my dad sneezing the way all dads sneeze once they become fathers for some reason www.youtube.com/shorts/IR1HV...
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Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
There are now 10 toilets in Space
International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1
This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
For a unit on experimentalism and graphic notations, I tried finding books about Earle Brown online, but all the results were about earl grey
still too big lol
If AI LLM's are copying and stealing our writing why does the output always just sound like our shittiest writing
We're going to need a smaller violin
I mean, is Kid Rock ever not baffled though
H-E Double Hockey Sticks wow
a guitar braided into Coogler's hair
A treble clef braided into Coogler's hair
Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars
very disappointed that Devil Wears Prada 2 was not called Too Devil Too Prada
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
and, if I'm not being naive, insist that students WRITE
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
because that's the smirking ruse of neoliberalism
getting propped up like this is why the so-called AI bubble isn't going to just sink or swim according to the free market values of the supposed classical liberals cheering this shit on
Shaidorov is skating to the Diva Dance from the Fifth Element!
Old tweet from @shelfcomedy: me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying
The morning so far
R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
FWIW every olympic curling match tonight was better sport than the sports portion of the superbowl
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Every time you hear that such and such major is being eliminated because it isn't popular or it doesn't make money or it doesn't serve the streamlined mission of the institution, you should think about the WaPo cuts.
What is a paper without books and sports? A college without history and languages.
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000