Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
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Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
Yup. Yesterday was horrible.
UW-Madison students who received FLAS Fellowships were informed today that despite this funding already being approved and appropriated by Congress, their awards have been cancelled. Grants are being withheld from institutions all around the country with no explanation from the Dept. of Ed.
_Sgt. Pepper’s_ is closer (chronologically) to _Rite of Spring_ than to today. _Rite of Spring_ is closer to Beethoven 3 than to today.
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Howwwwww is the Lisa Cook story not in your newscast?? Malpractice.
I suspect Third Way is aware that most Democratic politicians already don't use these terms. But they want to 1. force people like AOC and Mamdani in very blue areas to sound like Manchin and Slotkin 2. Imply left-leaning academics and intellectuals aren't worth listening to.
If we are seriously facing dictatorship (and we are), this is more useful advice. Perhaps emphasizing bipartisanship is useful in swing areas. But so often this language is used by Dems in blue areas. It is hard to have a mobilized opposition when the official opposition constantly demobilizes.
Words we should never use: “Words we should never use.”
Elissa Nadworny on @npr.org repeats Trump’s claim that international students take seats away from US students without providing any context or correction. Not great
Everyone has their kink 🙄😡
Reposting to 🙏@mainewitch.bsky.social for her work on the British composer Kalitha Dorothy Fox (1894-1934). @mainewitch.bsky.social also has a great thesis on the “Forgotten Tales of Women Composers” who studied at the RCM in the interwar years. So important to excavate these unknown women.
Lili #Boulanger, born 21 August 1893. Her Nocturne was performed at the Proms in 1931 (with Poulenc at the piano!) in a super eclectic programme: Boulanger, the Nutcracker Suite, an extract of Götterdämmerung?? I MEAN WHAT
this is why i tell people to try ready-to-wear first. custom is risky bc you can be out here railing against "white hippies and communists," but your tailor has you looking crazy without a breast pocket.
💵💵🍩🍩 wouldn’t be a bad band name… (If they had tried a box of Timbits they might have had better look)
I should have known after seeing 10 posts about giving bribes in potato chip bags and which flavor would be best for such a thing. Salt & vinegar kettle chips, of course…
🙏🏻
Really interesting breakdown of the layouts of houses from horror movies, including ours from SINISTER.
JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!
oh shit this is a big deal
Bela
It’s true. If I had learned this… I dunno, 35 years ago?… I’d have had a very different writing career.
This is the kind of science NASA interim director Duffy wants to kill. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...
Hoo boy…and a supposed composer to boot 🙄
If someone asks you to guess a number between 1 and 10, they most likely picked 7. If someone is playing you in rock, paper, scissors, they will most likely pick rock. www.pbump.net/o/how-to-win...
As an NIU alum, 💯✅
He just announced the 90 day pause.
Because of course he did
My favorite of the SATB works is H237 Nachtreigen (“night rounds” or “night dance”), for 8-part choir, composed in 1829. The text is a poem by Fanny’s then-fiancé Wilhelm Hensel.
Anything less is questionable behavior…
Choirs! It’s up! Fanny Hensel’s complete a cappella SATB works! henselpushers.org/a-cappella-m...
no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.
we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)
10/10, no 🎶
"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."
Great data viz, btw (in addition to the scathing point of the post)!
Yes please!
Musicologists—hear the call!
We only rate dogs. This is the goth cousin of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Please understand it's not just a phase, and only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (credit u/vincidelaunc)
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
This is soooo not good…
That definitely came from the UK. It's a way to say that there's no such thing as a trans person, just people who "identify" as trans (but will always truly be whatever they were born as).
“And nothing, but nothing, explains our politics more these days than status envy, resentment, and perceived grievances.” A thoughtful thread:
Pressure works. wapo.st/3UbXyrU
Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.
Donald Trump Declares Victory Over Statistics
also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians
Hitchcock’s Birds with flamethrowers 🔥🔥🔥
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Would love to see this!
this is why democrats hate democrats
We have a new program (which has been approved at the state level and now we’re waiting on the accreditation org) that is intended to address those issues. No idea how well it will work, but it’s absolutely necessary anymore.
