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"universal health care means studios wouldn’t have to subsidize workers’ medical expenses" -- hmmm interesting

Seriously. Was the Klan not political?

lol no @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social the gop doesn’t exist. There is no across the aisle. Wake up.

I think when you hit 50 I think Apple should just move 🤷🏽‍♂️ to the top of the emoji options

Tired: Dems in Disarray Wired: GOP voters hate science and love fascism.

If Elon can make 1 trillion dollars, will revolution finally come?

Actually it’s time for every politician who voted him in to die of the plague.

Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office

Can’t wait to ride Measles Mountain at Disneyworld

Check it out— two chapters from The AI Music Problem are now Open Access. Download and read for free! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”

NY Times Brain Rot. I have no words for how stupid this op-ed is. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Has anyone written about the ecosystem of user generated MIDI files on the internet?

Yes this

When your partner leaves after 23 years it’s like being told you were living in a simulation.

Fabio and Liam don’t mess around.

yes, the quality, size, & representatives of your training data does to some extent impact the performance of your system. but that's far from the whole story. automation by its very nature forces quantification and most social, cultural, political phenomena resist quantification 2/

I wonder if Shazam is anticipating having a big role in music discourse. I shazam'd a song in a coffee shop that I was convinced was AI it was so dumb. Actually it was BANNER's "Name In Lights." Will the new diss be "AI!"??

How long before “Universal Music, powered by Suno”?

Omg y’all stop donating earned media to dumb advertising.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

Heads up to anyone considering using music on this site: I make no claims against any particular track or the tracks on this site, but every upload in the last 8 months from Kevin has been generated by Suno. (Everything after Outback Call): www.youtube.com/@incompetech... Check the descriptions.

Fellow music studies people, I am co-organizing a small conference next year at UC Berkeley. Please spread the word, the Call for Proposals is now out and due August 22nd. We'll be gathering to discuss how to study musical AI, algorithms, and datasets. www.algorithmicmusicmethods.com

@lizpelly.bsky.social finally got to chapter 11 of the book and it’s just so devastatingly depressing. Good work capturing this mess👍🏽👍🏽🫡

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social times fully bent over at this point

“The road to authoritarianism is filled with people telling you you are overreacting.” @governorwalz.mn.gov speaking at @americanprogress.bsky.social right now

It’s clear that we’re in a dangerous time. @governorwalz.mn.gov's warning:

This is how it's done.

Youtube is just infrastructure that's already been privatized.

There are many reasons why AI slop has become the aesthetic of current digital fascism, but one may lie in the competitive and selective logic of AI training itself: GenAI amplifies the presence of those who are already highly visible – while rendering invisible those who are already marginalized 5/

does color coding your dissertation writing schedule count as writing?

MAGA is so cringe.

Has TS cracked the authenticity ideology? Her fans are now hoping for a TV of reputation… so interesting.

Our current age summarized

You’re not a New Yorker unless you know in your bones the feeling of watching the subway tracks for a burst of light late at night:

I don't know why I feel like I need to dunk on the NY Times but come on, my recollection is that "wirecutters" were people trying to save money by canceling cable. But ok, here's a $2700 hoodie.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Metastasizing I.P. - Anne Kornbluh

what is benson boone?

Trump: you can’t tax the wealthy because they will leave and they pay taxes. lol.

Boho in paradise finally

Faculty at UMass Amherst have passed a resolution calling for a Massachusetts Higher Education Compact: a coalition of all universities/colleges in the state to defend our students, our institutional autonomy, and freedom of thought and inquiry. We're organizing faculty across the state. Join us!

we're building concentration camps but yeah go ahead and use your platform to drag Katy Perry.

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Me too

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.