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Paula Harper
@pch9857.bsky.social
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Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet Assistant prof @ UChicago She/her
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A colleague just stopped by my office pre-workshop to say "hey I just wanted to let you know that your chapter caused me psychic damage!" good to know I'm accomplishing my goals, excited for her to blurb the book.
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arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why?

A tide of AI slop.
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers
Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.
www.404media.co
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Border Patrol repeatedly punches this man in the head while he’s on the ground in handcuffs.

Also today, an appeals court ruled a federal judge lacks the power to have Bovino explain his men’s conduct on a daily basis.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal
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Is the new Florence depressed millennial white woman-core? Maybe! Did I immediately cry at "Sympathy Magic"? Yes of course!
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Chicago
ICE is wilding across the North Side again, as of about 30 minutes ago. Sightings at and around Volta and Amundsen, and that gd helicopter circling the area between. Please keep an eye out if you can.
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“The startup decodes how people speak to understand how they think, decide, and collaborate. By analyzing more than 30 vocal signals—from tone and pace to word choice—Mappa predicts compatibility and performance with striking accuracy.”

No the fuck it doesn’t.
Voice AI in Hiring Is Changing How Teams Are Built
Mappa uses voice AI to analyze speech patterns and predict team fit, redefining how companies hire with behavioral intelligence.
www.forbes.com
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The thing about wanting to do the right thing once in a blue moon is maybe you should have thought of that before you hitched your wagon to a movement whose only animating principle is Do The Wrongest Conceivable Thing In Every Scenario
Opinion | Josh Hawley: We Cannot Let 42 Million Americans Go Hungry
Congress must prevent Americans from losing food assistance.
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yes I AM planning to thank/blame ADHD in my acknowledgements
I just think footnotes should be little sidequests, sorry to all editors past present and future.
Just made a footnote longer than the paragraph it's embedded in, things are going great.
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This is like when the raptors learned to open doors in Jurassic Park
Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official.

More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...
Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President
How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates.
www.wired.com
Worst night of my life. Was in a conversation circle w an academic celeb/crush and they said "oh someone here smells good" and leaned over and smelled me and it turns out it wasn't me.
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I found the war on Christianity
Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
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I think it's @cooperlund.online who first pointed out that they're not so much interested in fascism as generating fascist content
Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.
This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.
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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
(no I don't want to talk about the gavin newsom video I'm so tired)
Definitely! Thus the ambivalent utility of dogwhistles.
Many musical/sonic choices feel a little arbitrary! There's a little bit of AI-core going on here, in my opinion!
And how that myopia might curdle and find a comfortable home in contemporary reactionary white supremacist politics.
I had a whole convo with @dandipiero.bsky.social about this. There's a substack to be written about the affect and politics of "stuck in high school" - of someone who has literally and ideologically not "gone to college" i.e. been through a perspective-broadening institutional/social crucible.
There are a lot of first draft lyrics in here! I know there are some critics who are arguing that her clunkier offerings are part of what gives her writing a distinctive voice, but I think that defense........has limits!
(I know that's not what you meant but it sure is also a lyric on this album!)
I think the loudest one is "Wi$h Li$t" (the "have a couple kids got the whole block looking like you" lyric in particular). But also the invocation of Megan Thee Stallion in "Eldest Daughter," (Meg didn't need to be in it!) and of course Cancelled!.