All on the whim of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
At a minimum 💯
If shit ever really hits the climate fan and we someday need to turn down the warming dial in a hurry, cloud seeding/albedo enhancement is one of the few options at our disposal But distrust in institutions & rise of paranoid politics make studying this impossible www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Well. So. Who’s gonna tell the…sorry, just checking my notes…director of he OMB, that fiscal management isn’t the Fed’s job it’s…checking again…his. The gaslighting will continue until forever, I guess
C’mon people…include 100-word and 200-word bios in addition to a full length beast on your website or marketing materials. It’s not that hard.
As true as anything else you'll read today. open.substack.com/pub/stevendo...
The article is just as bad as the AI artwork…and God Help You if you format your syllbus in Helvetica, from the sound of it.
One can hope there was a Chuck in every multiverse ♥️
"Maxwell will be in jail for a long time absent a pardon from Trump, so she has every incentive in the world to tell him exactly what he wants to hear *and nothing else*. Clearly the DOJ is in the market for info about Bill Clinton, not the sitting president." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Incredible that the Federal govt came up with these demands, absolutely insane that Columbia acquiesced to them…
W…T…F…
Perfect quote. No notes.
About 1 in 6 U.S. teachers work second jobs www.pewresearch.org/...
What in the ever-loving…this seems like a sequel to @komaniecki.bsky.social ‘s post about neo-Riemannian theory, but much worse…
The percentage of Americans who disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president has just passed 54%, a new high for his second term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
This article from the Daily Mirror dated 11/23/1997 has EVERYTHING. It’s the smoking gun left on the coffee table for 28 years. The article’s subject Anouska would later come out as having been trafficked by you know who. Making it even more disgusting is the playful tone. About sex trafficking.
It’s a good problem to have!
told u so
On a monthly or weekly basis ✅
i just did this for $10/month. worth every penny.
Thanks, Maggie ♥️
I’m positive there’s an eloquent way to use this analogy for exposition in music composition as well, but the differences between potentially nonlinear narrative storytelling and linear musical structures makes it tricky…
There are three structures of exposition. 2+2=X 2+x=4 2+2=4 As the writer, you need to know 2+2=4. But audiences love to do the math. You can often give one piece of exposition, then show the choice that character makes, and the audience can deduce the missing information.
🎱🎶😡👑
It’s a good start…
Trump’s approval rating just hit a new low — he’s now at 42.5% approve and -11 net among adults www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about 'Ablaut reduplication.' If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.' -tic-tac-toe If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’ -click-clack -King-Kong
This does make me laugh.
Apparently I turned 32 and my brain suddenly decided we want to construct crosswords Here's my best one so far crosshare.org/crosswords/W...
Question: If program cuts are on the table, which will ultimately result in a reduction in faculty, how can faculty governance engage with their administration when any decisions will result in personnel issues that are under the auspices of the union and not governance?
"Cilantro is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."
This story from @bradlander.bsky.social about being arrested by ICE last month is just wild (from the latest @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast)
In my story, I reported that an Ed Dept official said that federal data is safe and will soon be transferred to IES’s secure servers. Just learned from a former senior ED official that "IES doesn't have secure servers. That was part of the problem." hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
I’ve always thought of it as what keys are easiest for the “default” setting of each instrument (open strings for bowed string instruments, open-valved notes or 1st position notes for brass, and the 3- and 6-holed fingerings for woodwinds).
Subtle, yet direct…
"The candidate backed by the industry won in 53 out of 58 races. Politicians of both parties got the message: Don’t get in crypto’s way." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...
Wow…and it is a very good question
this is exactly right. the goal of youngkin and his board of visitors is to rewind the clock back to when UVA was a school for unexceptional children of the state’s conservative elites. even expanding UVA to serve all of the state’s talented students, regardless of background, is too much.
.@gelliottmorris.com has done a great job explaining, with data, how moving to the right/being silent on immigration while Trump does a bunch of radical things is NOT politically required/savvy/smart. He was saying this even before the data became so clear. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/public-opi...
Weekly data roundup: Gallup immigration polling; Majority support for Mamdani's policies; First U.S. House midterms forecast; And what Trump's win has in common with elections in Canada and London
Same, dude…and enjoy sleeping in tomorrow!
Puddles+tuba is next level!
Really interesting. Shows that even at the height of Trump induced xenophobia, attitudes on immigration still don’t even approach the nadir they hit after 9/11 And even then xenophobia was underwater by 10 points or so
Very cool—what a great article!
#henselpotato
That’s not even PhD level idiocy…a sophomore with one year of music theory should do better than this.
