Mheton
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Versuch eines philosophischen Lebensstils ...
Ansonsten: Komposition & Improvisation
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Ansonsten: Komposition & Improvisation
... IRCAM Fan... Guitars & Synths
Who would have thought,...
Datenschutz und digitale Unabhängigkeit von den USA spielt für Söder-Regierung keine Rolle: Milliardenvertrag mit Microsoft www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
December 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Who would have thought,...
FYI
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
FYI
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
AI slop predates AI
www.ethanhein.com/wp/2025/ai-s...
www.ethanhein.com/wp/2025/ai-s...
AI slop predates AI
One of my back burner writing projects is a book chapter about generative AI in music education and why I think it’s a Bad Thing. In preparation, I reread Ted Chiang’s New Yorker essay about why AI…
www.ethanhein.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
AI slop predates AI
www.ethanhein.com/wp/2025/ai-s...
www.ethanhein.com/wp/2025/ai-s...
A bit superficial, but the content is worth mentioning... www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1L1...
How reading changes the way your brain works - BBC World Service
YouTube video by BBC World Service
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December 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A bit superficial, but the content is worth mentioning... www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1L1...
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
This text is truly fantastic. And it helps me understand why I have such difficulties with the presentation and didactics of the whole subject in introductory philosophy courses... and I love how analogies with music are used here to illustrate reading as a social practice.
Reading as a Social Practice: On Objectivism in Reading Texts
Reading as a Social Practice: On Objectivism in Reading Texts
Let me begin, once more, with a question for my colleagues in philosophy: How can we spend a lifetime on a chapter in Aristotle and think we’re done with a student essay in two hours? Both can be e…
handlingideas.blog
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This text is truly fantastic. And it helps me understand why I have such difficulties with the presentation and didactics of the whole subject in introductory philosophy courses... and I love how analogies with music are used here to illustrate reading as a social practice.
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My inaugural lecture is now called Antrittsvorlesung, but you're cordially invited anyway:
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My inaugural lecture is now called Antrittsvorlesung, but you're cordially invited anyway:
Just found a very interesting book by #AndrewBerish: Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse. I will definitely read this book it could give me insights into the human nature of hatred. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Hating Jazz
A deep dive into the meaning behind the hatred of jazz. A rock guitarist plays four notes in front of one thousand people, while a jazz guitarist plays one thousand notes in front of four people. Y...
press.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Just found a very interesting book by #AndrewBerish: Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse. I will definitely read this book it could give me insights into the human nature of hatred. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Mentors instead of machines: Why implicit (musical) knowledge cannot be algorithmized (guest post by Andreas Wildenhain)
Mentors instead of machines: Why implicit (musical) knowledge cannot be algorithmized (guest post by Andreas Wildenhain)
My parents had a lot of records, including everything by the Beatles and Santana’s “Abraxas.” I was maybe six or seven years old and loved playing the albums on the record player, picking up …
handlingideas.blog
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Mentors instead of machines: Why implicit (musical) knowledge cannot be algorithmized (guest post by Andreas Wildenhain)
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Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
No, this is not about the decline of the occident, just a note about a curiosity in academic philosophy. Philosophy is a discipline in which reading is a key competence, not least in that philosoph…
handlingideas.blog
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Why does hardly anyone in academic philosophy care about reading?
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🌊 Waves are weird: Make the tiniest change to the initial state of their particles, and they might evolve in vastly different ways — bumps and eddies can become rogue waves and tsunamis.
The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View | Quanta Magazine
The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🌊 Waves are weird: Make the tiniest change to the initial state of their particles, and they might evolve in vastly different ways — bumps and eddies can become rogue waves and tsunamis.
