Alex Adams
@alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social
Teacher, Musician, DocSong Teaching Artist, Grad Student @ ASU.
Focused on: Culture, Identity, Quantification, Narrative, Dialogism, and learning from other folks
www.mralexadams.com
Focused on: Culture, Identity, Quantification, Narrative, Dialogism, and learning from other folks
www.mralexadams.com
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
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Desperate to get through to the president to persuade him to stop the war, protesters have started flinging photos of attractive Venezuelan children over the White House fence.
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Desperate to get through to the president to persuade him to stop the war, protesters have started flinging photos of attractive Venezuelan children over the White House fence.
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Not being glib: this wags the dog on all "5 year anniversary of January 6 Insurrection" coverage.
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Not being glib: this wags the dog on all "5 year anniversary of January 6 Insurrection" coverage.
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What it knows is that you’ve asked it to write an apology. Whether that apology is *deserved* or even *rational* it has absolutely no interest in. When you say “Grok apologized” you are saying “That greeting card sure feels bad about your grandma dying.”
January 3, 2026 at 5:10 AM
What it knows is that you’ve asked it to write an apology. Whether that apology is *deserved* or even *rational* it has absolutely no interest in. When you say “Grok apologized” you are saying “That greeting card sure feels bad about your grandma dying.”
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I want a Google scholar wrapped. How many times did i look up the same article? How many times did I download the same paper? Wait what was that paper again. Let me check.
December 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I want a Google scholar wrapped. How many times did i look up the same article? How many times did I download the same paper? Wait what was that paper again. Let me check.
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"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit."
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit."
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.
I've been thinking about music education and AI over on substack. There are big questions and I'm not sure we're up to providing the answers.
We still need to talk about Suno
Some more thoughts on AI music making, Musical Meaning, and Music education
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I've been thinking about music education and AI over on substack. There are big questions and I'm not sure we're up to providing the answers.
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Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.
The world might be stupid but there are still amazing things and people in it. I went to a dia de los muertos celebration last night and there was a tremendous amount of music, color, and joy. Traditions and culture are important.
October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The world might be stupid but there are still amazing things and people in it. I went to a dia de los muertos celebration last night and there was a tremendous amount of music, color, and joy. Traditions and culture are important.
I’ve been working with a private school’s k-12 music program.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
October 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I’ve been working with a private school’s k-12 music program.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.
New: Reflecting on real world teaching problems through solving them together- a reflection from some recent music teacher education classroom experiences.
Taking Stock
Sharing real world problems with students for real world learning
substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New: Reflecting on real world teaching problems through solving them together- a reflection from some recent music teacher education classroom experiences.
Sometimes the best question to ask isn’t “how can we do better?” but “should we be doing this at all?”
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Sometimes the best question to ask isn’t “how can we do better?” but “should we be doing this at all?”
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Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:
Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
www.washingtonian.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:
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To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
September 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
@hankgreen.bsky.social Which way did people turn things before clocks were invented?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social Which way did people turn things before clocks were invented?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?
Listening to "Ready or Not" by the Fugees today in class. I asked the undergraduates to identify some of the other musical works referenced in the lyrics.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
September 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Listening to "Ready or Not" by the Fugees today in class. I asked the undergraduates to identify some of the other musical works referenced in the lyrics.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
"What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing"
None of them Knew.
Music education could stand to do more thinking and teaching about how music is used for political purposes. Music isn’t always a liberating force. Music is often used to signal membership of an in group. When Trump uses Greenwood they’re both making a musical cultural case about who Americans are.
September 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Music education could stand to do more thinking and teaching about how music is used for political purposes. Music isn’t always a liberating force. Music is often used to signal membership of an in group. When Trump uses Greenwood they’re both making a musical cultural case about who Americans are.
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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
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“People espousing antifascist ideology are enemies of the state but don’t you dare call us fascists or we’ll target you with the full force of the state!”
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“People espousing antifascist ideology are enemies of the state but don’t you dare call us fascists or we’ll target you with the full force of the state!”
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
Yeah, there’s a name for that.
We rely on each other broadly for protection of the truth. The concepts and knowledge we use to understand the world come to us mostly through others. We need to be able to generally trust their word to be able to know. We’re all in a big community and we depend on each other.
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We rely on each other broadly for protection of the truth. The concepts and knowledge we use to understand the world come to us mostly through others. We need to be able to generally trust their word to be able to know. We’re all in a big community and we depend on each other.
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it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead
September 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead