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Musical Development: Classical Music and Gentrification in Louisville, KY
In 2020, the Louisville Orchestra offered a musical tribute to Breonna Taylor, whom Louisville police had murdered six months earlier. This “Concert for Healing” was celebrated for “doing something” a...
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My article about classical music, racism, and gentrification in Louisville is finally published, IF ANYONE CARES (ok if not)
Big thanks to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for "elite capture," a very useful theory for understanding some of the weird/bad features of classical music culture in the U.S.
Big thanks to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for "elite capture," a very useful theory for understanding some of the weird/bad features of classical music culture in the U.S.
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the centrism will continue until morale decreases
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
the centrism will continue until morale decreases
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New — Israeli forces just killed this Palestinian boy.
Last month, he and his family were harvesting olives. Soldiers bombarded them with tear gas, making him collapse.
He was in critical condition until today.
He is the 47th kid killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank this year.
Last month, he and his family were harvesting olives. Soldiers bombarded them with tear gas, making him collapse.
He was in critical condition until today.
He is the 47th kid killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank this year.
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New — Israeli forces just killed this Palestinian boy.
Last month, he and his family were harvesting olives. Soldiers bombarded them with tear gas, making him collapse.
He was in critical condition until today.
He is the 47th kid killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank this year.
Last month, he and his family were harvesting olives. Soldiers bombarded them with tear gas, making him collapse.
He was in critical condition until today.
He is the 47th kid killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank this year.
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Gregg Turkington offers a Behind-The-Scenes look in VFA Presents: DVD to VHS Conversion
Watch now on HEI: heinetwork.tv/more/vfa-pre...
Watch now on HEI: heinetwork.tv/more/vfa-pre...
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Gregg Turkington offers a Behind-The-Scenes look in VFA Presents: DVD to VHS Conversion
Watch now on HEI: heinetwork.tv/more/vfa-pre...
Watch now on HEI: heinetwork.tv/more/vfa-pre...
"You get the point: There are too many similarities between the iPhone and Meta’s glasses to name them all here, just as one could strain to name infinite similarities between a table and an elephant if we chose to ignore the context that actually matters to a human being." hahaha
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"You get the point: There are too many similarities between the iPhone and Meta’s glasses to name them all here, just as one could strain to name infinite similarities between a table and an elephant if we chose to ignore the context that actually matters to a human being." hahaha
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yet another big, depressing W for cynics who pay attention to stuff that happens and remember stuff that happened
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
yet another big, depressing W for cynics who pay attention to stuff that happens and remember stuff that happened
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Vote blue? No, matter who!
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Vote blue? No, matter who!
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Haaretz revealed that the State of Israel has signed multimillion-dollar contracts with U.S. firms linked to Trump allies and evangelicals to rebuild support among conservatives. The campaign uses bots, influencers, and re-trains AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude to steer discourse and...
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Haaretz revealed that the State of Israel has signed multimillion-dollar contracts with U.S. firms linked to Trump allies and evangelicals to rebuild support among conservatives. The campaign uses bots, influencers, and re-trains AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude to steer discourse and...
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One week under COMMUNIST Zohran Mamdani and the once great American Musicological Society does this. SAD!
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One week under COMMUNIST Zohran Mamdani and the once great American Musicological Society does this. SAD!
Where my The Stranger (1946) starring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson heads at
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Where my The Stranger (1946) starring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson heads at
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Imagine if Kendrick Lamar wrote a diss track about Drake…..and made him *sing* on it. That’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Imagine if Kendrick Lamar wrote a diss track about Drake…..and made him *sing* on it. That’s fucking Rumours
for anyone bereft after the World Series I’m just letting you know the Dominican League season is just getting going and you can watch the games through the MLB app
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
for anyone bereft after the World Series I’m just letting you know the Dominican League season is just getting going and you can watch the games through the MLB app
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It was always obvious that the Biden White House-- which had openly discussed charging Putin with war crimes and genocide over Ukraine-- privately discussed Israel's genocidal intent in 2023/24 and decided to lie about it. The belated confirmation is still important.
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...
Ex-officials: U.S. intel found IDF lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes
As Early as December 2023, U.S. State Department Officials Were Concerned About Potential War Crimes in Gaza. These Concerns Were Sidelined Because of the Difficulty of Proving Intent on the Part of I...
www.haaretz.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It was always obvious that the Biden White House-- which had openly discussed charging Putin with war crimes and genocide over Ukraine-- privately discussed Israel's genocidal intent in 2023/24 and decided to lie about it. The belated confirmation is still important.
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...
Awaiting a giddy email from some newly-created admin department called like "CREATIVITY AMIDST CHAOS" that somehow has seven Senior Vice Provosts running it, announcing that this "tool" has just been imported into Moodle and you aren't allowed to opt out of it
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Awaiting a giddy email from some newly-created admin department called like "CREATIVITY AMIDST CHAOS" that somehow has seven Senior Vice Provosts running it, announcing that this "tool" has just been imported into Moodle and you aren't allowed to opt out of it
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Call it the AIPAC effect: “Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’ ” www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Call it the AIPAC effect: “Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’ ” www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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the government is giving me $10 billion because i made a phone app that reminds you to kill yourself
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
the government is giving me $10 billion because i made a phone app that reminds you to kill yourself
I cannot stress enough that the U.S. universities’ entire leadership strata is unified in forcing this technology onto us. Almost every day I receive some sort of admin email about the ethical importance of coaching my students to use these tools. It is actually criminal, so much worse than MOOCs
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I cannot stress enough that the U.S. universities’ entire leadership strata is unified in forcing this technology onto us. Almost every day I receive some sort of admin email about the ethical importance of coaching my students to use these tools. It is actually criminal, so much worse than MOOCs
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Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
so grateful I have every Jon and Vangelis album on vinyl
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
so grateful I have every Jon and Vangelis album on vinyl
I think it’s so cool that this is legal and no one will ever stop it
“Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day.”
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I think it’s so cool that this is legal and no one will ever stop it
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Electoralism is not a realistic strategy for opposing capitalism, white supremacy and imperialism. However, if there is to be a strong mass movement to oppose those things, it’d be surprising if it wasn’t also evidenced by election results. The key is to distinguish good signs from actual victories.
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Electoralism is not a realistic strategy for opposing capitalism, white supremacy and imperialism. However, if there is to be a strong mass movement to oppose those things, it’d be surprising if it wasn’t also evidenced by election results. The key is to distinguish good signs from actual victories.
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Union baristas are calling on allies to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS if we go on ULP strike. If our communities stand with us in action, we can take back power from the billionaires & CEOs.
nocontractnocoffee.org
nocontractnocoffee.org
No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.
nocontractnocoffee.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Union baristas are calling on allies to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS if we go on ULP strike. If our communities stand with us in action, we can take back power from the billionaires & CEOs.
nocontractnocoffee.org
nocontractnocoffee.org
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History