boss makes a dollar, i make a dime. everyone contributes here at the mint

Reworking my "AI is awesome and you should unquestionably embrace it" graduation speech after some feedback

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

So thrilled by this thoughtful review from the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

one of my favorite poems is still just "the text from the Whataburger cups"

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

If you see this, post a concert photo you took. The Beastie Boys in 2006. Sound guy let me hang out at the board the whole show.

[guy who missed the first few seconds of Star Wars] whoa is this happening right now? In our galaxy??

We got approval to hire a visiting assistant professor of musicology, with an August 2026 start date. It's open, but we especially need someone to teach history of pre-1900 music and American popular musics. Please apply or share!

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

when an ump is correct on a challenged pitch he should get to be snarky about it

Going back in time to tell 2015 me that Trump will get elected which brings about a new plague and then he'll get re-elected for a second term after attempting to overthrow the government and his biggest political foe in 2026 is the Pope who is from Chicago

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

"Does this shock you? Make you feel vulnerable? Endangered? Impuissant? SHAKE OFF YOUR SENSE OF SINGULARITY AND ENTITLEMENT, EARTH PEASANT." [Blows a spit bubble.]

“When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1937 by Jimmie Foxx.” – Lefty Gomez

Downloading books on Libby and marveling, as ever, about this unique and glorious service offering. No ads! No popups! No subscriptions!

there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

Academics have two and only two speeds: 1. Can you review this manuscript by this afternoon? Or 2. Sorry I missed your email in 2016 - do you still want to chat? #academia

Today we’re launching the website and social media pages for the new Music Cognition Lab from Dublin, Ireland! Stay tuned for #Music #Cognition updates 🎶🧠🎶🎉 @escom.bsky.social @creativebrainweek.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social @musicperception.bsky.social #musicpsychology

slime-survey-app.vercel.app Please try this “What type of listening device are you?” quiz and share with friends!

This gets at something important: what is a model for? Is it to tell you the future, and you believe it and act accordingly? Or is it to help you understand how things work so you understand what you're doing?

“Looks like some art’s about to happen.”

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

Really appreciate my brain reminding me that “toes are scarce among the veteran blubber men” as I chip away at the ice in front of my feet with a shovel 🐋

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

If you start MELANIA at the exact same time as Alice Coltrane’s meditative 1971 modal jazz classic “Journey in Satchidananda” they line up perfectly

In the end, Moby Dick is a novel about the importance of asking the right questions regarding your direct manager, their management style, and the culture fostered by their leadership during your job interviews. 🐋

I WILL TEACH YOU DATA (And birding!) Spring cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials are open for registration. Come and learn with me. "It's not just about learning how to code; it's about changing the way that you pay attention." jerthorp.me/learning

Seriously though an entire crowd of people spontaneously creating a new synthesis of musical ideas on the spot as mass emotional catharsis??? This is what music is for. This is what humanity is for

I love it when amazingly kind and brilliant people get the nice things!

Left: writing the damn paper in the shadows of an archive nearby. Right: presenting the said paper as a keynote at a fancy conference. #academicchatter

8yo is taking the Bears loss well.

"i saw a bad post on x" ok well i saw a turd in the toilet but i'm not making you look at a screenshot of it

This man has never lived in rural Offaly where we’d go 3 towns over, braving even Kilcormac, albeit with the windows rolled all the way up, for a mere glimpse of the most recent Final Destination film. Fool.

behold, i have created a robot that can throw the ball with your child so that you can stare at spreadsheets on the screen longer

Become uncontainable

Celebrating a Chicago win

did someone call the Pope?!

in baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeeee!