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Learning that 85% of ChatGPT users are men, and AI users are between 2-6x more likely to be men overall, and suddenly everything makes sense

I’ve been thinking about writing a post on this for a few days, EA news convinced me to. The past two weeks, I’ve gotten back into playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. The Mass Effect series got me through my PhD exam summer. Study all day at the music department, go home and play to relax 1/x

Schedule-sending literally 25 emails to go out at 9am on Monday morning is the real work-life balance. Can't wait to see what a mess my inbox is after teaching...

I love Outlook autocomplete's optimism, trying to turn my Monday morning signoffs from "Have a good week" to "Have a good weekend" 🫠

Well don't I feel stupid

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It's been proposed that the Schools of Music and Theatre at UNL, without actually being merged, be led by a *single* director. This is a crossroads for the study of music in Nebraska. If music in Nebraska matters to you, please read more and consider taking action. sites.google.com/view/gksomst...

Enjoy Bill's absolutely beautiful (and very fun) video about Amy Beach and 20th-century birdsong transcription!

10/10, no notes

We haven't had much large in-person conference discourse on bluesky the last few weeks, so I'll kick off a fresh round: The (giant, overpriced) conference venue doesn't even have an available room for one of SMT's journals to hold a board meeting. Literally, what are we doing?! Why do we do this?

A few days late, but my SMT-V on Amy Beach's Hermit Thrush pieces has been released! You can find it here: www.smt-v.org/archives/vol... This one took me a while to get together, but I think I took pretty good advantage of video format. Enjoy!

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

I just don't understand what I am supposed to eat when I watch football, I really wish I had some marketing emails to help me out.

iVamos, Carlos! 💙

I'm guest teaching a colleague's 20th-century music history class next week, and am feeling just mischievous enough that I'm going to have them watch Casablanca and we'll spend 75 minutes talking about using music to defy Nazis.

My dad taught at my high school. A year or two after I graduated, he revealed that my gruff AP Gov teacher, whom I’d always assumed was a staunch conservative, actually thought George W Bush was a war criminal

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

Sure, Mark, and marathon runners may one day be at a significant aerobic disadvantage compared to people who never exercise.

Kids are confused by this Ohio U vs. Ohio State football game. Lucky for them, they're about to get a dad lecture about the Morrill Act.

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: cherry, or Mama Jo's French Silk when in Cleveland Best ice cream: Mint chocolate chip Best donut: any from Union Sq Donuts (Somerville, Mass); else, a fresh apple cider donut Best bar: Brownies Best cake: Pumpkin Almond Cake (BAKED cookbook) Best other: Affogato

Fresh resupply. Time to do some counterpoint

Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood? McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood

I had two Religious Studies majors in my most recent Video Game Music class, and they were among the smartest students I’ve ever taught. I’m mentoring one now as she revises her term paper to submit to a journal.

Working at home today, trying to finish off a book review and helping my wife get boxes down in the garage. She has demonstrated extraordinary willpower by waiting an entire three days before beginning to decorate for Halloween

the news is a never ending stream of awful events right now, but on the plus side, I haven't seen or heard a thing about El*n in at least a month.

Cool beans, latte, brain dump, anime Bunker buster, graphene, steganography Mixtape, mood board, microbrew, multi-tool, Bum rush, boy band, AZT We didn't start the fire...

Seeing the "Can AI suffer?" article circulating alongside the OpenAI suicide lawsuit* might be my Joker origin story. JFC. *biggest content warning ever, seriously, do not read about this unless you have some time to calm down and maybe access to one of those anger smashing rooms

lol, economists.

The slide deck linked in here is glorious, like a Parks and Rec episode come to life. Imagine being the intern who had to collate more than a thousand of these.

Did you know you can put moving GiFs on PowerPoint slides? Anyway, here’s to the first day of classes.

Kings Hawaiian rolls have updated their logo. I’m so tired of my history* and culture** being destroyed *picky kids at thanksgiving dinner ** people who buy big multipacks at Costco for their own picky kids

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped. [Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

*Heaves a heavy sigh, resets the number to zero on the “This platform has gone ____ days without a conspiracy theory about tuning” sign*

Harry Maguire crying about having his shirt pulled while he’s got a handful of Timber’s shirt in his own hand. The Premier League is back! 🤪 Good win for Arsenal, only 37 more to go!

For me, the Hunger Games series lost its steam when they spent the whole third one running around going “guys we’ve gotta make some sweet commercials about Katniss being a badass” but…I guess that’s where the fascists are at with their dress up games now.

Putting the middle seat in our minivan for maybe the first time ever, so we can take six (6) little girls to the VR arcade, which is apparently the hot new place for birthday parties in our town. There has to be a patron saint for this.

Back to school shopping in the age of Chromebooks

I don’t know but it’s accompanied by this on the screen

lando-ass college presidents all over the place rn

crazy how the summer term grading period is such a good time to update your syllabi for the fall

Cutting your humanities programs is performance art in the guise of budget cuts and everyone in academia knows it and everyone outside does not and that's why they can keep going doing this bullshit.

Seeing this was a nice way to start the day! muse.jhu.edu/pub/7/articl...

"For the love of God, Montresor!"

After a brutally hot summer in Maryland, we're at home in Ohio for the weekend and there are Oktoberfest beers on the shelves. We're almost there!

Yeah yeah, great jeans, talk to me when Sydney Sweeney is using that car to run over a new pair of 87oz Japanese selvedge in her driveway

“When am I ever gonna need to learn about a humanities course?” - says a nation of illiterate, impoverished sociopaths

It’s Guitar Hero and Rock Band day in summer online Music in Video Games class, so it’s perfect that I’m at the in-laws place in Cleveland and I have not only a guitar but the actual Rock Band drum set in the spare room to demonstrate with!