i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space
What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.
Trump just declared that he’d ban trans women from the Olympics.
Only one openly transgender woman has ever competed in the Olympic Games in its history. In 2020. She did not win a medal.
This is fabricated controversy to fuel bigotry. Like banning trans women from owning nuclear weapons.
Slopped and Glazed
Birmingham’s Finest. Tony Bontana.
Still the best Blueskeet of the century so far .
everyone should start a band. no one should start a generative a.i. music company
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Toyota Mockingbird
The launch of AWS Deep Composer always amuses me. Not an obviously fail or glitch, but quite possibly the most underwhelming tech demo / launch ever. You can even feel the underwhelm from the audience (presumably Amazon staff) who start off pumped, end up dumped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2E...
“A substantial rise in supply could probably only unwind a small fraction of the huge rise in house prices … This suggests that politicians’ primary focus on supply may be fundamentally misdirected.”
Is the argument high house prices are solely due to supply finally falling apart?
ADDITIONAL BUYER'S STAMP DUTY Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty (ABSD) Rates before Apr 27, 2023 Rates on or after Apr 27, 2023 Singapore citizens First residential property 0% 0% Second residential property 17% 20% Third and subsequent residential property 25% 30% First residential property 5% 5% Permanent residents Second residential property 25% 30% Foreigners Entities/ Trustees ird and subseque sidential proper 30% 35% 30% 60% Any residential property 35% 65% Housing developers 35%^ + 5%^^ 35%^ + 5%^^ ^ Housing developers may apply for remission of this ABSD, subject to conditions ^^ This 5% will not be remitted and is to be paid upfront upon purchase of residential property Source: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development and Monetary Authority of Singapore
If you want to make housing more affordable, implement, a Singapore style stamp tax
Foreigners pay 60%
Corporations pay 65%
Citizens pay 0% for first home
20% for 2nd homes and 30% for 3rd homes
Ban politicians from being domestic real estate speculators or landlord’s conflict of interest
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Carla is a brilliant artist. Reach out., she would love to hear from you.
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Brilliant artist.
The artist is Carla Busuttil
The artist is Carla Busuttil.
An @abeba.bsky.social tweet turned into a protest banner artwork at BCU MA graduate show. Brilliant!
This is true, even when considered in purely ‘Western’ terms. Zoom out to thinking more broadly/globally and it becomes more intensely true. We should be cultivating diversity and plurality of practice.
One of the great embarrassments of music academia, to me, is that we are constantly producing musicians who think that their knowledge of classical music supersedes the knowledge of practicing musicians from completely different genres or traditions.
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
Almost can’t believe this happened… At a (quasi) academic conference?!?. Solidarity with @abeba.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s Zionist accusers can’t even describe how it is that he’s supposed to threaten Jews. That’s because they can’t, since he doesn’t. They also can’t accept that in our socialist, anti-Zionist politics, there is real Jewish community. New from me in @zeteo.com:
The Bleeding Commons
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
Also, famously…. no white spirits exist under socialism. 😅
There is no plan. There is no 3D chess. The president has a toddler’s understanding of the economy and will continue to just do things (and then undo them, and then do them again).
IQ is like dick. those possessing very little obsess with it
