If you use copilot to write an email and the recipient uses copilot to summarize your email, why does that email even need to exist?

If you're not into Jodl
If you have half a brain

A Star Trek graphic showing a bar graph and the word "nominal" in the old Atari font that apparently makes a comeback in the 2280s. It somehow means the mains are back online.

Tchaikovsky's music is actually pretty good.

Johannes Brahms had hoes.

That's why he's missing from a good part of TOS season 2.

The United States was riding high, but then it all came crashing down.

Firing the music director who won half of your Grammys for you is certainly a choice.

Things American society has totally melted down over:
- "reefer"
- Dungeons & Dragons
- the song Suicide Solution
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City
- imaginary razor blades in Halloween candy

Things we're apparently fine with:
- a computer that tells you to kill yourself

Margaret Bonds' Montgomery Variations (1964) | Minnesota Orchestra | Scott Yoo YouTube video by Minnesota Orchestra

People need to know her Montgomery Variations. They're pretty amazing: youtu.be/ereaXUDie-A?...

A freshly opened bag of Old Dutch All Dressed Ripples potato chips.

As a tribute to Team Canada and their efforts on the ice, I'm going to go ahead and eat this entire bag of chips today.

I can't imagine what it feels like to be a Winnipeg fan right now.

Thinking about all the guys about to have their minds blown at halftime when their wives/girlfriends/moms say "oh, hey, we dance to this at zumba! I love this song!"

Reefer Madness

His other compositions include the opera scene in The Fifth Element, and I hope his Mahler 10 completion sounds like that.

Frédéric Chaslin - Wikipedia

I think it's this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A...

When we played Louie, Louie in high school marching band it was marked Tempo di Louie and it's hard to argue with that.

Whiskey Tango Fridays

No taxation with aerial defecation.

Lucille Vaughan Payne's Two Commandments, from The Lively Art of Writing: 1. Do not use the first person; and 2. Do not use the word "there" -- ever.

So do you endorse Lucile Vaughan Payne's jihad against the word itself?

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

I'm pretty sure the Rapture already happened, and the only person taken was Prince.

Playing the Dover Quartet's new album with works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate and Pura Fé as our New Classical Album of the Week on WPR Music.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

"Local. Trusted. Defunded." is featured on the GBH Mural in Boston, Mass., on July 18, 2025.

Federal funding is gone.
But we're not going anywhere.

The End of Public Radio Music? Bob Boilen writes about the importance of public radio music amid looming cuts.

"More than 23 mill listeners tune in to 687 public radio music stations. It would affect almost all programming, incl AAA stations with genres such as independent rock, bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel, country, soul, hip-hop, local music. 96% of all classical music is played on public radio stations."

No there isn't.

It Never Rains (In Southern Amazonia)

Imagine being in charge of the Enterprise laundry that week.

The Expanse except for Amos.