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“Eastman repeatedly claimed that university policy prevented them from addressing Varon’s egregious behavior. But they didn’t hesitate to expel me without notice or process—in violation of every published policy.” rebeccabryantnovak.substack.com/p/eastman-to... #Eastman #ClassicalMusic

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“I think immigrants are the first target; it is a permission structure, and if they can get away with doing these things to immigrants, what are the legal barriers from moving on to the next undesirable group?” truthout.org/articles/tru... #Surveillance #Privacy #ICE #DHS #Protests #Immigration

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The 2nd phase of Blacksky's @skyseed.fund grant has been completed 🥳 - We built the first "Mod Relay" 📡 - Every moderation action ever made from over 600 moderation services ( @moderation.bsky.app, @blacksky.app , etc.) is available at wss://atproto.africa/xrpc/com.atproto.label.subscribeLabels

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To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs. This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_...

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A conducting doctoral student I know from Eastman writing about the truly terrible way the school has handled her reports of harassment by the conducting professor: rebeccabryantnovak.substack.com/p/he-got-a-s... #ClassicalMusic #Misogyny #Harassment #Eastman

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Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls.

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I'm @reillypascal.42 and I really like Signal! It's easy to get set up too: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

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Coining it now: gooömorphism #design #ios #Apple #liquidglass #news www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

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Blecch, this just looks like it's going to make everything uglier and harder to read At least I know it's possible to turn off transparency on older macOS versions and I'll probably be doing that www.theverge.com/apple/682833... #Apple #LiquidGlass #WWDC #WWDC25 #macOS

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I suspect most of you know me as "that spaceship/guy who writes about Other People's Music" but did you know I am ALSO a musician (hence the name "other people's music" 😅)? Well, I am. And I'd love it if you checked out MY music. etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-me... #Musicsky #MyMusic

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“The arrests were carried out without judicial warrants, according to multiple legal observers and confirmed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/... #ICE #DHS #LAPD #Immigration

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Today I'm discussing how algorithmic reverbs work using the popular “Freeverb.” I give details on feedforward/feedback delays and allpass filters, and I include a Max/MSP patch to play with. Hope it's helpful/interesting to someone! reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #Audio #MusicProduction

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“Rather than engage in serious arguments about higher education costs, Shieh was trying to subject individual employees who had done nothing wrong to public hostility… [Brown] should not be baited into punishing staff and students by such bad-faith antics.” donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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“‘I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,’ one teacher told me. ‘That sure feels like bullshit.’” www.404media.co/teachers-are... #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Education #Teaching

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just hit 200k followers and my campaign manager wants me to fundraise off it so instead of this corny post he drafted, I’ll just say,,,,, if everyone who followed me donated $2, we’d reach our fundraising goal of the quarter ($600k) and wouldn’t raise another cent after that 👀

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“OpenAI is…prominently featuring chatbots that suggest dangerous medical interventions as crucial to men’s sexual and romantic success. They parrot extreme ideology around gender dynamics, sex, and dating; promote pseudoscientific beliefs…” www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel... #AI #OpenAI

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Decided I can justify adding Bluesky since I deleted two other social apps off my phone 🥳 Hoping to see some familiar faces that I’ve been missing elsewhere!

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Bookmarked: Utah Lawmakers Say Gender-Affirming Care Harms Kids. Their Own Study Disputes That. 🔖 www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/t... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... #Trans #Transgender #TransRights #TransHealthcare #Healthcare

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Are you a music teacher who listens to podcasts related to music education? If so, you are invited to participate in a research study conducted by Theresa Hoover, a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University. This study involves completing a survey about your podcast listening habits (1/3)

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I started a page in my personal wiki collecting writing & reporting that's critical of LLMs/generative AI I figure it'll be helpful to have it all in one place for when I need to explain my stance: reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/reading... #AI #GenAI #LLM #VibeCoding #Enshittification

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There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter under Rowling. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

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For this month's IndieWeb carnival on “small web communities,” I'm thinking about lowering the barrier for web independence and freedom reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #WebDev #HTML #CMS

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NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

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“‘What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,’ he said.” www.huffpost.com/entry/israel... #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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“Daniel Levy, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project think tank, said that Israel’s government was ‘desperately trying to find soft power venues’ and that Eurovision was one of the few opportunities it had left.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/a... #Israel #Netanyahu #Eurovision

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Some cool photos from a walk through Highland Park today: reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #Rochester #RochesterNY #Park #Parks #Architecture #Reservoir

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