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I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
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September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it's to imagine what is possible." --bell hooks, outside Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
August 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it's to imagine what is possible." --bell hooks, outside Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
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Apparently Cormac McCarthy (author of The Road and No Country for Old Men) was a big fan of Wittgenstein and read (and annotated) Penelope Maddy’s Realism in Mathematics:
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth
The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Apparently Cormac McCarthy (author of The Road and No Country for Old Men) was a big fan of Wittgenstein and read (and annotated) Penelope Maddy’s Realism in Mathematics:
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
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Autechre’s pivotal 8th studio album Untilted - arguably their most accessible of the post-millennium era - newly reissued on its 20th anniversary
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September 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Autechre’s pivotal 8th studio album Untilted - arguably their most accessible of the post-millennium era - newly reissued on its 20th anniversary
boomkat.com/products/unt...
boomkat.com/products/unt...
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“Bouncing ball rhythm” --- Logarithmic delay pattern with mc.gen~.
Tutorial : youtu.be/UZmf5u6I3kA
Please check out my youtube for Max/MSP ambient sound design videos!!!
Like, share and subscribe : www.youtube.com/@axersfall369
#maxmsp #ambient #sounddesign #experimental #glitch #ableton
Tutorial : youtu.be/UZmf5u6I3kA
Please check out my youtube for Max/MSP ambient sound design videos!!!
Like, share and subscribe : www.youtube.com/@axersfall369
#maxmsp #ambient #sounddesign #experimental #glitch #ableton
August 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“Bouncing ball rhythm” --- Logarithmic delay pattern with mc.gen~.
Tutorial : youtu.be/UZmf5u6I3kA
Please check out my youtube for Max/MSP ambient sound design videos!!!
Like, share and subscribe : www.youtube.com/@axersfall369
#maxmsp #ambient #sounddesign #experimental #glitch #ableton
Tutorial : youtu.be/UZmf5u6I3kA
Please check out my youtube for Max/MSP ambient sound design videos!!!
Like, share and subscribe : www.youtube.com/@axersfall369
#maxmsp #ambient #sounddesign #experimental #glitch #ableton
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Missed Office Hours with @sv1.bsky.social last week? 😢 Check out the session recording, along with so many other great Office Hours sessions, on our Discord Office Hours YouTube Playlist 👉📺 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Happy patching! 👩💻⚡️
#maxmsp #maxforlive #abletonlive #producer #audio
Happy patching! 👩💻⚡️
#maxmsp #maxforlive #abletonlive #producer #audio
September 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Missed Office Hours with @sv1.bsky.social last week? 😢 Check out the session recording, along with so many other great Office Hours sessions, on our Discord Office Hours YouTube Playlist 👉📺 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Happy patching! 👩💻⚡️
#maxmsp #maxforlive #abletonlive #producer #audio
Happy patching! 👩💻⚡️
#maxmsp #maxforlive #abletonlive #producer #audio
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Bin gerade in Amsterdam, und immer, wenn ich in einer größeren Stadt bin, die KEINE deutsche ist, muss ich daran denken, dass wir aufgrund unseres Autofetischismus für immer dazu verdammt sind, in kackhässlichen und menschenfeindlichen Städten zu leben.
August 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Bin gerade in Amsterdam, und immer, wenn ich in einer größeren Stadt bin, die KEINE deutsche ist, muss ich daran denken, dass wir aufgrund unseres Autofetischismus für immer dazu verdammt sind, in kackhässlichen und menschenfeindlichen Städten zu leben.
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Don’t know who made this but thank you
August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don’t know who made this but thank you
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Heute vor 65 Jahren sind meine Großeltern mit meiner Mutter im Bauch und mit meiner Tante, die damals noch ein Baby war, aus der DDR geflohen, weil mein Opa es nicht ertragen hat, die Kinder als Lehrer indoktrinieren zu müssen. Ihm wurde hier nichts anerkannt, er musste alles nochmal studieren.
August 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Heute vor 65 Jahren sind meine Großeltern mit meiner Mutter im Bauch und mit meiner Tante, die damals noch ein Baby war, aus der DDR geflohen, weil mein Opa es nicht ertragen hat, die Kinder als Lehrer indoktrinieren zu müssen. Ihm wurde hier nichts anerkannt, er musste alles nochmal studieren.
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Die Zukunft des Lesens lesen: ab nächste Woche in Handel!
August 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Die Zukunft des Lesens lesen: ab nächste Woche in Handel!