DIDO: Remember me, but ah! forget my fate on this device

Two years minus one day ago 🤔

I honestly was only noting the etymology here, but since this post brought a couple of genuine weirdos out of the woodwork and also resulted in the originally-mentioned person blocking me, I think I'm prepared to draw some preliminary conclusions about this field of study, if that's what it is

Extremely disconcerting when the whole class gets the giggles for no obvious reason

Sorry to everyone whose name is short for {Albert, Alfred, Alvin, etc.} but you will have to style yourself Aℓ from now on to avoid confusion. Keep that ℓ thing somewhere that you can easily copy-paste it. Such are the awful times we live in

Logan Webb Cy Young when

It’s important to begin with sol and mi so that even 5-year-olds can say “neener neener” to each other with correct intonation

Jen and Siobhán are exactly the kind of people this country should protect and exalt. That they’re being chased out instead is a disgrace. If you can spare a few bucks to help them in their flight to safety please do. gofund.me/d0a40c4e8

@faineg.bsky.social , adding a subcategory of "paintings of animals drawn by people who were lied to and shown an entirely different animal"

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Hope that helps!

I saw someone here who self-describes as a metascientist, and my only thought is that that sounds like a field of study that might have called itself scientology if that name weren’t, you know, taken

CHOTINER: how spicy is the spicy tofu? SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: look I don't do it all the time SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: that would be like expecting Sammy Davis Jr to tapdance everywhere, I just want a sandwich SANDWICH GUY: I'm saying fucking nothing until my lawyer gets here.

ISAAC CHOTINER: you've said you're sitting in a room ALVIN LUCIER: [gesturing around] of course CHOTINER: and that it's different from the one I'm in now LUCIER: well, but CHOTINER: which, sitting here together, I'm just wondering if you see a contradiction there LUCIER: let me start again

This is why I find authorship conventions in the sciences so alien. There’s not necessarily anything untoward going on here, people just get coauthor credit in the sciences for contributions that would maybe get you thanked in a footnote in a humanities paper.

TFW grade school kids are smarter than the assembled brain trust of Silicon Valley

Each time I think I've experienced the most baffling Glenn Gould recording, I click just one more link and ...

Each time I think I've experienced the most baffling Glenn Gould recording, I click just one more link and ...

why am I not on here, I am a delight

If the *American Federation of Teachers* can’t see that the only realistic consequence of tolerating AI in K-12 education is that it will be used as a pretext to employ fewer teachers to earn less money to do their job less well in shittier conditions, that seems … ominous

"Mitra’s case, which multiple faculty said they believed was among the most egregious tenure denials they had ever seen, has already added to growing concerns about the fairness & accuracy of Harvard’s tenure system." This is truly outrageous & hard not to see as politically motivated.

Trust me you don't want to miss this long and reflective post about several NY Phil concerts—thank you, Renata, for sharing all this so thoughtfully, it was a terrific read

Since this kind of thing is important to my life now: you simply will not find an instance of bad scansion in Dr. Seuss’s oeuvre. If you think a line scans badly, you’re reading it wrong. There are surprisingly few kids’ book authors who have held themselves to anything like this standard.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

By the way, recordings of this piece range from 5 minutes (graceful, wistful, approximately the intended tempo) to NINE minutes (dementedly indulgent, each note agonized over and lingered upon for an eternity, beautiful if you're into that kind of thing, defended with ferocity by youtube commenters)

Watching!

This was a very important note on ii7 day in freshman theory!

It's this one, iykyk

LRT I think everyone should read Duck's short thread about AI writing & thinking, just one great point after another (completely apart from the context of that article, which tbh I did not read because I would cringe so hard I might die)

it seems like one of the things about the chatbots is that people think they are only letting it come up with better language when they are actually letting it come up with the thoughts--they're just not aware of how much it's filling in for them, or nudging them towards futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

I hope you are all excited for tomorrow when I will reveal what the very best note in Brahms Op. 118 no. 2 is

Congratulations, Ed! I’m looking forward to this. @eklorman.bsky.social

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun 911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great me: so who do we call 911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

My students were talking about trying to get better grades on their homework assignments by using cute accoutrements like treble clef paper clips and all I could think about was

Hey, how are ya? Doing great? I found out something interesting you might like. A couple of things, in fact. The first thing is, it turns out that although I have three nephews and two nieces, I can’t be literally, etymologically, avuncular to all of them. 1/20

Twice in the last two days our 5-year-old has experimented with calling his mom "dude," and it's hard for me to be as helpful as I would like to be in putting the kibosh on that when I'm laughing so hard

I know the Giants are gonna let him walk but I sure hope Wilmer Flores lands somewhere decent next year

You can use AI for your first draft "but you must make sure the final work is yours"? What does this even mean? Do the people who created this policy understand what a draft is?

I had a *student teacher* in my 8th grade history class who had frankly the incredible guts to tell us (when directly asked) that as a public school teacher she would defy the anti-immigrant CA Prop 187 if it passed. (It passed but was ruled unconstitutional.) 30 years ago but I remember.

Opinion I should almost certainly keep to myself: I enjoy Chris Thile playing the Bach solo violin sonatas & partitas on mandolin more than I think I've ever enjoyed any performances on violin (12 years after doing an album of three of them, he's releasing the other half of them soon, yay)

Excited to watch Eldridge but I can’t look at this graphic and not think friendship ended with Mudasir

Genuinely what am I missing here. These 3's are nonsense, right?

Hahahaha oh no

> 1 developer > over 100GB file size go off, king

what's wrong babe you've barely touched your arbitrary frequency chocolate

He’s heard Kind of Blue twice. Once on Spotify after he saw the album on a listicle on Instagram, once in the bar of a nice restaurant while waiting for his dinner reservation. Neither time he really paid attention.

Kershaw has NEVER thrown this many pitches in an inning against the Giants? Omg

@grantbrisbee.bsky.social I'm requesting your opinion on this vitally important matter: what are the odds that Freddie Freeman has ever heard of "Freddie Freeloader"?

If you're Freddie Freeman, how is your walkup music not Freddie Freeloader?

I honestly love how, if you know how to read a baseball score, this tiny bit of information can only mean a walkoff grand slam