“Jill Warren, the wife of a Methodist pastor, suggested residents brush up on the OSS’ Simple Sabotage Field Manual.”

Turns out it’s already happening futurism.com/artificial-i...

In honor of DUP’s 100 year anniversary, their sale should be 100% off

Sorry if someone already said this but the bar for if AI is conscious should be if AI has class consciousness

Could labor organizing have saved Tony Soprano and his boys?

That May 16, 2025, tornado system was the most destructive tornado to carve through an American city in over a decade. It damaged more than 10,000 properties, killing and injuring residents along its path and leveling entire blocks holding generations of Black history. https://bit.ly/48Wa8TW

Do not create a deep fake of yourself in order to have a 24/7 office hours chat bot. Just don’t.

*90s beat in background* hey you kids! It’s Magnus here! Your new provost of the new year! If you think school is lame, you just haven’t seen my game!

The spectacle begets spectacle

Kennedy Owra, a PhD student at UW, and his 13 year old son were deported from Seattle, WA earlier today (4/8/26) after being detained and denied legal counsel. Here is a GoFundMe to help their family with legal costs: www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

Giving up on work for today, the Moon/nuke combo is breaking my Cold War brain.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

There’s something here about the importance of paying attention that the study of aesthetics

Yes, live streaming this is pretty great

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Somebody told me writing a book is a main quest but you have many side quests. My current side quest is quantum theory so I can make one metaphor for the methodology section of my book.

The fact that humans are in space while the US rages war on other countries for ideologically dubious reasons 2026 is the new 1972

“Sasha Widman said she had accepted the $3,000 residence scholarship, Still, she does not plan to declare a minor. ‘I don’t think that’s necessarily where I want our society to go, or where I want my education to go,’” Gift link: coalitionforcarolina.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Any good examples of a written methodology section that combines Jameson, Adorno, and Hayden White?

How do I put these in my tenure portfolio? 🥺 (the music sorority Tau Beta Sigma gave me my flowers!)

My student walked into my classroom, sat down, and said I should throw my hat in the ring. HMU Bubba!!!

Hi #SCMS26, if you're interested in game sound stuff, swing by our panel tomorrow (3/26) at 2:15–4:00pm 🫡 And thank you to @soundmusicscms.bsky.social for sponsoring us!

I love teaching Dr Strangelove

If you’re catching the Met live stream of tristan today watch out for this un-caffeinated but drenched in Issey Miyake face

My department has never tenured a woman of color on the “academic” side of music studies

Spring break reading for writing

Every time I see a sans serif A+I I thinks it’s Al like “you can call me Al Czar”

Our neighbors who confronted ICE in Minnesota have taught us how grieving gives us the courage to continue our dissent.

What does it say about my current mental health that my vocal stim hyper fixations of the past few days have been Billie Eilish “SKINNY” and The Cranberries “Linger”

hmm

Re: Timothy Chalmet

Manifesting Dior Book Tote of Frankenstein. Please JWA do me a solid.

This guy didn’t suffer daylight savings time

NEW: US & Israeli have bombed a 4th school. Shahid Hamedane School in Tehran was hit today, following schools hit in Minab and Parand, Iran. And The National in Scotland seems to be the only newspaper in the Western world giving these war crimes appropriate coverage. Tomorrow’s front page👇

"Jorge" works in the Arvin CA area as a irrigator. The work is very tiring, but I enjoy it. I feel lucky to walk through the trees under the flowers. It is beautiful out here during this time of year." #WeFeedYou

Going from maralago face to cauliflower ear. Why we always gotta face the ugliest people

which one of you from-atlanta-georgia's is the merch artist for t*cker c?

Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, on Iran: "we don’t see a structured program to manufacture nuclear weapons" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

There should be a new university league called the Jeffrey League. MIT, ASU, UCLA, Duke… all part of this illustrious league. What other unis are in the league?

The Harvard Youth Poll is so fascinating. 45-50% of Gen Z see the Republican Party, Mainstream Media, and Healthcare CEOs as threats to the US.

Teaching my students Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat this week as a reminder of the violence that ensues bc of uranium (commodity) fetishism

Reading Benjamin Labatut’s _The MANIAC_ as a good archival confabulation about how the math and logic that undergirds these computational systems is deeply anti-human. Von Neumann desired the sublimity of math at the cost of humanity.

Opera at the Olympics! It’s the spectacle of spectacles!!!!

From me: The most fascinating money in politics race in America is happening in North Carolina. The incumbent, Valerie Foushee, benefited from millions in dark money 4 years ago; now her opponent has a 10:1 in Super PAC spending. Lots of scoops in here. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/02/20/n...

Anyone know of anyone who went through the TT to novelist pipeline?

URGENT PETITION: As students, parents, alumni, staff, faculty, and community members, we call on the UNC System Board of Governors to protect academic freedom as defined by the 1940 @aaup.org Statement. BOG: Vote against revisions to Chapter VI of The Code. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

I love Chicago. The hometown of only the truest heroes

Would have been nice to receive this fortune *before* the day I had