Nazi at a table and nine other people sitting around the table trying to "find common ground with the Nazi," how many Nazis do you have?

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Being at my folks means being able to play my grandfathers banjo. I miss it when I’m not around.

Maine.

Sometimes it feels like the worst folks are making the world worse so that we become numb to their awfulness and they can rule over the miserable ruins of what could have been beautiful.

The last line of this completely knocked the wind out of me. A devastating thing to contemplate.

“You feel like you’ve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you. And while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they don’t care.”

As Megan says, a TON of the work we do in the LMS is to make it easier for students to miss class. This gets back to the idea of the LMS as a force of antisociality—how does your classroom become a (limited-time/purpose) community when on any given day a random 25%+ of its members will be absent?

Seeing a lot of back to school videos where parents are upset they are being asked to purchase communal supplies for their child’s classroom. In a lot of ways schools are the last bastion of public community in American life

FD tells me that the emergency access key for the building didn’t work and they were stuck until someone came by with a code to get in. Then they told me that the elevator I was in was especially difficult to open. Their key for the door wasn’t able to correctly catch for some reason.

Today in unhelpful AI I am currently stuck in a malfunctioning elevator at a storage unit place. Used the emergency phone, then tried to call the office here. The helpful AI assistant put me on hold when I told it I was stuck in an elevator.

The Democratic Party leadership is still being duped and outplayed by Ronald fucking Reagan from beyond the fucking grave. Your best clap back to American concentration camps is to hold up the fucking gipper and talk about how good he was?

It’s too much cookie monster sweatpants and too little Sesame Street these days.

I think there’s a lot of “accountability” that functions to remove responsibility. Accountability is external and imposed, responsibility is internal and relational. If you’re caught in an accountability framework you’re always looking to dodge blame. There isn’t intrinsic responsibility

So much of what is wrong is a product of too little imagination. If you can’t think a better world you can’t ever work up a plan to make it happen.