This is deliberate, and it's good.

I was listening to #byu choirs' recording of #TheRedeemer on my general #Easter playlist (which was on shuffle), and I knew immediately when it was BYU, because they had the same vowels and enunciation as the #TabernacleChoir does (beginning under Jessup, cont. under Wilberg). 1/

One of the best Good Friday sermons I ever heard was Joseph B. Wirthlin's talk in General Conference titled, "Sunday Will Come." It's a great reminder that dark days aren't forever and setbacks aren't necessarily endings. www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/genera...

"At this Easter season, I reaffirm our testimony of the Resurrected Lord and recognize that He is the head of this Church.” — President Dallin H. Oaks #generalconference

Cue Chris Tomlin: "you're a good, good, father..." 13x

You may know this but one school already does this. St John's college. It's been around a long time. Here's the freshman reading list: www.sjc.edu/academic-pro...

Isn't this best practice anyway?

In a simplified description, this is essentially what a few people in instructional design are trying to do: get us back to reading and critical thinking, and discussion about theories and their application. Proj-based learning is an excellent form of learning, but we CANNOT do it w/out theory. 1/

I thought it was only Orthodox Mormons who did this.

the best might be the following: student: i think any child assault would be where i draw the line me: sure, & do you have a favorite artist? student: Drake *entire class bursts out laughing* me: don't watch the news the student was great as they all were & if Taylor Swift commits murder, well…

People hate when I bring up religion and the increasingly machine-centered world and talk about their intersection, but then why is this relationship being implicated increasingly in my conversations with people about their technology use? #technotheology

On the one hand, I want to say "this is gatekeeping." On the other hand, they are absolutely right.

How do we have a discourse about what level or type of AI use is acceptable, and what is not? I propose that the answer lies not in the type or number or prompts that we use, but in whether or not we “bring the human” to our human-AI interactions. open.substack.com/pub/reedhepl...

What webinars/blog posts/short-form content about using AI in a human-centered way would you be interested in? #HumanCenteredTech #MachineCenteredWorld #collaborAItion #genAI reedhepler.substack.com

This is amazing. I love this.

This is thought-provoking for classical music listeners, too. #Gesualdo stabbed his wife and her lover to death, BEFORE he ever started composing. So if you like his Tenebrae Responsories, congrats you are listening to the music of a murderer. Documents suggest it may be self-defense, but still...

it's art vs the artist week in my quest class! & that means FANTASTIC quotes from students AND the Spectrum of Crime™️-- for those who don't know, we make a spectrum from jaywalking to mass genocide & i ask students to think of their favorite artist & where they'd have to fall to stop listening

There are happy compromises in jazz and folk music! ;)

BBC Radio 3 Unwind Mindful Mix: Gentle classical music for a restful mind Now Playing William Henry Harris Faire is the heaven

A particularly relevant "burst" of a poem for Eastertide. "No matter how dark our Friday, Sunday will come." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

"God is a clock" by James B.

In four hours, I will be talking about "human-centered AI use in a machine-centered world." 90 minutes, $129/person www.library20.com/ai-sessions/...

Considering that barbershop music originated in Black barbershops, and was then misappropriated by white people who shut them out of barbershop performance orgs, that makes perfect sense! One might say that doo wop was the legitimate descendant of barbershop, via R&B, and "jazz" the illegitimate

Just going to leave this here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansh...

Today is Palm Sunday, marking the beginning of Holy Week as we approach Easter. Today's procession across Trafalgar Square to St Martin-in-the-Fields is a powerful retelling of the story of Jesus’s arrival in Jerusalem.

Today is Palm Sunday or Palmarum, the Sunday before Easter. Listen to a cantata composed by JS Bach which is suitable for this day, Himmelskönig, sei willkommen!, BWV 182, here in a performance by the Netherlands Bach Society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoHg...

One of the (many) reasons I like Mike Caulfield's work is that his recommendations are tool/platform agnostic. Yes he's updating SIFT to make it clearer when it comes to AI, but you could already extrapolate a lot of these things because of the nature of the framework.

I listened to an international conference panel focused on AI and OER, using "knowledge" about the nature of AI from THREE YEARS ago. This is, in part, why @aarontay.bsky.social's recent thread on not barreling ahead and teaching AI when you don't know about it is important.

Experience Greater Love: ‘Lamb of God’ Comes to The Metropolitan Opera House http://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/lamb-of-god-metropolitan-opera-house-lincoln-center

Brandon Victor Dixon, Zachary Noah Piser, and more will join the cast of Lamb of God at the Metropolitan Opera House!

For #PalmSunday, here is my #Easter Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/7KI... Note that although I am an unorthodox Mormon, I am still Mormon, so there are some Mormon hymns and #TabChoir songs on there.

Disagee. While "Ai search" is obviously not just conventional search. Mike Caulfield has been arguing for a while & I agree that there is much utility in many cases to see the result as a "fancy search result" open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

This is how I got into barbershop music, by hate-listening to it, because my baby boy heard it once on YouTube and loved it

We're also having a similar problem with metadata from Libby. Graphic novels are coming in as eBooks, which they are, but they are a particular kind of eBook, and so we cannot include them in the same category as our physical graphic novels in our catalog. These problems are why #metadata matters!

Why I cancelled all my AI subscriptions except one: open.substack.com/pub/reedhepl...

Yup, that's one of two season premieres that I always skip (Season 2)... the other being the one where he consistently violates his girlfriend's privacy and tries to broadcast that he's with her to get clout. Season 5 I think?

#CILDC Dan Russell key note predictions. New disasters will happen due to #AI. Our search skills will change and the old ones will atrophy. Agents / AI bots will date - but will we update them. AI will continue working when we're bored and give up. Everything works faster.

I think the "getting in trouble" boat sailed with the "AI-to-Boolean is not the best way to use AI in search" post lol An incisive and thought-provoking thread, as always, from Aaron Tay on "library instruction regarding AI."

As an aside, as a SMALL part of my dissertation, ("search" as self-directed learning, and using PBL to teach students how to do it), I am analyzing literature that talks about using AI in "search," and SDL), and there is not much. Only three or four studies in the past three years.

"Maybe this is an IL tradition" it absolutely is lol.

Precisely! Not only do librarians feel like they have to teach new tech immediately when it comes out, they often feel like they must put it in a good light. "Students are using it, so we have to go right into applying this technology." We need ethics/info lit first, and people don't want that.

That's essentially what HEART OF DARKNESS is, if you read it a certain way...

You would be surprised at how many misconceptions of non-Christian religions, particularly in the US and UK, are the result of Theosophy and other occultic groups misappropriating the terms or practices from other religions. Was David-Neel not an authentic practitioner of Buddhism, though?

Copyright Librarians often have to manage expectations - Researchers want simple answers to these complex questions about Copyright use - collaboration and community approaches to copyright literacy have helped to facilitate peer-peer discussions & access to expertise #RLUK26

I used to skip this one every time, until I was actually on the parking attendant's side in reality. Then, it became relatable to me.

Claire, Lilith, Fay, Roz, really every woman is made out to be an unstable villain (at least minorly) in at least one episode or another. Every episode is just Frasier's sexist perspective of what happened, because he has this oblivious sense of entitlement that never goes away despite reality.

So THIS is why the Moby Dick opera cast recording hasn't been released yet... An absolutely breathtaking work of genius. For the record, it IS half the audience's fault. Watching theatre and expecting not to be challenged is like saying you want to read poetry but not need a dictionary nearby.

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 77 – As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. Tao Te Ching - Verse 77 As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance. It…