fucking genocidal

anybody remember this www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBS...

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

I have once again been lucky enough for the opportunity to discuss my work with Lydia. If you haven't heard me yap enough about Big Feelings, this is substantive. But we also talk teaching, writing, and crying. open.spotify.com/episode/60cR...

cry baby pod is back to wrap up its first season. Three or four interviews are on the way, starting with this great chat. On all the podcast platforms. dandipiero.substack.com/p/9-cuban-re...

Publication Day! Now in paperback for the first time, the newly revised edition of The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit is officially available from the University of Michigan Press. For a 30% discount, follow the link and enter UMWEB30 on the shopping cart page. press.umich.edu/Books/J/Jazz...

Let’s recap just the past day at Ohio State University: 1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein 2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s 3) Now this. 👇

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’ Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Speaking at the Rock Hall in April, would love to see ya. rockhall.com/event/ams-in...

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

The Democrats ought to be blowing whistles up in the chamber, chanting f*** ice, and getting themselves arrested right in the middle of Congress. It's like they don't have the slightest clue as to how bad it is with a few very few exceptions. Be as brave as a poet or a nurse in Minneapolis

AMS folks, do we have any idea what the status of our petition is at this moment? The letter listed demands at 90 day and 6–12 month timelines—do we know if any steps have been taken towards any of those goals?

If you have concerns about the production of your book manuscript or how a publisher is engaging with AI, *please* ask your dealbreaker questions well before you are holding a contract in hand. You will lose months if not years if you wait until after peer review (and likely won’t get what you want)

Junior scholars and late-stage graduate students in popular music studies! The AMS Popular Music Study Group is now accepting applications for our biannual Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this summer! Read our full call here and please share widely. amspop.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/2...

"@kirinmcelwain.bsky.social's exploratory album 'Youth' turns toward crystalline feedback, chaotic oscillators, and intentionally harsh tones to express the feelings of desire and shame occupying the same cognitive space." - @thetonearm.com www.thetonearm.com/kirin-mcelwa...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

EMO CON 2026 will be held at Washington University in St. Louis in April. And you still have time to submit an abstract! Listen to my chat with @vcmusictheory.bsky.social about why you should. dandipiero.substack.com/p/emo-con-sp...

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

Something about public humanities discourse that’s always rubbed me the wrong way is how it tends to imply working from within the academy outward, beyond the academy: We (in here) do stuff to attract attention from you (out there). What I want to talk about is how to get back to a place where that

it's an excellent day to buy all the best presents at your fave independent bookstore! this is mine, what's yours? www.downboundbooks.com (locals i'll be slinging books and wrapping gifts on site xmas eve, all things permitting)

here is the picture of the wounded bird, i'm sorry for your future loss www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DLP...

If you stopped masking, you can just… start again. Indoors, public spaces at least.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

"My most daring idea is to refuse." YES.

I don't remember my 9th grade English teacher's name because he wasn't my favorite. But I do remember him saying "there's almost always a better word than 'thing.'" And that's still true.

'let that sink in' is such a truly insufferable way to try to convey the significance of something that probably does matter a lot.

Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.

We are experiencing a more severe than usual flu season and COVID rates are starting to rise. If you want to reduce your chances of getting sick, one of the most effective things you can do is wear a high quality mask. 🤫

the rest of the year is just me grading and listening to all the best-of music that i hadn't known about. the Rosalía record does indeed rip. way better than geese

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Today, I conclude list season with my favorite rediscoveries of 2025. I pay my respects to D'Angelo, reconsider Tori Amos's Boys for Pele, cry over Tom Petty's Wildflowers, and age with Liz Phair's Whitechocolatespaceegg. alyxvesey.substack.com/p/favorite-a...

My book *Music at the Margins of Sense* is available for preorder on the University of Michigan Press’ website where you can read a description and preview the ToC! Order now to get 50% off during @uofmpress.bsky.social’s holiday sale. Stay tuned for the cover! 🎉 press.umich.edu/Books/M/Musi...

It's hard to find but here is my PERSONAL list of top albums for 2025. Sign up for the NPR Music newsletter to see another 10 plus another 15 top songs this weekend www.npr.org/2025/12/11/g...

The university bought Claude AI for students to use. Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished. Great stuff, academia.

i regret to report that i like the geese album

"The rapid, largely unregulated rise of datacenters to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

On that note, you can hear us discussing my book in this latest episode—last one before a little hiatus. dandipiero.substack.com/p/big-feelin...

Honored to be included in my brilliant friend's end of year roundup. raechelannejolie.substack.com/p/2025-cultu...

I'm kicking off list season this week with a playlist of my favorite songs from 2025. Check it out! 🎧 Liner notes: alyxvesey.substack.com/p/vz-25-play... Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0R8...

Sorry folks, I’m just so sick of people not putting their money or actions where their mouth is. If you’re looking for a way to start, two easy ways are mask in public & give to your local clean air group(s) that are trying to clean the air in schools. Here’s the Cville one: www.cleanaircville.org

embarrassing and appalling and completely ignorant of the crisis we're leaping head first into. we are racing towards the bottom, eating ourselves alive. and by "ourselves" what i mean is that we are stuck in between students who are incentivized to do everything but read and often hostile admin.

There's something about the difference between heteropessimism and the tragedy of heterosexuality that I've been trying to put my finger on for a while, not totally successfully—but I do think they're different in several ways.

This piece brought me to tears. I still believe in this, and it is getting so much harder. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.