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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h

Vladdy Jr. with his best Big Papi impression DAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 12h

❤️ Chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

California joins the nation in recognizing Disability Employment Awareness Month — a celebration of the 7M+ adults with disabilities who call California home and enrich our state.

Together, we can keep growing an inclusive workforce for the fourth-largest economy in the world.

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 2d

side grumble: why don't we have the totally fine, totally free AMS-Announce anymore?

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 2d

here's a CFP that popped up in my socials that looks great, for all you music & minimalism folks—conference next spring at UM-College Park www.minimalismsociety.net/umd2026

The year 2026 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, and Catherine Christer Hennix’s The Electric Harpsichord, all epochal works that have helped define minimalism in the world of experimental music and the popular imagination. It is also the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Minimalist Music. In this year of landmark anniversaries, the Tenth International Conference on Music and Minimalism will focus on celebrating and interrogating minimalist and postminimalist music in its many forms, examining its impact across the arts and global culture.

The Tenth International Conference on Music and Minimalism will take place May 7–10, 2026, hosted by the University of Maryland’s School of Music in College Park, MD, right outside Washington, DC. Concerts will include the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Eastman, Meredith Monk, John Adams, and composer and organist Kali Malone.

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 2d

If I'm gonna assign "short but necessary" anythings then...
#theyrelearning
#butwhat

a slide headed "Next class: Bach asks to speak to the manager" with a portrait of Bach and a speech bubble that reads "...and ANOTHER thing" alongside a screenshot of his famously complainy "short but necessary memorandum on a well-appointed church music"

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 2d

one of my students put me on to Arthur Russell and ahhhhh www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY6n...

Arthur Russell - That's Us/Wild Combination

YouTube video by Audika Records

www.youtube.com

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

... At the Basilica site, Walter Denny Jr. shares a Mi'kmaw Catholic chant for St Anne." 5/5

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

"Interacting with images and texts in the app, listeners will hear Graham speaking or singing about the importance of the ocean to the Mi'kmaw way of life, about Kitpu (the eagle), about the love of samqwan (water) and about treatises, sacred ground, and the Ancestors. 4/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

"The app-based Soundwalk has been developed in collaboration with Dalhousie University's Jennifer Bain and Cape Breton University's Marcia Ostashewski and the Centre for Sound Communities." The partnership with @dact-fragments.bsky.social —a team of plainchant scholars—invites vital reflections 3/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

From the press release: "A new Mi’kmaw SoundWalk featuring storyteller and singer Graham Marshall and singer Walter Denny Jr. is set to launch on Tuesday, Sept. 30, to mark this year's Truth and Reconciliation Day." 2/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

In Canada, yesterday was Truth and Reconciliation Day: an occasion to commit to taking steps on the path toward fully acknowledging and addressing injustices to Indigenous peoples and moving towards reconciliation. For some these steps might be on a Mi’kmaw SoundWalk in Halifax (see image below) 1/

poster reading Mi'kmaw Soundwalk: A self-guided SoundWalk in downtown Halifax: experience Kjipuktuk from a Mi'kmaw perspective with storyteller and singer Graham Marshall and singer Walter Denny, with a photo of Denny holding a drum, and at the bottom a button that invites users to download the app with a QR code to the right, and a tab that says DACT Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

Newsom's pandering exposes how malleable his principles are & will not win over the many who've justifiably lost faith in a system that's failed them repeatedly—& of course he's not the only one to scramble right instead of finding ways to *affirm* principles that honor & defend basic human dignity

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

but their principles do not change, and so their approval ratings are consistently high. They are trusted by a majority of people (and even those who vilify AOC vilify her because of her principles and convictions).

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

we have examples of the principled leadership and calibrated messaging Bouie talks about in Bernie and AOC—we see it both in their tremendous staying power and in the frustration, which I've felt too, at their rhetorical compromise or delayed response on hot-button issues

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

as good a roadmap for the political left and center left in this country as one might hope for.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

www.nytimes.com

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 8d

they're out there announcing "War is peace" which is very bad but hear me out don't bother with Orwell because the best books are those that tell you what you know already

Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

oh no
#TheyreLearning
#ButWhat

A lecture slide that reads: Lecture 11: Dance Like Everybody's Watching with an image showing a social dance at the French Baroque court and a pink ornamental divider on the right

a screenshot of a lecture slide with a snippet of a Sarabande from one of the Bach cello suites with the heading Next class: Compose like Nobody's Dancing (today's lecture is "Dance like Everybody's Watching"

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

...and Tagore with his students, what is reflection if not slowing down to listen better, think better, live better 8/8

black and white photo of an older man with white hair and beard in a dark robe holding a book on a veranda with men and women and women in South Asian attire gathered around him listening and smiling

Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

source - mag.uchicago.edu/university-n... 7/

Convocation address

From our print archive: Robert Maynard Hutchins' speech from the University of Chicago's 155th convocation ceremony held June 11, 1929.

mag.uchicago.edu

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

"...through the fumbling futilities of American education we shall yet pass to something new, native, and vital,.... And from the crass commercialism, the narrow politics, the irreligion of contemporary affairs, we shall yet pass on as well, if we can muster the intelligence for the task." 6/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

"...And education means the development of the individual so that instead of adding to those problems, he may, in whatever walk of life, make his contribution to their solution.... To the universities the nation looks for [individuals] who have trained minds and know how to use them;... " 5/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

give me a Robert Hutchins who could in 1929 say: "Scholarship in its broadest sense means the careful, painstaking attempt to answer the question put by Bernard Shaw as follows: whether the human animal as he exists at present is capable of solving the problems raised by his own aggregation. 4/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

give me a leader who shares Tagore's liberatory vision (picture below of Tagore with his students for the algorithm) of education *freeing* the mind from ignorance, prejudice and materialism 3/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

by corporate technospeak—why do we settle for so little?

give me more, give me leadership that reads Shaw, that reads bell hooks, that reads Tagore and Achebe, that refuses to let education be so meager 2/

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