Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days...

ACLS Research in Path to Open In January 2026, the first 100 e-books in the Path to Open collection at JSTOR flipped to open access as part of a multiyear pilot supported by ACLS. Among these books are five titles that result dire...

_On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone_ is now available open access. Here's a link: www.acls.org/path-to-open...

Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days...

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

a country where innocent people are deprived of music “It’s non-punitive… I don’t understand why they can’t have music”
“Organizers have a playlist they play on speakers during the vigil. New songs are added every week based on what the detainees have requested.” lataco.com/captive-loti...

Best to write a diary in order to get this Huge Grant. good luck!

I hope that’ll finally make guns redundant.

House burping: should we all adopt this German habit? It’s a simple way to keep homes fresh and mould-free, and has caught on in the US. But there are a few potential downsides ...

I had no idea it’s German until they said it’s German.

I am so glad Americans are finally discovering that you can clear the air by simply opening the windows.

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

New Book “AI and the New Fascism” (Reclam Verlag) Available now (in German language). Order from the publisher for 8,00 EUR (print) Ebook available on all known plarforms.

Exciting news: an expanded English translation of my bestseller "AI and the New Fascism" is coming out with Pluto Press later this year. Grateful to Pluto Press for making this happen.
More on the book:
rainermuehlhoff.de/en/KI-und-de...
@plutopress.bsky.social

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

AI is not a tool. It’s an experience.

ICE protest songs and chants, Minnesota general strike (January 23) and beyond Transcriptions of singing at ICE protests by faith leaders and protesters. Songs about ICE’s masculinity issues. Other songs about the ICE…

I've written this blogpost on ICE protest chants & songs, w/ a large section of transcriptions of singing at protests by faith leaders and the Singing Resistance. It also includes songs about ICE agents' perceived masculinity issues and new songs protesting ICE. medium.com/@norikomanab...

AI is not a tool. It’s an experience.

Only when you use AI for research you will be able to know that it hallucinates all the time. Everyone who has first hand knowledge of AI hallucinations must have used it extensively.

Open tenure track position in musicology focus on political music at Mozarteum Salzburg

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I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

"Music and sound are to the 2020’s social media ecosystem what hashtags were to the 2010s — clickable portals into the swirl of what’s happening now."
That's the takeaway, I think. (Thanks to the Globe folks for getting me to put it in writing!)

AI optimists please help me understand this: If Claude is good at python coding because it devoured Substack, and Substack is now disappearing because of Claude.. how does Claude get good at the next programming language when Substack no longer exists?

We are excited to announce our 3 keynote speakers for #MPSG26

Prof Salomé Voegelin
Professor of Sound @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social

Dr Nicole Grimes @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social
Ass Professor of Music @tcddublin.bsky.social

Prof Simone Mahrenholz
Professor of Philosophy @umanitoba.bsky.social

the smell of a playing cassette tape

CFP Themed Session 3 - Liminal Musicking - Music & Philosophy The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.

"What is ‘musical thought’? Can music be considered a form of thinking? How to think in, with or through music?"

Send a paper proposal to @cdysers.bsky.social and Malte Koble to join the conversation on "Liminal Musicking"!

musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/09/25/c...

Call For Papers | MPSG26 - Music & Philosophy The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.

Our call for papers is out!

And we have some exciting news: for our 10th anniversary conference we are going to @dublincityuni.bsky.social

We are looking forward to your submissions!

musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

#ChatGPT is patient and kind; it does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ChatGPT bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things

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…and how the “vermeintlich” comes mediated by parentheses. It’s a very fun sandbox to play in!

Die Relevanz der Irrelevanz "Die Relevanz der Irrelevanz" published on 16 Aug 2021 by Brill | Fink.

Reminds me of this (Assuming you read Germen, or your AI) brill.com/display/titl...

The biggest bummer about students using AI is that AI provides answers. But what an aspiring academic needs to learn is to ask questions.

There’s a lot to say, but I want to remark on how committed Jonathan was to his writing practice. Academic writers get a bad rap, but J. handled complex technical subjects with confidence and grace. He loved the craft and worked at it, intentionally and hard; and he inspired others to do the same.

I have changed the reading for my class next week to Jonathan Sterne writing on Hearing, to celebrate this groundbreaking thinker at this heartbreaking juncture.

Right? Isn’t it? Aren’t they? To me these are expressions of unexamined anglo-centrism, both being particular to and widely used in American and British English. I find them intellectually abusive because of their coercive logic.

I wonder if the Scholars at Risk program by the German Academic Exchange Service will soon include American scholars at risk of deportation too. I think it should.