I think they assume that academia serves as a body that determines which opinions are permitted for the wider public, so if they prevent formal approval of critical analysis then nobody will be able to do it.

I am still upset about the panelist I heard at the Global Media Forum a couple months ago whose title was "Microsoft Director of Journalism". Microsoft does not do journalism.

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market."

One last lovely doorway from Barcelona.

I think a combination of that and the (perhaps self-fulfilling?) perception that people who practice them and/or care about the performing arts abstractly are likely to vote for their political opponents, and they're both vindictive and want to deepen the party identification gulf any way they can

My theory: conservatives view the performing arts solely as a status symbol. *Their* child can afford to study art history. *They* can afford tickets to the opera. As soon as the working class can also afford these things, the activity loses all value, because its value is to mark them as superior.

I made a list of Native songs by Native artists on tidal. It has punk, throat singer, R&B, pop, a little bit of everything.

Related, I noticed that a bunch of the artists don't have their albums on Tidal anymore, anyone know what's up with that? Did I miss something?

tidal.com/playlist/e2a...

I got really interested last year in the history of alchemical and Aristotelian-Christian thought about the nature of substance, purity and impurity, and how those ideas were applied to humans in the Inquisition and the Conquest. (Un)luckily those ideas are still alive and fucking us up today

Amicus is an epic icon
and I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THIS
DANG IT DANG IT DANG IT

They do have an owl mascot, however:

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Presidente dos Estados Unidos considera a escolha do porto-riquenho “absolutamente ridícula”. A estrela pop canta em espanhol e brincou com os EUA, dizendo que têm quatro meses para aprender a língua.

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

work trips this week from c’ville to DC to Baltimore to Providence back to DC and then home. the bike is how i am getting from station to hotel to wherever i need to be

would you like to live multi-modally?

“Without mitigation, the data centers sucking up all the load is going to make things really expensive for the rest of Americans...”

on it ✌🏼

And please keep writing beautiful books that make this case

Arts are powerful, they are used to critic and change hearts and minds. They are a massive soft power, just look how USA funded Hollywood and hunted out anyone who wasn't Capitalist enough during the cold war. Look at the Sportswashing which is fast becoming Mediawashing. Pesky arts call them out!

I chose anthropology and sociology instead of pre-law for exactly these reasons.

and all of these things suggest interests, thoughts, a life of the mind beyond what is necessary to earn a living or contribute to profit.

English and media literacy helps us see what their game is and call them on it.