Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

I finally finished the last episode today (love a super long episode) and feel the need to stress again how much the subs fee for Cursed Media was worth it for this series. Annie and Megan knocked it out the park, thank you both.

Book Christmas Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social

Early Bird Registration for the 2026 Shakespeare World Congress in Verona is now open! #wsc2026 Read about our seminar on our website: shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/r...

Die Goethe-Uni in den 80ern: Es ist unmöglich, Barbara Klemms Fotoserie für die U-Bahn-Haltestelle Bockenheim nicht kennen und lieben gelernt zu haben, wenn man dort studiert hat. Jetzt gibt es endlich eine umfassende Recherche zu den Bildern! ❤️ fotos-bockenheimer-warte.de

tired: painstakingly trim 50 words, one at a time, until the whole thing is polished like a diamond wired: find one long sentence somewhere in the middle and just delete it

To be clear, it would be more understandable if reviewers routinely said this about double albums of Beethoven piano sonatas, or even recordings by an unaccompanied male group like the Orlando Consort. But they don’t. #EverydaySexism

Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this. Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’

And then I read this in a recent review of Musica Secreta: "... with the limited contrast of all female voices it’s probably best to be a bit selective rather than take this extensive programme in a single sitting." 2/5

Good Evening! 🧚

What a beautiful description of the magic of studying the humanities.

I don't know maybe I'm insane, but afaik we know by now that avoiding hallucinations where an llm is in the background is mathematically impossible. Which means any transcription would have to be double-checked by hand. Which in turn defeats the purpose of using a tool like that in the first place?

🎶it's the most wonderful time of the year🎶

Mama take this badge from meeeee...

There's still tickets left for our last ever concert with Winfried Toll today after 28(!) years.

Hörenswert: Unser Chef Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann hat gestern mit dem #SWR über die morgen und übermorgen anstehende #Palestrina -Tagung in #Mainz gesprochen 👇 #Musikwissenschaft @unimainz-events.bsky.social

Die Akademie des Bistums #Mainz, die Abteilung Musikwissenschaft der @unimainz.bsky.social, das Institut für Kirchenmusik im Bistum Mainz sowie Musica Sacra am Hohen Dom zu Mainz laden ein zur Tagung "Palestrina Gestern – Heute – Morgen" am 21. und 22. November 2025 👇

So close! abc7chicago.com/post/pope-le...

#OTD 1792: the #Mainz Nationaltheater performed for the final time. Founded in 1788, it quickly became one of the leading German #opera and #theatre companies and performed at the imperial coronations of 1790 and 1792. Its fate changed when the French Army captured the city in Oct 1792...1/7

Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity

The Dachverband der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaften (DVSM) is hosting its 6th Master's Speed Dating Musicology event: dvsm-verband.de/speeddating-...

A. S. Byatt's "Possession. A Romance." I will never ever stop recommending it to anyone who does cultural history in any way. Shortest pitch I can give: it's a book about how, when we do history, people get in the way, both the living and the dead. And it's messy and beautiful and complicated.

Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”

Dem 'Deutschen Kulturrat' hat mein Übersichtsbeitrag zu #RechtsRock bei miz.org so gut gefallen, dass sie ein 'best of' davon in der Zeitschrift 'Politik & Kultur' abgedruckt haben 👇

🫶 www.hessenschau.de/politik/nur-...

Insurance company will want to know if the car reverse sensor sounded at least twice before the incident Two beep, or not two beep, that is the question

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver

Popkultur-Kunstgeschichte: Weil das Video zu #TaylorSwift​'s neuem Song offenbar von F. Heysers #Ophelia inspiriert wurde, kann das #MuseumWiesbaden sich derzeit nicht gerade über Besucherinnenmangel beklagen: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... von @deborahcole.bsky.social via @theguardian.com

Bruckner critical edition project

Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!

Johann Sebastian Tach

READ WILD FAITH BY @swordsjew.bsky.social

Belegt ist das hier "Paul von Joukowsky, [...] , habe Hasch später als [Wagners] Inspirationsquelle für Klingsors Zaubergarten genannt. Diesen Akt habe sich Wagner im Haschischrausch ausgedacht."

+++CFP DEADLINE+++ Do you have a research student whose work is in Shakespeare and Music? Let us know by *15 Sept* via the contact form on our website! We'd love to have them on our panel proposal for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference: www.rma.ac.uk/events/rma-r...

🪐✨CFP/REGISTRATION DEADLINE✨🪐 The deadline to register for our (and other's) seminar at the "Planetary Shakespeares" World Shakespeare Congress 2026 in Verona is September 15! Read our CfP and details about the registration process on our website 👇 shakespeareandmusic.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...

Idk do they?

Good evening.

Nobody: Every algorithm ever: oh, you listened to a single obscure Handel aria for work purposes? Have you heard of... Lascia ch'io pianga? No, check it out, I'm sure you'll love it. I have at least 5 different recordings here, trust me, it's great!

Um. What do I do now? Guess I'll have to fill the void with the Mistborn series for the time being... (Brandon, please hurry :') )

This is not good. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.

This guy killed Bach and Handel, and: “Prior to performing each surgical procedure, he would deliver a long, self-promoting speech in an unusual oratorial style.”

Just finished Thomas Mann's Zauberberg for the first time and, yeah, okay, I get it now. Wow. Which, by the way: if your local library doesn't have a copy or it's constantly checked out like mine was, Thomas Mann will enter the public domain this coming January!

AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness

Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und die Verfassung der Deutschen - Eine Rekonstruktion. Am 25. Juni um 18:42 verändert der Jurist Ekkehart Reimer laut „t-online“ gezielt den Wikipedia-Eintrag von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und fügt eine Passage zum Thema „Schwangerschaftsabbruch“ hinzu.

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

Nein. Faschistische Zensur ist keine "Wokeness von rechts". Ein Hagelsturm ist auch kein kristalliner Sonnenschein, ein Explosionsknall ist keine Stille mit hoher Amplitude, und Haarausfall ist keine Frisur.

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

Buona sera 🐦

Von der Sache mit der Vatikanflagge wollen wir jetzt gerade mal überhaupt nicht anfangen, aber ich würde sehr gern wissen, ob ihr bewusst ist, wessen Narrativ sie hier bedient. Es ist immer noch das rechtsnationale "Christentum" va in den USA, das diesen Verfolgungswahn ideologisch fest verbaut hat.