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Kurt G

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• indy Minnesota historian • celestialmonochord.org • degreed in astronomy & lit • funny but you have to be there

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · Sep 9

MNHS has been nominated for an EMMY for their documentary on how Harry Smith's Anthology helped save a St. Paul theater that really needed saving. The result is beautiful art, richly informative, and precisely accurate. Gratitude to @pedigreedbunk.bsky.social !

Music Making History: How A Song Saved A Theater

YouTube video by Minnesota Historical Society

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 5h

The AI Overview gloats that there’s a rise to the minimum wage scheduled for the first of the year. Thanks a lot, AI — and you don’t have to be an asshole about it.

Screenshot of the AI Overview saying “The minimum wage in Minneapolis is $15.97 per hour as of January 1, 2025. This rate is set to increase to $15.97 on January 1, 2026.”

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 2d

Finally noticed this sign today. Now I don’t know if unsafe behaviors are okay up here or down there.

Large sign at the top of a flight of stairs that reads, NO UNSAFE BEHAVIORS PAST THIS POINT. There is no other information.

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 3d

It has to be BIG AND SIMPLE

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 3d

Every Venetian blind is a hundred solar telescopes.

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 4d

Wait, I’m confused — is Orson Welles still outrageously overrated?

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 4d

“Told the Colorado governor to phone the President and tell him, ‘Call off your National Guard.’ But the National Guard belongs to the governor so he didn’t try so very hard.”

Great performance of a great Woody Guthrie song.

youtu.be/jJ5fwfYdUTk

Ludlow Massacre

YouTube video by Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Topic

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 9d

Awesome power!

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 11d

What do little kids like most? Space and dinosaurs. It kind of blows my/their/our minds that one wiped out the other.

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 12d

Sieht für mich alt aus!

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 12d

I may be a globalist, but I’m regular.

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 12d

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music | America changed throu

Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 12d

This was hugely frustrating to me when I authored a piece in an academic collection. BUT they did indeed put it out in paperback. (I bet this title would sell briskly.) And the editors sympathized, encouraged me to send my author PDF to anyone who asked me.

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 12d

A brother of mine married a pagan. I think the pagan coulda done better.

Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 14d

September’s Folklore (136:3) features two of my reviews on books about the social supernatural & the persistence of paganism. Both richly worth the doing. Some splendid other stuff too! 😉
@uexeterpress.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 12d

Adios, Epstein files!

Chuck Copeland 🌀 @nchurricane.com · 12d

#TIL that SpaceX launches from Vanderbilt Space Force Base in California. 🚀 #Starlink

As seen from San Diego.
📸 courtesy of my nephew, J Cox.

Photo of a Falcon 9 rocket after launch over San Diego at sunset.

#space #Starlink #spacex

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 14d

I like to think prozac can make you smell less wonderful

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 15d

Every tree is a thousand solar telescopes.

A cute house dappled with dozens of big, perfect circles of sunlight. Dapples of sunlight are images of the sun, which is why those dapples are circles.

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 18d

Young men, though … not … exactly the … greatest generation.

From yesterday, just a couple miles from me in Minneapolis.

Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 18d

Did I ever tell you that thing about why dapples of sunlight tend to be perfect circles?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 24d

Gaza, Nepal and the Epstein files

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 18d

a man in a suit and tie is talking and says cool

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking and says cool

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18d

This is Charlie. He can't help but sing along when his favorite song comes on. 14/10 please turn it pup (TT: nunnyaaaaaaa)

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 18d

Kristina R. Gaddy and I will be discussing our new book, Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo today (9/23) at 5:30pm EDT!

Join us in person at @umich.edu or on the livestream: bit.ly/4gAREus

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Kurt G @kurtgegenhuber.bsky.social · 18d

Can someone here please use AI to make this less unbelievable?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21d

This is amazing.

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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 22d

This video is now a decade old, but it's still the most thought-provoking discussion of #AI that I've ever seen.

(By @computerphile.bsky.social, which doesn't seem to be active here yet.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdV...

Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile

YouTube video by Computerphile

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