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"The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget proposes to terminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/4kEnEPo

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Happy to announce that we are accepting submissions for the 2025 Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award through 8/1. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in sound and/or music media, and the winning essay is published in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.

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always love to see Maria Bamford invent a new character

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i’m so, so sorry to hear that the planet-burning bullshit machine will break if it’s subjected to the same copyright laws as the rest of us

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Had my first encounter with wholly hallucinated search results via Google’s AI summaries. I wanted to know if Octavia Butler had ever been married. Google invented a spouse for her. The right answer was tucked away in a newspaper article. What an affront to the very idea of a search engine this is!

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I’m finishing my term this summer as co-chair of the Sound and Music scholarly interest group of @scmstudies.bsky.social. I’d like to leave it in good hands. Here’s how to get involved:

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Excellent dissection (so to speak) of The Shrouds, a movie that's grown more profound to me the more I ponder it defector.com/the-shrouds-...

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I don't think we can fight AI creep by weaponizing grades. Nobody learns anything if we decide our job is to be plagiarism mall cops. If we don't win this argument at the level of process, convincing students they CAN'T learn what we have to teach them if they outsource to AI, we won't win at all.

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Speaking of MGM logos, I've always loved the one from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I have no idea off the top of my head how often it was used for other movies, but there's no way they were gonna have that lion roar between the overture and Strauss

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"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion [...] that becomes more difficult for students to recognize with each passing year." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there managing the brood they manifested through a psychoplasmically-induced external womb we see you!

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I don't need to use AI. I can be wrong and burn tires all on my own

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He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude They said he was ruthless, they said he was crude But out in that cornfield she could see his head She'd say, "The stalks may be tall but your nose is red" Clown in a cornfield Surely make you lose your mind Clown in a cornfield Yeah

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“I love this country, but they don’t want me here so I will go home.” Shame on the US. Shame on UA.

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The PBS Kids app is one of the few things you can trust your kids to play around with on a computer. All the shows that you can stream are good and entertaining. Nothing positive comes from getting rid of this, they're just trying to make life worse for everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

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last time a president tried this was in 1960 when Eisenhower nearly passed out after seeing a jump cut in Breathless

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every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

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The ending of this movie continues to age like a fine wine

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"Sinners" has made $161 million at the box office, but residents of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is based, are unable to see it because there are no open theaters in town. The Mississippi Delta town launched a petition in hopes of hosting a screening. capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-r...

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Wasn't sure I'd ever again see a movie with a packed crowd who is completely locked-in outside of IP slop but I just did and it was Sinners on a Tuesday and that was pretty cool

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So an unpopular head of state stepped back, his last-minute replacement took over the campaign, and it…worked out

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Steve Miner has got to have the most “the guy who directed this also directed that?!?” filmography

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somebody should check in on that new york times asterisk and see how it’s holding up www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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"Most of the country" has never been able to "walk to a multiplex." They're a product of the suburbs!

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did…Chuck Tingle just call in to John Mulaney’s show?

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Happy Eartha Day!

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The Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos did not cut a double-platinum album for 49% of Americans to say they "don't know" what they think of Gregorian chant

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“Do not ever show me Weezer again” - my four-year-old, watching Coachella

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did a tax write-off write this?

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the Quiet Place movies never address how peeing and pooping works

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Obviously this is a threat intended to make it seem like faculty are doing secret, nefarious research, but it’s funny how lazy this is. Faculty have websites, Google Scholar pages, public CVs, open access publications. Nobody’s hiding anything from you! You can find it yourself!

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It is worth repeating over and again that the first amendment is very plainly not about who is entitled to free speech protections but about what the government cannot do

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The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Flight's delayed three hours, but at least being stuck at the airport forced me to finally make my slides #SCMS25

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Good morning, SCMS 2025! Today our SIG has two sponsored panels: A04: Alternative Histories of Sound Art and Sound in the Museum D12: Noncommercial Radio Broadcasting in the United States and Canada Also reminder tonight is our mixer with RAMP Sig (see email for details).

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Watching the central camera on John Mulaney’s Netflix show struggle to maintain focus each week really makes me appreciate the miracle that is 70 years of live broadcast television

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congrats in advance to the most chaotic Oscars campaign of 2028 variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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As part of the tribute to Jonathan Sterne in #SCMS25 session L6 (formerly “Rewinding Tape Across Media"), I invite everyone to send in a memory, photo, song, etc., that you associate with Jonathan. I’ll display the slides at L6 and share them virtually. Email amy(dot)skjersethatucr(dot)edu by 4/3.

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Smilla's Sense of NO

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Putting on my @soundmusicscms.bsky.social hat on for a sec ahead of next week's @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago We're hosting a mixer with the Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting SIG on Thursday night, 4/03, beginning at 7:45! See the SIG-wide e-mail or contact me for the location

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