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it really doesn't seem like this description could possibly be 100% accurate but somebody posted the ad in the replies and this description is 100% accurate

I teach an AI module in my Advanced Audio Theory class. I spent a significant amount of time designing a homework assignment that I was ethically comfortable with. I still had a third of the class refuse to do it for ethical reasons. (I gave them an alternate assignment.)

School's out! Let's rock! Tonight in Providence.

many people are mocking this without reading the article: "Despite being better known for its bidet washlets that have defined the Japanese toilet globally, Toto is also the world’s second-largest producer of electrostatic chucks used in the manufacturing of Nand memory chips."

Happy May Day from Fidel Catstro and Frida Katlo! They won’t come if you call their names, but the will always come running when they hear The Internationale.😻 #MayDay

Soniferous Aether xkcd.com/3238/

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

It's literally the same people running the same playbook.

With so much awful news, here is something to brighten your day:

"The Straight of Hormuz is open!" The Straight of Hormuz:

Here's the thing: Democrats already know who can win. They know which policies are popular with voters and which candidates are vocally in support of those policies. They're going to throw a billion dollars into trying to prevent those candidates from becoming the nominee.

I'm looking forward to recording this concert.

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

The word "peptide" has a sexy vibe to it. According to Biochemistry 101, a peptide is a bunch of amino acids strung together, held together by peptide bonds. We are built of peptides. Anecdotes found on social media forums are more convincing than dry scientific evidence. 🧪 archive.today/HZ626

This has made me laugh until my eyes water several times today.

this part. politicians reacted to the spectacle. if they were truly concerned about ice abducting our neighbors, they would've opposed ice before midway blitz and would speaking up now as ice continues to kidnap our neighbors, just without the splash they made last fall

It's not "they want to segregate trans people like they did Black people." It's "they want to segregate Black people again, and trans people are the trial balloon, and that's why the arguments are essentially the same."

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

The main point in talking about eugenics as a science isn't to air science's dirty laundry. It's to give scientists who might otherwise be convinced that their empirical findings justify heinous shit on the basis of "that's just the facts" a moment of pause that maybe the science is in fact wrong

Another Matt whose birthday is today! All the best Matts are having birthdays up in this day.

My maiden? Iron.

There's a German word for the molten fury I feel reading announcements like this, but future Syracuse grads won't know what it is

Hobbies are a lifesaver. Eventually music got to be too serious to still feel like a hobby, so I paint miniatures.

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

I’m going to become the fucking joker

And the same is as true for AI music or film.

Both goddamn RI senators. God frigging damn.

I'm in a union. I have "good insurance." I just spent an hour finding out what my cost will be for something. Rather a lot, it turns out.

Name your price downloads on Nyege Nyege Tapes, today only. DJ K and DJ ZNOBIA personal faves. Get involved. Or don't, whatever... nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com

I have hopped on the Bandcamp Friday bandwagon with the release of "Infra Brut," a recording of my concert at Boston City Hall. As an added treat, I've included both stereo and binaural mixes! (The binaural is a very fun listen on headphones.) retributionbody.bandcamp.com/album/infra-...

the *precise* number of democratic votes required but it's probably just a coincidence like it was the other times it happened

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

I don't believe in labels but my friends do

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

Someone gonna tell this kid about glue factories and the freedom of being a beast of burden whose labor is no longer needed?

Post old memes to confuse young people. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qItu...

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

36" of snow in Providence. Back of the envelope math says we moved 2.4 tons of snow. God only knows when the street will be plowed.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

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one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C This film was designed to flow without hard cuts -- the camera just goes and goes and goes

"The ghost story, in other words, will always, on some level, fail to capture the haunting, just as the algorithm will always fail to capture the life." Well this was brilliant. I always feel simultaneously smarter and dumber after reading Colin's work.