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Professor of Music, Bates College *The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (University of California Press, 2018) Doomscrolling glumly with Elbows Up he/him
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The year is 2557. All human life is extinct. In geosynchronous orbit, a satellite containing the last Studentbot is still asking a satellite containing the last Teacherbot if there's any way it can do some extra credit to make up the last few missing points in its grade

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I’ll tell you what it achieves in practice. It inserts a potentially isolating parasocial relationship into every site of community and human interaction on campus, and it inserts a plagiarism machine into the core of our ethic of academic integrity

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Relying on other people in the short and long term is a POLITICAL practice that puts you in relation and solidarity with others. It creates and nurtures things like shared interests, which motivate collective action across differences and disagreements. Your Own Private AI blocks that political life

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Bluesky when something funny happens

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it’s eternally funny that the creator of a show that has managed to loop around to several generations of the most hyperactive teenage boys imaginable is a very studious, halfway decent jazz and musical theater vocalist

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This should pair well with an era of AI adulation in which everyone scrupulously ignores what happens to the labor market when LLMs are made ubiquitous The cry that "it'll shorten the work week!" always makes me want to reach for the "angry goose" meme

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This list is like the Avengers for people who only read airport books called something like "Leading Leadership for Leaders"

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A propos of nothing in particular, I hate this high-contrast filter thing I'm seeing all over the place in these videos now. It makes everything look like soulless clickbait slop, and I feel markedly dumber after watching anything that looks like this

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Updated my yard sign.

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The life cycle of an 80s pop song. 1. Release. 2. 12 inch 3. Cover version 4. Re-release 5. Sample in rap song. 5. Sad emo version on movie soundtrack 6. Closing number in musical about band. 7. Performed on Jools Hootenanny by aged original singer. 8. Karaoke 6. DFS ad.

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Sound advice from the King himself. #BookSky #HorrorSky

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The Closest Thing To Silence 🌬️ Kicking off Friday morning with another masterpiece collab from Ariel Kalma, one of my favorite albums of the decade so far and one of the best things International Anthem has released

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Your moment of calm, courtesy of the Portland Rose Show at the Lloyd Center. Last day is today. 1/2

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I woke up at 3:30 am to photograph Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got

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I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this NYT article about programming work at Amazon (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html) because it perfectly illustrates how “productivity” trends in AI in the workplace benefit so few.

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Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows (IYKYK)

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Share a movie or TV character dressed in an outfit that is clearly from the 90s. My choice: Run Lola, Run!

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Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

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I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty. My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

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Just because. My rescue from L A County streets in CA!

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